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Images from the collections

Images about Detergents

60 images from works
  • Sunlight soap : a child can use it / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Sunlight soap : a child can use it / 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.
  • White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [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.
  • Advert for Gold Dust Washing Powder
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
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Works from the collections

189 works

    • Pictures

    Sachet "Crémo": product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 524331i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
    • Ephemera

    Borax extract of soap : by royal letters patent / Patent Borax Company Ltd.

    Patent Borax Company | Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]
    • Ephemera

    Painting lesson : to teach the young folk to paint : colour this for scrap book / Hudson's Soap.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
    • Ephemera

    Use Pyle's Pearline for easy washing : beware of worthless imitations / James Pyle.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899]
    • Books

    Your guide to home hygiene / Domestos Advisory Service ; presented by the Pre-school Playgroups Association.

    | Date: [1993?]
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Detergents
Soaps
Hygiene
Laundering
Lever Brothers
Monkeys
Disinfectants
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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