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Cleansing Collection

Background imageCleansing Collection: French Acadians Deported

French Acadians Deported
The French Acadians of Nova Scotia are deported by the English to various east coast locations

Background imageCleansing Collection: Japanese home bath

Japanese home bath
Japanese ladies washing and cleansing themselves; one is in a bath tub with water heated by a fire

Background imageCleansing Collection: Woman washing by David Wright

Woman washing by David Wright
Beautiful portrait of a woman, possibly the artists wife, Esme, sitting in a small metal bath. Date: c.1948

Background imageCleansing Collection: City of Edinburgh Cleansing Department lorry, early 1900s

City of Edinburgh Cleansing Department lorry, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Background imageCleansing Collection: Dunfermline Abbey

Dunfermline Abbey
This photograph shows a view of Dunfermline Abbey, in Fife, Scotland, which was founded in 1128 by King David I. During the Scottish Reformation, the church underwent a protestant cleansing in 1559

Background imageCleansing Collection: Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement

Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lifebuoy soap, a cleansing safeguard against contagious diseases

Background imageCleansing Collection: Bristol Myers Co Ipana Advertisement

Bristol Myers Co Ipana Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Bristol Myers Co, promoting their Ipana toothpaste, a cleansing, antiseptic, flavoursome product which refreshes the mouth delightfully. Date: circa 1923

Background imageCleansing Collection: Advert for Cyclax, a cosmetic brand established in 1896 by Frances Hemming. Date: 1932

Advert for Cyclax, a cosmetic brand established in 1896 by Frances Hemming. Date: 1932

Background imageCleansing Collection: ARP Cleansing and decontamination facility

ARP Cleansing and decontamination facility
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) - Gas Cleansing and decontamination facility. Date: 1937

Background imageCleansing Collection: Advert for Nivea beauty creme, 1929

Advert for Nivea beauty creme, 1929 Date: 1929

Background imageCleansing Collection: George Smarts chimney cleansing machine

George Smarts chimney cleansing machine
Miscellany: equipment for button-making, glazing cloth, gun flints, George Smarts chimney cleansing machine, and crystallography

Background imageCleansing Collection: Brazen Laver

Brazen Laver
Brazen (bronze) laver was a place for cleansing in the Old Testament. Priests would wash their hands and feet before commencing priestly service. Date: circa 1800

Background imageCleansing Collection: Indigenous Selk nam Indian, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile

Indigenous Selk nam Indian, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile
Indigenous Selk nam Indian of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland

Background imageCleansing Collection: Indigenous Selk nam Indians, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile

Indigenous Selk nam Indians, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile
Indigenous Selk nam Indian Woman of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland, pictured with her laden horse

Background imageCleansing Collection: Bosnia - Aerial photograph showing ethnic cleansing

Bosnia - Aerial photograph showing ethnic cleansing
Aerial photograph showing ethnic cleansing. One of 60 photographs of the deployment of the 1st Queen?s Dragoon Guards in Bosnia, June to December 1996

Background imageCleansing Collection: Cartoon, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

Cartoon, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles; or, The British Hero cleansing the Mouth of the Nile, by James Gillray

Background imageCleansing Collection: Women brewery workers, WW1

Women brewery workers, WW1
Women employees at work cleansing a vat in one of the Burton-on-Trent breweries during the First World War. Date: 1916

Background imageCleansing Collection: Advert for Eleanor Adair, herbal pack 1934

Advert for Eleanor Adair, herbal pack 1934
Adairs new achievement in beauty aids. A herbel pack, created by Eleanor Adair to enable you to avoid the distressing effects of a relentless sun

Background imageCleansing Collection: Germans Expelled

Germans Expelled
Ethnic cleansing in Poland - Germans are expelled from the country. Date: 1925

Background imageCleansing Collection: The cleansing of New York

The cleansing of New York. Illustration showing a large hand labeled LAW holding up by the collar newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

Background imageCleansing Collection: Advert for Cyclax cleansing lotion 1931

Advert for Cyclax cleansing lotion 1931
This overnight cleansing will make a difference in the morning. Morning mirrors never flatter - yet surely your skin is lighter in tone.... softer and smoother in texture

Background imageCleansing Collection: Aix-les-Bains, France - Thermal shower room at the spa

Aix-les-Bains, France - Thermal shower room at the spa Date: circa 1910s

Background imageCleansing Collection: Man examining street signs

Man examining street signs
A man standing on an island in the middle of a road, examining two street signs. They read: FAP (First Aid Post) and Public Gas Cleansing Centre. circa 1940s

Background imageCleansing Collection: Mobile decontamination unit

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

Background imageCleansing Collection: Cussons Soap advertisment

Cussons Soap advertisment
Advertisement for Cussons soap with illustrations of elegant Regency couples by Pauline Baynes

Background imageCleansing Collection: Spa Treatments - Aix Les Bains, France

Spa Treatments - Aix Les Bains, France
A man undergoing treatments in the new cleansing cabin at Aix-Les-Bains, France

Background imageCleansing Collection: Baptism, Persia

Baptism, Persia
A baptism among the Parsees - ritual bathing followed by circumcision and ritual cleansing


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