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  • 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.
  • 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.]
  • 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.

Works from the collections

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

    | Date: 1900-1920 | Reference: 568279i
    • Ephemera

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

    R.S. Hudson Limited. | Date: [1880?]
    • Ephemera

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

    East Lancashire Soap Company. | Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]
    • Pictures
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    Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

    Boydell, John, 1720-1804. | Date: 1794 | Reference: 16833i
    • Ephemera
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    Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

    | Date: [1890?]
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Related topics

Detergents
Soaps
Hygiene
Detergents
Washing powders
Hygiene
Women
United Kingdom
Costume
Household Work

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