Cleans Collection

Suffragette Hen Pecked Husband Suffers. Poor Hen-Pecked husband cleans out the fire while wife tells him what to do. Caption reads, My Wifes joined the suffrage movement

Young woman washing clothes at a sink
A young woman at a kitchen sink washing clothes using a washboard. There is a stack of four dinner plates waiting to be washed up, a kettle, and a tin of One-O-One which cleans without scratching

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bootblack Date: circa 1916

Canada - Ojibwa Girl cleaning the catch
The Ojibwa is the largest group of Native American peoples north of Mexico. They are equally divided between the United States and Canada

Advert / Cleavers Soap
Cleavers Soap - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, one touch of Cleavers cleans the whole worlds skin!

SHOE-BLACK 1877
A Shoe-Black boy cleans and shines a gentlemans shoes on a wooden block

Rabbits Wash-Day - Birthday Greetings Postcard Date: 1944

Lever Brothers Twink Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Twink, a product which both cleans and dyes materials simultaneously

Advert, The New Hoover Vacuum Cleaner - Try Them All! Date: 1929

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

Shoeshiner 1867
What a polish! The youngsters were astonished! The gentlemen delighted! Date: 1867

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

Lady bursts through Hoods Latest Newspaper full of health
Lady bursts through Hoods Latest Newspaper, full of health and vitality! Hoods Saponaceaous Tooth Powder apparently cleanses the teeth, sweetens the breath, and hardens the gums. Date: circa 1900s

Study and fagging at Malvern College
Last minute study and fagging: some of the junior boys doing some hasty revision while one of them cleans a senior boys boots, at Malvern College, an independent school in Worcestershire, England

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

French Washerwomen - Saint-Pierre-en-Port, France
French Washerwomen doing their laundry in the rock pools at Saint-Pierre-en-Port, in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region of France. Date: circa 1908

Soldier Looks Down the Barrel of Revolver
Soldier S.W. Saunders cleans out his revolver, with his ceremonial sword propped between his legs and army kit visible in the background. Date: 1940

Rural China - Washing clothes and bodies in a stream
Rural China - Washing clothes (doing the laundry) and bodies in a nearby stream. Date: circa 1910s

Ats Girl Cleans Up
An Auxilliary Territorial Services (A.T.S.) girl making do with a tin of paraffin and sawdust to remove grease from her hands when she comes off duty Date: 1940s

Bi-Borax Oriental
This lady uses Bi-Borax Oriental, an antiseptic detergent which cleans and purifies her skin : no wonder shes satisfied with what she sees in her mirror Date: 1891

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

Rene Fraser washing engine room hatches area on Medusa

Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937
Just a small wound but.... I never run the risk of blood poisoning. As soon as any member of my family gets a scratch or cut, let alone a more serious wound, I instantly apply Sanitas

Advertisement for Lifeguard soap -- little girl and adult female models posing (Sandra Palmer and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Japanese dockside scene - with young bathers
Japanese dockside scene - with moored boats and three young male bathers performing their ablutions. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Three Japanese women washing patterned fabric strips Date: circa 1905

Japanese Silk Industry - Cleaning silk worm beds. Date: circa 1910

Cheeky young Puppy avoids bathtime
A cheeky young pup escapes the possibility of bathtime by making a run for it from his wooden tub. Brother and Sister are about to give chase! Date: circa 1950s

Advice to would-be brides - The housework ahead
Advice to ladies about to be married - To get used to house-work! Try a few weeks Charing. The sender of this card has added the waggish line: " Hope you won t grease the stairs for me

Two girls help their mother with the housework; one holds a bucket of water, the other shakes down a mat. c. 1910

A boy cleaning his teeth
A happy smiling boy squeezing toothpaste on to his toothbrush, about to clean his teeth. Date: 1936

Platinum mining in the Ural Mountains - the cleaning process. The Urals run north to south through western Russia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Date: circa 1903

Mrs Mop Sweeps Up
Good old Mrs Mop, always handy with a dustpan and brush! Date: 1960s

Sago Industry of Sarawak
The Sago Industry of Sarawak (one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo). Cleaning Sago flour. Date: circa 1930s

Maid Cleans Shoes
A maidservant polishes boots. Date: 1885

Toilet / Cleaning Nostrils
A German lady cleans her nostrils with the aid of a water spray. Date: 1905

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