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Russian serfs or peasantry, 18th centuryRussian serfs or peasantry. A peasant in travel clothes with hat, shirt, boots and bark shoes, and women spinning yarn and washing clothes
Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio
Women beating clothes and washing fabricWomen beating clothes and washing and drying fabric on rocks in a river in Madagascar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Woulfes apparatus for washing gases or saturating liquids. Peter Woulfe (1727-1803) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and alchemist
Two Scotswomen washing clothes by a river, with tartan background. Date: circa 1910s
Gradini Santa Barbara, Naples, ItalyGradini Santa Barbara, a narrow street of steps in Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1905
Four children sitting in a farmers field near a hayrick circa 1910s
Mince Collop Close, Greenock, ScotlandMince Collop Close, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland - undoubtedly " the vilest" of all the " numerous pen closes running from the low streets"
Joys of Married Life - Pregnant
Advertising showcard, Compo Washing Soap Powder, the safe self washer
Advert, Watsons Matchless CleanserAdvertising showcard, Watsons Matchless Cleanser. circa 1890
Washing DayA little girl in an apron washes her dolls clothes in a tin wash basin. Date: c. 1930
Advertisement, Sunlight SoapAdvertisement for Sunlight Soap, in patriotic style during the First World War with a woman hanging up a British Flag on the washing line. 1916
Laundry service, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North AfricaAutomated laundry service buildings, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1910
Brazen SeaThe Brazen Sea (also known as Molten Sea) was a large bronze basin for water located in the Temple In Jerusalem. Made by Solomon
Brazen Sea - JudaismThe Brazen Sea also known as the Molten Sea was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution (ritual washing) of priests
Landing on Cape Cod 1620A group of men with rifles stand in the distance on the beach of Cape Cod, as women in the foreground tend fires for cooking and begin washing clothes. Date: 1620
Astronomer looking at the sky from an attic room. Date: circa 1860s
St. Marylebone baths and washouses 1850Exterior 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
Young housewife at work, Republic of EstoniaYoung housewife at work, doing the laundry in a three-legged washtub, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922
Peasant washerwomen at work, Republic of EstoniaThree peasant washerwomen at work by the river, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922
River Thames flooding at high tide, LondonThe River Thames in London, flooding at high tide, washing against sandbags two feet above road level
Village of Prittlewell, near Southend-on-Sea, EssexView of the Village of Prittlewell, near Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Date: early 20th century
Baths and washhouses in Golden Lane, London 1865Exterior of City of London Baths and Washouses, near Smithfield Market, this was a place where you could go swimming in a large bath and get clean at the same time
Advertising magazine insert, Sunlight Soap - Arab woman. circa 1900
Lux advertisement.Women wearing 1920s stylish sports wear with instructions for washing. Illustration from Womans Home Companion August 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923
Folding clean washingWoman folding clean washing. Illustration from Delineator magazine January 1928. Artist Haddon Sundblom. Date: 1928
Women and children of Mosul, by Richard CarlineWomen and children of Mosul, washing on the banks of the Tigris River, watercolour by Richard Carline, aerial artist, just after the First World War. 1919
Native laundry, Hong Kong, China, showing women hanging out washing. Date: circa 1930s
Sunday morning with hop-pickers 1871Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London
Window Cleaner - People You See. From Teddy Bear (22 May 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964
At the Laundrette - People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1960s
Washerwomen at Pernes, Santarem district, PortugalWasherwomen at work by the River Alviela at Pernes, Santarem district, Portugal. Date: circa 1908
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, Lisbon, PortugalLargo do Chafariz de Dentro, a narrow street in an old district of Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1940s
Rua da Regueira, Alfama district, Lisbon, PortugalScene in Rua da Regueira, in the old Alfama district of Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1940s
Advert for Sapolio cleaning soap 1887Bar of soap Sapolio, and a scrubbing brush, helped this housewife keep her floors in proper shape! Date: 1887
Houses in Soller, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1920
Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash advertisementAdvertisement for Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash showing a maid washing the lustrous locks of her mistress. Date: 1912
Advertising Insert - Hudsons Super Soap - design by John Hassall. 1914
Cartoon - A Family Wash, showing all the things that can go wrong on wash day. 19th century
Woman on wash day in the country, 1890sCountrywoman on washing day, outside, 1890s Date: 1890s
Group of fishermen, Mevagissey, Cornwall - the " Parliament". Date: circa 1910s
Woman with wet washing on her head, ItalyWoman with a plastic container of wet washing on her head, Italy. Date: circa 1960s
Google-eyed girl - Google-eyed girl admiring her boy friends socks on the washing line. Date: circa 1920
Bathing the new doll - Sisters washing the new doll in the bathtub. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920
Steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras WorkhouseThe steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras workhouse was a combination of Macalpines Washing machines and Manloves dash wheel and hydro-extractor, all driven by steam-power. Date: 1857
Woman in smart washing frock, of striped linen from the Ladies page of the Illustrated London News, published during the First World War. Date: 1916
Washing clothes, Egypt, circa 1880. Date: circa 1880