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  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench in the process of being filled, in an area of ground used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • Power plant and refuse destructor manufactured by the Nottingham based engineers Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd.: view of furnaces and boilers. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
  • Saint Bruno refuses an archbishopric. Etching by L.M Y. Queverdo and C. Niquet after S. Bourdon after E. Le Sueur.
  • A steeplechase race: Gladstone's horse "Tynecastle" refuses to jump a fence and is led by the horse "Auldhouse". Lithograph, ca. 1880.
  • A representative of the House of Lords offers whatever they want to a brewer, a mine owner, and a clergyman, but refuses a worker the right to ride along the Thames embankment. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • Execution by sword and by hanging of men that refused to convert to Papism in Brussels. Etching.
  • A child has upset a toy basket and she is refusing to eat the food being offered to her. Lithograph.
  • Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Charles Bradlaugh being arrested by the police in 1881 for refusing to take the oath as a Member of Parliament, and subsequently rejoicing at the passage of his Oaths Bill in 1888. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1888.
  • A horse leans against a house wall, trapping its rider and refusing to move; a woman at the open window raises a sweeping brush to poke the horse and two ragged boys in the street threaten it with a stick and a spanner (?). Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing outside a doorway having their services refused by an old man; the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top containing rats and on his left shoulder sits a rat. Etching by C. Bateman after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing outside a doorway having their services refused by an old man: the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top of it containing rats, on his right shoulder sits a rat. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing at a doorway are having their services refused by an old man; the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top containing rats, on his right shoulder sits a rat. Etching by F.J. Crome, 1817, after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Hygiene: a child is told to throw a food wrapper into a bin, not drop it on the ground. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Djibouti: waste disposal and its effects on health. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • Closed incinerator, brick-built, in a clearing surrounded by palm trees, Africa (?). Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Fish. Watercolour drawing.
  • Lady Conyngham sitting on a stool with her hand on a crown. Etching by William Heath.
  • Two travellers walking through a forest are alarmed to see armed men following them; advertising Phosphatine Falières infant food. Colour photorelief by Devambez after M. Leloir.
  • Compilation of newspaper cuttings including a group of protesters; one wears a death mask and cloak, another carries a banner with the slogan: 'Boycott Wellcome products''; an advertisement for the campaign Act Up Manchester in support of care for those with AIDS. Black and white photocopy with red.
  • A man is packing coffers on to a horse while an ass is lying dead and flayed in the background; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop.