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  • Disabled children on crutches: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A procession of blind and physically disabled people; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?.
  • Two children with disabilities and another receiving a vaccine: polio innoculation in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • A very young girl, showing signs of mental deficiency, seated with her hands clasped upon her lap. Photograph by W. Moscrop.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A young child with protruding tongue, showing signs of mental deficiency, sitting on a large upholstered chair. Photograph by Davis.
  • A young dark-haired boy, showing signs of mental deficiency, wearing a tweed coat, looking at the camera from over his left shoulder. Photograph by J. Davis.
  • The head and shoulders of a child, showing signs of mental deficiency, seen in profile lying down. Photograph by J. Keens.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting on the ground at a picnic. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A boy with crutches sitting on a bench in a bucolic environment looking pensively. Wood engraving.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair in a garden. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • Band of Help in connection with the Birmingham & District Cripples Union.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair in the back garden of a semidetached house. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A child showing signs of Down's syndrome sitting on a fur cushion. Photograph by J.H. Hogg.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • The blurred face of a child within a larger face, with the blurred message "Look without seeing ... see without looking" representing AIDS in children. Colour silk screen print after N. Brody.
  • AIDS & people with learning difficulties / AVERT.
  • An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air sleeping-chalet. Photograph by W. Ames, ca. 1900.
  • Young girl with Down’s syndrome playing with friends
  • George Edward Shuttleworth holding a disabled male child on his lap. Photograph, 1895.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Alton 1908-1929-1937 : the unconventional tribute of an outsider.
  • Head of a boy in profile, used to illustrate phrenological classifications of mental pathology.
  • Ration books to be kept : the Welfare Foods Service continues after rationing ends. The present ration book is proof of entitlement to cheap or free milk / Welfare Foods Service.
  • A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.