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  • Designs for Public Water-Closets and Urinals. Metroploitan Sewers 15th March 1849
  • Tin glazed earthenware female urinal
  • Three women having a discussion in a latrine. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • Tin glazed earthenware female urinal
  • Tin glazed earthenware female urinal
  • Tin glazed earthenware female urinal
  • Three women at a wash-basin, on either side stand attendants. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Three women at a wash-basin, on either side stand attendants. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations
  • Incinerator-latrine (field service.) : with hot water supply.
  • Timgad, North Africa: latrines in an excavated ancient ruin. Photograph by F.P. (?), ca. 1900 (?).
  • Razors and pins, presumably from Belgian Congo, Africa. Possibly Manbetu or Azande, certainly Ouelle District.
  • Anklet, brass from Belgian Congo, Africa
  • An old lady sitting at her dressing table mirror holding flowers, two younger women are putting feathers in her hair. Etching attributed to J. Falck after B. Strozzi.
  • Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.
  • Bone comb, supposedly Neolithic, from Gullrum Swedeh
  • Morrell's patent self-acting ash screening closet : detailed plan for fixing with small vault below seat / Sanitary & Economic Manure Company Limited.
  • Suggested plans for the adoption of Turner and Robertshaw's dividable closet or improved pail system : patented 1879.
  • Greek Lekythos-showing two men driving chariots
  • A Scotsman in Highland dress seated with his legs down two latrines, grasping the "Act for establishing Popery"; representing the Scottish rejection of the Catholic Relief Act. Etching, 1779.
  • Salish girl wearing the fir boughs and goat's wool blanket that signify her adolescence
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
  • Images that demonstrate that AIDS is not spread through social contact. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
  • Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.
  • Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.
  • Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.
  • An old woman is praying for a man to come into her life while a young man is watching from a hole in the roof. Engraving by W. Davison, 181-.
  • Roumanian bodily ornamentation