Cleanliness Collection

Wrights Coal Tar Soap - WW1
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap from the Great War showing a soldier and his wife or sweetheart bidding farewell to each other

Goodwins toilet soap, 1930s
An advert for Goodwins toilet soap, featuring a smiling young woman holding a tennis racket. 1937-1938

Ending in Smoke by Heath Robinson
An ingenious smoke screen spreader for preventing embarrassing situations when the bathroom lock is out of order. Hilarious invention by the inimitable Heath Robinson allowing complete discretion for

Advertisement for Vinolia Soap - Mother! Mother!! Fidos eaten my soap!!! early 20th century

Wrights Coal Tar Soap advertisement, WW1
Lucky Beggar!...Send a bar to YOUR soldier friend. Advertisement for Wrights coal tar soap with a soldier the envy of all his comrades as he is enjoying a wash with a whole bar sent to him from home

Advert for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends... 1912
Advertisement for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends the product for its pure, genuine, good value and effective properties! Date: 1912

Advertisement for Keatings Powder
An advertisement for Keatings Powder, to rid your clothes of bugs, fleas, beetles, moths, and other distressing insects. Remember to take it with you on holiday! Date: 1913

Advert for Wrights coal soap 1916
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap, the soldiers soap suitable for all, from private to general. 1916

Cleanliness - Health - The Truest Wealth - promotional postcard for the Health & Cleanliness Council (HCC) - 5 Tavistock Square, London. Date: circa late 1920s

Poster, The Magic of Soap and Water. Coo... is that me with the dirt off? Showing a boy admiring his nice clean face in a soap bubble. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. circa 1940s

Poster, Don t be afraid of Soap and Water. Showing a little boy welcoming a humanised jug and a bar of soap. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

The Bath Parade by Muriel Dawson
Three children dressedin pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers march in a procession towards the bathroom armed with towels and soap

When the Hot Water Tap Runs Cold
Ingenious invention for improving the level of bath water, especially when hot water runs out, whereby the occupant inflates a large balloon to order to displace water and raise the level

Good Boy by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in a charming blue smock and shorts outfit, washes his face using a flannel, soap and metal wash bowl

Water Babies by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in in a bath tub makes sure that her dolly is clean too. Date: c.1925

Moorish Bathhouse - Algeria. Date: circa 1909

Boy scouts sharing a shower at camp, British Honduras
Three boy scouts sharing a shower at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Comic Postcard - Dirty Collar - Donald McGill
A collar for your Father? Yes Miss - like the one I'm wearing? No - a clean one. Date: circa 1925

Turkey. Constantinople. Ottoman era. The Sultan's bath
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). The Sultan's bath. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Arnout

Turkey. Turkish baths for women
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Turkish baths for women. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot

Hudson's Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, which shows a hooded girl leaning on a wall, smiling, with a basket containing a packet of Hudson's soap. Text reads

Turkey. Turkish baths for women. Engraving, 19th century
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Turkish baths for women. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot

Dearborn Advertisement Miss Felix Stewart
A photograph of Miss Felix Stewart, modelling for Dearborn Limited, showing off her lustrous, long hair in advocation of Stallax, a shampoo which gives glossiness and cleanliness to your hair

Advertisement for Lifebuoy Soap, captioned, Not coddled, but cared for'. Showing children, mothers and Lifebuoy soap. With description of mother as the health doctor

Advertisement for Creamola toilet soaps, manufactured by Ventura Ltd of Mare Street, Hackney. " If Fairies Used Soap they d use Creamola". Date: c.1924

Advertisement for Brookes Monkey Brand Household Soap
1890 UK Magazine Brookes Soap Advert Date: 1890

Wilton Williams Idea of Comfort, taking a bath
A lady looks the picture of relaxation following a steaming hot bath. One of a series of illustrations done for Comfort Soap in the 1920s by leading illustrators of the day. Date: c.1925

Turkish bath 1900
Interior of a men-only Turkish bath in the shampooing room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900

Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900
Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900

Public laundries, St. Marylebone, London 1900
Interior of the washing room at St. Marylebone road baths and washhouse, London. Women doing their laundry in small cubicles, with a plenty of supply of hot-water, 1900

St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses, with illustrations of both the inferior and superior bathing facilities and the washing

St. Marylebone baths and washouses 1850
Exterior of St. Marylebone road baths and washhouses, London. Design consists of one facade in Italian stye with rusticated stone basement, the upper story being red brick

Advert for household cleaner an polisher. Date: 1910

Jeyes disinfectant in different forms, fluid, powder and bar soap. Date: 1890s

Two elderly muslim men dress after washing, Istanbul, Turkey
Two elderly muslim men dress after washing themselves outside a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1984

Little girl at water tap, Istanbul
A small girl washes herself at a water tap outside a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. She looks coyly at the camera circa 1984

Pavement washroom, Old Delhi
A boy washes his clothes and an old man washes his hair - all on the pavement in an Old Delhi street Date: 1986

The Strand Roman Bath Reconstructed by Matania
The roman bath in the Strand, its probable appearance in antiquity envisaged by the Sphere artist and enthusiast in Roman antiquities, Fortunino Matania

Circular Shower at The Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains, France
A partially-clad young lady enjoys the all-round cleaning ability of the Circular Shower at The Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains, a thermal spa town on Lake Bourget, Savoy, France. Date: circa 1910s

Soldiers bathing in a brewery during World War I
Soldiers bathing in a brewery in fermenting vats converted to hot baths during World War I within reach of shell fire Date: 1915

Sunlight Soap advertisement, 1903
Advertisement for Sunlight soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. This particular advert emphasises the appliance of science to ensure its cleansing capabilities - a picture of an

Sunlight Soap advertisement
Advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers at their famous Port Sunlight factory, featuring a small boy in a wooden tub bath holding up his bar triumphantly

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap WW1
An advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap with a British soldier holding up a towel in the hope that some nice person will send him a box of Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Date: 1915

Sunlight soap advertisement, WW1
The CLEANEST fighter in the World - the British Tommy. Great War advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers

The International Health Exhibition, London
Programme cover design, The International Health Exhibition, London, 1884, with the figure of Hygieia (Hygeia, Hygiea), classical personification of health, cleanliness and hygiene. 1884

Washing Hands with Soap
A stylish woman washes her dainty hands with lovely soap in her bathroom sink. Date: 1940s

Advertisement for Cooks Pure Toilet Soap. Date: early 20th century

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Orive toothpaste ad

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