Laundry Collection (page 3)

Woman before Splashing Man with Laundry Water

Family Does Laundry Date: 1948

A Hospital Laundry
Women working in the laundry of Guys Hospital, London Date: circa 1940

Advert for W &s Summerscales & Sons household machines 1888 Advert for W & S
Double page spread of a selection of Victorian free-standing machines for household use, available in W &s Summerscales & Sons catalogue, including The Colonial mangle, chain washer and Gardner

WOODEN IRONING BOARD
A rather rickety old wooden ironing board. Date: 1930s

SMOOTH IRONING TIPS
A tip for those who iron clothes - padding your ironing board with old newspapers helps to keep the ironing cloth smooth. Date: 1940s

JAPANESE HOUSEWIFE IRONS
A young Japanese housewife irons her husbands trousers on the floor. This is a daily task, because the Japanese sit on cushions which makes trousers crease badly. 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

Golden Lane - laundry room 1866
Interior of City of London Public baths and washhouse, Golden Lane, showing the public laundry. Date: 1866

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

LADY AND HER LINEN / 1929
A woman selects a clean handerchief from her drawer. Date: 1929

WOMAN PREPARES TO DYE
A woman prepares a dye mixture before adding it to a basin of water. Date: 1940s

STREET LAUNDRESS C19
Any washing? Any washing?; a street laundress offers her services. Date: early 19th century

BOYS IN LAUNDRETTE
Three teenage boys using a laundrette as a place in which to meet and socialise Date: 1960s

BRIXTON WASH-HOUSE
A scene in the wash-house in Brixton Prison Date: 1860

WASHING IN SCOTLAND
Scottish women treading the washing, barefoot in tubs Date: 1871

WASHING DAY IN FRANCE
Washing day in a French home, maman bends over the tub, her elder daughter pegs out the washing, the younger enfants blow bubbles Date: circa 1920

HOGARTH HARLOT PLATE 5
The Harlots Progress 5. Hogarths Harlot expires while two doctors quarrel over her treatment. Date: 1732

WASHING DAY / MOTHER / CHILD
Washing Day Date: 1899

LAUNDRY IN SCOTLAND
Washing clothes in the river in Scotland Date: 1848

SMALL GIRL HAND WASHING
A small girl washing clothes by hand Date: circa 1870

PUBLIC LAUNDRY / PARIS
A LAVOIR PUBLIC (public laundry), Paris Date: circa 1870

HOUSEHOLD / LAUNDRY / MANGLE
Mangles and washing machines Date: 1884

TRADITIONAL ROLES
The man goes off to work while the woman does the laundry Date: 1840

Chinese laundrymen 1905
Chinese laundrymen working in the open air, standing in the water, rubbing and wringing the clothes. Date: 1905

Street washing out to dry, Arsenale, Venice
A man stands at the end of a street hung out with drying washing between apartments in Arsenale district of Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Wash day Taj Mahal
A woman beats laundry with a stick outside her home on the far side of the River Jumna to the Taj Mahal. She has a small child with her Date: 1987

Apartment balconies, Lisbon
A woman hangs out the washing from a small balcony in a block of old apartments with decorative iron balcony railings, Lisbon, Portugal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

The De-Lousing Establishment at Samsun, Turkey
The De-Lousing Establishment/Station/Building at Samsun, Turkey Date: 1923

Japanese barge-dweller hanging out her laundry
Japanese barge-dweller - Tokyo, Japan hanging out her laundry. Date: 1930s

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

Jewish Womans Pantaloons - on washing line - Tunisia
Jewish Ladys Pantaloons - on washing line - Tunisia. Their magnificence quite clearly warrants the personal guard...! Date: circa 1909

Washing Day for the Jewish Population at Sefrou, Morocco
Washing Day for the Jewish Population in the stream which run thrugh the village of Sefrou, Morocco Date: 1929

Ursuline Convent laundry, Tildonk, Belgium
Ursuline Convent laundry, Tildonk (Thildonck), Belgium. Date: 1910s

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Laundry
Staff stand amongst piles of washing in the laundry at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum

St Marylebone Poor Law Schools, Southall, London
The St Marylebone Schools on South Road, Southall opened in 1858 to house up to 390 pauper children away from the workhouse

Sad irons, curling and goffering irons
A selection of home appliances, as featured in a catalogue. A sad iron and stand, a polishing iron, a spirit iron, a hat iron for ironing brims and a Dalli box iron are pictured

Laundry Staff at Whittingham Asylum, near Preston, Lancs
Laundry staff at Whittingham Asylum, Cumeragh Lane, Goosnargh, near Preston, Lancashire. The asylum, designed by Henry Littler of Manchester, opened in 1873 as the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum

Union Workhouse, New Cross, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
Aerial view of the Wolverhampton Union workhouse at New Cross, Wednesfield (then Staffordshire, today part of the West Midlands district), opened in 1903 and designed by Arthur Marshall

St Pancras Schools, Leavesden, Hertfordshire
The St Pancras Schools at Leavesden In Hertfordshire. The schools were opened in by the St Pancras Board of Guardians in 1872 to house pauper children in the countryside away from the workhouse

Bloomers on Clothes Line
Three pairs of bloomers pegged out on a clothes line!

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1888
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1888

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1889
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1889

Heath Robinson
Laundry impressions. The collector calls. One of a set of 6 postcards. Date: circa 1920

Housewife with her new Ritemp electric washing machine
A housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain. Date: 1947

Washing Stockings / 1940S
Washing day: a young woman washes stockings by hand at the sink using a bar of soap and two basins of water Date: 1940s

St Annes Laundry Home, Yiewsley, Middlesex
St Annes Laundry Home, Yiewsley, was aimed at the care of girls who were morally weak and unfit for service. Date: circa 1913

Sunlight Soap advertisement, 1903
Advertisement 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

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