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Chimney sweeps

Images

  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Chromolithograph by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Drawing by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • You should see me on Sunday! : John Knight's Family Health Soap / John Knight Ltd.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

    Cullingford, Benita, 1939- | Date: 2000
    • Books

    Climbing boys : a study of sweeps' apprentices, 1773-1875 / K.H. Strange.

    Strange, K. H. (Kathleen H.), 1904- | Date: 1982
    • Books

    Climbing boys, childhood, and society in nineteenth-century England / Peter G. Clamp.

    Clamp, Peter G. | Date: 1984
    • Books
    • Online

    Specification of Samuel Stocker : chimneys and apparatus for cleaning the same.

    Stocker, Samuel. | Date: 1857
    • Ephemera

    Good morning! : have you used Pears' soap?

    Pears (A. & F.) Limited. | Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]
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