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  • View of Margate bathing huts.
  • Huts at Sennar, on the Blue Nile. Watercolour by Mrs. Ethel Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Natal, South Africa: traditional kraal huts. Albumen print.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: circular grass-roofed huts. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • Colenso, South Africa: African kraal huts. Photograph by Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, 1905.
  • An open sewer beneath elevated wooden huts with residents outside, Panama. Photograph, 1908.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: grass-roofed huts and logs in the foreground. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
  • Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.
  • Peasants doing farmwork, thatching their huts and preparing food; representing the Silver Age. Etching by A. Tempesta.
  • Shops in Freetown, Sierra Leone: wooden huts with food displayed outside, over open drains. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • A Bengali dog standing in front of thatched huts with a man smoking a pipe in the background. Coloured etching.
  • Amara, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): Arab children and adults running alongside straw huts in the Tigris river area. Photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Panama Canal workers' (West Indian and Panaman) quarters: exterior view of wooden huts with resident children in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • A camp of huts made out of bamboo and matting, where refugees from Bombay live and work during the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Sierra Leone: wooden cesspool huts, with a uniformed man and a man holding a bucket shown standing in the foreground. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Drawing of huts in a World War II Prisoner of War camp, probably Tamuang, Thailand, part of the Burma-Thailand Railway. By an unknown artist
  • Fayum, Egypt: a plague hospital on the First World War Western Front: a group of basic huts with soldiers and egyptian men standing to one side. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Afia-Too-Ca, a burying place in Tongatapu, Tonga, with three people, several huts and surrounding palm trees. Coloured line engraving by W. Byrne, c. 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • South Africa: Magwamba women grinding corn outside mud huts; one woman works with a baby in a fabric sling on her back. Photograph by H.F. Gros, ca. 1888.
  • An affluent family forced to leave their home due to plague in their neighbourhood sitting outside temporary huts in a camp: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Soakage pit on a military camp (?) in Egypt (?); an Arab man pours water into the pit's gutter from a kettle, outside wooden huts. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • People from Unalaska, Alaska, and one of their huts, with canoes and fishing equipment; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Etching by J. Hall and S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • The Tigris Front, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): First Corps British Army camp sanitary area at Sandy Ridge: view of closed incinerator, sweeper's tent, drying shed for litter and latrine huts. Photograph by P.F. Gow, ca. 1916.
  • Juan de la Cosa, mortally wounded in Bahía de Cartagena de Indias by a poisoned arrow: a soldier standing next to him raises his sword while local inhabitants wielding burning arrows burn down huts in the background. Etching by I. Migliavacca after G. Marmocchi, 1842.
  • Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
  • Panama Indian family outside a traditional hut. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Five nude African men, in front of a hut.