Clean Collection (page 3)

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

Lambeth Waterworks, supplying fresh water to parts of south London, photograph showing the pumping room. Date: 1900

Woman putting Water in a Tub Date: 1895

Old-Fashioned Iron Date: 1880

Wooden Basin Date: 1880

Teens Help with Dishes Date: 1948

Twin Girls Do Washing Date: 1948

Family Does Laundry Date: 1948

Doing the Dishes Date: 1947

Girl Hangs Duds on Line Date: 1896

Woman and Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1955

A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troops
Horse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground

Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their ship
Sailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds

Washing L. C. C. tramcars 1900
In the evening trams go back to the yard at ten oclock and are still coming in at eleven, the stableman promptly takes the horses and cleaning can begin

Flower Girl postcard circa 1905
A young girl sells violets on the streets of London. She wears a clean white apron over her short skirt and a red neckerchief. Date: circa 1905

Shoes - Pattens 1812
A young woman strides through the muddy London streets in foul weather but her feet are kept clean & dry as she is wearing pattens with iron rings over her shoes. Date: 1812

ANCIENT ENGLISH RUSTIC
An ancient English countryman wearing a white smock frock - useful for keeping his clothes clean when working in the fields. Date: 1906

LADY AND HER LINEN / 1929
A woman selects a clean handerchief from her drawer. Date: 1929

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

Wet deckhand, Bangkok, Thailand
A young deckhand swills himself with a bucket of water on the deck of his fishing boat in Bangkok Date: circa 1985

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

Street sweeper, Windsor
A woman street sweeper cleans the cobbles in Church Street, outside the Carpenterss Arms pub, Windsor in the early morning

Shoe shine in street, Lisbon
A shoe shine man cleans a customers shoes in a Lisbon street, Portugal. The male customer holds on to a traffic light as his shoes are polished. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Four men in masonic regalia, USA
Four men in masonic regalia (ribbons, badges and white gloves), North America. Date: circa 1910

Baby / Nappy Change 1930S
A mother changes her daughters nappy Date: 1930s

WW1 drawing, soldier carrying water in a trench
WW1 drawing of a soldier in a relatively clean trench carrying water canisters. Date: 1914-1918

Inquisitive Pussy! by Muriel Dawson -- a baby in a bathtub and a cat watching water falling from a flannel. Date: 1942

German or Austrian helmet, WW1
A German or Austrian helmet, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Eastbourne Public Library, Sussex, England, a truly modern integrated library, the Reference Library being on the same shelves as the rest of the books. Date: 1960s

Three people at a table, photographer reflected in mirror
Three people at a table with a roast dinner and wine bottles, possibly for Thanksgiving, North America. The photographer and camera on a tripod are reflected in the mirror behind them

Construction workers outside a large building, USA
Large group of construction workers (possibly carpenters, painters, builders, etc) outside a large building, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Isaac cleaning the wells made by Abraham to water his flocks - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 26.18. 1787

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man gathering turnips. Woman cleaning turnips in a river. Miniature. Fol. 52 r

TOSSA DE MAR. Catalonia. Spain
TOSSA DE MAR. Town located in the Costa Brava. Landscape coast. La Selva Region. Girona Province. Catalonia. Spain. Europe

Advert for Silicated Carbon Filter Company 1888
Patent Silicated Carbon Filter, each time that the fiter is filled the air under the Aerator Cover is forced in the direction shown by the arrows through the Silicated Carbon block

Three cats getting ready for Christmas by having an uncharacteristic bath, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s

Children with sweets on a Balham street, SW London
Five children in their Sunday best explore a bag of sweets in the doorway of a shop on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

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

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

Bonzo and Chee-Kee keep smiling by George Studdy
Bonzo and Chee-Kee keep smiling -- the Pekingese watches Bonzo having his bath, after which he chases her, knocks into the coal scuttle and makes himself dirty all over again

Bathtime by Muriel Dawson -- a smiling baby sits in a bathtub while water is sponged over its head. Date: circa 1920s

Djibouti, East Africa - A Young girl cleans her teeth
Djibouti, East Africa (then French Somaliland) - A Young girl cleans (the exact translation is " rubs" ) her teeth. Date: 1905

The picnic area of the Natural History Museum, London

Hair washing with Cuticura soap, 1890s
An advertisement for Cuticura soap, used here as a shampoo: for a clean, healthy scalp and luxuriant hair, where all else fails. Date: 1890s

Turkish Army Officer - Adana, Turkey
Turkish Army Officer - Bezmi Bey - Adana, Turkey. Sent as a Bayram card (religious festival in Turkey) to his family in Isanbul from the Far East of Turkey - 28th January, 1939

Union Workhouse, Howden, East Yorkshire
The Howden Union workhouse, erected in 1839 on Knedlington Road, Howden, East Yorkshire. A man, perhaps the master, stands on the doorstep while a workman stands on a ladder to clean windows

Interior of a Hungarian Peasant house
Superb photographic postcard depicting the interior of a Hungarian Peasant house, showing the piles of clean linen and bedding, folding benches, religious pictures adorning the whitewashed walls

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