Colonial servant-galism. Punch, or the Wellington Charivari
A mistress interviews a prospective female servant
A woman seated at a table interviews a woman, who is standing, for a position as a servant.
Black and white; newspaper cartoon.
Unknown
Alexander Turnball Library of New Zealand, <a href="http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=43856&l=en">http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=43856&l=en</a>
Punch, or the Wellington Charivari
1868
no restrictions
Cartoon in a newspaper
jpg
English
Newspaper cartoon
DS-040
19th Century
New Zealand
Afternoon Tea
parlor maid and mistress
A parlor maid serves afternoon tea to her mistress. Serving tea was one of the main jobs assigned to parlourmaids.
daily life | working
Leslie, George Dunlop
<a href="http://www.wikimediacommons.org">WikimediaCommons</a>
1865
public domain
png
still image
genre painting
DS-039
19th Century
Coachman, Carriage and Two Horses
domestic servants | transportation
outside servants
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934), a banker, philanthropist, and arts patron. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Morristown, Otto Kahn
Flickr.com
Flickr Commons
Library of Congress
Bain News Service
ca. 1910
Bain News Service
public domain
jpg
still image
still image
DS-038
Gilded Age
early 20th century
Irish Staff
Group of servants, Curraghmore House, Co. Waterford
Group photo of the household staff at Curraghmore House in County Waterford, Ireland. The house was (and still is) owned by the De La Poer Beresfords. Note the powder on the hair of the footmen.
unknown
Flickr.com/commons
c. 1905
National Library of Ireland
public domain
jpg
still image
group portrait
DC-037
early 20th century
Edwardian era
The Red and the Black | Le Rouge et le Noir
novel with a protagonist who was a servant
<em>The Red and the Black</em> chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
Stendhal, Henri Beyle
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org">Project Gutenberg</a>
Project Gutenberg
November 1830
Tokuya Matsumoto, Project Gutenberg volunteeer
public domain
.docx
English Translation
French, original
fiction
coming-of-age | bildungsroman
DS-036
19th Century
The Chocolate Maid | La Chocolatière
Maid carrying a cup of chocolate and glass of water
domestic services working
painting of a maid carrying water and a cup of chocolate
Jean-Etienne Liotard
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Etienne_Liotard_-_The_Chocolate_Girl_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg#/media/File:Jean-Etienne_Liotard_-_The_Chocolate_Girl_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Etienne_Liotard_-_The_Chocolate_Girl_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg#/media/File:Jean-Etienne_Liotard_-_The_Chocolate_Girl_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg</a>
Wikipedia.org
circa 1743-44
public domain
jpeg
still image
pastel on paper
DS-035
18th century
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2004665710/">House maid ironing a lace doily with GE electric iron</a>
House Maid ironing | working | female servant
Black and white photo of a house maid ironing a lace doily with a GE iron
General Electric
Library of Congress
March 22, 1905
no restrictions
JPEG
photograph
DS-034
Gilded Age
The Complete Servant
Guidebook for Servants on Duties | domestic servants | work
How to book for all tasks performed by all servants
Adams, Sarah and Samuel
HathiTrust
Knightland Lacey, London
A Great Lady Whom Sarah Adams Worked For
public domain
text, PDF
English
book | how-to | guide
DS-033
The Quietest Little Lamb
Governess with crying child
An drawing of a governess carrying a screaming infant. Black and white. Newspaper illustration.
DS-032
Rebecca
PDF
text
English
DS-031