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  • Use Calvert's carbolic fluid, powder & soaps : the most effective disinfectants / F.C. Calvert & Co.
  • Leaflet advertising Bromo paper toilet tissue manufactured by Diamond Mills Paper Company of 44 Murray Street, New York, probably about 1878 or early 1880s. The paper contained the "disinfectants and curatives" Bromo chloralum and carbolic acid "as to render its use not only a positive preventive of that most distressing and almost universal complaint, the Piles, but also a thorough deodorizer and disinfectant of the water closet." The paper had a watermark "Bromo" in every sheet.
  • Acrosyl, the perfect disinfectant : saponified cresylic disinfectant.
  • Advert for Kerol Disinfectant
  • Acrosyl, the perfect disinfectant.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • A brush cleaning a brick wall with the aid of Cylotropine liquid, advertising Schering Cylotropina disinfectant medicine. Lithograph after Leonhard Fries.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • Disinfection equipment, Kurasini, Tanzania: Thresh apparatus and disinfecting boiler. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Apparatus for disinfecting coins
  • Apparatus for disinfecting clothes
  • Apparatus for disinfecting letters
  • Dog castration, disinfecting testicular area
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, two objects: left, to disinfect coins, right, to disinfect letters. Photograph.
  • A segregation camp being disinfected, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Dry feet and easy shoes... : Jones's celebrated waterproof composition... : Jones's Gloucestershire Specific for foot-rot in sheep : a disinfectant : the most speedy and certain cure, without injury to the foot / manufactured and sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by John Milton Jones, Gloucester.
  • Dry feet and easy shoes... : Jones's celebrated waterproof composition... : Jones's Gloucestershire Specific for foot-rot in sheep : a disinfectant : the most speedy and certain cure, without injury to the foot / manufactured and sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by John Milton Jones, Gloucester.
  • Mobile disinfection service, Cuba: Men are shown unloading a pump and hose from a small horse-drawn van, in readiness to disinfect a building. Photograph, 1902.
  • Smallpox epidemic, Palestine: men waiting for their disinfected clothes. Photograph.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, used to disinfect clothing. Photograph.
  • Disinfecting sufferers of the plague in wooden tubs, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • A house being disinfected, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • Oesophagus and stomach from a case of poisoning by Burnett's disinfecting fluid
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: disinfection with a spray from a tank. Photograph, 1928.
  • High level disinfection methods to prevent infection in Kenya. Lithograph by Engender Health, ca. 1992.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice; a machine for disinfecting letters and papers. Photograph.
  • Hospital staff disinfecting patients during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.