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Thatched buildings

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  • Malaya: houses of inhabitants on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing the wounded on foot and stretcher through Kaiping, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
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    A bull resting in an enclosure outside a thatched cottage in England. Etching by R. Hills, 1802.

    Hills, Robert, 1769-1844. | Date: March 1 1802 | Reference: 40569i
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    Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

    | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23906i
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    Feock, Cornwall: "Come to Good", the Friends Meeting House of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Woodcut by Ashley Rowe.

    Rowe, Ashley. | Date: [not after 1939] | Reference: 2535442i
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    World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

    Rawlings, Leo, -1990. | Date: 1944 | Reference: 24141i
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    A man is thatching the roof of a cottage as a boy brings a bowl of water for the horses to drink. Lithograph after George Morland.

    Morland, George, 1763-1804. | Reference: 29944i
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