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  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench in the process of being filled, in an area of ground used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Hygiene: a child is told to throw a food wrapper into a bin, not drop it on the ground. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • Djibouti: waste disposal and its effects on health. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.