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RMC04MNH–Victorian Domestic Servants, Servant Girls or Maids Posing with Kitchen Utensils & Broom, England c1880 Vintage Carte-de-Visite or CDV
RM2A5C76Y–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off and hold an impromptu line dance in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RM2A2WYW4–Negative - Housekeeper & Servants, 'Chelmer', St Kilda Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 1907, Housekeeper and domestic staff at 'Chelmer', residence of Thomas Beckett at 340 St Kilda Road, South Yarra, 1907. The housekeeper is probably Olive Moore. Photograph by Thomas Beckett. PPart of a collection of glass plate negatives taken by Dr Thomas George Beckett, doctor, pioneering radiologist and amateur photographer between 1891 and 1910. The collection is primarily of Beckett's family
RMBHJG99–Domestic servants posing outside Pembroke College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, c1860-c1922. Artist: Henry Taunt
RMW3N1FY–Life at a Road side slum of Kolkata city. Most of the transient roadside settlements and slums have been formed by refugees from East Pakistan. Infiltration in the city also takes place frequently from the villages of 24 Paraganas. The slum dwellers are mostly engaged as domestic servants, sweepers, daily laborers, small traders etc. India. July 19, 2005.
RM2JXHJ1E–Cartoon depicting the interior of an Employment Bureau for domestic servants. Dated 19th Century
RM2BJ086C–Tomb model showing domestic servants grinding corn and baking bread, from Asyut, Middle Kingdom, c.1900 BC (painted wood) - Artist Egyptian 12th Dynasty (1991-1786 BC) -
RM2BW2E06–Photo shows Frederick John Corneby. Lily white domestic servants employed at a village near Dibden highs Southampton was found dead in her coppice off a lonely lane. A young man Frederik John Corneby walked into high police station and made a statement to Sergeant WG Diamond following which he took them to the spot where the girl was found and he was taken back to the police station and detained. 22 July 1937
RMC7MXPN–Barton Turf, Norfolk, rood screen, St. Zitha holding bunch of keys, patron saint of domestic servants, housekeepers Sitha
RMP9FPFH–Johnny looking for work at a registry office for domestic servants. Men and women with monocles examining porters, maids and other staff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.
RMJT31G3–Johnny looking for work at a registry office for domestic servants. Men and women with monocles examining porters, maids and other staff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.
RF2K0P98E–der jährlichen Ball der Hausangestellten, 1869, Paris, Frankreich / the annual ball of domestic servants, 1869, Paris, France, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt / historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century,
RM2A5C751–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off at Statue Square in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RMCWBN9R–Slave market in Cairo, Egypt 1885. Most 19th century urban Egyptian slaves worked as domestic servants.
RMRJADRG–An engraving depicting Welsh girls at a Hollantide Fair, a hiring fair, waiting to be engaged as domestic servants. Illustrated by Mary Ellen Edwards (1838-1934) an English artist and illustrator of children's books. Dated 19th century
RMP5Y481–N/A. Advertisement for English Domestic Servants, 1871, City of Boston Archives, Item 1871-0266-A2, City Council Proceedings, 1822-2002, (Collection # 0100.001) License . 1871. Unknown 515 English Domestic Servants Bostson 1871
![Nigeria, Caption reads: 'Mrs Flack's house staff'. Domestic servants pose for the camera against a wall. There are 3 young African men and a boy called Edward, [c.1920s]. 2000/098/1/108. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AH8245/nigeria-caption-reads-mrs-flacks-house-staff-domestic-servants-pose-for-the-camera-against-a-wall-there-are-3-young-african-men-and-a-boy-called-edward-c1920s-20000981108-2AH8245.jpg "Nigeria, Caption reads: 'Mrs Flack's house staff'. Domestic servants pose for the camera against a wall. There are 3 young African men and a boy called Edward, [c.1920s]. 2000/098/1/108. Stock Photo")
RM2AH8245–Nigeria, Caption reads: 'Mrs Flack's house staff'. Domestic servants pose for the camera against a wall. There are 3 young African men and a boy called Edward, [c.1920s]. 2000/098/1/108.
RM2M3KBPX–The two Statute of Mop Fairs in Stratford-on-Avon are held on the day after Michaelmas Day and the second Friday in October - their institution dates back to the days of Richard I, and there is no doubt that Shakespeare attended them, took part in the games and tasted the ox-roasts turned on spits in temporary brick fire places in the streets. A 'mop' is a statute fair for the hiring of domestic servants and farm labourers, and contracts made were binding for one year: the word 'mop' derives from the old custom of maid-servants bringing their badge of office with them to the fairs. The men a
RM2BW22WM–Miss Florence Davies aged 22 preparing her speech to give at the conference of the women's Liberal Federation at Margate. She was speaking about her five years experience in service, she will give evidence at the conference on wages, working hours, time off, accommodation and the shortage of domestic servants. 9 October 1937.
RM2E5BJW0–Two Edwardian female domestic servants, one holding a broom, the other wielding a rolling pin
RMW94K53–Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. Important changes in the Government's vast social security program received consideration today by two groups of officials and laymen. The advisory counsel, created at request of a Senate Committee, heard reports from experts who have surveyed the possible extension of old age benefits to agricultural workers, domestic servants and employees of religious and charitable institutions, snapped while attending the meeting were left to right: T.L. Norton, economist professor at the University of Buffalo, N.A.H. Mowbrey, Universi
RMRRJA81–Vintage Edwardian Photographic Postcard Showing a Group of Domestic Servants and a Pet Dog.
RMTRCWT9–Anglo Saxon domestic scene, noblemen drinking together - Servants (churls or thralls) , a musician and a bodyguard stand by whilst the host's wife sits nearby - From an illustration of the time
RMTXGAY9–Tomorrow's snow. Print shows an upper class woman standing near a well and two women, possibly servants, getting water at the well.
RF2K0PCF5–der jährlichen Ball der Hausangestellten, 1869, Paris, Frankreich / the annual ball of domestic servants, 1869, Paris, France, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt / historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century,
RM2A5C76J–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off in front of fashion advertisements in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RMT1XKCF–A Servants Fair in Västmanland, a Swedish province in middle Sweden. In the 19th Century, most Swedish servants had a rural background and migrated to the city from the countryside to perform domestic service in private households.
RME1GNCD–The servant problem: Housewife visits the klitchen to complain to her 'Good Plain Cook' about caterpillars in vegetables. Cook has a cheeky answer for everything. Cartoon from ''Punch'', London, 1860.
RMMAMYBY–States that he is a brush maker and is unable to carry on his trade for want of material. He asks Jefferson for a pecuniary office or to be employed as one of Jefferson ?s domestic servants. Title: Letter from Colin C. Wills, Alexandria, District of Columbia, to Thomas Jefferson, April 20, 1801 . 20 April 1801. Wills, Colin C.
RM2AH824R–Nigeria, Caption reads: 'Joe (cook) and Sam (steward). House staff 1928'. Portrait of two male domestic servants, 'Joe' a cook and 'Sam' a steward, in a garden, 1928. 2000/098/1/106.
RM2HBBJ49–'Domestic Servants' Insurance Act. I don't care how often I get hurt now, I am insured': cartoon by Tom Browne. It shows a bandaged domestic servant in bed next to a bowl of grapes and mug of beef tea. She is happy as she will be due financial compensation through the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906.
RME1K6XH–Hyde Park Barracks was an Immigration Depot for single female immigrants seeking work as domestic servants.
RM2FYJNPK–Vintage early 20th century photographic postcard showing a group of young ladies washing and pressing the linen.
![The Centenary Fete of the Asylum for Female Orphans - the Archbishop of Canterbury Saying Grace, 1858. 'The object of the charity is to provide a home for orphan girls, who are admitted between the ages of eight and eleven years. They are brought up as domestic servants, and at a proper age are apprenticed into respectable private families...During the one hundred years this benevolent design has been in operation 2880 orphans have been admitted, nearly the whole of whom have been apprenticed...it was thought that, if a number [of orphans] could be assembled together, it would be the best evid Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2RRJ9T0/the-centenary-fete-of-the-asylum-for-female-orphans-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-saying-grace-1858-the-object-of-the-charity-is-to-provide-a-home-for-orphan-girls-who-are-admitted-between-the-ages-of-eight-and-eleven-years-they-are-brought-up-as-domestic-servants-and-at-a-proper-age-are-apprenticed-into-respectable-private-familiesduring-the-one-hundred-years-this-benevolent-design-has-been-in-operation-2880-orphans-have-been-admitted-nearly-the-whole-of-whom-have-been-apprenticedit-was-thought-that-if-a-number-of-orphans-could-be-assembled-together-it-would-be-the-best-evid-2RRJ9T0.jpg "The Centenary Fete of the Asylum for Female Orphans - the Archbishop of Canterbury Saying Grace, 1858. 'The object of the charity is to provide a home for orphan girls, who are admitted between the ages of eight and eleven years. They are brought up as domestic servants, and at a proper age are apprenticed into respectable private families...During the one hundred years this benevolent design has been in operation 2880 orphans have been admitted, nearly the whole of whom have been apprenticed...it was thought that, if a number [of orphans] could be assembled together, it would be the best evid Stock Photo")
RM2RRJ9T0–The Centenary Fete of the Asylum for Female Orphans - the Archbishop of Canterbury Saying Grace, 1858. 'The object of the charity is to provide a home for orphan girls, who are admitted between the ages of eight and eleven years. They are brought up as domestic servants, and at a proper age are apprenticed into respectable private families...During the one hundred years this benevolent design has been in operation 2880 orphans have been admitted, nearly the whole of whom have been apprenticed...it was thought that, if a number [of orphans] could be assembled together, it would be the best evid
RMT640G8–An old print of a 17th century domestic scene in an upper class family house showing servants serving food and wine, a mirror on the wall and two infants in high chairs.
RM2M3T1WX–A bobby on the beat, who has stopped to enjoy a bit of pie from a friendly cook in one house, gets surprised by the heat of a stove.
RM2WR8BW7–Cartoon on English domestic politics, The 'pas de facination' (from the ballet of Alma) As lately performed by Her Majesty's servants / With a new cast of characters (title on object), HB Sketches (series title on object), Cartoon on English domestic politics in 1844 with Robert Peel and other politicians as ballerinas. Published as no. 810 in the HB Sketches series., print maker: John Doyle, printer: General Lithographic Establishment, publisher: Thomas McLean, print maker: England, printer: London, publisher: London, 1-Jul-1844, paper, height c. 300 mm × width c. 445 mm
RM2A5C7B7–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off and hold an impromptu line dance in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RM2B2B9H6–This drawing by the German illustrator Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki shows various types of servants who populated the streets of Berlin around the middle of the 18th century.
RM2JXHHY7–Illustration depicting Welsh girls at a Hollantide fair, a hiring fair, waiting to be engaged as domestic servants. Illustrated by Mary Ellen Edwards (1838-1934) an English artist. Dated 19th Century
RF2T9N850–Catholic Saints. Zita (1212-1272) also known as Sitha or Citha, was an Italian saint, the patron saint of maids and domestic servants.
RMGHH9TB–A wooden spoon, which a satirical report claimed Katharina Luther used to beat her lazy domestic servants, on show at the so-called Lutheum - kleinstes reformationsgeschichtliches Museum der Welt (lit. Lutheum - the world's smallest Reformation museum) in the exhibition rooms of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Wittenberg, Germany, 28 September 2016. The exhibition 200 Jahre Evangelisches Predigerseminar (lit. 200 years of theological seminary) offers insights into the training and everyday life of theologians. Theologians who have completed their studies have been training for their practic
RM2D5B5CR–Original typical charming Victorian 1890's cabinet card of young children on a donkey and a pony outside a country house with the parlour maids, Victorian maids, Victorian servants, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, U.K. circa 1894
RMR23HGF–The servant problem: Housewife visits the kitchen to complain to her 'Good Plain Cook' about caterpillars in vegetables. Cook has a cheeky answer for everything. Cartoon from ''Punch'', London, 1860.
RM2JMGRP7–Early 20th century photograph of a group of servants posing for the camera in a garden. The servants include four maids in uniforms, two men in smart buttoned jackets (footmen?), and three men in suits and flat caps. One of the men is African - Caribbean or Black British
RMBTKE2Y–Slave market in Cairo, Egypt 1885. Most 19th century urban Egyptian slaves worked as domestic servants.
!['The Knifeboard Bus', 1900, (1933). Passengers on a London open-top horse-drawn bus, so-called because 'the seat on the top along which the passengers sat back to back...similar to the boards on which the domestic servants of the day had to clean, polish, and sharpen the cutlery of their master's tables'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933] Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/WX0CDM/the-knifeboard-bus-1900-1933-passengers-on-a-london-open-top-horse-drawn-bus-so-called-because-the-seat-on-the-top-along-which-the-passengers-sat-back-to-backsimilar-to-the-boards-on-which-the-domestic-servants-of-the-day-had-to-clean-polish-and-sharpen-the-cutlery-of-their-masters-tables-from-quotthe-pageant-of-the-centuryquot-odhams-press-ltd-1933-WX0CDM.jpg "'The Knifeboard Bus', 1900, (1933). Passengers on a London open-top horse-drawn bus, so-called because 'the seat on the top along which the passengers sat back to back...similar to the boards on which the domestic servants of the day had to clean, polish, and sharpen the cutlery of their master's tables'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933] Stock Photo")
RMWX0CDM–'The Knifeboard Bus', 1900, (1933). Passengers on a London open-top horse-drawn bus, so-called because 'the seat on the top along which the passengers sat back to back...similar to the boards on which the domestic servants of the day had to clean, polish, and sharpen the cutlery of their master's tables'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]
RMKH0G5P–Hiring Servants at a mid 18th century annual rural husting, (hiring fair aka 'mop fair', 'statute fair' or 'statutes') - usually held at Martinmas, November
RMT6Y7RF–High angle view, through a hole in the Servant's Dining Room to an underpinning pit 30 feet below, photographed during President Truman's White House Reconstruction, Washington, District of Columbia, February 6, 1950. Image courtesy National Archives. ()
RM2A5C7A4–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off and hold an impromptu line dance in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RMM4N55G–'Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management' (1902
RMW3N1BW–A family at a Road side slum of Kolkata city. Most of the transient roadside settlements and slums have been formed by refugees from East Pakistan. Infiltration in the city also takes place frequently from the villages of 24 Paraganas. The slum dwellers are mostly engaged as domestic servants, sweepers, daily laborers, small traders etc. India. July 17, 2005.
RMR4X9K2–Booth's map of poverty levels in London, 1891. Descriptive map of London poverty 1889. London, England. Charles Booth, a shipowner, sought to refute socialist allegations that a quarter of London’s population lived in poverty. He thought this exaggerated, but his researches, published in 17 volumes, revealed that the true figure was even higher at one third. Here his extensive survey is presented in cartographical form with the levels of poverty colour coded. This sometimes conceals as much as it reveals. The purple of the mixed areas obscured much poverty while domestic servants in the yell
RM2JXHJ01–Illustration depicting Welsh men, women and children at a Hollantide fair, a hiring fair, waiting to be engaged as domestic servants. Dated 19th Century
RM2WTY7KW–Domestic staff, housekeeper and butler who is holding the door open. house keeper offers the Royal Coachmen a glass of Champagne. London, England circa 1995 1990s UK HOMER SYKES
RM2HJ37YX–Original Victorian era Carted de Visite (CDV or visiting card) of pretty young Victorian maid, Victorian servants, wearing a lace cap and apron, puffed sleeves, Victorian maid's uniform, studio Geo (George) E. Organ, 215 The Grove, Hammersmith, London, U.K. circa.1898
RMR7PXBJ–Singapore, Singapore. 11th Dec, 2018. An employment agency in the Geylang neighborhood that specializes in placing Burmese women as domestic servants in Singapore. The Geylang area of Singapore, between the Central Business District and Changi Airport, was originally coconut plantations and Malay villages. During Singapore's boom the coconut plantations and other farms were pushed out and now the area is a working class community of Malay, Indian and Chinese people. In the 2000s, developers started gentrifying Geylang and new housing estate developments were built. (Credit Image: © Jack K
RM2HBBJ48–'Servants' Insurance Act. I burnt my small toe and I don't mean to work till it is quite better, I prefer to have a burnt toe': cartoon by Tom Browne. It shows a domestic servant with a bandaged foot, lying in bed reading a copy of the Servants Insurance Act. A jar of Bovril, a jug of cream and a glass of wine is on a tray next to the bed. The maid is shown as being happy as she will be due financial compensation through the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906.
RM2RMGDY7–Living in the 1950s. A young woman working as a maid is serving tea or coffee to a woman sitting in the couch. She is neatly dressed in a white apron. Sweden 1955. Kristoffersson ref BU6-8
RM2EEPK63–Victorian Bootle Cabinet Card Showing Three Female and One Male Domestic Servant in a Garden.
RMHTMJR7–Rebellion below stairs - the servants too snug to answer the house bells at the first ring. Illustration by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) for the Brothers Mayhew 'The Greatest Plague of Life: or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant'., Lond
RMT6E15N–An engraving of a 17th century kitchen scene in a large upper class household with bakers,cook and hogs on roasting on a spit and bread dough proving near the fire.
RM2F2TNH1–Full-length Portrait of Two Maids, Housemaids, Victorian Maids or Edwardian Maids Dressed in Aprons & Maid Uniforms Rhyl Wales UK c1900-1920
RMHE16PA–Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management (1902)
RM2WWDNAG–Description: Domestic servants, Tortola. V.I Location: Tortola, Virgin Islands Date: 1887 caribbean, britishvirginislands, caribbeanthroughalens
RM2A5C78F–Filipino domestic workers gather on their day-off and hold an impromptu line dance in Central District, Hong Kong. Approximately 130,000 Filipino domestic servants work in Hong Kong and all have Sundays off.
RMM4N55X–'Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management' (1902
RMW3N1FJ–Children at a Road side slum of Kolkata city. Most of the transient roadside settlements and slums have been formed by refugees from East Pakistan. Infiltration in the city also takes place frequently from the villages of 24 Paraganas. The slum dwellers are mostly engaged as domestic servants, sweepers, daily laborers, small traders etc. India. July 17, 2005.
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