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A boy is accused of breaking a shop window while the real culprits hide behind a water pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H.Knight.

Sion College, London Wall, London: the gatehouse, with a man about to operate a pump. Engraving.

An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.

The water pump in Cornhill designed by Nathaniel Wright. Engraving by S. Rawle, 1800.

An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.

Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.

Penrose Almshouses, Barnstaple, Devon: an old woman standing by a wooden water-pump. Photograph by R.L. Knight, 192-.

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Penrose Almshouses, Barnstaple, Devon: an old woman standing by a wooden water-pump. Photograph by R.L. Knight, 192-.

Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.

The water pump in Cornhill designed by Nathaniel Wright. Engraving by S. Rawle, 1800.

An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.

An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.