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Tar

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  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • People making tar in the forests of Sweden. Etching after E. D. Clarke.
  • Coltar tablets: advertisement. Lithograph.
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    Liqueur Concentrée de Goudron: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 553566i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    Liqueur concentrée et titrée de Goudron: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 551719i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    An account of some experiments made with the vapour of boiling tar in the treatment of pulmonary consumption ... / [Sir Alexander Crichton].

    Crichton, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1856. | Date: 1817
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    Capsules de Goudron de Norwège: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 547477i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    Specification of Thomas Oram : manufacture of fuel.

    Oram, Thomas. | Date: 1857
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