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  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.
  • Palais de L'Industrie, Paris. Etching.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

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    Rules, orders, and premiums, of the South Devon division of the Devonshire Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry: with a list of the subscribers to the Society

    Devonshire Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture | Date: [1792]
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    An account of the proceedings, intentions, Resolutions, and Premiums, of the Essex Society, For the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry, instituted at Chelmsford, September 30, 1793. To which is addfd the Speech delivered by The Vice President of th

    Essex Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture | Date: [1794]

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