Wash Collection (page 6)

Advertisement for Cooks Pure Toilet Soap. Date: early 20th century

Sri Lanka - Elephants (with their Mahouts) bathing in river
Sri Lanka - Elephants (with their riders) bathing in river. Ann elephant rider, trainer, or keeper is known as a Mahout. Date: circa 1920s

Boulogne-sur-Mer - The washing of the days catch of fish on the quayside. Date: 1913

Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green Basin
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s

The Senlac Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite in Dove Tigrato, Veneto Crocicohio or Cippolino Versilla. Date: circa 1920s

Standard Sanitary Appliances suite in Claire de Lune Blue. Date: circa 1920s

The Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite
The Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) Suite in Breche Violetta Rose Aurore Date: circa 1920s

Vitromant Coloured Shelf Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) - from the Vitromant Sanitaryware range - from a catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London

Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware -Dove Grey Basin
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Dove Grey Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s

Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber Basin
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s

Sun Motors car wash, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, offering a complete auto wash in three minutes for one dollar 25 cents. Date: circa 1940s

Young boy at a wash tub. Victorian scene with a boy washing.Date: circa 1890

Lux advertisement, 1923
Advertisement for Lux soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. Ideal for dainty fabrics the illustration shows a mother and her children sorting through clothing from her drawers

Well of Philippus, Holy Land
A woman washing clothes at the Well of Philippus, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

A Canadian giving his dog a bath behind the lines
A dog endures the ordeal of a bath in a small basin somewhere behind the lines on the Western Front. According to the caption

Dutch boy scout scrubbing his fingernails, Holland
A Dutch boy scout scrubbing his fingernails, Holland

Boy scouts washing a dog, Georgetown, British Guyana
Three boy scouts washing a dog during Work and Earn Week in Georgetown, British Guyana, South America. They belong to Troop 27, Queens Colours. Date: 1955

Is your Wife a Suffragette?. A man struggles to deal with the family wash and puffs and pants trying to use the mangle. Implies that the wife is off campaigning and is neglecting her duties

Married Suffragette Wash Floor!. Domestic bliss illustrated as domineering wife shouts to husband, What! Do you say you re tired? Wash the floor instantly! Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Need Not Apply. Bachelor peruses the newspaper ads from a matimorial agency. One reads, Wanted A Wife cheap who can cook, sew, wash, nurse, eat little, drink less and keep quiet

Using a shell hole as a wash-tub, WW1
French peasant women on the Western Front display a keen sense of carrying on as they use a water-filled shell-hole measuring twenty-five feet in diameter

British soldiers washing at a rest camp
Washing off the mud of Flanders - our Tommies tubbing in a rest camp. British soldiers coming out of the front line, immediately take advantage of a line of tin baths arranged for them at a rest

Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up, WW2
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up in the station washroom after many hours tackling air raid fires, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940s

Scouts in Antigua washing dishes

Cartoon, The Glad Hand, WW1
Cartoon, The Glad Hand -- Brother Jonathan (representing the USA) tells Kaiser Wilhelm to wash his hand first, before shaking it

Erasmic Soap advertisement
Advertisement for the dainty Erasmic Soap showing a lady wrapped in a towel and b eing handed a box of the soap before her bath. Date: 1917

French shells used on Land and Sea WWI
In Toulon arsenal: Finished projectiles after " passing the doctor" ; the necessary wash. Upper photograph: showing big-gun shells

The Flying Scotsman cleaned
A wash and brush up for steam locomotive No. 2545, the Flying Scotsman

French soldiers washing at a pond, WW1
French soldiers siezing the opportunity of indulging in an al fresco wash in a village in Flanders in 1915. Date: 1915

A Wash & Shave, Canadians on the Western Front, WW1
Canadian soldiers having a wash and shave somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women washing clothes in a lake, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Young woman washing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Women washing clothes, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

People washing clothes, India. Date: circa 1890s

Washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta, India
People washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Date: circa 1890s

Dhobis washing clothes, India. The Dhobi is a caste group whose members specialise in washing clothes. Date: circa 1890s

Washing of Feet ceremony, Jerusalem
Washing of Feet ceremony, Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Holy Land. Date: circa 1870

British and French soldiers, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier helping a French soldier with his morning wash on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier washing clothes, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier washing clothes near the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Sketch of seated woman
Sketch of a seated woman. Date: 1922

Sketch of mother and toddler
Sketch of a mother and toddler. Date: 1922

Two sketches of mother and child. Date: 1922

Sketch of two women and toddler
Sketch of two women and a toddler. Date: 1922

Sketch of working people -- a man carrying a basket on his head, and a woman carrying a jar. Date: 1922

Sketch of workman and old woman
Sketch of a workman carrying something on his shoulder, and an old woman. Date: 1922

Sketch of mother and two children
Sketch of a mother and two children. Date: 1922

Sketch of people in boats. Date: 1922

Sketch of woman scrubbing floor
Sketch of a woman scrubbing the floor. Date: 1922

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