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Dutch Lady Washes HandsA Dutch lady wearing a satin dress washes her hands in a shallow bowl while her maid pours water from a jug. Date: 17th century
Clean Living RomansRomans attending to their ablutions
Making up in PublicA gallery visitor makes herself up in public Date: 1919
Eyecare / Eyebrows 1928A lady attends to her eyebrows Date: 1928
Girls Dress / CandlelightIf ladies be but young and fair, they have the gift to know it. Mother holds up a candle while her daughters dress. Date: 1821
Floating Bath / Iln / 1850Cordinglys floating bath which appears to be floating in open water. Date: 1850
Bath of Turkish SultanA Turkish sultan is tended to in his bath by a host of handmaidens Date: 1840
Man in Shower / PunchA gentlemans shower is interrupted by a maid asking ill-timed questions Date: 1849
Children Washing C1920French children getting up, getting washed and dressed. Date: circa 1920
Mother Bathes Child / 1929A mother prepares to bathe her child using the new hot water bath and shower Date: 1929
Bathing Devices / 1900Advertisement for various bathing devices Date: 1900
CHILDs BATH / 1890 SChilds bath Date: 1890 s
Dr Melchers Shower YokeAdvertisement for Dr Melchers Shower Yoke, providing a refreshing shower while the hair stays dry Date: 1903
John Harington / Age 30SIR JOHN HARINGTON English courtier and writer at the age of 30; he invented the flush toilet Date: 1561 - 1612
Fold-Away Bath AdvertAn advertisement for a foldaway bath Date: 1881
Cartoon, and Officers? WW1Cartoon, and Officers? A military man seeks a toilet appropriate to his rank. Date: 1918
Public ChaletsPicturesque Chalets de necessite for ladies caught short in the streets of Paris Date: 1881
Waterless ClosetWaterless closet - thousands already in use - it uses domestic garden peat instead Date: 1900
Roman Baths of TitusView of the Roman Baths of Titus, public baths or thermae built in Rome by the Emperor Titus in 81 AD. A cross section is shown
Women Bathing / BehamWomen and children in a German bath house are spied on by a man at the window Date: circa 1525
Tattooed LadyThe Tattooed Lady - a living work of art which you may admire among the sideshows of the circus Date: 1889
Tattooed Girl, BrazilA tattooed girl of the Mundurucu people, Brazil Date: 1850
Tattoo Shown to GirlA soldier shows his tattooed arm, with her name and his, assuring her that it will last for ever : she is touched... Date: 1870
Washing - Equip - 1890A selection of Toilet Tidies and Bath Requisites circa 1890
Washing / Equip / Soap DispA mechanical soap dispenser from Germany Date: 1900
More Swedish instructionKeep fit instructress to exhausted class " Come, come! That won t do at all. You MUST look cheerful. Keep smiling - keep smiling all the time!" Date: 1906
Hair Curling ClipsA girl having rather painful looking clips put into her hair, presumably to make it curl into the kind of curly hairstyle made popular by child star Shirley Temple. Date: 1930s
Body Deformation / LipsLip-ring of South American native
Poster advertising McClintons SoapPoster advertising McClintons toilet and shaving soap, with two boys and a dog on a go-kart. Date: early 20th century
Advertisement for Cooks Pure Toilet Soap. Date: early 20th century
Advertisement, Improved Earth Closets and CommodesAdvertisement, O Brien, Thomas, & Co, Upper Thames Street, London -- Improved Earth Closets and Commodes (Toilets). 1898
Advertisement, Twycliffe Patent Pedestal Syphon ToiletAdvertisement, Twyfords Ltd, Cliffe Vale Potteries, Hanley -- Twycliffe Patent Pedestal Syphon WC Basin Toilet. 1896
Advert for Twycliffe ornate toiletPatent pedestal syphon w.c basin, supplied with either centre outlet or back outlet. Connection to outlet of trap made by means of porcelain. late 19th century
Rest Room, Grundys Redwood Terraces, California, USAHe and She Rest Room, Grundys Redwood Terraces, Redwood Highway, California, USA. Date: late 1930s
The Duke of Edinburgh as chancellor of Edinburgh UniversityPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh facing a barrage of toilet paper thrown by high-spirited students at a ceremony installing actor James Robertson Justice as rector of Edinburgh University
Housewife in the backyard of her terraced home with childrenA beautifully-shot study of a Housewife in the backyard of her terraced home with her children. Date: circa 1910s
A selection of household brushes- from top to bottom: Bass Broom Heads; closet or lavatory brushes; Sweeps brushes; and Hearth brushes. Date: c. 1910
Punk in toilet at gig in ManchesterA punk with the rather apt word Unrest on his black jacket leans against the wall of a toilet at a punk gig in Manchester. Date: circa 1982
Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed, WW1Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed. A French soldier needs to ask the nurse for the chamber pot, but doesn t want the German to hear him in case its sensitive information
Vitromant Coloured Water Closet (toilet)Vitromant Coloured Water Closet Suite (toilet) - finished in fetching pink enamel with a polished mahogany seat. Date: circa 1920s
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Staffordshire Blue ClosetArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Staffordshire Blue Water Closet (toilet). Date: circa 1920s
Men at coastal storage hutMen at a coastal storage hut with figureheads from ships on display. Date: circa 1930s
A Made in England Officers toilet kit - WWIA Made in England Officers toilet kit. It comprises a leather case containing a glass bottle - possibly for hair tonic - with a metal screw top, and a tin box - possibly for shaving equipment
Young woman washing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s
Boy buying food from a travelling shop parked alongside a public convenience. Date: 1920s
Effects of taking the watersThe rather adverse effect of taking the waters at Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg !!! Date: circa 1910s
Red Indian Hair CareThe dressing table of a Seminola Indian from the Everglades, Florida, U.S.A. The sausage-roll shaped rat serves as a support for the coiffure built upon it. Date: 1930s
Putting on Make-UpA young woman puts on her make-up at her bedroom dressing table. Date: circa 1970
