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Animal traps

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  • Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.
  • Love as a wicker trap enticing people into marriage: couples dance into the trap; Cupid is sitting above the entrance. Engraving, 17--.
  • Love as a wicker trap enticing people into marriage: couples dance into the trap; Cupid is sitting above the entrance. Engraving, 17--.
  • Japanese wooden mechanical fly-trap, with emptied contents. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
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    Love as a wicker trap enticing people into marriage: couples dance into the trap; Cupid is sitting above the entrance. Engraving, 17--.

    | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 28454i
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    A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.

    Bateman, James, 1893-1959. | Reference: 39843i
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    Japanese wooden mechanical fly-trap, with emptied contents. Photograph, 1905/1915.

    McMunn, A. | Date: 1905-1915 | Reference: 562389i
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    A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

    Tarter, Albert Lloyd, 1913-1988. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?] | Reference: 10499i
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    Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.

    Hume, Charles Westley, 1886- | Date: 1958
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