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  • Sewage farm near Barking, 19th century
  • The southern outfall works and sewage at Crossness, London. Wood engraving.
  • Alexandria (?), Egypt: a ditch holding human sewage for the (British?) Army. Photograph, 1915/1925 (?).
  • The construction of the great sewage tunnels, near Old Ford, Bow. Wood engraving, 1859, after F. Thompson.
  • The construction of the great sewage tunnels, near Old Ford, Bow. Wood engraving, 1859, after F. Thompson.
  • Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.
  • Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer. Wood engraving after W. Haywood, 1854.
  • AUSTIN, Henry
  • Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • House fly (Musca domestica)
  • Euro campaign to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2002.
  • Euro campaign to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2002.
  • Rainwater catchment tank in Thailand
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.