Wash Collection (page 2)

Woman's Day magazine - article on shampooing - 1957
Editorial photograph for Woman's Day magazine - article on shampooing - 1957. Date: 1957

Musical instruments of the ancient Hebrews. Harp, lyres, flute, psaltery, organ, horn, panpipes, bagpipes, drum, trumpet, bell, sistrum, triangle, rattle, etc. Strumenti musicali

Birthday postcard, Little boy getting washed Date: 20th century

Ancient Persian priests performing ritual sacrifices
Ancient Persian priests in white robes performing ritual sacrifices at a pyre. Pireo e Sacerdoti Persi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Dominica, Caribbean - laundry in the river
Dominica, Caribbean - women doing their laundry at the edge of a river. circa 1907

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

Large and Lavish Gypsy Caravan and its owners (and dog) Date: 1905

Wash Day Victorian period

Coal Mining Miner at end of his shift early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Washing day on Skye Victorian period

Washing clothes on the Isle of Skye, Victorian period

Canary Islands - Las Palmas - Lavaderos (Laundries) Date: circa 1920s

Cellar, Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferte, Aube, France
Cellar in the Lay brothers building, built 12th century and rebuilt 1708 (centre), and wash-house and bakery (right), at the Abbaye de Clairvaux, or Clairvaux Abbey

Acclamation of Philip V in Madrid (November 24, 1700)
Philip V (1683-1746). King of Spain. Acclamation of Philip V in Madrid (November 24, 1700). Ink wash on paper. By Filippo Pallotta (?-1721). History Museum. Madrid. Spain

Laundresses, The Return Of The Washhouse
An illustration of some laundresses carrying heavy bundles of sheets and clothing to the wash house. Date: circa 1901

Yarmouth Herring Fishery, Washing the Herrings Date: 1854

The Devil's Kitchen, N. Wales
A landscape wash drawing of some tumbled rocks leading up to a large crack in some cliffs, known as Devil's Kitchen, which runs along the southern side of Cwm Idwal in North Wales

Wash Houses, Chartres
An etching of some wash houses beside a river in Chartres, north-central France, a woman is busy washing under a porch of a nearby building. Date: circa 1920

Vinolia Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Vinolia Co Ltd, promoting Vinolia Soap, which soothes and refreshes. The image shows a mother, drying her young son with a towel having had a wash using the product

Hudson's Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, which shows a hooded girl leaning on a wall, smiling, with a basket containing a packet of Hudson's soap. Text reads

At The Play, Royalty Theatre
Pen, wash and chalk drawing, showing a play being performed tho hundreds of people at the Royalty Theatre. Date: circa 1930

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

Teaching Mothers to Care for their Infants 1907
In a parish in St. Pancras, Battersea, poor mothers being taught how to care for their infants. Date: 1907

Of what ill will he die?
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Of what ill will he die?. Preparatory red wash and sanguine drawing for plate

She writes Sempre (always) in the sand - but the next tide will wash her thought away Date: circa 1900
She writes Sempre (always) in the sand - but the next tide will wash her thought away... Date: circa 1900

An elegant wash-stand from the Italian Renaissance, with its washbowl, ewer with tap to provide water, towel to dry your hands, and a candle to see what you are doing Date: circa 16th century

WOMAN DOLL CASE 1929
Finished Die Dame cover in pencil and wash as it appeared in October 1929 - a woman takes a doll out of a case Date: October 1929

Woman head in plant pot
Front cover idea for Die Dame in wash and watercolour on a cosmetic theme - a woman's head appears to grow, plant- like, out of a flower pot circa 1928

USA/DEATH VALLEY/CALIF
Death Valley, California: Furnace Creek Wash Date: early 20th century

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

Comic postcard, Couple arrive in hotel room Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, French guest and hotel porter Date: 20th century

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

Postcard design - Washing Day. A young child washing her doll and her pet Scottie dog in a red wooden tub. Date: circa 1937

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

Comic postcard, Man washing in a bowl Date: 20th century

Cleaners at work in Central London
Two cleaners wash down the fascia of the Royal Dutch Airlines offices in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Boy with soap in his eye Date: circa 1918

World War II US marines swim and wash, Japan 1945
World War II vintage photograph - US marines swim and wash in a bomb hole Okinawa, war against Japan, 1945

Advertisement for Brookes Monkey Brand Household Soap
1890 UK Magazine Brookes Soap Advert Date: 1890

Audiences with Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, 1365
Audiences with Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. In crown and ermine cape, he receives boxes of gold and silver 1, diplomas 2, coins from common informers or conspirators 3

The Great Temple, Hardwar or Haridwar, India
The Great Temple, Hardwar or Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India - long procession Hindu pilgrims during annual festival, arriving to wash in the River Ganges. 19th century

Wilton Williams Idea of Comfort, taking a bath
A lady looks the picture of relaxation following a steaming hot bath. One of a series of illustrations done for Comfort Soap in the 1920s by leading illustrators of the day. Date: c.1925

Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900
Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900

Public laundries, St. Marylebone, London 1900
Interior of the washing room at St. Marylebone road baths and washhouse, London. Women doing their laundry in small cubicles, with a plenty of supply of hot-water, 1900

Turkish bath, cooling room 1900
The height of luxury a turkish bath, with men only, in the cooling room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900

Such a Large Family to Wash, by Frances Brundage. 1898

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