Laundry Collection (page 6)

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Dormitory
A dormitory at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Costumes Drying, Jubilee Hall
Costumes drying behind the Jubilee Hall during rehearsals of The Beggars Opera, Aldeburgh Festival 1962 Date: 1962

A woman chauffeur, WW1
A Miss Webber, the first motor cab driver to be trained and employed by a London cab company due to the shortage of male drivers

Advert for Hudsons Extract of Soap 1887
Troops of people at home troops of people in the Colonies and abroad, say Hudsons Extract of Soap is the best for all washing and cleaning. 1887

Women washing clothes in a lake, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Women washing clothes, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

People washing clothes, India. Date: circa 1890s

Washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta, India
People washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Date: circa 1890s

Dhobis washing clothes, India. The Dhobi is a caste group whose members specialise in washing clothes. Date: circa 1890s

Laundry at Girls Home
The laundry at a girls home, possibly a Magdalen home, location unknown. Nuns are supervising the work. Sheets are being ironed in a roller press. Date: Date unknown

Laundry at the Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol
An interior view of the laundry at Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol. Sheets are being ironed in a large rotary press. In peacetime, the hospital operated as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum

Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside Ironing Room
The ironing room at Dr Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside, Essex. Sheets, fresh from the laundry, are ironed in large presses. Date: Date unknown

Laundry at St Oswalds Home, Cullercoats, Northumberland
Women at work in the laundry at the St Oswalds Home for Girls, Mast Lane, Cullercoats, Whitley Bay, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. The home was opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1896

Gas iron, 1884
A gas iron, 1884. 1884

Gas iron by Littgow, 1861
A lady using Littgows gas iron, Denmark, 1861. Date: 1861

Iron, stand and holder, 1888
An iron, stand and holder, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Laundry irons, 1923
A selection of irons, as featured in a catalogue: a patent gas iron, a flat iron with galvanised stand, and a convex polishing iron. Date: 1923

The laundry room of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street, London Date: C. 1910

Iron heater, 1888
An iron heater, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Hat iron, 1888
A hat iron, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Box iron, 1888
A box iron, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Serving Through the Ages - Women
This picture shows the various roles of women servants from the 14th-19th century. It starts with showing servant girls milking, harvesting

People in a garden with Chinese Laundry sign
People in a garden, including a man in oriental costume and a Chinese Laundry sign on the right

Ironing Collars
Photograph demonstrating the technique for ironing bib and collars in 1911. Date: 1911

Kids Hang out Washing
Three children at a maternity hospital and creche in Paris, France, pegging out laundry on washing day. Date: early 1930s

Taxco de Alarcon, Guerro, Mexico - Communal laundry pool
A communal laundry pool at Taxco de Alarcon - a small city and administrative centre of a municipality of the same name located in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Date: circa 1920s

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

Hondarribia, Spain - House in the Marina Neighbourhood with its many occupants! Date: circa 1910s

France, Beaugency - The Viaduct and Wash-house
France, Beaugency, a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is located on the Loire river - The Viaduct and Wash-house. Date: circa 1920

Washing Day, Shanghai, China - hanging clothes out to dry on a pole at the front of the house. Date: circa 1906

Public Washing facility - Antibes, France
Public Washing facility ( Lavoir ) - Antibes, France Date: circa 1910s

Drying Day at the Robert Infantry Barracks, Peshawar, NWFP (North West Frontier Province). Date: circa 1910s

Washer Women - Bermuda with their laden donkey cart. Date: circa 1910s

Rennes, France - Chateau Branlant - The Washhouses - Maison de Cadet Roussel. Busy washing day! Date: circa 1907

Poster of the French-American Laundries, by Leonetto
" Poster of the French-American Laundries, by Leonetto Cappiello (1920). Art Deco. ITALY. Milan. Civica Raccolta delle Stampe " Achille Bertarelli"

Dhobi area - Rangoon - Public laundry washing area Date: 1951

Laundry delivery service

The Laundryman

Laundry at Merxplas Labour Colony, Belgium
Laundry at Merxplas (or Merksplas) labour colony and beggars depot, Belgium Date: 1934

A Falda Washing Machine
A Falda washing machine. Date: 1934

Dolly Tub and Wringer 1904
Dolly tub and wringer, Yorkshire, 1904 Date: 1904

Hanging laundry to dry. Print shows two women hanging laundry. Date between 1795 and 1801, printed later

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Laundry in a hot spring - Reykjavik, Iceland
Women do their household laundry in a hot pool - Reykjavik, Iceland. Date: circa 1910s

Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf

Joyce Green Hospital - staff washhouse
The washhouse for staff clothing in the laundry at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford. The hospital, which was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, open in 1903

Joyce Green Hospital - ironing room
Ironing room for patients bedding in the laundry at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford. Large rotary irons are used to press sheets

Winter Garden at St Pancras Schools, Leavesden, Hertfordshir
Young children with hoes and rakes tend the Winter Garden at the St Pancras Schools at Leavesden In Hertfordshire. The schools were used to house pauper children away from the workhouse

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