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  • How accidents happen : when lifting... when carrying... and remember / prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Central Office of Information.
  • A naked man lifts a stone and carries it on his shoulder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.
  • A clothed woman walking up to a wicker basket, picking it up and walking off with it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman carries a basket and jar then places them on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed child picks up a doll from the ground and walks away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman dropping a broom then picking up a bucket. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman lifting a basket of flowers then emptying it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman bending to pick up a cloth, straightening up and placing it around her shoulders. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman bending and lifting a water pitcher from the ground to chest height. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman picking up a basket from the ground and placing it on her head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman carrying a fan places a vase of flowers on a table. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a rock, lifts it to shoulder height and supports it with his right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman crouching to pick up a basket from the ground, straightening, lifting it onto her head and turning. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman bends and picks up an armful of hay. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man picks up a bucket of water and spills it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman places a wooden bucket onto the floor, kneels on her right knee, squeezes the water from a sponge and begins to wash the ground with it in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman carrying a parasol and handbag moves a chair, turns and sits on it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman opens a parasol. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman climbs onto a chair she was carrying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman climbs onto a chair she was carrying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman lifts a water jar from the ground and pours water from it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman takes a water-jar from another and puts it on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man empties a bucket of water he is carrying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man carries a wooden beam on his right shoulder then drops it onto the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman climbs onto a chair and pours a bucket of water over another. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman stepping on to and off a trestle, lowering a jug over to the other side of it then raising the jug above her head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman bends and pours water into a jug from a water jar. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman lifts a bucket of water and empties it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman drinks from a jar on the shoulder of another one. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.