Drying Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting in garden Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, in the sea, then home again, doing the washing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, then home again - Make the most of it (in English and French) Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Washing line of clothes in a garden Date: 20th century

Woman Having her Hair Dried 1928
A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Comic postcard, Woman in red bikini at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man looking for lost football - Inside Right (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl comforts crying boy Date: 20th century

c. 1880s Italy - Truogodi di S. Brigida washing
c.1880s Italy - Truogodi di S. Brigida washing

Drying fish Reykjavik, Iceland
Vintage 19th century/1900 photograph: drying fish Reykjavik, Iceland

Drying coffee beans, Brazil, c. 1880 s
Drying coffee beans, Brazil, c.1880 s

Washing hanging between houses, Verona, Italy
Washing hanging between houses, narrow lane of Verona, Northern Italy. Date: circa 1920s

East End market barrow, London
Londons East End - a market barrow, with washing pegged out to dry in the background. Date: 1950s

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19

Trades in Regency England: flannel market, copper mines and shoe-maker. Man showing rolls of flannel cloth in Welchpool 46, miners digging for copper ore in Parys Mine, Anglesea 47

How the Vikings lived in the Shetlands in William the Conquerors time. A vivid reconstruction by Alan Sorrell of everyday life and activities in the Jarlshof Settlement near Sumburgh Head

Drying and rolling the green tea, China. (3 of 4) Date: 1832

Drying tea indoors, China. Date: 1851

Drying tea in the open air, China
Drying tea on a frame in the open air, China. Date: 1851

Drying tea by roasting it over a fire. Date: circa 1870s

Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900
Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900

William Heath Robinson, Not Now but Soon, The Wonder Book of the Then and Now, front endpapers. circa 1923

St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses
Page 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

Workers drying pollack near the sea, 18th century
Pollack, Pollachius pollachius 97, and workers preparing and drying fish in a shed, Europe, 18th century. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural

Cod fishery in the New World. Men landing cod, gutting and drying fish at a factory on the coast. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Women beating clothes and washing fabric
Women beating clothes and washing and drying fabric on rocks in a river in Madagascar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Gradini Santa Barbara, Naples, Italy
Gradini Santa Barbara, a narrow street of steps in Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1905

The Dogs Bath Club in Beauchamp Place, London where every imaginable facility was available for pampered pooches. Owners could relax in the cosy lounge with cocktail bar which was decorated with a

The Ski Forest by Fleming Williams
Typical scene at mid-day at the top of any well-known ski climb in Switzerland. A common sight to see as many as a hundred skis standing up in the snow to dry while their owners rest

Sheaves of flax drying in a field, Belgium. Date: 1922

Native laundry, Hong Kong, China, showing women hanging out washing. Date: circa 1930s

Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, Lisbon, Portugal
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, a narrow street in an old district of Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1940s

Houses in Soller, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1920

Twin Girls Do Washing Date: 1948

Doing the Dishes Date: 1947

PAINTING POTTERY / 1930S
Pottery is painted by hand Date: 1930s

HOME MADE CLOTHES RACK
A home-made drying rack, made from coat hangers and light rods, an ingenious way of drying underwear etc. in the days before tumbledryers. Date: 1930s

DRYING CLOSET 1866
Interior of City of London Public baths and washhouse, Golden Lane, showing drying closet of the public laundry. Date: 1866

Hastings Beach
On the beach, Carlisle Parade, Hastings, Sussex : note the rows of bathing machines, and the fishing boats beyond drying their sails. Date: circa 1905

Washing line Stoke
Washing on a clothes line in a back yard, Stoke on Trent, England. Date: 1987

Sizing and Drying Machine, Witton Royal Carpet Factory, Wilton, nr. Salisbury, England. Date: circa 1950s

Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Central America - Drying Henequen. After extraction from the plant, henequen is processed as a textile in various forms to obtain a range of products for domestic

Kawasaki Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road by Hokusai
Kawasaki, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Date: 1804

Clothes prop with comic verse on a Christmas card
Clothes prop with washing line and socks, with comic verse on a Christmas card -- including a Leap Year proposal in advance of the following year. Date: circa 1890s

The Wharf and Quay Street, St Ives, Cornwall
" One of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. The Wharf & Quay Street from Seagull Flats, Morning. The Harbour Beach Foresand, cottages & Quay House, St Leonards Chapel

Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt and pot
Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt, drying rack, horses and lare cooking pot. Date: circa 1908

Inside an Aleut wooden winter house on the island of Unalaska.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Clothes drying in snowfall, Siberia. A typical scene in Krasnoselkup settlement, yards and houses covered in snow, clothes normally dryed outside all year round, winter; North Tumen region

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