📚 Laundry

Clean cloth industrially: the wash-boiler era, the chemistry of detergents, and the machine that ended the trade’s labour.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject laundry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The conservation of textiles	Harvey Gerald Elledge	1921	9
	Approved methods for home laundering	Mary Beals Vail	1906	7
	Laundering	Lydia Ray Balderston	1914	5
	Laundry work in theory and practice	E. L. Marsh	1914	4
	Laundry manual	Lydia Ray Balderston	1900	3
	A guide to laundry-work	Chambers, Mary Davoren Molony Mrs.	1915	3
	The technology of washing	G. R. Perdue	1962	3
	Washing wisdom	Kenneth John Mills	1970	3
	Taking Care of Clothes	Mablen Jones	1982	3
	A manual of the science of laundry work	Margaret Cuthbert Rankin	1904	2
	Laundry Accounts	F. J. Livesey	1905	2
	Home laundry hints	Allyn K. Ford	1914	2
	Practical laundry work for home and school	Louise Wetenhall	1915	2
	The control of laundry operations	Parker, R. G.	1925	2
	The chemistry of laundry materials	D. N. Jackman	1931	2
	Das Deutsche Wäscherei- und plättereigewerbe seit 1914 .	Alwin Bachmann	1931	2
	Der Wäscheeinzelhandel, seine betriebsformen und ihre kostengestaltung, unter hauptsächlicher berücksichtigung des Spezialgeschäftes .	Rudolf Bielschowsky	1932	2
	Laundry chemistry	British Launderers' Research Association.	1955	2
	Fundamentals of textiles and their care	Susheela Dantyagi	1964	2
	Where's mom now that I need her?	Betty Rae Frandsen	1983	2
	Betty's book of laundry secrets	Betty Faust	2001	2
	Keeping House	Cindy Harris	2004	2
	Laundry	Cheryl Mendelson	2009	2
	The laundry manual	Unknown author	1863	1
	The chemical laundry guide	Wallace W. Nixon	1879	1
	Techniques de buanderie	Jean-Pierre Viau	1900	1
	Laundering and dry cleaning	Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (Scranton, Pa.)	1925	1
	Wash day in the modern manner	United States. Department of Agriculture. Radio Service	1930	1
	Wash day fads and fancies	United States. Department of Agriculture. Radio Service	1930	1
	Home dry-cleaning and laundry work	Margaret Struan	1933	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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