Washing Collection (page 5)

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

Women beating clothes and washing fabric
Women beating clothes and washing and drying fabric on rocks in a river in Madagascar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Woulfes apparatus for washing gases or saturating liquids. Peter Woulfe (1727-1803) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and alchemist

Two Scotswomen washing clothes by a river, with tartan background. Date: circa 1910s

Gradini Santa Barbara, Naples, Italy
Gradini Santa Barbara, a narrow street of steps in Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1905

Four children sitting in a farmers field near a hayrick circa 1910s

Mince Collop Close, Greenock, Scotland
Mince Collop Close, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland - undoubtedly " the vilest" of all the " numerous pen closes running from the low streets"

Joys of Married Life - Pregnant

Advertising showcard, Compo Washing Soap Powder, the safe self washer

Advert, Watsons Matchless Cleanser
Advertising showcard, Watsons Matchless Cleanser. circa 1890

Washing Day
A little girl in an apron washes her dolls clothes in a tin wash basin. Date: c. 1930

Advertisement, Sunlight Soap
Advertisement for Sunlight Soap, in patriotic style during the First World War with a woman hanging up a British Flag on the washing line. 1916

Laundry service, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North Africa
Automated laundry service buildings, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1910

Brazen Sea
The Brazen Sea (also known as Molten Sea) was a large bronze basin for water located in the Temple In Jerusalem. Made by Solomon

Brazen Sea - Judaism
The Brazen Sea also known as the Molten Sea was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution (ritual washing) of priests

Landing on Cape Cod 1620
A group of men with rifles stand in the distance on the beach of Cape Cod, as women in the foreground tend fires for cooking and begin washing clothes. Date: 1620

Astronomer looking at the sky from an attic room. Date: circa 1860s

St. Marylebone baths and washouses 1850
Exterior of St. Marylebone road baths and washhouses, London. Design consists of one facade in Italian stye with rusticated stone basement, the upper story being red brick

Young housewife at work, Republic of Estonia
Young housewife at work, doing the laundry in a three-legged washtub, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Peasant washerwomen at work, Republic of Estonia
Three peasant washerwomen at work by the river, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

River Thames flooding at high tide, London
The River Thames in London, flooding at high tide, washing against sandbags two feet above road level

Village of Prittlewell, near Southend-on-Sea, Essex
View of the Village of Prittlewell, near Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Date: early 20th century

Baths and washhouses in Golden Lane, London 1865
Exterior of City of London Baths and Washouses, near Smithfield Market, this was a place where you could go swimming in a large bath and get clean at the same time

Advertising magazine insert, Sunlight Soap - Arab woman. circa 1900

Lux advertisement.Women wearing 1920s stylish sports wear with instructions for washing. Illustration from Womans Home Companion August 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923

Folding clean washing
Woman folding clean washing. Illustration from Delineator magazine January 1928. Artist Haddon Sundblom. Date: 1928

Women and children of Mosul, by Richard Carline
Women and children of Mosul, washing on the banks of the Tigris River, watercolour by Richard Carline, aerial artist, just after the First World War. 1919

Native laundry, Hong Kong, China, showing women hanging out washing. Date: circa 1930s

Sunday morning with hop-pickers 1871
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Window Cleaner - People You See. From Teddy Bear (22 May 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

At the Laundrette - People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1960s

Washerwomen at Pernes, Santarem district, Portugal
Washerwomen at work by the River Alviela at Pernes, Santarem district, Portugal. Date: circa 1908

Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, Lisbon, Portugal
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, a narrow street in an old district of Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1940s

Rua da Regueira, Alfama district, Lisbon, Portugal
Scene in Rua da Regueira, in the old Alfama district of Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1940s

Advert for Sapolio cleaning soap 1887
Bar of soap Sapolio, and a scrubbing brush, helped this housewife keep her floors in proper shape! Date: 1887

Houses in Soller, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1920

Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash advertisement
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash showing a maid washing the lustrous locks of her mistress. Date: 1912

Advertising Insert - Hudsons Super Soap - design by John Hassall. 1914

Cartoon - A Family Wash, showing all the things that can go wrong on wash day. 19th century

Woman on wash day in the country, 1890s
Countrywoman on washing day, outside, 1890s Date: 1890s

Group of fishermen, Mevagissey, Cornwall - the " Parliament". Date: circa 1910s

Woman with wet washing on her head, Italy
Woman with a plastic container of wet washing on her head, Italy. Date: circa 1960s

Google-eyed girl - Google-eyed girl admiring her boy friends socks on the washing line. Date: circa 1920

Bathing the new doll - Sisters washing the new doll in the bathtub. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920

Steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras Workhouse
The steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras workhouse was a combination of Macalpines Washing machines and Manloves dash wheel and hydro-extractor, all driven by steam-power. Date: 1857

Woman in smart washing frock, of striped linen from the Ladies page of the Illustrated London News, published during the First World War. Date: 1916

Washing clothes, Egypt, circa 1880. Date: circa 1880

Jeyes disinfectant in different forms, fluid, powder and bar soap. Date: 1890s

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