Hygiene Collection (page 2)

Dental moulding room, Claudius Ash, Sons & Co Ltd, Kentish Town, NW London. 1921

Advert for Southalls sanitary towels 1898
Sanitary Towels for Ladies from home or on tour, made entirely of white absorbent wool. 1898

Advert for Floriline liquid for teeth and breath 1897
Is the best Liquid Dentifrice in the World. Prevents the decay of the teeth. Renders the teeth pearly white. Is perfectly harmless and delicious to the taste. Date: 1897

Roman era. Turkey. Ephesus Latrines (public toilets). 1st century AD

Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747). Searching for Fleas. 1715 / 20
Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo. Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Searching for Fleas. 1715/20. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris

Roman Art. Spain. Andalusia. Italica. Thermae. 2nd century A
Spain. Italica. Roman city founded c. 206 BC. Thermae, Large Baths. Near Santiponce. Ruins. Andalusia

Greek Art. Kronion thermae. Olympia
Greek Art. Kronion thermae. Ruins dating from the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century A.D. Sanctuary of Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. Leonidaion. Baths. Olympia. Greece
Greek Art. The Leonidaion. Lodging place for athletes taking part in the Olympic Games at Olympia. It was constructed around 330 BCE and was funded and designed by Leonidas of Naxos. Baths. Olympia

Greek Art. Sanctuary of Olympia. Ruins of the Greek baths. Ca. 480 B.C.5th century B.C. Greece

Albania. Butrint. House with Roman baths. 2nd century A. C
Albania. Butrint. House with Roman baths. 2nd century A.C

Roman city of Ampurias. Roman baths. Girona. Catalonia. Spain

The International Health Exhibition, London
Programme 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 Soap
A stylish woman washes her dainty hands with lovely soap in her bathroom sink. Date: 1940s

Mennens Toilet Powder
Mrs Patrick Campbell and Madame Albani are only two of the celebrities of the stage who recommend Mennens borated talcum powder for health and freshness. Date: 1904

Toilet / Sanitary Towels
An elegant advertisement for intimate items for ladies. Date: 1917

MADRID BARBER 5 / 5 1987
Part of the tiled fascia of a Madrid barber shop: the barber shaves a client with a cut- throat razor. Date: 1987

MADRID BARBER 1 / 5 1987
The tiled fascia of a Madrid barber shop - ladies also catered for, and home visits can also be arranged. Date: 1987

Colgate Dental Cream / Adv
An advertisement for Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream - for strength and happiness...good to taste and good for the teeth. Date: 1919

Advertisement for Wrights coal tar shampoo powder. Date: early 20th century

Advertisement for Cooks Pure Toilet Soap. Date: early 20th century

Estelle Lingerie Glamour Wear - Backless Bra, Easy Tights. 1971

Bath House, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Municipal Bath House, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Theatre nurse at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Theatre nurse in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

Two theatre nurses at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Two theatre nurses in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

International Hygiene Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buildings of the International Hygiene Exhibition of 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: 1910

Regesan toothpaste advertisement, 1914
Advertisement for Regesan toothpaste, available from Boots in 1914. Illustration shows a pretty young woman daintily holding an oversized toothbrush on which a cherub squeezes out paste. Date: 1914

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Orive toothpaste ad

Advertisement for Decoltene liquid hair remover, which stresses that the vogue for decollete and transparent sleeve makes the smooth underarm a matter of importance to the woman who prides herself

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

WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food -- Keep Food Covered
Flies Foul Food - Diarrhoea and Dysentery Follow. Keep Food Covered! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Anti-dysentery

WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food
Flies Foul Food. Your health depends on wholesome food - keep it covered from flies! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper

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

Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up, WW2
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up in the station washroom after many hours tackling air raid fires, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940s

Award-winning scouts, Queensland, Australia
Three award-winning scouts in Queensland, Australia -- they won a hygiene award for the best-kept campsite, sponsored by a firm of Coca Cola bottlers

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar soap 1915
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap, the ideal Christmas present to send to a soldier at the front, along with a stick of Coal tar shaving soap

Sanitary Department on parade, WW1
The newly formed Sanitary Department on parade at the start of the First World War. Date: August 1914

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

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

Adolphe Trebuchet
ADOLPHE TREBUCHET French medical active in public hygiene, lighting etc. Date: 1801 - ?

Genoa, Italy - International Exhibition
The International Exhibition of Marine and Maritime Hygiene - Italian Colonial Show (Esposizione Internazionale d Igiene Marinara e Mostra Coloniale) was held in Genoa in 1914

Amoreta Soap
Amoreta soap made from Parisian sweet beef suet, not six month old rancid Australian mutton tallow. 1899 1899

Hygiene de guerre. Mother serving food at the dinner table. Rules of a healthy diet written below. Date 1918. Hygiene de guerre. Mother serving food at the dinner table

Stamp out syphilis Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place

Sesam soap advert
Poster for the Sesam soap, Danish 1885, Date: 1885

Testing Milk

Poster, Clean and Fit and Happy Too! Showing people in different countries attending to personal hygiene. Issued by the (British) Health and Cleanliness Council. 1939

Poster, The Castle of Cleanliness in the Land of Good Health, defended by the soap and water brigade. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

Pigeon hygiene -- the only parts requiring human intervention are the claws, which are washed in Quassia chips to kill insects. circa 1940s

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