Cleaning Collection (page 3)

A young boy brushes his shoes. Date: 1910

Comic postcard, Woman cleaning window Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and old man - saving money Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside, being swept off her feet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman and door-to-door salesman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man targeted by pigeons at football match Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl scrubbing the front step Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman in deckchair at the seaside, dreaming of all the housework she isn t having to do Date: 20th century

Woman at the cleaning stage of pottery-making. Date: 1913

c. 1880s Japan - young women doing washing

Pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: farming, agriculture, food processing, pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan

c. 1890 China - Chinese street vendor - barber
c.1890 China - Chinese types and trades - street vendor - barber

Cleaners at work in Central London
Two cleaners wash down the fascia of the Royal Dutch Airlines offices in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Maidservant and dog Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl doing the housework Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, council worker Date: 20th century

The charwomen in the National Gallery. A cartoon about the conservation controversy at the National Gallery, after nine paintings were cleaned in the autumn of 1852

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Boots, Boots, Boots
The Caption is Boots! Boots! Boots! This is a take on Rudyard Kiplings poem Infantry Columns where the boots actually go up and down

Advertisement for Parozone showing a mother, in a pristine white dress, saying goodnight to her little boy, who is in a bed with pristine white sheets

Advertisement for Gre-Solvent cleaning fluid by the inimitable William Heath Robinson, showing a family finding all kinds of ways to make the most of its magical cleaning properties. Date: c.1924

Entrance of the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

Margaret Bannerman in The Grand Duchess at the Globe Theatre, London, 1925 Date: 1925

New fashions for the stage version of the Smart set in Frederick Lonsdales comedy Spring Cleaning, London, 1925 with a range of gowns worn by Edna Best, Nancie Parsons

Advert for Pears scented soaps, 1925 with emphasis on babies Date: 1925

Advert for Peerless Erasmic Soap, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Lux, soap powder, featuring tennis wear, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for Lux, soap powder, featuring Miss 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for Lux, soap powder, with hints for holiday clothes packing, 1926 Date: 1926

Winnowing or cleaning tea or grain with fans, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: Winnowing or cleaning tea or grain with fans, Japan

c. 1880s Japan - cleaning and pounding rice
c.1880s Japan - cleaning and pounding rice

Cleaning tea with bellows, air fans, China
Vintage 19th century photograph: Cleaning tea with bellows, China

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

A smiling young woman in a headscarf and apron washing up or preparing food in a kitchen or scullery. Tea towels hang from the airer above, assorted ladles and pans are close to hand

Dry clean at home, 1943. Dry cleaning with vinegar, powdered magnesia and bicarbonate of soda at home in wartime. Date: 1943

Advert, Old Dutch Cleaner -- woman cleaning in the kitchen. 1922

Advert, Bon Ami cleaning and polishing cake and powder. 1922

The Boots Who Forgot to Chalk the Boots, H. M. Bateman
Sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a young man given shoe cleaning duties in a hotel muddling up various pairs with hilarious consequences the following morning. Date: 1920

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Vacuum Cleaner 1917
Advert, Frantz Premier Electric Vacuum Cleaner, from the Frantz Premier Co, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Date: 1917

Advert for Lillina electric vacuum cleaner 1920
Advert, Lillina electric vacuum cleaner, available from G Vighi & Co, Milan, Italy. Date: 1920

Stationery, C A Brown (Bradford) Ltd, West Yorkshire, window cleaners - for a brighter outlook. 1967

Huddersfield Steam Laundry, Marsh, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. 1904

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

Advert for Electrolux vacuum cleaner, 1925 Date: 1925

Itinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5

Advert for Zebra Fire Grate Polish. 1902

Washing Day
A little girl in an apron washes her dolls clothes in a tin wash basin. Date: c. 1930

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