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Manual scavengers

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  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Sex workers in Bern, Switzerland, being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
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    Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

    Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921. | Date: 1871 | Reference: 19724i
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    The hygienic treatment of human faeces as recommended in China in the early 1960s. Colour lithographs, 196-.

    | Date: [between 1960 and 1969] | Reference: 674001i
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    Sex workers in Bern, Switzerland, being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.

    | Date: 1790 | Reference: 27974i
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    Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

    Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921. | Date: 1981 | Reference: 19725i
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