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  • A woman waking up in her bed being attended to by two maidservants. Process print after A.L. Romanet, 1776, after S. Freudeberg after J.H. Eberts.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with scarfs, ribbons and flowers. Coloured line block, 1875.
  • A bare-chested man displays a hernia, which is visible the left side of his thorax. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1866.
  • A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising national childhood week in France. Process print, 1947.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.
  • Corpses standing against the walls of catacombs at Guanajuato, Mexico. Process print after C.C. Pierce & Co.
  • Sydney, New South Wales: the quarantine station: view from the mainland showing the isolation hospital and the jetty. Reproduction of a photograph, 1880/1910 (?).
  • A young man stands pouring the last dregs of a bottle into a glass. Process print.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine, Bucharest: four delegates. Process prints after E. Taru, 1932.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.
  • Three ponies and a foal standing on a windy heath. Process print after L. Cheviot.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
  • The human body, showing a circulatory system (?) and acupuncture points: four figures. Colour woodcut (?) by a Chinese artist.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • A steam-driven carriage on the route between London and Bath passes through the streets of a village as bystanders watch its progress. Colour process print after H. Pyall after G. Morton, ca. 1828.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • Components of the electromechanical telegraph network. Process print.
  • The blue badge of courage: a soldier wounded in World War I holding crutches with a bandage over his head is feeding sea-gulls by a lake. Colour process print after E. Canziani, ca. 1917.
  • The body of Louis Pasteur lying in-state at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Colour process print after H. Meyer, 1895.
  • A man in Japan with two panniers filled with vegetables suspended from a yoke is accompanied by a woman carrying buckets. Colour process print.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868, after J. Silbermann.
  • Three supporters of the Boxer Rebellion about to be executed at the command of the foreign alliance. Process print after F. de Haenen, 1900.
  • Three horses standing in a field, listening to the horn of a huntsman, who is seen with his horse and hounds in the woods beyond. Process print after L. Cheviot, 1904.
  • A boy playing a saung or Burmese harp. Process print.
  • St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London: the Clarence Memorial wing. Photo-lithograph after Florence and Satchell, 1902.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman with brown hair wearing a high chignon attached to her natural hair which is decorated with flowers and feathers. Coloured line block, 1876, by Rigolet after A. Chaillot.