Tub Collection

DOLLY TUB
A laundry worker using a dolly stock and tub to clean clothes, prior to the invention of the washing machine

They say cleanliness is next to Godliness - but I say its next to impossible. A young child fails to clean their grimy knees no matter how hard they scrub! Date: 1933

Advertising card for Thoms Castile Soap of Manchester
Advertising card by Louis Wain for the Gold Medal-winning Thoms Castile Soap - the Best in the World - manufactured by David Thom & Co. Ltd. of Pendleton, Manchester

Advert for Pears soap 1887
A child steps into a bath tub of hot water helped by her mother 1887

Bass Brewery Mash-tub
Clearing King Edwards Mash-tub of Spent Grain at Basss Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. Edward VII had visited the Brewery in February 1902

Three Little Kittens
The Three Little Kittens are washing their mittens. 19th century

Japanese home bath
Japanese ladies washing and cleansing themselves; one is in a bath tub with water heated by a fire

Traditional Japanese bathing in upright wooden tub, heated by a small side stove Date: 1930

Water Baby by Muriel Dawson -- a little child in a bathtub. Date: 1939

Kaisers Campaigning Car
The Kaiser enjoying a morning tub in his new campaigning car during World War One. A typically convoluted method of transportation from W.Heath Robinson

Washing Board
A photograph demonstrating the use of a scrubbing board in a tub during washday in the early 20th century

The Poor Washerwoman - Henri Clark - Music Sheet
The Poor Washerwoman - sung with typhoons of applause by Henri Clark - Music Sheet, written by Walter Hadtings and composed by W. T. Webb

Biddy The Tubman Stonham - Hastings, East Sussex
Biddy " The Tubman" Stonham - Hastings, East Sussex - Acrobat and Seaside Entertainer (1910s - 1930s). There are a number of (hilarious)

WW2 - Laundry - It ll soon be hanging on the Siegfried Line
WW2 humour - " Two British soldiers doing their laundry comment that " It ll soon be hanging on the Siegfried Line!". Date: circa 1944

Cleanliness - Health - The Truest Wealth - promotional postcard for the Health & Cleanliness Council (HCC) - 5 Tavistock Square, London. Date: circa late 1920s

Medieval frolics: wine, women and song
An alfresco medieval social gathering, with mixed bathing and music making. Date: c.1430

Queen Mother visiting London evacuees at Horsted Keynes, 1939
The Queen Mother(1900-2002) with evacuated children from Battersea. A little four year old girl called Shirely here is playing " mothers"

Cover design for Dutch Dolls Polka, a song by May Ostlere, published by Enoch & Sons, London. Arrangements are also available for orchestra, instrumental septet, and military and brass bands

Doing Laundry 1940S
A housewife uses a kind of dolly leg with a rubber plunger on the end of it to wash her clothes in a metal tub. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Thor Washing Machine
This housewife is delighted with her Thor washing machine which converts to a dishwasher when she lifts out the Clothes Tub and slips in th Dish- Washing Unit

German Kitchen
A maid in a simple kitchen with stove, sink, racks, chopping block, tub and saucepans

Woman in the Tub 1918
A young woman starts her day washing herself in the tub with a large sponge. A towel sits on a rail for when she has finished

A Man and his Tub C1880
A man and his tub

Advert / Cooks Soap
Cooks Pure Toilet Soap

Advert / Cleavers Soap
Cleavers Soap - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, one touch of Cleavers cleans the whole worlds skin!

Bathing Child 1852
A mother bathes her two children: the elder, a toddler, sits drying on a table, while baby stands in the bath tub

The Rolls Rapide Twin Tub washing machine - look what you get! A bargain at 39 guineas! Date: 1961

Peeling Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
A young girl peeling a large tub Potatoes in the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Washing Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
The proprietor/owner washes Potatoes in a rotary hand-cranked washer prior to peeling at the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Children bathing together Your Turn by C V MacKenzie
Sweet illustration showing two children sharing a tin bath. The smaller child soaks the older one with a sponge, all in the spirit of communal bathing! Date: 1920s

Rabbits Wash-Day - Birthday Greetings Postcard Date: 1944

Upstairs Downstairs, maid doing laundry, lady singing
Upstairs Downstairs, maid doing the laundry with tub and washboard (L) and lady singing (R) Date: circa 1910

Yarmouth Herring Fishery, Washing the Herrings Date: 1854

Georgian cartoon, mother and son - Caesar my son, go to Mr Quirkem, your Father's died intestate, and left you his executor. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1820s

Women bathing in ornate, columned, Berlin Bath Palace
Photograph of women bathing in ornate, columned bath house at Berlin Bath Palace, Germany. Captioned, A Select Circle: a tub under the Dome of Badepalast?? and ?

Advert, Pears Soap, dated 1789, mother washing child in tub, used as a magazine insert 100 years later Date: 1789

Advert, John Warner and Sons, London
Advert, John Warner and Sons, Jewin Street, London, Galvanised Iron Tub Garden Engine with Warner's Registered Spreader Date: 1856

Caricature illustration by G F Studdy, of dog on leash and boy being tipped out of bath tub with water. Captioned, The Swimming Lesson'

Cartoon, The Man who Discovered the First Brew - medieval types drinking beer. Date: 1930

Scottish women washing clothes in the open air Date: circa 1850

Hungarian public information card - grow oil seed for soap
Hungarian patriotic public information postcard - There will be no shortage of soap if we produce oilseeds: rapeseed, castor oil, sunflower oil. Date: circa late 1950s

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Fragment of a roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. From Cr
Fragment of a roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Crete (Greece). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Two Children in the Mines 1854
Two young colliers helpers pulling a cart full of heavy coal upwards in the dark mines. Date: 1854

Comic postcard, Woman relaxing on the beach, pleased not to be back at home doing the household chores. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with wrong kind of salts Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, then home again, from sea to tub Date: 20th century

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