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  • American soldiers loading artillery; analogous to the ravages of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Saint Roch attending the plague-victims in a lazaretto. Oil painting after Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Saint Roch attending the plague-victims in a lazaretto. Oil painting after Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Saint Roch attending the plague-victims in a lazaretto. Oil painting after Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Saint Roch attending the plague-victims in a lazaretto. Oil painting after Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • The Israelites struck by plague whilst eating quails. Engraving by A. de Blois after G. Hoet.
  • A family standing in a leafy area: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • Title-page of Court of Aldermen's Orders conceived and published... concerning the infection of the plague
  • Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch as plague saints and martyrs. Coloured engraving by J.E. Belling.
  • A group of Plague staff, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Plague scene; woodcut from titlepage of "London Lamentations, 1641".
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.
  • People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.
  • A plague patient who has just been discharged from hospital being examined outdoors in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of people being inoculated against the plague in a bazaar in Mandalay. Photograph, c. 1906.
  • A group of people being inoculated against the plague in a bazaar in Mandalay. Photograph, c. 1906.
  • A group of people being inoculated against the plague in a bazaar in Mandalay. Photograph, c. 1906.
  • Patients who are about to be discharged from hospital, during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • A line of people on camels, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • A group of men taking notes at a table, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph, 1906.
  • A man with the graves of plague victims in the background. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The plague of the Israelites. Drawing by M. Penley, 18--, after G.E. Petit after P. Mignard.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague to its destination. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat on board a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Theodor Zwinger III (1658-1724): coat of arms with portrait and protective costume against plague. Oil painting.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Engraving by G. Tolosano after G. Courtois after N. Poussin.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Engraving by G. Tolosano after G. Courtois after N. Poussin.