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  • A man in traditional Chinese dress pours faeces onto a vegetable garden, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • 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 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.
  • A man in traditional Chinese dress scoops faeces (for vegetable fertilisation) from a well with a wooden ladle, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.