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  • Wicker bodies and ironwork for invalid chairs.
  • Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.
  • Cabinet-making: two chairs. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • Open air baths in Budapest: people swimming, or sitting on chairs around the edge. Photograph.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Hong Kong: westerners promenading and taking sedan chairs along Kennedy Road. Wood engraving after C.J. Uren, 1883.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
  • Men of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching a very tall man (Moissan?). Lithograph by L. Fuchs.
  • Men of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching a very tall man (Moissan?). Lithograph by L. Fuchs.
  • A man and a woman in France standing on chairs playing musical instruments in the street. Coloured aquatint with etching.
  • Concrete steps within a stadium with broken chairs representing the destructive effect of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Dennis Adams, 1993.
  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • Thirteen diagrams of a child in the womb in various positions; two obstetrical chairs and several obstetrical instruments. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.
  • Russian Nihilists tied to chairs on horse-drawn platforms being paraded past groups of soldiers on their way to their execution in St. Petersburg. Wood engraving.
  • Cartoon gay men sitting chatting on chairs with speech bubbles containing information on Schwulenberatung, an open discussion group and counseling service for gay men. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Men in uniform of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching men in miniature who are each on a lead held by a very large man. Lithograph.
  • A bride and a bridegroom talking to one another as they are carried separately in sedan chairs. Tinted lithograph by F. Jones, 1860, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • Dental clinic, U.S.A.: dental hygienists examine two boys seated in wooden dentist chairs; the room is decorated with dental hygiene awareness posters. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • European men and women being transported by Indian men, in a coach drawn by oxen, in sedan chairs, and in a carriage pulled by men. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the hallway and stairs at ground floor level, showing the vestibule and chairs. Lithograph by C. Hullmandel [1835] after C. J. Richardson.
  • Three men (Chinese or Korean?), two are sitting on chairs and the other is standing, all of them have swords by their sides. Wood engraving by M.G.J. Pibaraud.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A man is performing on a table with a stick in his hand, people are sitting on chairs watching and an extra chair is being offered by a man in a hooded cape. Etching after G.B. Tiepolo.
  • Two women wearing bonnets and glasses are sitting on chairs gossiping; a woman in a fine dress and large fancy bonnet walks down the street with a man with an umbrella beside her. Etching.
  • Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow: a nurse and two soldiers, one of whom has a bandage on his head, sitting on deck chairs in a garden with blossom trees in the background. Photograph, c. 1922.
  • Parturition chair
  • Parturition chair