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  • An overhead view of Paris streets with an AIDS message
  • Crowds of people are gathered in the streets around fishmonger stalls. Etching.
  • Execution of Bulgarians on makeshift gallows in the streets of Adrianople, Turkey. Wood engraving.
  • A tarred and feathered countryman is paraded past crowds in the streets. Wood engraving.
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • A vast crowd of people throngs the streets of a city. Etching by J. Nasmyth.
  • Coachmen forcibly encouraging people on the streets at Versailles to travel in their carriages. Aquatint, 1822.
  • Soldiers at Mainz suffering from typhus, lying in the streets. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A. Raffet.
  • A fire-engine drawn by horses races through the streets to attend to a fire. Wood engraving.
  • Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.
  • 'An exact surveigh of the streets, lane and churches, contained within the ruins of the City of London',
  • Saint Louis carrying the crown of thorns through the streets of Sens. Pencil drawing after B. Gaillot, 1824.
  • Prostitutes in Bern (Berne) being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.
  • Salt mines at Dürrenberg: people standing in the streets near to the track that runs into the mine. Etching.
  • André Mazet tending people suffering from yellow fever in the streets of Barcelona. Lithograph by Langlumé after J. Arago.
  • "A Fraudulent Baker". In the lower picture he is being drawn through the streets with his light-weight loaf.
  • Crowds of people are watching in the streets as a balloon leaves the ground. Coloured etching after Char. de Lovinier.
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone: local people walking along one of the principal streets, with shops, stalls and street traders seen on either side. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • The procession of Shimazu-Seiji through the streets of Yokohama to execution for murder, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone: local people, including an amputee on crutches, are shown walking along one of the principal streets. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • A lay preacher with a wax (?) image of a bishop, addresses a crowd in the streets of Rome. Etching, 1824.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A woman being carried through the streets of Yokohama in a litter borne by two men. Wood engraving by F. Regamey, 1872.
  • Reformed prostitutes being led in a group through the streets of Naples for fund-raising, watched by people from a window. Engraving.
  • A procession of carriages watched by crowds lining the streets, with soldiers on parade: a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Coloured engraving, 1814.
  • Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great; exterior view of the gate house and adjacent streets. Photograph of watercolour drawing by Ernest George.
  • A bearded man walking the streets with his hat under his arm deeply engrossed in reading a book. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.