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18 photos and 12 illustrations tagged servant, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• publicdomain
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• woman
• pubplacelondon
• vol0
• sherlocknet:tag=lady
• portrait
• domestic
• sherlocknet:tag=hand
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• maid
• aboriginal
• small
• man
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• large
• sherlocknet:tag=thing
• sherlocknet:tag=chapter
• women
• chair
• criminal
• crime

Members using this tag

• British Library 10 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 5 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 4 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• New York Public Library 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Domestic servant in Brisbane 1911

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Under various Acts of Parliament, Aboriginal women were sent to privately owned properties to be utilised as ‘domestic servants’ through a system of forced indentured labour, which continued until the 1970’s. This social history research reveals that the practice of removing Aboriginal women from their families at the age of 12 or 13 and to white families was more common practice than not. These women were often: not paid, worked up to 15 hour days, were not allowed leave, and were subjected to many forms of abuse. This hidden Aboriginal Australian women’s history needs to be revealed to better understand the experiences and depth of misappropriation of Aboriginal women as domestic workers. In doing so, it also reveals a more accurate reflection of women’s work in Australia. Source: Indigenous Australian women and work : an historical context Best, Odette & Fredericks, Bronwyn (2013) Indigenous Australian women and work : an historical context. In The Oxford Women's Leadership Symposium eprints.qut.edu.au/71360/

Two Women (cinema 1915?)

from New York Public Library

• Rebecca-Becky Evans said:

  Such a great picture the cot is gorgeous and the wall art is lovely!

Egypte apres la visite (le the)

from George Eastman Museum

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Caya said:

  She's showing her ankles!! ;-)

• George Oates said:

  It's interesting to see the looks on their faces better in the large version...

• M. said:

  One penny for their thoughts :-)

• caniagoreng said:

  i think the look on HIS face is most revealing. explains the whole world's feelings towards colonialists during colonialism! horrible.

• Francesca Spille said:

  Great picture!