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  • Baths and laundries, Mayfield, Manchester, England: design drawings with scale and verbal key. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Details of the roof, gallery and private baths of Mayfield baths and laundries, Manchester. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Mayfield baths and laundries, Manchester: interior. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after B. Sly after T. Worthington.
  • Mayfield baths and laundries, Manchester: interior. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after B. Sly after T. Worthington.
  • The hospitals have first claim on the output of the laundries : this and other priority work for the services is keeping us busy, but, we hope in a very short time to be able to give you a much better delivery service ... / The Retford Laundry.
  • "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.
  • Advert for 'Sunlight' laundry soap
  • Advert for 'Sunlight' laundry soap
  • Advert for 'Sunlight' laundry soap
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: the laundry. Photograph, 1921.
  • Nurses in the laundry of a hospital. Photograph, 191-.
  • Indian laundry couple with the man ironing clothes. Gouache drawing.
  • Crimean War: soldiers doing their laundry at Balaklava Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • British Red Cross Hospital, Turin: women who work in the laundry. Photograph, c. 1918.
  • Baths and laundry in Marshall Street, Soho: elevation above and plans below. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • Baths and laundry in Marshall Street, Soho: elevation above and plans below. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • People doing laundry at the dhobi ghat, during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • People outdoors in April near a large ruined castle, riding, driving livestock, and preparing to launder clothes; representing April. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • Hôpital de l'Institut Pasteur, Paris: kitchen, hospital room, lift and laundry. Process print, 1913.
  • View of the Kabul River to the North East. People wash and dry their laundry.
  • Fountain of Arethusa, Syracuse, Sicily: artists sketching laundry women at work. Etching with aquatint by W. Wilkins, 1807.
  • The Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta, India: laundry being washed and hung to dry by the pool. Photograph, ca. 1890.
  • A laundry-maid is interrogated by two officials and an ecclesiastic about the death of Count Cenci. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • A dhobi (laundry man) talking a load of clothes to the river to clean. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Occupational therapy at the Mont Alto Sanatorium for tuberculosis, Pennsylvania: girls are shown darning socks in the laundry room. Photograph, 1920/1940?.
  • A well-dressed black couple in New York City are being offered a coat by a poor Irish immigrant outside a laundry. Coloured lithograph.
  • Tenement building 'Poloni', San Rafael Street, Corner Oquedo, Cuba: an exterior view of the building on laundry day, with the inhabitants outside. Photograph, 1902.
  • A woman removing a packet of condoms from some trousers in a laundry basket: preventing HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Colour lithograph by FHI/Impact, ca. 2000.
  • A diagram of a kitchen and a wash house for laundry and washing dishes, with sinks and cooking ranges. Engraving by Bingley after T. Haywood.
  • A laundry maid leaning out of a sash window to wring out a wet garment. Rotogravure by Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co. Ltd. after P. Dawe after H. Morland.