Washing Collection (page 8)

Korea: washing clothes in a river
Vintage early 20th century photograph - Korea: washing clothes in a river

Memorial to the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Graye, Normandy
Plaques to the Rifles and to the Canadian Scottish were unveiled on this renovated lavoir (a communal washing place) on 5 June 1994 to commemorate the liberation of Graye by the two Regiments whose

Clothes prop with comic verse on a Christmas card
Clothes prop with washing line and socks, with comic verse on a Christmas card -- including a Leap Year proposal in advance of the following year. Date: circa 1890s

Comic German postcard -- mud bath at a health spa
Comic German postcard -- an overweight man is hosed off after a mud bath at a health spa -- A glimmer of light in the dark! Date: circa 1900s

Viyella clothing for all athletic purposes
Advertisement for Viyella, high-class washing material suitable for all athletic purposes including golfing, hockey and fencing. Ideal for the active young woman of 1903. Date: 1903

Advertisement for Pears Soap from Illustrated London News. 1894

Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888
A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1888
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1888

The Wharf and Quay Street, St Ives, Cornwall
" One of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. The Wharf & Quay Street from Seagull Flats, Morning. The Harbour Beach Foresand, cottages & Quay House, St Leonards Chapel

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1889
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1889

Omo Soap advertising insert -- Old Mother Owl. circa 1900

Housewife with her new Ritemp electric washing machine
A housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain. Date: 1947

China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s

Smart Bathroom 1913
A state-of-the-art bathroom, fully tiled, with lavatory, bath, shower head, bidet and wash basin. Date: 1913

Washing Stockings / 1940S
Washing day: a young woman washes stockings by hand at the sink using a bar of soap and two basins of water Date: 1940s

Getting ready for school - The Promotion of Health Poster
Idyllic domestic scene inside a family kitchen. Older children are getting ready for school and while one daughter of the house sits and has her hair brushed by mother

I Could Have Sweared I Saw a Torpedo, WW1 postcard
Humorous First World War postcard showing a small boy in the bath wondering where that torpedo has gone. Date: 1916

Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions worker
Advertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917

Sunlight Soap advertisement, 1903
Advertisement for Sunlight soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. This particular advert emphasises the appliance of science to ensure its cleansing capabilities - a picture of an

Sunlight Soap advertisement
Advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers at their famous Port Sunlight factory, featuring a small boy in a wooden tub bath holding up his bar triumphantly

When Women Vote Washing day. Mans worst nightmare - the housework is his domain, pictured washing his own shirts whilst holding the screaming baby. His duties are spelled out on a chart on the wall

You Dirty Boy, Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon, WW1
A cartoon depicting Europe as a sensible woman with sleeves rolled up, washing the ears of Kaiser Wilhelm II with a washing bowl labelled, Denunciation of Humanity

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap WW1
An advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap with a British soldier holding up a towel in the hope that some nice person will send him a box of Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Date: 1915

Street scene with fruit seller, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

British soldiers washing in swamp, Somme, WW1
British soldiers washing and cleaning up in a swamp on the Somme, Western Front, during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Bonzo the cartoon dog getting stuck in the bath. Cartoon strip from Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Kissing a young maid
A man leans in to kiss the neck of a young maid; she seems quite happy to be distracted from her ironing. Date: 1885

Gold washing at Tucapel, Bio Bio, Chile, South America
Gold washing or sluicing at Tucapel, Bio Bio region, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1900

Passar Baroe Street, Batavia (Jakarta), Java, Indonesia
Passar Baroe (New Market) West in the European District, Batavia (Jakarta), Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Showing a waterside laundry. Date: circa 1908

New Quay Inn, New Quay Lane, Brixham, Devon. Date: circa 1920s

Victorian Scrap - Washing Clothes in the Navy. late 19th century

Sunlight soap advertisement, WW1
The CLEANEST fighter in the World - the British Tommy. Great War advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers

Native bathing pool, Semarang, North Java, Indonesia
Native bathing pool, Samarang (Semarang), North Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1908

Scene near Victoria Bridge, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with people bathing in the water. Date: circa 1910

French Washerwomen - Saint-Pierre-en-Port, France
French Washerwomen doing their laundry in the rock pools at Saint-Pierre-en-Port, in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region of France. Date: circa 1908

Package design, Snowfire Shampoo
Art deco style package design, Snowfire Shampoo. circa 1930s

The Orphan Ballad Singers. 19th century

Fashionable lady hanging up dainty fabrics on her line
A young fashionable lady hanging up dainty fabrics on her washing line, direct from a bowl of creamy Lux washing suds. Date: 1924

People doing their laundry, Manama, Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s

Tommy?s washing day in Flanders
Photograph: Tommy?s washing day in Flanders. Many a mere male civilian would prefer a day in the trenches, but the British soldier is quite a handy man

Scene on a beach, Tobago, West Indies
Child on a beach with washing on a line, Tobago, West Indies. circa 1967

Victorian Scrap -- Washerwoman. late 19th century

Old Maid card game - Mrs Fox Washes Up. circa 1950s

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Rue Machicoulis, with a set of steep steps. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement, Sapolio Washing-Up Soap
Advertisement for Sapolio Washing-Up Soap, for cleaning all the utensils. circa 1935

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