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  • You need not open the door so frequently for the doctor if you would always use Sunlight Soap, Lifebuoy Soap ... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • You need not open the door so frequently for the doctor if you would always use Sunlight Soap, Lifebuoy Soap ... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Convincing : it is impossible for any argument in favour of Sunlight to be more convincing than a trial of the soap... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • "Golden progress in the east", Shakespeare : from Land's End to John O'Groat's ... Sunlight Soap is fulfilling its promises of cleanliness and comfort... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • "Golden progress in the east", Shakespeare : from Land's End to John O'Groat's ... Sunlight Soap is fulfilling its promises of cleanliness and comfort... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • A kneeling figure is purified by the sunlight which falls through a magnifying glass held by an angel, representing consideration (meditation). Etching by J. Clark, 1720.
  • Chloroplasts are found in the cells of plants that conduct photosynthesis. They absorb sunlight and use it along with water and carbon dioxide gas (CO2) to produce food for the plant.
  • "A friend in need is a friend indeed : Sunlight soap is a friend in need : it does double the work in half the time. It washes clothes easily and well. It is used in the Royal laundries. And brightens homes everywhere / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Helio throat treatment, Cresson Sanatorium, Pennsylvania: a nurse is shown watching two tuberculosis patients holding out their tongues, while sunlight is reflected into their mouths by means of small mirrors (?). Photograph, 1920/1940?.
  • Danae racemosa (L.) Moench Asparagaceae. Alexandrian or Poet's laurel. Distribution: Turkey to Iran. A monotypic genus with supreme adaptation to dry conditions, bearing its flowers and fruits on phylloclades, leaf like expanded stems. The phylloclades are too thick for sunlight to pass through so have chlorophyll containing cells on both sides (the cells in the middle do not) and stomata on both sides to facilitate CO2 diffusion into the plant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • A good cargo / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • A good cargo / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Vim you see in sizes three, every size saves L.s.d / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Chelsea Pensioners, one of whom has just died in his pew, in the Chapel at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Process print by Boussod Valadon after H. von Herkomer, 1875.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Advert for Vim
  • Advert for Vim
  • Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.