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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.

Indian laundry couple with the man ironing clothes. Gouache drawing.

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.

Baths and waterfalls, Pfäfers, St. Gallen, Switzerland: women washing their clothes. Line engraving by F.D. Née after J. Le Barbier.

To house-keepers! : Beware of peddlers who are trying to sell washing powders in place of Soapine ... / Kendall Manufacturing Company.

Sunlight soap : why does a woman look old sooner than a man? / [Lever Brothers Ltd.]

Christ heals the haemorrhaging woman; women wash their linen in a pond. Etching by G. Bodenehr after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.

A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

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Laundering

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Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

Laundering

Images from the collections

Images referencing Laundering

Works from the collections

Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

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