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  • Red Cross workers sleeping in hammocks during the Serbo-Turkish War. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment lying in hammocks on deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment lying in hammocks on deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the children's creche: two children in pushchairs on the grass; swings and hammocks in the background. Photograph, 1904.
  • Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a dormitory for inmates of the penal colony, who climb into their hammocks. Lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after Alx. Thierry.
  • Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a dormitory for inmates of the penal colony, who operate the system for setting up their hammocks and putting them away. Lithograph by Sauvé and Faivre after A. Thierry.
  • A woman getting into a hammock. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman getting into a hammock. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman lying in a hammock grasps either side of it, swings her legs out onto the ground, stands up and raises the hammock above her head, standing on tiptoes. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Horseback, sledge, sleigh and a hammock used as modes of transport in Madeira. Wood engraving, 1879.
  • A skeleton seated beside the hammock of a dying man. Drawing by H.K. Browne (Phiz).
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
  • The paralytic is lowered down in his bed from the roof in order that Jesus can cure him. Woodcut.
  • A man in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men travelling in a party. Engraving, 17989.
  • Congo: one man is being carried in a litter and another on a seat suspended from sticks. Engraving by Taylor after S. Wale.
  • A building by water, Freetown. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Men in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a device for removing rubbish, which they balance on their heads. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Streptococci gordonii biofilm grown on a dental restorative; imaged by scanning electron microscopy.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • The life of the Buddha Śākyamuni. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.