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Type/Technique

Lantern slides

Images

  • Organs of the human body. Gouache (?) on glass.
  • Elephantiasis in the right leg of an inhabitant of the West Indies. Photograph.
  • Trypanosomiasis: people with sleeping sickness lying on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Ankylostomiasis: parents and ten children in the USA (?) with hookworm disease. Photograph, 1926.
  • The high potency of penicillin when first partially purified. Photograph, 194- (?).
All images (15)

Catalogue

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    Mammals and birds. Coloured magic lantern slides.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 748220i
    Part of: Copper-plate slider.
    • Pictures

    The story of Robinson Crusoe. Coloured magic lantern slides.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909-?] | Reference: 754446i
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    A woman of Martinique with her left breast greatly enlarged by disease. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 750036i
    Part of: Parasitic diseases: patients and pathology. Lantern slides.
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    The story of Old Mother Hubbard. Coloured magic lantern slides.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 755098i
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    The story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. Coloured magic lantern slides.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909-?] | Reference: 754536i
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