Wiping Collection

Comic postcard, Man targeted by pigeons at football match Date: 20th century

No Hanky-Panky! The Handkerchief as a weapon
A series of photographs from The Sketch showing, the gentle mouchoir as a formidable weapon...for wiping the floor with an opponent. Date: 1911

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo with fountain pen and ink
George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo with fountain pen and a bottle of ink, trying to write a letter but getting into a mess right from the start. Originally published as Valentine postcard no

WW1 - A Profiteer making use of his proft from the warfare. With their wealth, they could have a maid to wipe the dogs nose, instead of the wife " demeanin " herself. Date: 1919

Japan - Geisha Girl - posing at home with two house staff
Japan - Geisha Girl - posing at her home with two house staff Date: circa 1910s

Two Japanese women cleaning a Geisha House
Beautiful postcard, depicting two Japanese women (O-Kiku-Ean and Ayame-San) cleaning a Geisha House. Date: circa 1910s

Woman wiping sweat. Print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman wiping her face. Date 1798, printed between 1918 and 1923

Wiping off windshield in service station, Cairo, Illinois. Date 1940 May

Princess Elizabeth wiping Princess Annes nose
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) wiping the nose of her second child, Princess Anne before listening to the pipe band of the Argyll

Advert for Bon Ami powder
Bon Ami - gives nickel the glow of polished silver, a damp cloth, a bit of a rub, a moments wait while the magic-white cloud foams..... then whisk

Child crying
A little girl with red bobbed hair wiped her tearful eyes

The Discomforts of the carriage - a young man suffers the result of Nanny attentiveness to Babys botty needs!!!

The Kitchenmaid and the Constable
A humourous photograph of a kitchenmaid, busy doing the washing up, being proposed to by her policeman admirer. The photograph is entitled Cupboard Love

Wiping a Dog Clean
A patient dog lets a woman wipe its face and ears clean with a flannel and bowl of water

Female operator, Howe Bridge, Lancashire
Female operator wiping the flyers in the old section of the Cardroom at Howe Bridge Cotton Spinning Co. Atherton, Lancashire

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