Early British Vacuum Company (BVC) Photographs

Includes photographs of early appliances, the factory, vacuum cleaners in use, famous places cleaned by BVC, etc. Also includes photo of oil painting of H. Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner and chairman of the British Vacuum Cleaner & Engineering Co. Ltd., and a postcard of the 1921 BVC charabanc outing. Majority of photographs in album taken by Miles and Kaye Ltd.. Photograph of Crystal Palace sketch taken by the Imperial War Museum.