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  • Tents used by Hubert von Herkomer on a painting trip to Wales. Etching by H. von Herkomer, 1880.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital with medical staff and four tents. Collotype, 1904.
  • World War One: Rouen, France: a general hospital: view of hospital tents. Photograph, 1916.
  • Mosul, Iraq: a cholera camp: view of a few tents and horses. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Siberia: tents for shaman's performances. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • Hospital of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army, Philadelphia: with hospital tents outside. Photograph, 1876.
  • Jacob's Bridge, between the lakes of Tiberia, with the tents of the British Army pitched on the mountain side and the tents of the and the Aga of the Janisaries, c. October 1799, during the Defence of the Ottoman Empire against General Bonaparte
  • Sinai Desert, Egypt: Egyptian men in a labour camp; camel and tents in the background. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The tabernacle erected in the wilderness, surrounded by an enclosure and miles of tents. Coloured etching by W. Dickes.
  • The Gold Coast, Queensland: a yellow fever isolation camp: rows of tents with palm trees to one side. Photograph 1870/1900.
  • Moascar, Egypt: a First World War (?) military camp: tents in rows with an Egyptian soldier. Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Boer War: people, tents and the field hospital at the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • A Tartar warrior mounted on an ox, behind him an encampment of tents (left), and a ploughed field (right) Engraving by Rennoldson, c.1760.
  • A group of horses halting on a journey for refreshment and a rest outside fairground tents. Coloured lithograph by J. W. Giles after T. S. Cooper.
  • Serapeum, Egypt (Suez Canal area): the Australian military camp Casualty Clearing Station cooking area with a soldier in the foreground and tents in the background. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
  • Saint Paul staying in the house of Aquila and his wife Priscilla in Corinth; the family are making tents and Saint Paul is writing. Engraving by J. Sadeler after Jodocus Winghe.
  • Egypt (?): a military desert camp with tents, a horseman with a device for sweeping the camp attached to the horse, and a colonial soldier. Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • A First World War military camp (?): a military priest (?), (wearing a black hat with a cross), stands in front of tents in a field with mountains in the background; several other soldiers nearby. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022572C. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres) under snow. The climate in the Khumbu can be harsh and unpredictable. The tents in the foreground belong to a European mountaineering expedition. The yaks are unperturbed.
  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back, used to transport injured soldiers during World War I: a western military man is shown standing beside the camel, with desert tents seen pitched in the background. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
  • X-ray car with tent. 20th century.
  • A tent with a Bedouin family in Northern Africa. Photograph.
  • World War One: Italy: an Italian field hospital tent. Photograph, 1917.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Mongol tent. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Mongol tent. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Two men outside a crude tent, one shouting (?) Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Astronomy: a portable observatory tent. Engraving by Benard [after L.J. Goussier?].
  • A doctor visiting patients in a field hospital ward in a tent. Lithograph.
  • Screwpine plants (Pandanus species) of Madagascar, sheltering a tent. Wood engraving, c. 1867.