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  • The Chandkuri Leper Home and Hospital, Baitalpur, India: two Indian women hold bowls on their heads in front of the hospital wards. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a corridor inside entrance to building, with seated women (patients?). Photograph.
  • The Women's Hospital, Chelsea: The Princess of Wales laying the foundation stone and, inset, a view of the whole hospital. Wood engraving by W.P., 1880.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Victoria Ward, with women patients, members of the medical staff and nurses. Photograph, 1902.
  • A fund-raising fete in aid of the Hospital for Women, held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Wood engraving.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: women patients (mentally ill?) having a meal in a ward, with three nurses. Photograph.
  • Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Winchester, Hampshire: women in the courtyard. Lithograph after O.B. Carter after himself.
  • St. John's and St. Elizabeth's Hospital, London: women patients in a surgical ward, with members of staff. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.
  • Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries, Liverpool: a women's ward, decorated with flags possibly for the coronation of King George V. Photograph.
  • Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries, Liverpool: a women's ward, decorated with flags possibly for the coronation of King George V. Photograph.
  • Boer War: page two of an article entitled "women in the war" with illustrations of a ceremony on the hospital ship "Maine" and the hospital ship "Princess of Wales". Halftone, 1900, after text by A. Hugh Fisher and pictures by S. Begg.
  • Boer War: people, tents and the field hospital at the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • In aid of the wounded women and girls who are in hospital : it was on the fifth of December, they'll never forget that night.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona: a staircase leading up to the women's department; to the right is the metal barred window of the pharmacy. Photograph.
  • Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St. Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children, 69 Seymour Place, St. Marylebone, W 1. This was started by E. Garrett Anderson in July 1866, it grew into the present Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston Road.
  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby - previous two babies died. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Skeleton of a mature child. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A woman's narrow pelvis with child's head stuck in the middle of a labour. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.