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  • [Undated newspaper cutting (June 1870) of a small ad for: 'Wanted, to hear of a good giantess' for a 12 month engagement].
  • Agriculture: peasants gathering manna from trees in Sicily and packing it in boxes marked "Herring Brothers London". Lithograph, c.1850.
  • Occupations of people of Japan. Woodcuts, ca. 1670.
  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • Meteorology: the seasons, autumn. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving, 1783.
  • Civil engineering: work on the Suez canal. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, c.1864.
  • Cybele wearing a turreted crown and holding a sceptre; in the background men work on the land; representing Earth, one of the four elements. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1587, after D. Barendsz.
  • Mechanics: men using a dynamometer to measure forces. Coloured engraving, 1803, by J. Pass.
  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • Months of the year: September. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • Months of the year: March. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • Scenes inside the General Post Office at St Martin's-le-Grand, London. Wood engraving by J. Bell, 1875.
  • Months of the year: June. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • An iron-founder's forge. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1773, after J. Wright, 1772.
  • Months of the year: July. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • Months of the year: November. Engraving after P. Stevens.