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c. 1880s Japan - young women doing laundry
c. 1880s Japan - young women doing washing
washing hanging out Via della Marina, Naples, NapoliVintage 19th century photograph: traditional city buildings wish washing hanging out of windows in Via della Marina, Naples, Napoli, Italy
Washing clothes, Reykjavik, IcelandVintage 19th century/1900 photograph: washing clothes, communal, Reykjavik, Iceland
Cloister of the Luna, Amalfi, ItalyVintage 19th century photograph: Cloister of the Luna, washing clothes? Amalfi, Italy
Bathing ghat, Calcutta, India, c. 1880 sBathing ghat, Calcutta, India, c.1880 s
Mosque of Hassan Fountain of Ablution, Cairo, Egypt
Dhobies washing clothes, India, c. 1880 sDhobies washing clothes, India, c.1880 s
Port scene, with sailor and washing line, UK, 1930 s
Washing hanging between houses, Verona, ItalyWashing hanging between houses, narrow lane of Verona, Northern Italy. Date: circa 1920s
Washing clothes in the canal, Annecy, FranceAnnecy, France - a woman washes clothes in the canal. Date: circa 1930s
East End market barrow, LondonLondons East End - a market barrow, with washing pegged out to dry in the background. Date: 1950s
Cleaners at work in Central LondonTwo cleaners wash down the fascia of the Royal Dutch Airlines offices in Central London. Date: circa 1960s
Back gardens of terraced houses, South LondonBack gardens of terraced houses in South London viewed from railway embankment. Date: circa 1950s
Comic postcard, Boy with soap in his eye Date: circa 1918
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A thing of duty - no joy whateverThe Caption is A thing of duty is no joy whatever. The concept of Duty was impressed upon the population during the war as one of the planks of morale. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Sun is OutThe verse on the card contains the lines Coupon trouble grows - shes naught to dry - but pegs. Clothes rationing began in June 1941 and did not end until 1949
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Home FrontThe Caption is The Home Front. WW2 was the first war in which all the people back at home were directly involved. Bombing raids brought death and destruction
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Washing upThe caption on the postcard is Washing up - probably a play on sorting things out now that the war is over. The reverse carries a message from Winston Churchill We must now devote all our strength
Brochure cover for Rolls Twin Tub washing machines, featuring the smiling face of a happy early 1960s housewife... Date: 1961
The labours of the XII months set out in new pictures and old proverbs. Illustration from the English Illustrated Magazine featuring a mummer arriving at a home on a cold December night while a
WasherwomanDutch washerwoman hanging washing on a line
Washing clothes in a rvier, south of France19th century vintage photograph: Washing clothes in a rvier, south of France
Narrow street, washing hanging upper windows, ItalyVintage 19th century photograph: Narrow street in a town in Italy with washing hanging from upper storey windows
Washerwomen washing clothes in a river, Nice, France
Advertisement for Brookes Monkey Brand Household Soap1890 UK Magazine Brookes Soap Advert Date: 1890
W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency ovenA W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941
Women of Senegambia washing themselves, 18th centuryWomen of Senegambia washing themselves with water from a basin, 18th century.. One carries a baby on her back. Negro women washing themselves
Fashionable woman washing her feet after dressingFashionable woman washing her feet with a maid after dressing, era of Marie Antoinette. La Distraite. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle
Fashionable pouf bonnet from the era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle, Costumes and hairstyles of the 18th century
Four great imams: Abu Hanifa 1, Al-Shafi ??i 2, Malik ibn Anas 3 and ibn Hanbal 4. I quattro Iman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient
Advert, Colgates FAB Washing Powder Advert, Colgates FAB Washing PowderAdvert, Colgates FAB Washing Powder. 1922
Wilton Williams Idea of Comfort, taking a bathA 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
New Sanitary Laundry, Novelty Silk HandkerchiefNew Sanitary Laundry, Orchard Road, Shepherds Bush, West London - Novelty Silk Handkerchief. circa 1890
Promotional voucher, Daz Washing Powder, 5d off a large or giant packet, July 1963. 1963
Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900
Public laundries, St. Marylebone, London 1900Interior 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 1900The height of luxury a turkish bath, with men only, in the cooling room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900
William Heath Robinson, Not Now but Soon, The Wonder Book of the Then and Now, front endpapers. circa 1923
Such a Large Family to Wash, by Frances Brundage. 1898
Music cover, A Thing He Had Never Done Before, written and composed by C W Murphy, sung by George Robey. 1911
St. Pancras Baths and WashhousesPage from The Illustrated London News reporting on the St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses, with illustrations of both the inferior and superior bathing facilities and the washing
Biggs sheep-dipping apparatus 1851Thomas Bigg, Leicester House, Great Dover Street, Southwark, inventor and manufacturer of improved apparatus for sheep-dipping, using five men is capable of dipping 500 sheep per day. Date: 1851
Roman peasant women at a fountain, ItalyRoman peasant women washing clothes at a fountain, Italy. Date: early 19th century
Fish wives washing pollock in a shed, 18th centuryPollock, Pollachius virens, and fish wives washing fish in tubs and arranging them on palettes. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish
Itinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5
Russian serfs or peasantry, 18th centuryRussian serfs or peasantry. A peasant in travel clothes with hat, shirt, boots and bark shoes, and women spinning yarn and washing clothes
Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio