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Occupational therapy at the Mont Alto Sanatorium for tuberculosis, Pennsylvania: girls are shown darning socks in the laundry room. Photograph, 1920/1940?.
Date: [1920/1940?]Reference: 582395i- Pictures
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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.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755595i- Pictures
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Tenement building 'Poloni', San Rafael Street, Corner Oquedo, Cuba: an exterior view of the building on laundry day, with the inhabitants outside. Photograph, 1902.
Date: [1902]Reference: 582143i- Pictures
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A well-dressed black couple in New York City are being offered a coat by a poor Irish immigrant outside a laundry. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32999i- Books
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British everyday cookery, revised and greatly enlarged : containing 930 carefully selected and tested recipes. Hints on carving, preparing menus, laundry work, and general housekeeping.
Date: [1910]- Pictures
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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.
Chalon, John James, 1778-1854.Date: 1 August 1822Reference: 35621i- E-books
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The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper. Chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-ma
Woolley, Hannah- Pictures
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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.
Strassgschwandtner, Anton.Date: [1861?]Reference: 563858i- Pictures
Old houses on the banks of a water inlet: centre, a laundry, with two washerwomen washing clothes in the water; right, two men standing in a boat by a water gate. Etching by F.E. Weirotter.
Weirotter, Franz Edmund, 1733-1771.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2917499i- Pictures
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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.
Date: 1900-1909Reference: 575913i- Books
Information pack / National Eczema Society.
Date: 1991- Ephemera
English refined Borax : soft as silk, prepared for daily use / The Patent Borax Co., Ltd.
Patent Borax Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]- Ephemera
English refined Borax : soft as silk, prepared for daily use / The Patent Borax Co., Ltd.
Patent Borax Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]- Ephemera
Ipso : the wonder worker, washes by itself / the Patent Borax Co., Ltd.
Patent Borax Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]- Ephemera
Lux "won't shrink woollens" : "Our washing day" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [1900?]- Books
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The British housekeeper's book : being practical advice for purchasing the supplies of the house, and for brewing, baking, preserving, and pickling at home. To which are added directions for the management of the dairy, poultry-yard, laundry, and cellar / by J.H. Walsh, assisted by a committee of ladies.
Walsh, J. H. (John Henry), 1810-1888.Date: 1860- Pictures
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A naked woman hangs washing on a line. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2008753iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Books
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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.
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.Date: 1861- Books
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The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, parlour-maid, housemaid, lady's maid, general servant, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick-nurse, governess : also, sanitary, medical and legal memoranda : with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.Date: 1895- Ephemera
Lux won't shrink woollens : "This wool shrinking has got to be stopped" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [1905?]- Books
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Household work; or, The duties of female servants : practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid: with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department; prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Books
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Household work; or, the duties of female servants. Practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid : with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department / prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: 1850- Books
The household encyclopædia, or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : embracing cookery, confectionary, preserving, pickling, baking, brewing, wine making, clothing, the cellar, the dairy, the larder, the laundry, perfumery, dyeing, cure of diseases, treatment of children, management of the sick room, sanitary improvements, duties of servants, and full information on all other subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort / by an association of heads of families and men of science.
Date: 1858-1859- Books
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1677- Books
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any sort of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685