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  • Sir James Cantlie and Lady Cantlie (both standing) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.
  • Kelsey's shop in St James's London, where fruit, jellies and sweets are served; a man and a boy are enjoying its wares. as another stands by the door. Process print after James Gillray.
  • James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont. Etching by J. Haynes after W. Hogarth.
  • An upper class young woman; representing the St James's area of London. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • [Two newspaper cuttings (31 May 1871 and 1 June 1871) advertising the Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St James's, London.].
  • St. James's Park: people boating on the lake which has marquees with flags flying on its banks, a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Engraving, 1814.
  • Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...
  • Annual meeting at St. James' Banqueting Room, Regent Street, London, W. (ten doors above Swan and Edgar's) on Thursday, April 28th, at 3 p.m. ...
  • James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, as a washerwoman scrubbing clothes in a tub filled with hot soapy water. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • Show card advertising a lecture by Dr. Sun Yat Sen and Mr James Cantlie on "Things Chinese" which is to be held at St Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, London, on Thursday March 11th
  • Nubian Females: Kanoosee Tribe. Philae. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • Habesh or Abyssinian Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • [Newspaper clipping (The Standard, 1 June 1871) about Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian giantess and Captain George Martin van Buren Bates, the great Kentucky giant, appearing at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, London].
  • The Earl of Bute as a Colossus wearing a tartan scarf about his shoulders stands on two stone pedestals before the tower to St James's Palace as William Pitt the Elder, leaning on a crutch, pleads with him from below. Engraving, 1767.
  • Cairene lady waited upon by a Galla Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • Medical Department of the Army : the annual dinner of the medical officers of the army, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, on Saturday the 12th May 1827 : P. McGregor, esq. serjeant-surgeon to the King, in the chair.
  • Medical Department of the Army : the annual dinner of the medical officers of the army, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, on Saturday the 12th May 1827 : P. McGregor, esq. serjeant-surgeon to the King, in the chair.
  • Berberi playing on the kisirka to women of the same tribe. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • [Leaflet advertising Captain Montgomery's Family "Just arrived in England" from St. John's, Newfoundland, whose 3 children were all born with"hands and feet in the shape or form of a crab." They were exhibited in the New Cut, Lambeth 10 November 1883, by manager, James Paine].
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old, from the Caribee Islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.42, Piccadilly, opposite St. James' Churc. He is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the wonderful works of God ...
  • George Tavern & Eating House, Great Eastcheap : the annual dinner of the medical officers of the army, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, on Saturday the 12th May 1827 : P. McGregor, esq. serjeant-surgeon to the King, in the chair... / George Bell.
  • Robert Sparling, razor-maker, at the Case of Knives in St. James's Market : makes and sells all sorts of cutlers ware, as knives & forks both for table and dezert with hafts in ivory, wood or horn; silver and china, or any other curious handles mounted in the best blades &c. : makes & sells razors, scissars, fleams, sheers, pen knives... likewise surgeons instruments in ye neatest manner.
  • On a new method of managing fractures : from the address in surgery, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21st and 22nd, 1852 / by James Torry Hester, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
  • Head of a maniac
  • Lumbar lymphatic glands
  • Tubal gestation in the seventh week
  • Supra-renal capsule, containing tubercular deposits
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil represented as the Siamese twins joined at the chest; representing alleged atrocities by Roman Catholics. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1829.