Toilet Collection (page 11)

Home Perm 1920S
A young woman gives herself a home perm in front of her bedroom dressing table, using some rather dangerous looking electric apparatus - lets hope its earthed! Date: late 1920s

Keep Fit Exercises
Three women standing in front of a mirror doing keep fit stretching excercises. Date: early 1930s

Fitness Display
Two soldiers keeping fit on an exercise wheel. Date: early 1930s

Exercising to Gramophone
A girl does her leg exercises on a table to the music of her gramophone records! Date: early 1930s

Sorting Hair 1930S
A young woman sorting and packing hair, perhaps for wigs or even bedding. Date: early 1930s

Christmas Tattoo
A young woman with dark hair having a tattoo put on her shoulder. It reads: Merry Xmas Bob from Annie. Date: early 1930s

Keep Fit Class
Keep young and beautiful - a ladies keep fit class, with the ladies lying on their backs in a circle, doing leg exercises! Date: early 1930s

Curling Hair Extensions
Girls wetting lengths of hair to curl them into hair extensions or to made into wigs. Date: early 1930s

Ball Games 1930S
Three strapping German girls playing ball in an open space in the snow, Berlin, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Electric Shaver
A young man demonstrates how to us a new fangled shaving machine, more commonly known as an electric razor! Date: early 1930s

False Nails
Rather clumsy clip-on false nails! Date: early 1930s

Monster Make-Up
Actor George H. Mulcaster (1891 - 1964), wearing a wig, backstage in his dressing room, applying make-up which will transform him from man to monster! Date: early 1930s

Riviera Exercise Class
A keep fit class doing exercises on a beach on the French Riviera. Date: early 1930s

French Riviera Keep Fit
The young handsome keep fit fanatic Professeur Caron wows a small crowd as he jumps in the air on a beach in the French Riviera. Date: early 1930s

Riviera Aerobics Class
A keep fit class doing aerobic exercises with beach balls on the French Riviera, the young women copying the actions of a young male fitness instructor. Date: early 1930s

Beauty Treatment
A young woman undergoing beauty treatment in a salon. Quarter-circular photograph. Date: early 1930s

Beauty Products
A young woman applying beauty products at her dressing table. The bottles are labelled Skins Food, Plaster etc. Date: early 1930s

Subathers Beside a River
A group of sunbathers, mostly girls in bikinis and bathing costumes, sunbathing and dipping their toes into a river! Date: early 1930s

Sunbathing & Working
Two men and a woman pushing a truck full of soil on rails whilst sunbathing at Physiopolis, a health club and holiday camp. Date: 1930s

Men at Holiday Camp
Men sunbathing and digging at Physiopolis, a health club where people used to meet and holiday together. Date: 1930s

Sunbathing Girls
Three girls set out for a spot of sunbathing with their banjolele! Date: early 1930s

Subathers Form a Word
A group of innovative sunbathers, form the word l Italia, presumably on a beach in Italy! Date: early 1930s

Beauty Spots & Patches
A woman with beauty spots and patches on her face in the shape of crescent moons, a star and even a horse and carriage Date: 1630s

Belgian Bathing Equipment Shop, selling sponges, chamois leather cloths soaps, shampoo and sundry other bathing products for successful cleaning and grooming

Public toilets
The public toilets in the Natural History Museum

DEGAS, Edgar (1834-1917). Woman at her Toilet. 1889. Impressionism. Pastel. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

Throne of Tutankhamun. ca. 1340 BC. Back of the throne depicting Queen Ankhesenamun putting the finishing touches to the kings toilet. Tutankhamuns Treasure

Aldebrando da Firenze

Madame Poupoule at her Toilet
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Madame Poupoule at her Toilet. Post-Impressionism. Oil on wood

Q is for Quality
Advertising for Fripps Toilet Soap. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Bathing / Just as you Are
Lady in the bath is invited to a party - " Come just as you are!" Date: circa 1910

Lady in Bath with Cat
A lady in the bath: shes taken her cat with her to keep her company! Date: 1910

Cut Throat Shave
A woman gives a man a close shave with a cut throat razor. Date: 1930s

Roadside Barber
This man standing next to his car is actually a roadside barber! Date: early 1930s

Woman Using Eye Bath
A woman uses an eyebath to help keep her eyes clear and bright Date: 1930s

Dobbins medicated toilet soap. Poster showing four well dressed women in a parlor, one of them is holding open a box of Dobbins Medicated Toilet Soap

T stands for Toilet Soap
Advertising for Fripps Toilet Soap. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. c.1912

Cucumber cream
Cucumber Cream with lanoline for soft white hands, made by the Maioline Toilet Co. Date: C.1900

Veet advertisement, depilatory cream, 1927
A cream that removes hair like magic! Date: 1927

The Princess Royals dressing case, a wedding gift to the bride from the Duchess of Kent, on the occasion of Victoria(Vicky)s marriage to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858

The Toilet of Helen by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to his novel Under the Hill. A bare-breasted Helen is preened and pampered by decorative ladies in 18th century dress

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Feet=Washing Fountain
The feet washing fountain near the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel. Date: 1960s

Sun Lounger
A happy blonde woman, flipping through a magazine, whilst sunbathing on her patio sun lounger! Date: 1960s

Girls in Turkish Bath
Three young women with Marcel Wave hairstyles, relaxing together in an indoor Turkish bath. Date: 1930s

Boy Gymnast
A young athlete flexes his muscles and strikes a pose at the annual Boys Brigade show. Date: 1938

Advert for Mappin & Webb hair brush sets
Advert for a fine Morocco leather vanity travelling case, completely fitted with a set of superfine enamel and silver-gilt toilet requisities, beautifuly engraved and cut glass toilet bottles

Dressing Cases
Fine morocco leather dressing cases for ladies, containing Toilet Requisites, traveling clocks, accessories for all parts of the anatomy... Date: 1930

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