Cleaning Collection (page 8)

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Hose the Firemans Wife. late 19th century

The Newsman, delivery a news sheet to a house. 19th century

Cheery Families - Mrs Putty the Painters Wife. 1890s

Savoy Taylors Guild, London -- invoice and receipt for cleaning a two-piece suit. 1927

Dusting a Staircase
An Edwardian housemaid dusts the elaborate balustrade of a huge staircase. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Window Cleaning Girls
A team of " Georginas", demonstrate the proper way to clean window panes from the inside of an office block while the male window cleaners are away in the army. Date: early 1940s

Cleaning the Deck
The crew of the Citta di Milano, the support ship for Nobiles expedition, swab the deck Date: 1928

Scrubbing Woodwork
A French housemaid scrubs down the woodwork using Hudsons powdered soap and a bowl of hot water Date: 1878

Scrubbing the Floor
scrubbing the floor Date: 1914

Cleaning Street Lamps
Cleaning street gas lamps in London Date: 1890

Fairy tidying up
A conscientious, house proud fairy sweeping up. Date: 1919

Advert for H. W Garrard & Son domestic equipment 1889
Domestic machinery including a rotary knife - cleaning machine and a mincer machine. 1889

Poster advertising Chivers Carpet Soap - sixpence per ball, prized in royal households. Date: early 20th century

Advertisement for boot polish -- such a shine in a minute. Date: early 20th century

Cutout advertisement for Bluebell metal polish
Cutout advertisement for Bluebell liquid metal polish, with a girls smiling face. Date: circa 1900

Advertisement for Powder Monkey cleaning powder - Guess what is under the Frying Pan. Date: circa 1900

Advertisement for Vim cleaning powder - Come and help mother! Date: early 20th century

Woman scrubbing floor, c. 1800
Woman scrubbing a wooden floor, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner. Date: 1917

Bradfords Victress-Vowell washing machine
A maid uses Bradfords " Victress-Vowell" washing machine. Date: 1923

A selection of household brushes- from top to bottom: Bass Broom Heads; closet or lavatory brushes; Sweeps brushes; and Hearth brushes. Date: c. 1910

Cartoon, First feelings, WW1
Cartoon, First feelings. A French soldier says that the first time he saw a German soldier he couldn t fire at him because he seemed too old to be shot. Date: 1916

Woman scrubs paving stones in front of her house
A woman scrubs the paving stones in front of her house, watched by her little Scottie dog! Date: circa 1977

Magnet Electric Cleaner Advert, 1927 Date: 1927

Illustration, two monkeys in a zoo, the larger one cleaning the smaller ones fur. Date: 1902

Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, Maidenhead
Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, High Street, Maidenhead, with some amazing temporary reductions to three shillings and sixpence, and a four-day turnaround. Date: 20th century

Student cleaning bicycle Date: 1904

Boy and dog on a pavement, South London
Boy and dog on a pavement, Coldharbour Lane, South London, outside O Hughes tailors shop. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 cartoon, Cleaning Days, Souvenir of the European War 1914, showing a large, heavily bearded soldier sweeping up some small German and Austrian soldiers. 1914

Advert for Min Cream, polish for furniture 1936
Its a matter of moments with Min. Use it on your piano or dining table and see what a beautiful, lustrous sheen it gives to polished wood. Date: 1936

European Bison - adult female - cleaning its nostrils (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Lion - Male (Panthera leo). Ndutu - Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Tanzania - Africa

Advert for Mansion polish 1937
The bright way to lovely floors. Floor retain there loveliness far longer when polished with Masion Polish. A single application will keep a floor looking bright and fresh for days. 1937

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

Dutch boy scout scrubbing his fingernails, Holland
A Dutch boy scout scrubbing his fingernails, Holland

Dutch cub scout polishing shoes, Netherlands, no doubt in order to earn a proficiency badge

Scouts and cubs, Bob A Job Week, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts and cubs taking part in Bob A Job Week, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Seen here cleaning gutters and streets

Suffragette in Prison Dress Cleaning Kettle. A suffragette in replica prison uniform, sits polishing a cooking pot. She wears a large prison badge, issued from Holloway Prison

Graffiti Vandalism at Pisa
Conservation experts applying mud packs to draw out spray painted graffiti on the porous Carrara marble walls of Pisa Duomo

British soldiers washing at a rest camp
Washing off the mud of Flanders - our Tommies tubbing in a rest camp. British soldiers coming out of the front line, immediately take advantage of a line of tin baths arranged for them at a rest

LFB firefighter cleaning an enclosed pump vehicle

Man and woman performing a comic sketch
Man and woman in costume, performing a comic sketch. Date: C.1942

Campbell Dye Works advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for P & P Campbell Limited, Dye Works of Perth, whose dyes in wartime allowed people to practice wartime economy by dry-cleaning or dyeing existing clothes or soft furnishings instead

Rain and mud at Yser, 1914
British cavalrymen cleaning mud off accoutrements during a rain storm on the Yser line in 1914. The rain has come down in pitiless downpours and the flat meadows have become boggy in the extreme

Rene Fraser washing engine room hatches area on Medusa

The Flying Scotsman cleaned
A wash and brush up for steam locomotive No. 2545, the Flying Scotsman

Women working at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Soldiers places taken up by ladies from the hunting field at an Army Remount Depot. Two girls here shown mucking out the stables. Date: 1916

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