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  • A girl filling a bucket at a water-outlet, whle a boy is opening up a fish (to clean it?). Soft ground etching by W.H. Pyne, 1813.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Lymph sinus, some of the cells shown in their protoplasm - small clean spaces containing two, three or four fine deep brown spherules - shadows of colon bacilli
  • A photograph, kept in a family album, of a boy, a girl and a baby with clean teeth and holding toothbrushes, representing dental hygiene taught by their mother. Colour lithograph after P. Tilley, 1965.
  • Carter's Little Liver Pills for headaches, biliousness, torpid liver, constipation & indigestion : for the keen eye, clean tongue and clear complexion of perfect health : look for the signature on every package: "Brentgood".
  • Superman disguised as 'bleachman' wearing a condom as a hat, holding a syringe and bearing the letter 'B' for bleach; instruction leaflet on how to clean syringes issued by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph, 1988.
  • A child has been told her face is dirty, so she wipes it clean while her mother holds the mirror and her brother points to her reflection. Engraving by J. Mitchell after Sir David Wilkie, R.A.
  • Si je lui propose une capote, il va penser que je ne suis pas clean : Si je lui demande une capote, il va me planter là : Sida, pour fair face, parlez-en! / Étudiants Contre le Sida.
  • Si je lui propose une capote, il va penser que je ne suis pas clean : Si je lui demande une capote, il va me planter là : Sida, pour fair face, parlez-en! / Étudiants Contre le Sida.
  • A drug user advised to use a clean syringe to prevent HIV/AIDS; an advertisement for the Drogues Info Service by the CFES and Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, Secrétariat d'état à la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • A man's hand gripping onto a leather strap used to inject drugs with the message 'remember clean needles'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • Lovely teeth kept lovely because.... Kolynos dental cream cleans in between.
  • A soldier stands on a wall as a man cleans his boots. Coloured etching.
  • A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
  • A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
  • The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • An ear-cleaner, attending to a man's ear. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1825.
  • Teeth cleaning in the Army
  • Cleaning horse's feet prior to examination
  • Portrait of Edward Honing. With cleaning test.