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  • Christ heals the haemorrhaging woman; women wash their linen in a pond. Etching by G. Bodenehr after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.
  • A clothed woman puts a bucket on the ground, crouches and squeezes out a cloth from inside it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Order of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries dated 3rd February 1904 : market and sales order of 1904 / T.H. Elliott, secretary ; David Lyon, Depute Town Clerk.
  • A naked woman rinses a glass in a bucket of water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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    The face of a child in the palm of a dotted hand with a list of equipment and procedures for cleaning up blood spills; an advertisement by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department Victoria (Australia). Colour lithograph, October 1990.

    | Date: October 1990 : | Reference: 669799i
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    Industrial detergency / [edited by William W. Niven].

    | Date: [1955]
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    The spotting manual of the dry cleaning industry / by Allen O. Fligor and Paul C. Trimble.

    Fligor, Allen O. | Date: [1937], ©1937
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    Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.

    Barratt, Zachariah. | Date: 1854
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    A clothed woman puts a bucket on the ground, crouches and squeezes out a cloth from inside it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2008918i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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