Soak Collection

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Comic postcard, Plump woman in a deckchair. Come down here and soak your corns with mine. Date: 20th century

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty
Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Girl Hangs Duds on Line Date: 1896

Drawing goatskins at a leather factory, south London
Two men drawing goatskins at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. The process involves repeatedly soaking the skins in a solution of lime and water over a number of weeks

Three Spinsters soak up the rays on the beach at Broadstairs
Three Spinsters soak up the summer rays on the beach at Broadstairs, Kent with beach huts in the background. Date: circa 1910s

Belgian Proverb - He who drank will drink. Date: circa 1908

Fire Hydrant Street Play NYC 1969
Fire hydrants partially opened in closed off streets to create cooling playgrounds during the intensely hot summer of 1969 Date: 1969

The Lady of the Lake - Old Soak fished out of the water
The Lady of the Lake - A Drunken Old Soak is fished out of the water by a dapper gent in a punt. Her bottle heads for the bottom and perhaps the dunking has sobered her up! Date: circa 1915

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

Acting conversation at the bar - former colleagues reminisce. She - " Dear me: I haven t seen you since we played in Romeo and Juliet You ARE looking well!" He - " Think so

Wit of a toothless old soak when faced with Sally Army pair
The witty reposte of a toothless old soak when faced with a pair of Salvation Army women: Salvation Sal (to village toper) - " If thou doesn t mend thy ways, Ben Bosker

A sandwich board man incurs the wrath of an enraged man, seemingly furious that the price of boots (made by Biggar and Biggar ) has gone up! The humorous caption read: " Put em up

Clothes Soak in Rinso
Clothes soaking in Rinso in the washtub of an American home : more than a million packages are used every week ! Date: 1924

Enjoying a soak in the bath, 1930
A lady reclines in a very comfortable-looking hot bath, enjoying the soothing effect on the nervous system of Zotis Foam Bath. Date: 1930

Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia
Trencianske Teplice - a health resort and small spa town in western Slovakia, in the valley of the river Teplicka, at the foothills of the Strazovske vrchy mountains

Gent in Sloane Sq. Pub
A well-dressed old businessman in a suit having a pint at the Sloane Square underground station pub. The barmaid holds the pub cat in her arms

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