London street life in the 19th century:
the Turkish baths sandwich-board man
< Image: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
(14 July 1877) p.417
Depicted as part of the everyday life to be seen in London in the final quarter of the nineteenthy century, the three sandwich-board men, or 'human directionals' as they were known in the trade, include one for a Turkish bath. The bath had well and truly arrived.
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Caricatures and cartoons 2. The Turkish bath in general
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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