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Waste Management

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Images from the collections

Images about Waste Management

10 images from works
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Hygiene: a child is told to throw a food wrapper into a bin, not drop it on the ground. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Djibouti: waste disposal and its effects on health. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.

Works from the collections

71 works

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    Samoochishchenie vody i migr︠at︡si︠︡ia zagri︠a︡zneniĭ po troficheskŏi︠︡ tsepi / [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor M. M. Telitchenko].

    | Date: 1984
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    Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

    Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864. | Date: 1858
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    Field investigation of waste water reclamation in relation to ground water pollution.

    | Date: 1953
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    The Giving Challenge Prizes / Constance Agyeman.

    Agyeman, Constance | Date: [2013]
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    A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 25 September 1834 | Reference: 43318i
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Refuse Disposal
London
Sewage
United States
Sanitation
History, 19th Century
Public Health
United Kingdom
19th-20th centuries
Sanitation

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