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  • Five legless men moving with the aid of crutches in a yard. Etching by F.D. Hillemacher after P. Bruegel, 1871.
  • Royal Hospital Haslar: a soldier on crutches with an amputated leg, wounded after the Battle of the Alma. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone: local people, including an amputee on crutches, are shown walking along one of the principal streets. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
  • A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
  • A man in ragged clothes walking with two crutches and a wooden leg. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A Red Crescent nurse is sitting on a chair, holding the crutches of a patient who is saluting her. Colour process print, 19--.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy using crutches, half of his right leg is missing. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
  • Lourdes, France: the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: crutches left behind by pilgrims, amassed on the walls of the cave. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Two old gouty men dancing with bandaged legs, an old nurse is holding their crutches, behind her is a gleeful doctor. Coloured aquatint, 1801.
  • A feeble old woman with a flask attached to her hip moves with the aid of two crutches; illustrating debility. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
  • A man with a stick selling song-sheets is accompanied by a woman moving with the aid of two crutches. Coloured etching by Lapbame, 1820.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • Philippe Sergent, suffering from ankylosis of the left leg, walking to the tomb of François de Paris, with crutches and aided by his wife. Engraving, 173-.
  • An old man with two crutches is sitting on the steps of a church begging for alms from two women entering the church. Etching by A. Legros.
  • A man with one foot moves with crutches accompanied by a little girl wearing a hat and her arm in a sling. Engraving with etching by P. Quast.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A boy walking with crutches, held in the palm of a hand, representing the responsibility of the motorist to avoid hitting pedestrians. Gouache painting by John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • An unkempt ape on crutches tells his mates that he has returned from being an experimental animal at a congress of gastroenterologists. Colour lithograph after G. De Finetti, ca. 1904.
  • A veteran soldier with a pair of crutches is sitting on a bench talking to a young woman who has brought him some refreshment. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1825.
  • The gates of Greenwich Hospital, flanked by a sailor holding a Union Flag, and a Pensioner on crutches: naval paraphernalia at the base of the print. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].
  • A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.