A bachelor cooking on a gas stove; advertising gas cookers provided by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead Gas Co. Process print, 1905.

Date:
1905
Reference:
2059391i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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A bachelor cooking on a gas stove; advertising gas cookers provided by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead Gas Co. Process print, 1905. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead Gas Co. (?), 1905.

Physical description

1 print : process print ; 13.9 x 8.8 cm

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The bachelor's friend. Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead Gas Co. Staff post card competition, May, 1905 Printed on verso: "Cookers may be hired from 1/10 per quarter" (i.e. 1 shilling 10 pence). Ink inscription on verso: "... Miss E. Stone, Fleet Street, Beaminster... 1905 Newcastle-on-Tyne"

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This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Ostensibly advertising gas cookers. However, the words 'bachelor' and indeed 'friend', in this context, could have alternative meanings: a 'confirmed bachelor' , meant a homosexual".

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Wellcome Collection 2059391i

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