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  • Tippy tap for handwashing
  • Seven Dials, ladies obtaining water from tap, 1874
  • Engineering: a valve or tap, with a spout, in section. Coloured drawing, 1845.
  • A mosquito-proof water barrel with a tap; residents in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A flowering plant stem,, a bunch of yellow fruit and a seedling with tap root. Watercolour.
  • Lourdes, France: a pilgrim fills a flask with sacred spring water from a tap. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Barranquilla, Colombia: a water filter attached to a tap at the Yellow Fever Campaign office. Photograph, 1900/1930.
  • A Trinidadian woman in traditional costume carrying a metal milk pail with a tap, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A tap running water; representing the benefits of mains water supply in France. Colour lithograph after A. Brunyer, 193- (?).
  • A girl washing her hands in a bowl above a tap in a washing cubicle; health education in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A boy taking a glass of water from a tap fitted with a device to purify water with ozone; advertising the Otto procedure of water purification by electricity. Colour lithograph by Goldstein, 1930.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: a female attendant in the building which houses the Francis Spring, filling a glass with water from a tap attached to circular pipes leading to the central source. Photograph.
  • A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • 'Tes-Tape' : urine sugar test tape.
  • 'Tes-Tape' : urine sugar test tape.
  • 'Tes-Tape' : urine sugar test tape.
  • Engineering: an assortment of taps. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Varley.
  • Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland?].
  • Lourdes, France: pilgrims crowd around the taps bearing the sacred spring water. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Labelling tape, LM
  • Lourdes, France: pilgrims at taps bearing sacred water from the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes' spring. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Effusion, pericardial, pre and post tapping
  • Man tapping balsam, late 15th century.
  • A naked man lying down with raised left arm and head. A clothed man taps his knee. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Milk pails - metal with small taps - with a man and girl in Trinidadian dress, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Silk binding tape from Burmese-Pali Manuscript
  • Silk binding tape from Burmese-Pali Manuscript
  • Silk binding tape from Burmese-Pali Manuscript
  • Silk binding tape from Burmese-Pali Manuscript
  • Silk binding tape from Burmese-Pali Manuscript