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Two street cleaners grubbing the surface of a street with brooms and knives. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 24 May 1816Reference: 43981i- Pictures
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A boy sweeping the street with a broom touches his forelock as a woman crosses the street, holding up her skirts. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe, 1864, after W.P. Frith, 1858.
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909.Date: 1864Reference: 32011i- Pictures
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A young women sweeping the street holds a broom in one hand and holds out the other hand for payment. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Date: 1798-1813Reference: 38072i- Pictures
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John Coakley Lettsom's house and gardens, Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey: view from the road. Etching after G. Samuel, 18--.
Samuel, George, active 1785-1823.Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 45998i- Books
Campaign for clean milk : a series of articles that have appeared in the "Observer."
Date: 1916- Books
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The Following prices will be given for clean; found seeds of forrest trees, &c. By John McEvoy, of Collon, near Drogheda.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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An answer to A short essay on the scheme lately set on foot for lighting and keeping clean the streets of the city of Exeter. Demonstrating the pernicious and fatal effects with which it would have been attended.
Date: 1755- Books
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Act of the Town-Council of Edinburgh for keeping clean the streets, and preventing nuisances, dated 9th April 1777; [sic]
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1777]- Pictures
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A woman with a wig in one hand and an umbrella in the other stands shouting as a man cleans the barrel of a rifle and a dog stands nearby with a bone in his mouth. Stipple engraving by H. Bunbury.
Date: June 11th 1792Reference: 28514i- Pictures
Leicester's Hospital, Warwick. Photograph.
Date: [1890?]Reference: 662984i- Books
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Every-body's business is no-body's business; or, Private abuses, public grievances. Exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same: as also, for clearing the streets of those vermin called shoe-cleaners, and substituting in their stead many thousands of industrious poor now ready to starve. With divers other hints, of great use to the publick. Humbly submitted to the consideration of our legislature, and the careful perusal of all masters and mistresses of families. By A. M. Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1767- Books
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Every-Body's business, is No-Body's Business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, Insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1725- Books
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Every-Body's business, is no-body's business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1725]- Books
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Every-Body's business, is no-body's business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1725]- Books
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Every-Body's business, is no-body's business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1725]- Books
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The duty of repentance, and conversion to God, enforced. Two sermons preached at the New Jerusalem Temple, Cross-Street, Hatton-Garden, on the 10th and 17th of August, 1800, From Isaiah, ch. i. 16, 17. Wash ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to do evil. Learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the satherless, plead for the widow. By Manoah Sibly, N. H. S. Minister Of The Said Temple. Published BY Request.
Sibly, Manoah, 1757-1840.Date: 1800- Pictures
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A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
Date: [ca. 1905?]Reference: 2064362iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Ephemera
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Perfectly clean & choicest quality foods for cage birds : scientifically prepared & blended : ask and see that you are supplied with "Spratt's" / Spratt's Patent, Ltd.
Spratt's Patent Ltd.Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]- Books
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By the Mayor, to the Alderman of the Ward of [blank] : whereas by a late Act of Parliament, for repairing the high-waies and sewers and for paving and keeping clean of the streets in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, &c. (amongst other things) enacted and commanded.
Corporation of London (England) Lord Mayor.Date: 1662- Books
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A treatise on silk, wool, worsted, cotton, and thread, describing their nature, properties and qualities, with instructions to clean the manufactures in the hosiery branch, And At The Same Time Preserve their Colour and Beauty; (calculated For The Use Of Families.) to which are added, descriptive remarks on frame-work knitting, Knitting With Wires, And Patent Manufacturies. By R. March, Hosier, (no 230) Temple-Bar.
March, R.Date: [1779]- Ephemera
Your children's hair may be kept luxuriant, healthy and clean, by the regular use of Parker's Nursery Hair Lotion : this preparation is invaluable for destroying nits and parasites so frequent in children's hair ... / Alfred Parker.
Parker, Alfred.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Pictures
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A man in a wide brimmed conical hat is about to shave his customer. Coloured lithograph after W.R. Snow.
Reference: 35618i- Books
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Richard Branson, chimney-sweeper & nightman, (living at no. 394,) opposite Cecil-Street, near the Adelphi in the Strand; performs the chimney-sweeping business in all its branches; extinguishes chimneys when on fire, with the greatest care and safety; cleans Smoak-Jacks, and cures Smoaky Coppers, having clean Cloths, and always attends with the Boys himself, and will always be obliged to any Person that please to employ me. Any Person that pleases to send to my House, shall be immediately waited on, by Day or Night. Please to take care of this Bill to prevent Mistakes.
Branson, Richard, chimney-sweeper.Date: 1787]- Books
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Sir, The inconveniences arising from the manner in which the streets of this city have been kept for many years, notwithstanding of every endeavour hitherto taken to remove them, have, at last, disposed the magistrates and council to appoint a committee of citizens, with full powers "to digest, and carry into effect, a plan for the purpose of more effectually "keeping the streets clean." The committee, after very fully deliberating on this businesss, have resolved, as the most likely method of accomplishing the purpose of their appointment, to engage a certain number of seavengers, ...
Date: 1786]- Pictures
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The number five in purple and yellow with a list of five things to do before you have sex; advertisement for Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education Services at the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 667997i