Cleanliness Collection

Advertisement for Sunlight household soap, c1890. The advertisement recommends the soap it to the housewife by claiming it would make life easier

Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. The kitchen on the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, (wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I.

'At the Natal Gold Fields -- Our Laundry at Maritzburg, 1890. Creator: Percy Macquoid
'At the Natal Gold Fields -- Our Laundry at Maritzburg, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Pears Soap; Promoted by Lilli Langtry, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Pears Soap; Promoted by Lilli Langtry, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

'Hudson's Extract of Soap. 1891. Creator: Unknown
'Hudson's Extract of Soap. 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

'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

The Childs Bath, 16th century. Artist: Parmigianino
The Childs Bath, 16th century. Found in the collection of the State M Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas. Lithuania

Hudsons Soap, 1888. Creator: Unknown
Hudsons Soap, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

The Shower-Bath, 1917. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
The Shower-Bath, 1917

Woman in the Bathtub, 1936. Creator: Ernst Kirchner
Woman in the Bathtub, 1936

The Nativity of the Virgin, c. 1400 / 1405. Creator: Andrea di Bartolo
The Nativity of the Virgin, c. 1400/1405

Attendants bathing boys at the Sun Court Cleansing Station, London, 1914
Attendants bathing boys at the Sun Court Cleansing Station, City of London, 1914. Sombre scene of women and boys in a tiled bathroom. At this time many people had no bathroom at home

Girls drying their hair by the fire after a bath, Chaucer Cleansing Station, London, 1911
Girls drying their hair by the fire after a bath, Chaucer LCC Cleansing Station, London, 1911. Four girls wrapped in blankets drying by a fire after being cleansed

Nurse examining children before cleansing, Chaucer Cleansing Station, London, 1911
Nurse examining children before cleansing, Chaucer LCC Cleansing Station, London, 1911. A nurse inspects children for lice and other infestations before they are washed

Attendants bathing boys at the Central Street Cleansing Station, London, 1914. Women wash boys in bath tubs; most homes at this time had no bathroom and children could suffer form lice

A nurse examines girls hair, Central Street Cleansing Station, London, 1914. Woman checking for head lice; on the table is a bowl of cut hair

Cross section of a Roman baths, 19th century. Plate from The History of the Nations

Workers in the washroom facility at a steelworks, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. In a programme of improving the working conditions for the men who worked at the steelworks

Archimedes taking a Warm Bath, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Archimedes taking a Warm Bath, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

A Turkish bath in Jermyn Street, London, 1891. Artist: Swain
A Turkish bath in Jermyn Street, London, 1891. From Old and New London: a Narrative of its History, its People and its Places, volume IV, by Edward Walford, pulished by Cassell and Company (1891)

Joseph Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, 1926. Lister made important discoveries on the microscopical investigations of inflammation and the coagulation of blood

A Satire on Physicians, c1708. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
A Satire on Physicians, c1708. Watteau, Jean Antoine (1684-1721). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Ceremony of Circumcision, Basel, 1739 (first edition 1663). Artist: Jan Leusden
Ceremony of Circumcision. From Jan Leusden Philogus Hebraeo-Mixtus, Basel, 1739 (first edition 1663). Engraving

Circumcision set. Photograph

Circumcision set, Dutch, 1827. Photograph

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