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  • Italian Red Cross Hospital at Arta during World War I: the loggia, where a military patient is shown being admitted to the hospital on a stretcher, while a man parks a bicycle in the foreground. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A naked man stretches his arms and clasps his hands behind his head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • God stretches out his hand to give life to Adam. Etching by J.J. Pasquier after J. de Sève.
  • Sail makers cut and stretch out sailcloth, hang it up and fit it to masts. Etching by W. H. Pyne, 1802.
  • A naked man stands, hands resting on his knees. He straightens up and stretches over to his left to catch a ball. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The prisoner, who is kept in a small slatted wooden box is has his judgement read to him while he stretches his hands through the slats in a pleading gesture. Lithograph after J.P. Moynet.
  • A clothed woman stretches upwards on tiptoe as she swipes a tennis racquet held in her right hand from above her head, bending as she brings it down to her side. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Belisarius as a blind old man with a stick, leans against a column with broken masonry around him and stretches out his hands: he is watched by people in the background. Engraving by R. Strange after S. Rosa.
  • Lord John Russell, leader of the House, dressed as a shepherdess, sits crying; in the background, across from a stretch of water inscribed "Irish channel" are a flock of sheep and a ram with the head of Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.
  • British official War Office photo, crown copyright reserved, BH 24573 : mountain warfare equipment / Central Press Photos.
  • British official War Office photo, crown copyright reserved, BH 24573 : mountain warfare equipment / Central Press Photos.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • Une ambulance turque, en dedans de la porte de Silistrie.
  • The mule litter ambulance used at the battle of Mt. Dajo in the Philippines / by William N. Armiger (late of the sixth United States Infantry).
  • The mule litter ambulance used at the battle of Mt. Dajo in the Philippines / by William N. Armiger (late of the sixth United States Infantry).
  • World War One: collecting point
  • "When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.
  • "When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.
  • The death of General Montcalm, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by P.A. Martini after F.L. Watteau.
  • Saints protecting the city of Bologna intercede with the Virgin to save the city from the plague. Etching by F. Torre after G. Reni.
  • World War One: women working in a factory
  • British Medical Journal, June 2,1917
  • A physician holds up a glass of urine in a hospital. Pen drawing.
  • S. A. Hart; "Milton visiting Galileo..."; 1847
  • Richard Smith junior (1772-1843), surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1796-1843. Oil painting by John Hazlitt, 1824.
  • Richard Smith junior (1772-1843), surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1796-1843. Oil painting by John Hazlitt, 1824.
  • Richard Smith junior (1772-1843), surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1796-1843. Oil painting by John Hazlitt, 1824.
  • A man holding flowers. Oil painting.