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A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.

Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Boer War: a large crowd in Cape Town on hearing news of the relief of Kimberley. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).

Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

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Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.