James Gardiner Collection: Victorian album.

Nancy Farrar, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.

A man in drag holding a broom. Photograph, 1862.

A nurse poses in uniform against ornate furniture in a photographic studio, Liverpool. Photograph, 1870/1890.

Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.

I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.

A baby with an encephalocele lying on a bed. Photographs by F.A. Hudson, 1869.

Joan of Arc. Photograph by Neurdein & Paris, ca. 1864.

A man without arms and legs posing naked on a table, side view.

Mary Keighley, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.

William Hardcastle, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.

A child suffering from noma (cancrum oris). Photograph by M. Torrani, ca. 1880.

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