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  • Woman with pails going to collect water in rural area, Zambia
  • Bulgarian women wearing national dress, one with a yoke-pole and two water pails.
  • A bicycle with milk pails, held by an African boy, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Photograph by Dr. Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Milk pails - metal with small taps - with a man and girl in Trinidadian dress, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • A man in Paris carrying two pails of water suspended from straps on his back along the bank of the river Seine. Etching by A. Bosse.
  • A female milk seller is offering two children milk from the metal pails she has unyoked and rested on the ground. Colour process print after L. Schiavonetti after F. Wheatley.
  • A man in traditional Chinese dress carries pails of faeces, supported by a pole across his back, with which he will fertilise a vegetable garden, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • A market with a man carrying pails of milk, a woman selling vegetables to a sapeur-pompier (fireman), and a woman selling fish to a man as a soldier looks on. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • A man in Russia drinking unboiled water from a pail carried by a woman. Lithograph, 192-.
  • A man in Russia drinking unboiled water from a pail carried by a woman. Lithograph, 192-.
  • A milk maid holding a milk pail on her head. Engraving by J. Moore after W. Hogarth.
  • Suggested plans for the adoption of Turner and Robertshaw's dividable closet or improved pail system : patented 1879.
  • A Trinidadian woman in traditional costume carrying a metal milk pail with a tap, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A man in traditional Chinese dress pours faeces (for vegetable fertilisation) from his pail into a well, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A monument positioned near the military hospital in Barbados, with passers-by. Lithograph by J. M. Carter, c. 1837.
  • Sir Walter Raleigh smoking a pipe and being doused by a servant who thinks he's on fire. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Sir Walter Raleigh smoking a pipe and being doused by a servant who thinks he's on fire. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • Boer War: people queueing to fill buckets from a well in the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in a wooden temple outbuilding, overseen by a Buddhist monk, three attendants dressed in loincloths uncover a tub-shaped coffin to reveal the body of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A group of plague staff preparing to do some white washing, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Leflet advertising a Turner & Robertshaw toilet
  • Fly-proof latrines, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, in World War I: the Australian camp. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.