Washin G Collection (page 6)

The banks of the River Narmadar, India (Madhya Pradesh region) Date: circa 1920s

Watercolour sketch with buildings and boat
A watercolour sketch with buildings, washing drying on a line, and a boat

Washing linen in a Highland stream
Scottish women washing bed linen in a Highland stream Date: circa 1920

The Netherlands - Marken. Houses with wide gables on the edge of a canal. The housewives have hung out their washing in long lines heading down to the edge of the water

Washing in East Indies
Washing day in Java, Dutch East Indies. Date: 1930s

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Washing Machine / 1960S
A fashionable woman does some washing Date: 1960s

Scouts in Norfolk
Washing-up is not such a chore for these cubs and scouts, part of a jamboree at Salhouse Broad, Norfolk. 2000 scouts met Prince George (Duke of Kent) and Lord Baden Powell. Date: early 1930s

Bathing / Maid Runs Bath
A maid prepares a bath for her mistress Date: 1908

Washing dolls clothes in a tub
Two little girls washing their dolls clothes in a tub. Date: 1882

Playing at Mammas -- girl washes boys face
Playing at Mammas -- a little boy behaves himself amazingly well while his elder sister washes his face. Date: circa 1918

Washing in Dew
The fair maid who, the first of May, goes to the fields at break of day, and washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, will ever after handsome be

Royal Doulton Bathroom
A bathroom from the Royal Doulton Potteries Date: 1912

Boy Bathing C1900

Stewarts & Lloyd Factory
An old man and children in a back garden, washing hanging on the line, and the smoking factory chimneys of Stewarts and Lloyds in the background. Date: 1950s

Pompeii Frigidarium
A reconstructed view of the frigidarium (cooling room) and picina (cold pool) at the bath complex at Pompeii. Date: 1832

Welsh Miner Washing 1870
A Welsh miner washing off the grime after his days work. Date: circa 1870

Washing Oysters / Photo
OYSTER INDUSTRY - fishermen washing oysters Date: 1930

Children & Washing
Children doing their laundry early 20th century

Chinamans Pigtail
A new use for the chinamans pigtail A Chinese man using his pigtail to hang out his laundry 1900

Hanging Washing / Rip Van
Hanging out the washing on a windy day

Making Shaving Brushes
Two women washing and sterilising bristles, an important part of the dressing and preparation of badger hair for the manufacture of shaving brushes. Date: 1 March 1933

Bathing / La Femme Au Tub
La femme au tub 1891

In the Wash-House
In the wash-house Date: 1906

How they helped in Hyde Park and Whitehall during the strike
Typical volunteer workers in Hyde Park and Horse Guards, helping in the canteens and hanging out the washing

Gipsy woman with washing-up brush
A close-up of a gipsy woman sitting in the open air with a washing up brush in her hand

Young child with head under hydrant
A young child operates a large cast iron water hydrant in order to pour water over his/her head on a hot summers day

Onboard the prison ship The Warrior
Prisoners wash at low basins while observed by officers, onboard the convict hulk ship, The Warrior. The practice of confining offenders on board such ships was first adopted in England in 1776; it

Doe Lea Village, Mining
Village life in Doe Lea in the 1960 s, a mining village in Derbyshire, England. A young girl on roller skates on a street of Victorian terraced housing

Morning ablutions at a Pembrokeshire scout camp
Boys having fun washing their faces at a Pembrokeshire scout camp

Washing lines and terraced housing, South Wales
Numerous washing lines with clothes hanging out to dry at the back of terraced housing in an unidentified mining area of South Wales

Comic holiday photograph, taken in Bournemouth
A comic holiday photograph, taken in Bournemouth, showing a middle aged mans head on top of a drawing of a baby in a shallow bathtub

Laundry, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Inmates work in the laundry washhouse at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Poor street in Londons East End
A poor street, location unknown, in the East End of London. Local residents, mostly children, look suspiciously towards the camera. Washing is hanging up to dry in each back yard

House interior, East End of London
The interior of a house in the East End of London. A woman has her hands in a wooden wash tub and further buckets are on the floor nearby

Dormitory of a Common Lodging House
The dormitory of a common lodging house where a clean bed for the night and washing facilities could be had for (in 1930) between sixpence and a shilling

Colourful but shabby gipsy caravan
A colourful but shabby gipsy caravan, with a guard dog chained to it. In the background some washing is drying on a hedge

Woman sorting out washing in a river
A woman standing knee deep in a river, sorting out items for washing which she has placed on various rocks

Woman washing a sheet in a river in Portugal
Woman washing a sheet at the side of a river in Portugal. She is kneeling on a specially designed wooden platform, which stops her getting too wet

Woman hanging out the washing on a line
A woman hanging out the washing on a line (or two), apparently at the side of a stretch of water

Bath Time by Muriel Dawson
A toddler enjoys bath time in an old-fashioned tin tub and a toy duck

Water Babies by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in in a bath tub makes sure that her dolly is clean too

Salvation Army Slum Sisters on a home visit
Two Salvation Army so-called Slum Sisters visit the home of a poor family. At the door, the mother holds a baby in her arms while another child stands barefoot on the paving stones

Laundry, Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham
Female inmates at work in the laundry at the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Some women are using flat irons. Clean washing is piled on a table. A large press stands at the rear

Washing Day by Millicent Sowerby
Two jolly girl guides and a little Brownie hard at work on washing day. One washes clothes in a soap sud filled wash tub while another hangs gleaming sheets on a line

Hanging out the washing
A young housewife takes advantage of a breezy day and hangs out her washing on the line

Indian Dhobie with his miniature donkey
Indian Dhobie (washerman / laundryman) with his miniature donkey, bearing quite a load!

On The Right Line
How the inventor of the Charleston first received his inspiration for the peculiar rhythm of its intriguing movement. illustration by William Heath Robinson

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