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  • [Programme of opening ceremony of the Hackney & Stoke Newington Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].
  • [Programme of opening ceremony of the Hackney & Stoke Newington Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].
  • [Programme of opening ceremony of the Hackney & Stoke Newington Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].
  • [Programme of opening ceremony of the Hackney & Stoke Newington Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].
  • A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. Part 1, Diseases of the lung and windpipe / By William Stokes.
  • North Staffordshire New Infirmary, Hartshill, Stoke-upon-Trent. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1866, after B. Sly after G.B. Nicholls and C. Lynam.
  • 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.
  • J. Rickett & Co., successors to Evans & Stokes : grocers, tea dealers, butter, cheese & hop factors : 64 & 65 Broad Street, Worcester.
  • 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.
  • Newton from a copy of a bust by Roubillac in the possession of Christopher Turnor, at Stoke Rochford. Frontis. Brodetsky Isaac Newton, London, 1929. 3/4 view.
  • Stethoscopes. A- perhaps Stoke's type with ivory ear plate. B, C, D, -probably all English versions of the Piorry stethoscope dating from 1830s to 1840s.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • One man makes dough as another stokes the fire for the oven, there is bread on the tables and trays and baskets are piled in stacks. Coloured etching.
  • 4 Stethoscopes. A- small, funnel-shaped, lined with brass. B- obatined from Italy. C- obtained from Italy. D- bell shaped, probably 1850s to 1860s. E- probably Stoke's type.
  • 5 stethoscopes. A-similar to Truabe's, cf. Krohne & Sesemann, 1879, p.108, no.20. B- Fergusson or Stoke's type. C- similar to Traube's. D- probably French, similar to Traube's.
  • Stethoscope. A- Possibly Hare's, cf. Down, 1906. B- Possibly Baron's cf. Maw& Thompson, 1882. C and D- are both of the Fergusson or Stoke's type, cf. Krohne & Sesemann, 1779, p. 108.
  • Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Bean's rich & creamy custard powder : not made with eggs / G. Bean & Son.
  • Bean's rich & creamy custard powder : not made with eggs / G. Bean & Son.
  • Grand theatre (Clapham Junction) flyer for "Stars of tomorrow"; produced by Carroll Levis. Letterpress and halftone, 1947.
  • Grand theatre (Clapham Junction) flyer for "Stars of tomorrow"; produced by Carroll Levis. Letterpress and halftone, 1947.
  • Grand theatre (Clapham Junction) flyer for "Stars of tomorrow"; produced by Carroll Levis. Letterpress and halftone, 1947.
  • An elegantly dressed couple walk arm in arm under an umbrella. Photographic reproduction.
  • Three actors in drag, posing in theatrical costumes.
  • Three actors in drag, posing in theatrical costumes.
  • Two sailors (?) on board ship: one in drag is playing a guitar. Photographic postcard, 1907.
  • Two sailors (?) on board ship: one in drag is playing a guitar. Photographic postcard, 1907.