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Oil as pesticide

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Petroleum

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  • Shelltox (Shell Tox) insecticide: red men spraying it at insects, and below examples of branded cans and sprays. Colour lithograph, 19--.

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    A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) killing flies by spraying them with a gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1931.

    | Date: [1931] | Reference: 589484i
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    A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) killing a big green fly by spraying it with a gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.

    | Date: [1930] | Reference: 589481i
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    A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.

    | Date: [193?-?] | Reference: 676494i
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    Shelltox (Shell Tox) insecticide: red men spraying it at insects, and below examples of branded cans and sprays. Colour lithograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 674760i

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Insecticides

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