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Drinking Water

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  • Images from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Drinking Water

52 images from works
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Sion College, London Wall, London: the gatehouse, with a man about to operate a pump. Engraving.
  • Secrets of good health. XII, The white man's burden : effectual exercises / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B.
  • Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Wood engraving by W. Radclyffe after W.H. Wood.
  • St. Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by W. Byrne, 1803, after G. Walker.
  • Secrets of good health. XII, The white man's burden : effectual exercises / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B.
  • St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Etching.
  • Strathpeffer Mineral Wells, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Engraving by J.C. Armytage, 1836, after T. Allom.
  • Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.

Works from the collections

144 works

    • Books

    The Apollinaris Church on Rhine : Apollinaris "the queen of table waters" : natural mineral water from Neuenahr, Rhenish Prussia.

    | Date: [1904]
    • Books

    Drinking water 2005 : June 2006 / a report by the Chief Inspector, Drinking Water Inspectorate.

    | Date: 2006
    • Ephemera

    Hunyadi János : saxlehners bitterquelle.

    | Date: [between 1980 and 1989?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 18281i
    • Pictures

    People gathering at the promenade and pump room, Cheltenham. Stipple engraving.

    | Reference: 16663i
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Related topics

Health resorts
Mineral Waters
Hydration
Beverages
Mineral Waters
Springs
Water Supply
Water Wells
Costume
Water Quality

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