Washing Collection (page 11)

Toilet Services, English Stoneware, Plate 48, showing plain and patterned washing bowls and jugs. Date: circa 1880s

Toilet Services, English Stoneware, Plate 46, showing patterned washing bowls, jugs and soap dishes. Date: circa 1880s

Toilet Services, English Stoneware, Plate 45, showing plain and patterned washing bowls and jugs. Date: circa 1880s

Silhouette - Wash Day Tub
Silhouette - Woman working at the wash day tub. circa 1830

Little Folk Misfitz - Curly Locks. circa 1910

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Tommy Atkins the Soldiers Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Water the Turncocks Daughter. late 19th century

A Pullman Palace car on the Midland Railway, 1874
Front cover of The Graphic featuring sketches of the interior of a very comfortable looking Pullman car on board a train on the Midland Railway in 1874

Ornate Suibansha, Nikko Taiyuin, Nikko, Japan
Ornate Suibansha (place to wash hands and mouth before entering sacred precincts) at the Rinnoji Taiyuin Mausoleum and Temple in the historic Nikko National Park, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Washing Hands with Soap
A stylish woman washes her dainty hands with lovely soap in her bathroom sink. Date: 1940s

Frederick Alexander
DR. FREDERICK WILLIAM ALEXANDER, OBE. Depicted making anagrams & crossword puzzles in Braille for the blind, with the aid of an ordinary washing mangle

Dinner, Toilet, Tea and Breakfast Services, Plate 6, showing patterned plates, covered serving dishes, a tureen, a teapot, a cup and saucer, a butter dish, sugar bowls, washing bowls and jugs

Young Girl Washing Up
A young girl doing the washing up. Date: 1897

Womens Public Baths
Public baths for women, Golden Lane, London. Date: 1866

Mother / Baby / Bathing 19C
A German mother baths her baby in a bowl on a table. Date: late 19th century

Bath House Tunis 1858
Men in a Moorish bath at Tunis, North Africa. Date: 1858

Social / Slum home 1921
A family of four at the bottom of the social scale Date: 1921

Pompeii Bath / Calidarium
A reconstruction of the Calidarium, or hot room from the baths uncovered at Pompeii. Date: 1831

Fitted Bathroom 1903
Example of a fitted bathroom, with tiled walls and porcelain plunge bath, perfecto lavatory etc. taken from Maple & Cos book: Healthy Homes Date: 1903

Soap Boilers 1827
" The soap boiler makes the article called soap, which is composed of an oil and an alkaline salt, for the purpose of washing linen, the hands, and othe domestic operations". Date: 1827

Women Bathe at Fountain
Two women, one in transparent drapery, bathe gracefully and bashfully by a fountain. Date: 18th century?

Elizabeth Hungary / Huyot
SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY Washing the lepers Date: 1207 - 1231

Goldsmith / Green Harbour
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Corner of Break-neck Stairs, Green Harbour Court, Old Bailey, where the Irish writer lived in 1758 Date: 1730 - 1774

Carlo Goldoni / Venice
CARLO GOLDONI Italian playwrights home in Venice Date: 1707 - 1793

Family Shower / Leech
A family prepare to partake of a shower. The servants fill up the shower head with hot water as the family members don conical hats and towels - some require encouragement! Date: 1850

Dutch Lady Washes Hands
A Dutch lady wearing a satin dress washes her hands in a shallow bowl while her maid pours water from a jug. Date: 17th century

Clean Living Romans
Romans attending to their ablutions

Floating Bath / Iln / 1850
Cordinglys floating bath which appears to be floating in open water. Date: 1850

Bath of Turkish Sultan
A Turkish sultan is tended to in his bath by a host of handmaidens Date: 1840

Man in Shower / Punch
A gentlemans shower is interrupted by a maid asking ill-timed questions Date: 1849

Children Washing C1920
French children getting up, getting washed and dressed. Date: circa 1920

Mother Bathes Child / 1929
A mother prepares to bathe her child using the new hot water bath and shower Date: 1929

Bathing Devices / 1900
Advertisement for various bathing devices Date: 1900

CHILDs BATH / 1890 S
Childs bath Date: 1890 s

Dr Melchers Shower Yoke
Advertisement for Dr Melchers Shower Yoke, providing a refreshing shower while the hair stays dry Date: 1903

East London Water / Punch
The water company`s turncock accused the local East London residents of wasting water by washing and watering their gardens. Date: 8 August 1896

Fold-Away Bath Advert
An advertisement for a foldaway bath Date: 1881

Dryden / Washing Lambs / 50
A girl uses Persil washing powder to keep her lambs white - she then pegs them out to dry on the washing line! Date: 1930s

Ad for Disinfectant
A nurse washes her hands with Jeyes Disinfectant Date: circa 1900

Roman Baths of Titus
View of the Roman Baths of Titus, public baths or thermae built in Rome by the Emperor Titus in 81 AD. A cross section is shown

Women Bathing / Beham
Women and children in a German bath house are spied on by a man at the window Date: circa 1525

Divided attention
Dutch girl hanging up washing, distracted by two young suitors bearing tulips. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1911

Washing - Equip - 1890
A selection of Toilet Tidies and Bath Requisites circa 1890

Washing / Equip / Soap Disp
A mechanical soap dispenser from Germany Date: 1900

Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - Washing
Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - doing washing in a large copper. Date: 1890s

Naples / Side Street 20C
A side street, with the inevitable washing lines Date: early 20th century

Arabs washing clothes, Nefta, Tunisia, North Africa
Arabs washing clothes in the wadi at Nefta, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1910

Place du Commerce, Fez (Fes), Morocco
Place du Commerce (Commercial Square), Fez (Fes), Morocco, with the Hotel du Commerce and Cafe de la Poste. Date: circa 1940

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