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Pest Control

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Images from the collections

Images about Pest Control

6 images from works
  • Your guide to protecting your pet against fleas and ticks : Frontline Spot On : protection you both can trust / Merial Animal Health Ltd.
  • Your guide to protecting your pet against fleas and ticks : Frontline Spot On : protection you both can trust / Merial Animal Health Ltd.
  • Let's halt illegal poisoning now : save our wildlife / Dept. of the Environment.
  • Prizes for improved vermin traps : First, £50, second, £25 / John Colam.
  • A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Prizes for improved vermin traps : First, £50, second, £25 / John Colam.

Works from the collections

112 works

    • Ephemera

    Ask for "rough on rats" : a 15c. box will keep your house free from rats, flies, bugs and beetles / E. S. Wells.

    | Date: [between 1870 and 1889?]
    • Books

    The pest war / W.W. Fletcher.

    William Whigham Fletcher | Date: 1974
    • Books
    • Online

    Relation of the most miraculous swarms of flies : that were seen flying in innumerable bodies through London, and dropping in great heaps like showers of rain, and appearing as white as snow on the ground, on Saturday the 19th of July, to the great admiration of thousands of people, who stood to admire their vast numbers in several parts both of city, the suburbs, and in Southwark: with the opinions of most learned persons concerning this surprizing prodigy. Licensed according to order.

    | Date: [1675?]
    • Journals

    Zeitschrift für hygienische Zoologie und Schädlingsbekämpfung.

    • Ephemera

    Why should I worry? : Rodine kills rats and mice.

    Thomas Harley Ltd. | Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]
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Related topics

Insecta
Insecticides
Rats
Insect Control
Poisons
Pesticides
Rodents - Control
Parasites
Bedbugs

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