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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.
  • Plumbago auriculata Blume Plumbaginaceae Plumbago, Leadwort. Distribution: South Africa. It is used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds. It is taken as a snuff for headaches and as an emetic to dispel bad dreams. A stick of the plant is placed in the thatch of huts to ward off lightning.” Iwou (1993) reports other Plumbago species are used to cause skin blistering, treat leprosy, induce blistering, and to treat piles, parasites and to induce abortions. The genus name derives from the Latin for lead, but authors differ as to whether it was used as a treatment of lead poisoning, or that when it was used for eye conditions the skin turned the colour of lead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • 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.