Sunlight Soap – The Illustrated London News – Saturday 29th November 1902
Seeing these advertisements for Sunlight Soap reminded me of the book Campaigns of curiosity where the American Journalist, Elizabeth L. Bank worked as a maid, a flower girl and a laundry girl writing of her experiences working in what were seen and menial jobs (Campaigns of curiosity; journalistic adventures of an American girl in London ) However the top image would seem to be more consistent with Bank’s experience rather than the sanitised image of the “Laundress of today”
Campaigns of curiosity
The final four images come from a book published in 1894 by an American Journalist, Elizabeth L. Bank called “Campaigns of curiosity” Banks worked as a maid, a flower girl and a laundry girl writing of her experiences working in what were seen and menial jobs
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