Rubbing Gallery

Moudros, Lemnos, Greece - Laundry in the open air - washing clothes by rubbing the garments against large stones and then drying over walls and on fences in the hot sun. Date: 1922

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1920s, 1922, 20s, Clothes, Clothing, Curing, Day, Garments, Greece, Greek, Industry, Large, Laundry, Lemnos, Rubbing, Stones, Twenties, Wash, Washes, Washing

Monumental Brass Rubbing, Edward and Dorothy Wotton

Monumental Brass Rubbing, Sir Edward Wotton and his wife Dorothy, Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Sir Edward Wotton (1489-1551) was Treasurer of Calais and a privy councillor to King Edward VI of England.
1529

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1520s, 1529, Ages, Arms, Boughton, Brass, Burial, Calais, Coat, Commemoration, Councillor, Couple, Death, Dorothy, Edward, England, Husband, Inscription, Kent, Malherbe, Man, Medieval, Memorial, Middle, Monumental, Privy, Rubbing, Sir, Treasurer, Wife, Woman, Wotton

Sir Gabriel Goldney, Vanity Fair, Delfico

SIR GABRIEL GOLDNEY, 1st Baronet of Beechfield, Corsham and Bradenstoke Abbey (1813 - 1900) Conservative politician, landowner, financier and banker. Member of Parliament for Chippenham, Wiltshire. Caption: Practical Date: 1813 - 1900

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1872, Frederick, Grinning, Hands, Historical, History, Homeopathist, Quin, Rubbing