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Hand pumps

Images

  • A boy is accused of breaking a shop window while the real culprits hide behind a water pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H.Knight.
  • Sion College, London Wall, London: the gatehouse, with a man about to operate a pump. Engraving.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • The water pump in Cornhill designed by Nathaniel Wright. Engraving by S. Rawle, 1800.
  • An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.
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Catalogue

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    Penrose Almshouses, Barnstaple, Devon: an old woman standing by a wooden water-pump. Photograph by R.L. Knight, 192-.

    Knight, R.L. | Date: [between 1920 and 1929?] | Reference: 2822119i
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    The ghost of Broadwick Street.

    | Date: [1954?] | Reference: 3360097i
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    Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.

    | Reference: 535834i
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    The water pump in Cornhill designed by Nathaniel Wright. Engraving by S. Rawle, 1800.

    | Date: June 1st 1800 | Reference: 37393i
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    An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.

    Robbins (Designer), active approximately 1943. | Date: 1943 | Reference: 689083i
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