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  • Two boys, one sitting and one standing: the former appears physically deformed. Photograph, 1899.
  • Side profile of a young woman with a misshapen head, wrapped in a tartan shawl, probably in a hospital. Photograph.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): children with their nurse in the summer house. Photograph.
  • Down's syndrome in a young woman. Photograph.
  • A brain, viewed from the side, supposedly from a subject with mental deficiency. Photograph by N. Goulton May.
  • Brain of someone described as an "idiot". Process print.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): patients, mostly children, entertaining some seated adults in a small wooden hall. Photograph.
  • New York State Institute: a group of girls with Down's syndrome, standing on some steps. Photograph.
  • A young woman with a short fringe, showing signs of mental deficiency. Photograph by J. Davis.
  • Down's syndrome seen in people from the same family. Four photographs.
  • Down's syndrome: in two young men holding hands, one sitting and one standing. Photograph.
  • A woman with a moustache and beard: head and shoulders. Photograph.
  • A girl, holding a doll, sitting on a wall. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Brain of a person with Down's syndrome. Process print.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): some of the buildings and grounds. Photograph.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): boys walking along a ladder laid upon the floor. Photograph.
  • A young man, probably showing some signs of Down's syndrome. Photograph by Davis & sons.
  • A young man, seated, with an intense expression in his eyes. Photograph by J. Davis.
  • Hand and arm infected with scabies. Process print.
  • Brain with defect in the right frontal region. Pencil drawing.
  • A man's head seen from the front and back, showing large ears and a deformed scalp. Two process prints.
  • A woman with a moustache and beard: head and shoulders. Photograph.
  • A boy with Down's syndrome, holding a rifle and sitting on a fur carpet. Photograph by R.W. Morris.
  • The hands of a child, showing deformity, particularly around the fingertips. Photograph by N. Goulton May.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): male patients using wooden poles to exercise with. Photograph.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): view of some of the buildings and grounds. Photograph.
  • Templates of the head of a boy, who probably has Down's syndrome. Two paper cut-outs.
  • Head and shoulders of a young man with protruding ears. Photograph by Davis and Sons.
  • A young woman with a large forehead, wrapped in a tartan shawl, probably in a hospital. Photograph.
  • Down's syndrome in two different men. Five photographs.