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  • 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.
  • Hôpital de l'Institut Pasteur, Paris: kitchen, hospital room, lift and laundry. Process print, 1913.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • A launderess and an assistant standing in a cart (drawn by a horse wearing elaborate headgear) are collecting laundry from a man. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Chalon.
  • A horse disturbs a dying bonfire with its hooves, ignoring its rider's whip and the angry shouts of two women whose laundry is being covered in ashes. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • Carcassonne, France: the walled city and bridge over the Aude river; women wash laundry on the river bank and a man shovels grit into a narrow boat. Process print by Bauer, Marchet & C.ie after a photograph.
  • The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs Isabella Beeton.
  • The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs Isabella Beeton.