Activity that purifies people, animals, objects or environments of unwanted particles or materials

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 clothed woman puts a bucket on the ground, crouches and squeezes out a cloth from inside it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Order of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries dated 3rd February 1904 : market and sales order of 1904 / T.H. Elliott, secretary ; David Lyon, Depute Town Clerk.

A naked woman rinses a glass in a bucket of water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A clothed woman places a bucket on the ground and takes a cloth from it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Printing: cleaning formes (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

The face of a child in the palm of a dotted hand with a list of equipment and procedures for cleaning up blood spills; an advertisement by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department Victoria (Australia). Colour lithograph, October 1990.

1 print : lithograph, printed on metallic gold with black and white lettering ; sheet 59.7 x 42.1 cm

Industrial detergency / [edited by William W. Niven].

The spotting manual of the dry cleaning industry / by Allen O. Fligor and Paul C. Trimble.

6 pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.

1 print : collotype ; image 29.1 x 24.9 cm.

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Cleaning

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Images referencing Cleaning

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The face of a child in the palm of a dotted hand with a list of equipment and procedures for cleaning up blood spills; an advertisement by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department Victoria (Australia). Colour lithograph, October 1990.

Industrial detergency / [edited by William W. Niven].

The spotting manual of the dry cleaning industry / by Allen O. Fligor and Paul C. Trimble.

Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.

A clothed woman puts a bucket on the ground, crouches and squeezes out a cloth from inside it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Cleaning

Images from the collections

Images referencing Cleaning

Works from the collections

The face of a child in the palm of a dotted hand with a list of equipment and procedures for cleaning up blood spills; an advertisement by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department Victoria (Australia). Colour lithograph, October 1990.

Industrial detergency / [edited by William W. Niven].

The spotting manual of the dry cleaning industry / by Allen O. Fligor and Paul C. Trimble.

Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.

A clothed woman puts a bucket on the ground, crouches and squeezes out a cloth from inside it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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