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 bottom image would seem to be more consistent with Bank’s experience rather than the sanitised image of the “Laundress of today”

September 24, 2017
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Advertisements, Maid, Maids, Servants, Social History, Uncategorized | Advertisement, Campaigns of curiosity, Costume, Elizabeth L Banks, Maid, Maids, Maids Dress, Maids Uniform, Servant, Social History, Sunlight Soap, The Illustrated London News, Uniform |
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June 19, 2010
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Deltiology, Maid, Maids, Servants, Social History, Uncategorized | "Good Old Days", 1920's, Advertisement, Advertising, Costume, Days Gone Bye, Deltiology, Edwardian, Maid, Maids, Maids Dress, Maids Uniform, Modest dress, Plain dress, Postcards, Servant, Social History, Sunlight Soap, Uniform |
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