Cleaning Collection

Willie Liston, 1843-1848. Creator: Hill & Adamson
Willie Liston, 1843-1848

Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay and John Liston, 1843-1848. Creator: Hill & Adamson
Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay and John Liston, 1843-1848

A typical bucket type American street rod, (c1950s?). A hot rod car, possibly if loosely based on a Ford Model T

Cleaning and Drying Fish, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Cleaning and Drying Fish, about 1873-1883

Cleaning the rice, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Cleaning the rice, about 1873-1883

Cleaning House, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Cleaning House, about 1873-1883. A group of people moving various household goods and beating woven mats

Washerwomen of the banlieue at the Quai de la Conference, Paris, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Washerwomen of the banlieue at the Quai de la Conference, Paris, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. One of the sketches by M

Scrubbing the Floor, 1908. Creator: Juho Rissanen
Scrubbing the Floor, 1908

Dunlap vacuuming, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Dunlap vacuuming, between c1915 and c1920. Shows singer Marguerite Dunlap using a vacuum cleaner

Maude [i.e. Maud] Powell, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Maude [i.e. Maud] Powell, between c1915 and c1920. Shows American violinist Maud Powell (1867-1920) cleaning a room

Hudson's Soap:has stood the test of time, 1909. Creator: Unknown
Hudson's Soap:has stood the test of time, 1909. Makes Tables, Floors, and every kind of Woodwork spotlessly clean and white. It keeps the Home sweet and wholesome, and HAS STOOD THE TEST Of TIME

Try it in your bath: Scrubb's Ammonia - marvellous preparation, 1909. Creator: Unknown
Try it in your bath: Scrubb's Ammonia - marvellous preparation, 1909. Refreshing as a Turkish Bath. Invaluable for Toilet Purposes. Splendid Cleansing Preparation for the Hair

Sketches From Ireland: interior of portable hut for police in Mayo, 1870. Creator: Unknown
Sketches From Ireland: interior of portable hut for police in Mayo, 1870

Baker, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Baker, between c1915 and c1920

Woman chimney sweep, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Woman chimney sweep, between c1915 and 1918. Shows a woman cleaning a chimney, probably in England during World War I

6 gun on NEW YORK, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
6 gun on NEW YORK, between c1910 and c1915

Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. From Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage

Courtyard with a maid who cleans, 1775-1840. Creator: Carel Lodewijk Hansen
Courtyard with a maid who cleans, 1775-1840

Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. A tenant who forgot something on January 1st

Les Écuries d'Augias, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Ecuries d'Augias, 1842. The Augean Stables. Se faire recureur, pour un heros superbe, C'est, par Hercule, un gout difficile a chanter

Two maids airing a mat in front of a town hall, 1874-1927. Creator: Johan Antonie de Jonge
Two maids airing a mat in front of a town hall, 1874-1927

Vain work, c17th century. Creator: David Klocker Ehrenstrahl
Vain work, c17th century

A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish, 1639-1649. Creator: Hendrik Potuyl
A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish, 1639-1649

Chinese Lion Chewing Its Paw, First half of 19th century. Creator: Tadatoshi
Chinese Lion Chewing Its Paw, First half of 19th century

U.S.S. New York, washing clothes, between 1893 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. New York, washing clothes, between 1893 and 1901

U.S.S. New York, scrubbing down, between 1893 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. New York, scrubbing down, between 1893 and 1901

Bleacheries near a canal, 1820-1872. Creator: Hendrik Abraham Klinkhamer
Bleacheries near a canal, 1820-1872

Woman scouring metalware, 1650-1660. Creator: Jan Steen
Woman scouring metalware, 1650-1660

The Caldron Scrubber, 1808-1810. Creator: Abraham van Strij
The Caldron Scrubber, 1808-1810

Courtyard with cistern and woman cleaning, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

View from across street of a woman cleaning the sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Man cleaning out a small building, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926

Target Practice - Cleaning 12 Gun, 1913. Creator: Unknown
Target Practice - Cleaning 12 Gun, 1913

Target Practice - Cleaning 12 Gun, 1913. Creator: Unknown
Target Practice - Cleaning 12 Gun, 1913

Brooke's Soap monkey brand; An interesting rubber, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Brooke's Soap monkey brand; An interesting rubber, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Use Hudson's extract of soap every day, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Use Hudson's extract of soap every day, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Xie An. Creator: Su Liupeng
Xie An

Scrubb & Co. 1891. Creator: Unknown. Scrubb & Co. 1891. Creator: Unknown
Scrubb & Co. 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. African American custodians cleaning spittoons, Washington DC

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. African American custodians cleaning spittoons, Washington DC

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Exterior, 1913. Machinery in foreground, hose connected to water main

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Exterior, 1913. Firefighters in sou'westers with pressure hose, Washington DC. Camera in foreground

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Exterior, 1913. Firefighters in sou'westers with pressure hose, Washington DC

La Diversion Russe de Bukovine, Petrograd, janvier 1916; Soldats russes nettoyant leurs armes en pleinair, en se mettant a l'aise, malgre le froid

Cleaning 12 gun, between 1910 and 1920. US Navy personnel

No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku)
No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

Papago cleaning wheat (Winnowing wheat), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Papago cleaning wheat (Winnowing wheat), c1907

Cleaning wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cleaning wheat-San Juan, c1905. Two Tewa people processing wheat outside pueblo structure, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico

"The Cradle", by J. Israëls
"The Cradle", by J. Israels, in the International Exhibition, 1862. Engraving of a painting. We have observed that..."The Cradle" is greatly admired by the ladies

Angels cleaning Christmas tree, c1900. Creator: Carl Froschl
Angels cleaning Christmas tree, c1900

Design: Mrs. Holle, 1943. Creator: Anny Dollschein
Design: Mrs. Holle, 1943

On North Americans outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, North American Aviation, Inc

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H"
Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant " H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs

C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant " H class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right

C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant " H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Photograph probably shows Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant " H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R. Bensenville, Ill

Fords Theatre, Washington, D. C. between 1860 and 1880. Creator: Unknown
Fords Theatre, Wash. D.C. between 1860 and 1880. Site of the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865

City sanitation workman washing streets at Fulton fish market. New York, New York

On board the fishing boat Alden, out of Glocester, Massachusetts. Fishermen cleaning mackerel

Late evening scene at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Late evening scene at the Fulton fish market

Workmen from the sanitary department flushing the street in front of the Fulton
New York, New York. Workmen from the sanitary department flushing the street in front of the Fulton fish market late in the evening

Churchyard on annual cleaning up day, Wheeleys Church, Person County, North Carolina

Women assembled at Wheeleys Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to clean up church and grounds on annual cleaning up day

Women of the congregation of Wheeleys Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina

Women of the congregation of Wheeleys Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina

Wife of tobacco sharecropper putting breakfast dishes away. Person County, North Carolina

Wife of tobacco sharecropper cleaning butter churn. Person County, North Carolina

Kitchen door of Zollie Lyons house. Note brushbroom. Wake County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecroppers wife cleaning up table after washing breakfast dishes. Person County, North Carolina

Wife and child of tobacco sharecropper. The littlest girl comes in from outside for something to eat while mother is doing her housework

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, c. 1797 / 99
House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, c. 1797/99

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, late 1790s

Yu Qianlou (Jp: Yu Kinro), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety
Yu Qianlou (Jp: Yu Kinro), from the series " Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)", c. 1825

Poem by Sakanoue no Korenori, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, c. 1767/68

The Window Cleaner, 1889. Creator: Theodore Roussel
The Window Cleaner, 1889

Car wash in West Bengal, India 2019. Creator: Unknown
Car wash in West Bengal, India 2019

Instrument cleaning snake and case belonging to Maxine Sullivan, ca. 1936
An instrument cleaning snake and its container. The cleaning snake (2013.46.29.1.3a) is made of flexible spring wire with a black nylon bristle brush on one end

Interior of a Military Chamber. Creator: Louis Albert Guislain Baclere d Albe
Interior of a Military Chamber

The Cottage Dooryard, 1673. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
The Cottage Dooryard, 1673

Waking Up: A Girl of the Koka Era (1844-1848), 1888. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Waking Up: A Girl of the Koka Era (1844-1848), 1888

Two Cupids, ca. 1519. Creator: Agostino Veneziano
Two Cupids, ca. 1519

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860s. Creator: Unknown
Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860s

A Glimpse of Charleston and Bay, from St. Michaels Church, 1872. Creator: John J
A Glimpse of Charleston and Bay, from St. Michaels Church, 1872. View of the town of Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina, USA. The church of St Michael was erected in the 1750s

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