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  • A bearded beggar dressed in rags walking on two crutches. Etching by R. Blake after J. Callot.
  • A chair designed for use by the deaf, incorporating a hearing device. Engraving with etching, 1770/1830?.
  • Royal patent adjustable invalid chair, shown in horizontal and upright positions. Coloured etching, 1810.
  • A lame beggar moving with crutches seen from behind. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A lame man sitting on the ground with his injured leg in a sling begging for alms. Etching with woodcut and engraving by F.Bloemaert after A. Bloemaert.
  • An invalid being drawn through a garden in an early wheelchair, called the 'voiture de malade'. Lithograph, 1830/1860?.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
  • A lame dwarf being helped to a wheelchair by a monk. Pen and ink drawing after a design attributed to P.L. Ghezzi.
  • People with impaired arms and legs. Process prints.
  • Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
  • An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air sleeping-chalet. Photograph by W. Ames, ca. 1900.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
  • A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.
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  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • A beggar, probably with two amputated legs, leans on two wooden crutches. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
  • Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
  • A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.
  • An invalid strapped into a special chair, next to him is a table full of medicine bottles. Coloured lithograph.
  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.
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  • John, in English, in type for the blind. Part 2.