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Images

  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Diseases of animals acts : rabies : London, Middlesex, and district (muzzling and control of dogs) order of 1919... / I.T. Williams.
  • Boer War: Red Cross hospital train arriving at Durban. Process print by C.H. after F.C. Harrison after F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Civil engineering: the Conway box girder bridge, viewed from entrance level. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after himself.
  • Boer War: Red Cross ambulance cars at Pretoria station for the wounded Boers. Reproduction after a sketch by G. Soper after Leoff.
  • Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical and other interest in the City of London, and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • Engineering: point-changing mechanisms for railway track in plan and side elevation. Engraving by W. Read after E. Galloway.
  • Jamestown, New York: the first train arriving from New York City. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • A mail-coach, overturned by a locomotive (Stephenson's Rocket). Line engraving, c. 1853 (?).
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Works

  • view An outline of the central transit : in a series of six letters to Hon. John Hemphill / by Pryor Lea.
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    An outline of the central transit : in a series of six letters to Hon. John Hemphill / by Pryor Lea.

    Lea, Pryor, 1794-1879 | Date: 1859
  • view The chemical & bacteriological condition of the air on the City & South London Railway / by W. Scott Tebb.
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    The chemical & bacteriological condition of the air on the City & South London Railway / by W. Scott Tebb.

    Tebb, William Scott, -1917. | Date: 1905
  • view Ueber den Transport der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken / von Th. Billroth und J.v. Mundy. Nebst den Verhandlungen der auf Einladung der Herren Billroth, v. Mundy und Wittelshöfer im Sanitäts-Pavillon der Wiener Weltausstelung 1873 vom 6.-9. October versammelten internationalen Privat-Conferenz über Verbesserung der Pflege der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken. 1. Abth.
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    Ueber den Transport der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken / von Th. Billroth und J.v. Mundy. Nebst den Verhandlungen der auf Einladung der Herren Billroth, v. Mundy und Wittelshöfer im Sanitäts-Pavillon der Wiener Weltausstelung 1873 vom 6.-9. October versammelten internationalen Privat-Conferenz über Verbesserung der Pflege der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken. 1. Abth.

    Billroth, Theodor, 1829-1894 | Date: [1874]
  • view Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall.
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    Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall.

    Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876 | Date: 1868
  • view Report on a case of railway injury / by Willoughby Francis Wade.
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    Report on a case of railway injury / by Willoughby Francis Wade.

    Wade, Willoughby Francis, 1827-1906. | Date: 1870
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