Washin G Collection (page 8)

America, San Francisco. Gold-Washing at the Diggings
Engraving of two men engaged in digging for gold and sifting the ore in a cradle, washing the silt away from the crystals of gold in the river

Brazil. Gold Washing. A Gold Washing
An engraving of a rocky and mountainous region with a wide river running through it, in the distance men are washing ore in the river propecting for gold

Brazil. Gold Washing. Foliated Gold with Quartz
Engraving of rock quartz with fern like striations of gold running through it

Brazil. Gold Washing. Rounded Water-Worn Pebble of Gold with
Worn specimen of gold encrusted pebble, containing 6 oz of gold

Brazil. A Gold Washing. Gold Dust
Engraving of grains of gold, oval in shape like minute coins

Japnese Lady Washing
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

Bathing Medieval Child
A medieval child is bathed

Fragments in the scientific bathroom, washing away the salts
Fragments from the walls of Babylon being washed. A scientific bathroom where antiquities were first cleaned of corroding salts. They were then transferred to the bakery for specialist drying

Stone fragments in the bakery of an archaeological laborator

America. Photographs of California. Gold washing on the Yuba
Water was indispensible in the gold mining process and the water from the River Yuba was dammed and piped to wash away the sand and quartz from the gold particles

Wash Day on Board a Sailing Ship in the Tropics
Illustration of the crew of a large sailing ship washing their clothes. When a rainstorm approached, the crew took the opportunity to stop up the deck drains

American Indians. The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring
Ojibway Indians, wearing wraps and feathers in their hair, with thatch triangular huts in the background and what looks like a washing line

Lady about to Bathe
A lady in a dressing gown kicks off her shoes before taking a bath

Women / Laundry / Washing
Two washerwomen treading their laundry by a river flee coyly when a young man in uniform approaches from a statley home

Boiling Clothes
A photograph demonstrating the boiling of " collars, cuffs, laces, and such-like small articles" in a calico bag during the arduous process of washday

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Turkish Bath Treatment
A young woman in a towel sits on a deckchair in a Turkish bath at Hotel Australia, Sydney. Turkish baths give that 100 per cent feeling, stimulating the circulation and complexion

Servants Washing Line
The intimate apparel of the female servants of the Edwardian Country House blows in a good drying wind out side the attic room window

Housewife Washing Up
A glamorous houswife, happy in her work, washes the dishes by hand at the kitchen sink

Uniforms of state registered nurses
Pictured on the left a Cambridge blue washing dress, on the right a blue woollen mess dress

England / Porthscatho
The beach at Porthscatho, a typical small Cornish fishing hamlet, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. Date: circa 1950

Social / Washing Day 19C
Pegging out the washing in the English countryside

Children at Garden Gate
Six children stand at the garden gate of a terraced house

Racial /s Africa / Washers
Two washerwomen in Cape costume: one is beating her washing against a rock to get it nice and clean

Hanging Clothes on Line
A little girl hangs out clothes belonging to her dolls to dry on a washing line

Housewife Using Twin Tub
A young housewife uses wooden pincers to pull her laundry out of the washing half of the Twin Tub washing machine to put it into the spinning half

Doing the Drying Up
A happy young housewife in a red top dries up her yellow plastic collinder

Lassie Tramples Washing
It is the firm belief of postcard makers that the Scots are too canny to waste money on a washing machine - instead they trample the washing, the way the French do grapes

Washing Baby, Guinea
A mother from Guinea bathes her baby, exciting her older child to alarm or envy ?

Orphan in Bath 1925
A filthy Russian orphan is given a thorough bath

Kirks Flake Soap
Kirks Flake White Soap - nothing so dainty or delicate in lingerie, laces, linens or woolens, but what it can be washed in absolute safety with Kirks Flake White

Palmolive / Egyptian Woman
Palmolive - as used by the beautiful women of Ancient Egypt Date: 1919

Washing the Blackamoor

Steam washing machinery at St. Pancras workhouse
Engraving of the steam washing machine at St. Pancras workhouse 1857. St. Pancras workhouse was erected as the parish workhouse in 1809

Soda Crystallising
Washing soda is an essential household product : in the crystallising house it is converted into convenient crystal form

Bathing in Egypt
An Egyptian of the upper classes has four people to bathe him

Boys Washing Outside
A cheerful group of boys on a summer camp find a trough in a field for their evening wash

Gabon Village
Its washing day in this Gabon village, in west equatorial Africa. The huts are more like American log cabins than the round thatched huts of more southerly African folk

Scrubbing Lino
Cleaning linoleum with a scrubbing brush, soap and a metal pail of fresh water and lots of elbow grease!

Ragged Laundry
Rather ragged towels and washing, hanging out to dry on a clothes line which stretches across a cobbled street running between back to back London slums

American Washing Machine
A maid operates a primitive- looking washing machine, made in America

Washing Sisters Doll
A boy washes his sisters doll

Wizard of Oz / Henry & Em
Dorothy and Toto with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry

Washing Feet of Poor
On Holy Thursday before Easter, the feet of twelve poor people are washed, in memory of Jesus washing the feet of his twelve disciples

Bathtime / Saturday Night
Preparing a childs bath on Saturday night

Medieval Hot-House
A medieval hot-house

Japanese Bathing / Japlith
A scene inside a Japanese bathing house or uya

Girls on balcony - washing hands

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