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Drinking fountains

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  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
  • The British Museum: drinking fountains under the portico, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • Animals drinking from a fountain. Etching by J. van den Hecke.
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    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
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    Animals drinking from a fountain. Etching by J. van den Hecke.

    Hecke, Jan van den, approximately 1619-1684. | Date: 1656 | Reference: 42315i
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    Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 672633i
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    A man and a woman with donkeys and goats stopping at an ancient fountain to drink. Etching by D. Danckerts after N. Berchem.

    Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683. | Date: [between 1660 and 1666?] | Reference: 2803343i
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    A paper on drinking fountains / by Charles P. Melly.

    Melly, Charles P. | Date: 1858
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