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Refuse and refuse disposal - History

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5 works

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    Victorian London street life in historic photographs / John Thomson, text by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

    | John Thomson | Date: 1994
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    Street life in London : with permanent photographic illustrations taken from life expressly for this publication / by J. Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

    | John Thomson | Date: [1877?]
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    Next to godliness : confronting dirt and despair in progressive era New York City / Daniel Eli Burnstein.

    | Daniel Eli Burnstein | Date: 2010
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    Müll und Marmorsäulen : Siedlungshygiene in der römischen Antike / Günther E. Thüry.

    | Günther Thüry | Date: [2001]
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    Disposal of refuse : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon some new methods of disposing of all kinds of refuse by cremation : together with extracts from the reports of the Sanitary and Streets Committees upon the same subject / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

    | W. Sedgwick Saunders | Date: 1881

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