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A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

A fishwife carrying fish and a dustman ringing a bell. Coloured etching.

A London dustman is forced by noise abatement legislation to change his trade: he becomes a vendor of cat's meat. Coloured lithograph, 1839.

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A London dustman is forced by noise abatement legislation to change his trade: he becomes a vendor of cat's meat. Coloured lithograph, 1839.

A fishwife carrying fish and a dustman ringing a bell. Coloured etching.

A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.