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  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse demonstrating surgical instruments to other nurses in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • The physical and moral condition of the children and young persons employed in mines and manufactures / Illustrated by extracts from the Reports of the Commissioners. For inquiring into the employment of children and young persons in mines and collieries, and in the trades and manufactures.
  • Children being instructed in the exploits of famous explorers such as Columbus and Cook, whose portraits are shown in roundels. Etching by R. Pollard after Dodd, 17--.
  • A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.
  • A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.
  • Child apprentices in textile factory. The children supplement their scanty rations from the pig trough
  • Women with their children praying in front of a tabernacle, in the background is Vesuvius [?]. Engraving.
  • Ankylostomiasis: parents and ten children in the USA (?) with hookworm disease. Photograph, 1926.
  • A nurse vaccinating children in the open air in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the Ministry of Health Education Center, 2001.
  • Children sitting around a table in a cottage examining something as another child peers through the window. Stipple engraving by Edward Burton after John Faed.
  • Nepal; Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986. Two smiling children share an amusing moment in the village of Phakding (altitude 3000 metres). Their clothing highlights the poverty of some of the Sherpa families.
  • King Sanjaya redeems the children of Vessantara, paying to the brahmin the weight of the girl in gold. Watercolour.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): children with their nurse in the summer house. Photograph.
  • A group of children play in the snow throwing snowballs. Wood engraving by G. Roux.
  • The welfare of children in Europe after the defeat of Germany in World War II. Lithograph by the Bureau of Current Affairs, 1946.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.
  • The brahmin, sitting in a tree, keeps the children of Vessantara tied up all night, and in the morning takes them on the road. Watercolour.
  • H.R.H. The Princess Louise, with many patients, nurses and doctors in a ward of the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles, 1876.
  • A mobile health unit in Pennsylvania: health practitioners are shown examining children outdoors, with the unit's van seen in the background. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • Figure of Egyptian deity, Isis with Horus the child. A healing deity particularly invoked in the healing of children.
  • Children are crowding around a man with a large box which has a cylinder on the top with an animal with a large tail in it. Coloured etching.
  • A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy ... / [Alexander Hamilton].
  • Panama (?): unhygienic water barrels alongside a wooden house; resident children in the background. Photograph, ca. 1910.