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Wrights Coal Tar Soap - WW1Advertisement 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, 1930sAn advert for Goodwins toilet soap, featuring a smiling young woman holding a tennis racket. 1937-1938
Ending in Smoke by Heath RobinsonAn 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
Wrights Coal Tar Soap advertisement, WW1Lucky 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
Advertisement for Vinolia Soap - Mother! Mother!! Fidos eaten my soap!!! early 20th century
Advert for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends... 1912Advertisement for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends the product for its pure, genuine, good value and effective properties! Date: 1912
Advertisement for Keatings PowderAn 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 1916Advertisement 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 DawsonThree 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 ColdIngenious 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 DawsonA little boy in a charming blue smock and shorts outfit, washes his face using a flannel, soap and metal wash bowl
Moorish Bathhouse - Algeria. Date: circa 1909
Boy scouts sharing a shower at camp, British HondurasThree boy scouts sharing a shower at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951
Comic Postcard - Dirty Collar - Donald McGillA 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 bathOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). The Sultan's bath. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Arnout
Turkey. Turkish baths for womenOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Turkish baths for women. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot
Hudson's Soap AdvertisementAn 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 centuryOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Turkish baths for women. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot
Dearborn Advertisement Miss Felix StewartA 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 Soap1890 UK Magazine Brookes Soap Advert Date: 1890
Wilton Williams Idea of Comfort, taking a bathA 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 1900Interior of a men-only Turkish bath in the shampooing room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900
Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900
Public laundries, St. Marylebone, London 1900Interior 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 WashhousesPage 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 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
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, TurkeyTwo elderly muslim men dress after washing themselves outside a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1984
Little girl at water tap, IstanbulA 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 DelhiA 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 MataniaThe 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, FranceA 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 ISoldiers 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, 1903Advertisement 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 advertisementAdvertisement 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 WW1An 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, WW1The CLEANEST fighter in the World - the British Tommy. Great War advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers
The International Health Exhibition, LondonProgramme 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 SoapA 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
VALUEOrive toothpaste ad
Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions workerAdvertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917