Nakasu no geisha, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain drawing
Print shows a woman holding a fan, standing next to a young woman kneeling at a railing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashi... More
How to keep a girl / J.K. & F.O.
Print shows a vignette cartoon with 12 vignettes, around a central figure, that show how the employer should treat her woman domestic, if she wants to keep her, such as 1) "Promise her anything and everything",... More
Miyamōde, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain portrait drawing
Print shows a woman walking with a young woman or maid, returning from a visit to a shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Ha... More
Knott Wright. "Come out to the kitchen and meet our new cook"
Four-frame comic strip. Knott follows his wife into the kitchen to meet their new cook. When asked if the last people she worked for were plain people like the Wrights, she replied, "Well, they were plain in ... More
The rise of the kitchen tyrant; - and how she may fall / Ehrhart.
Illustration shows the evolution of the domestic servant from country housewife to an employed domestic through seven scenes beginning with the barefooted housewife receiving "the summons to the land of the fre... More
How to keep a servant girl - and keep her satisfied - in the country /...
Illustration shows a vignette cartoon that lightheartedly depicts Irish domestic servants being pampered and coddled by their employers in efforts to keep them happy and happily employed, chiefly, by taking the... More
The hired help "bugaboo" / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows a series of vignettes illustrating how women's social life impacts their domestic life, their problems with servants, the troubles neglected children get into, and how home life can be improv... More
"Crazy" / Ehrhart. - Public domain dedication image
Illustration shows the effect of the recent craze for playing ping pong, business partners neglect their work, ladies' clubs turn away from their normal leisure pursuits, infants are pitted against one another,... More
Jibukiami, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain drawing
Print shows a woman holding a pipe, walking with a female attendant along the seashore; in the background are boats and large fishing nets. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponso... More
The old woman of the Senate is doing her best - at a hopeless job / Da...
Print shows George F. Hoar as an old washer-woman, with a large brush labeled "Magazine Articles and Speeches", white-washing senators from a bucket labeled "Defense of the Senate". He is applying a fresh coat ... More
Puck Thanksgiving 1905 / Hassman̄., Puck magazine cover
Illustration shows a domestic servant carrying a large platter with a roast turkey raised above her shoulders to keep it away from a dog anxious for a taste. Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1499 (1905 November 22)... More
The queen of the May / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows a maid sitting on an overturned washtub with animated cleaning supplies standing around her. Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, no. 1574 (1907 May 1), cover. Copyright 1907 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
A look ahead; - but not so very far ahead, either! / Ehrhart.
Print shows an Irish American woman labeled "Walking Delegate" displaying the "By-Laws of the Help Lady's Union" during a dinner party hosted by an elderly woman sitting at a table with her guests. Women domest... More
Did you ring? - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
Photograph of a staged interior scene showing a woman, with a broom (probably a maid), standing outside a man's room asking "Did you ring?". Card number: "No. 201." Publisher attribution based on provenance. G... More
Puck Christmas 1904 / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Illustration shows a vignette cartoon, with, in the central scene, Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, welcoming Santa Claus to the underground of New York City; the vignettes show Santa ... More