The Fernie Museum is proud to present Cabinet of Curiosities, a video series investigating the stories behind our artifact collection. Each week, a new object is thoroughly examined by our trusty Collectionsperson, Lindsay Vallance.
The star of this week’s show is not an object, but a room: specifically, the bath-room. Come with us and explore the Victorian London’s ludicrous lack of ladies lavatories, and how it affected lives of half the population.
Credits:
Contributor(s): Australasian Sketcher / Public domain
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Print, Austria No. 1: Plate from “Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851,” published 1854., 1851
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum / Public domain
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Fax Talbot / Public domain
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Interior of the Crystal Palace
J. McNeven / Public domain
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Designs for Public Water Closets and Urinals
See page for author / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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Credit: Designs for Public Water-Closets and Urinals. Metroploitan Sewers 15th March 1849. Joseph William Bazalgette
Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Underground Convenience, Marylebone. George Jennings Ltd./ Clive Hurst/ Flickr
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Public toilet w/ graffiti
Photo by Gabor Monori on Unsplash
You’re not painting this, are you?
Quinn Dombrowski/ Flickr/ Taken March 28, 2008
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Tring high street, 19th century
Unknown author / Public domain
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Title page from Our Social Health
Published by S Welles Cone, Boston, 1865 Source: The Wellcome Collection.
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Urinoir Paris
Charles Marville / Public domain
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Woman in a Park
Charles Cottet / Public domain
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La toilette intime (Bourdaloue)
François Boucher / Public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher_-_La_Toilette_intime_(Une_Femme_qui_pisse),_1760s.jpg
Bourdaloue
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum / Public domain
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Women in the Garden
Claude Monet / Public domain
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Public domain
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The Bayswater Omnibus by George W. Joy / Public domain
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Department Store, Finney Isles, Brisbane 1910
ee page for author / Public domain
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Women shopping
Image by Michael Drummond Pixabay
McWhirters Department Store, Brisbane 1910
Unknown author / Public domain
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Ladies mile, New York
Unknown author / Public domain
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Gun factory
George P. Lewis (1918). / Public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_workers_in_the_New_Gun_Factory_Woolwich_WWI_IWM_Q_27845.jpeg
Women railway workers
Unknown author / Public domain
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Trolley driver
Nicholls Horace / Public domain
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Comfort room signage
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Photo of US Senate Building by aviation_traveler1011 / Public domain
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Parliament Buildings Ottawa
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