Water Amenities Collection (page 3)

View of New River Head, Finsbury, London, c1753; with figures. Completed in 1713, this was a massive engineering project to improve Londons water supply by collecting clean water from 40 miles away

The English Grotto, New River Head, Finsbury, London, c1790; with figures

The Chelsea Water Works, London, 1752. Artist: John Boydell
The Chelsea Water Works, London, 1752. People including women with large hooped skirts stroll in front of the waterworks. At left is a water barrel on a cart

Royal Exchange (2nd) exterior, London, 1836
A View of the Royal Exchanges south front and west end of Cornhill, London, 1836. Also with figures, including a boy collecting water at a pump and a man in foreign dress on the right

Bishopsgate, London, 1814
North east view of Bishopsgate, London, looking towards Cornhill, 1814; showing the north side of St Martin Outwich and the pump

Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, 1828. Artist: W Wallis
View of east front of the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, 1828, from St Bartholomew Lane; showing the new tower of the Royal Exchange

View of Christs Hospital and a water pump, City of London, 1816

Soldiers filling their water bottles at the town pump La Gorgue, France, World War I, c1914-c1918. Men of the Seaforth Highlanders Regiment. Stereoscopic card. Detail

An elephant fountain, Madura, India, 1901. Artist: BL Singley
An elephant fountain, Madura, India, 1901. Stereoscopic slide. Detail

Group of Haitians, c1890. From Universal Geography, Maps & Illustrations, Vol XXXIV, Virtue & Co Limited, (London, c1890)

A Woman and her Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661, (1933). Artist: Pieter de Hooch
A Woman and her Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661, (1933). From the collection of the National Gallery, London. Illustration from the Apollo, Volume XVIII, no 108, (December 1933)

An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt, 1905. This machine, known as a sakieh, is familiar to us, in a less primitive form, as the bucket- or chain-pump

The Sick Goose and the Council of Health, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Sick Goose and the Council of Health, 19th century. Satire on quack doctors and their patent medicines

Hand hydraulic water pump, 1678. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Hand hydraulic water pump, 1678. A print from Mundus subterraneus, by Athanasius Kircher, Amsterdam, 1678. Kircher?s Mundus Subterraneus marks the first serious effort to describe the physical makeup

Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910). Demonstrated at Edwin Cawstons ostrich farm Pasadena, California. A reflector 33 feet (10.05 metres)

New Flower Market, Paris, 1874. In the bustle of a busy market, flower sellers are filling their watering cans at the conduit. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 4 July 1874)

Women Washing, ca. 1845-50. Creator: Charles Emile Jacque
Women Washing, ca. 1845-50

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