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Collection results for: Theme: Housework

Ewbank ‘Success’ carpet sweeper, Motherwell, 1920s

Fire Hearth Stand

Be-Ro Home Recipes, around 1930

Female Servant's Pinafore, late 1800s

The Housewives' Book, around 1925-30

'Work like Helen B Merry' Postcard, 1930s

Carpet Beating Machine, 1908

Grate Polish

Oxydol Packet

Co-op Soap Flakes Packet

Hudson's soap boxes

O-Cedar Polish, around 1930s

Brochure for Carpet Cleaning Machines, early 1900s

Instant Starch

Sylvan Soap Flakes, about 1950

'Smoothie' Portable Electric Iron, about 1950

Dreft Soap Powder, 1960s

A Highland Washing Postcard, early 1900s

Vacuum Brush

Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner, 1939

Homecraft Book: Cookery, Laundry and Housewifery, 1930s

Hoover Guarantee, 1955

Hoover Instructions, 1955

Lawn Apron, Wishaw, early to mid 1900s

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Home Life: Cooking, Eating and Drinking

Home Life: Heat and Light

Home Life: Household Hygiene

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