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  • Four rows of washing lines on which coloured condoms are hung against a black background, advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Marco Pellanda, 1992, for Wizard & Genius-Idealdecor.
  • A naked woman hangs washing on a line. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A rural landscape: a rainbow is in the sky as a man finishes building haystacks and two young women walk home. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P. P. Rubens.
  • "A child can use it!" : Sunlight Soap / Lever Brothers.
  • Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • "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.
  • Soapona / R.W. Bell & Co.
  • Baths and laundries, Mayfield, Manchester, England: design drawings with scale and verbal key. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.
  • General Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate, Kent. Coloured line engraving by R. Ashby after W. Pickett.
  • Borax extract of soap makes washing a pleasure.
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Nepal; village well, Rapti Valley, Terai, 1986
  • Boer War: soldiers washing their feet in a stream. Halftone, c.1900, after T. Winter.
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Old and gray, young and gay, work or play, every day- use "Sunlight" / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.
  • Nepal; washing clothes in the Baghmati river, 1986
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • "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.
  • "Sunlight" : savon de ménage : Espagne.
  • White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.
  • 5 o'clock and not finished yet : nearly tired of life : a friend suggests "Sunlight" : result! Complete success / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • To house-keepers! : Beware of peddlers who are trying to sell washing powders in place of Soapine ... / Kendall Manufacturing Company.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : the reason why ...
  • Soapona / R.W. Bell & Co.
  • You need not open the door so frequently for the doctor if you would always use Sunlight Soap, Lifebuoy Soap ... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].