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  • Morrell's patent self-acting ash screening closet : detailed plan for fixing with small vault below seat / Sanitary & Economic Manure Company Limited.
  • Mounds of horse-manure coated with sand and oil to prevent fly breeding, with Western (British?) men in military dress, Suez Canal Zone, Egypt (?). Photograph, ca. 1914.
  • A man collecting human faeces to be used as manure: with a wooden barrel on his back, carrying a scoop and a lantern. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A man collecting human faeces to be used as manure: with a wooden barrel on his back, carrying a scoop and a lantern. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • 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.
  • A man in traditional Chinese dress pours faeces onto a vegetable garden, Kuching Sarawak, Borneo. Photograph by A.R. Wellington, 1908.
  • Tangier pea (Lathyrus tingitanus L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate mature fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Barton Bridge from Aikin "Descriptions..."
  • 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.
  • Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Flesh fly (Sarcophagidae)
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.
  • Samuel Byles. Coloured daguerreotype, 185-.