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  • Porters and others in a convoy. Painting by Ōishi Matora.
  • Porters and others in a convoy. Painting by Ōishi Matora.
  • Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: main elevation to the nurses home. Process print, 1926.
  • Charing Cross Hospital: portrait of the porters. Photograph, 1906.
  • Charing Cross Hospital: portrait of the porters. Photograph, 1906.
  • Porters are standing around talking, leaning on baskets; one is asleep; others in the background are carrying items. Coloured lithograph.
  • Mpara Hill (?), Tanzania: Tanzanian men (railway porters) washing their clothes in a muddy stream. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the gate piers and porters' lodges: plans and elevations, with a scale of feet. Engraving by J. Basire after himself, 1752.
  • Gloucester railway station: a number of porters helping passengers to change trains owing to the change of gauge. Wood engraving by W.J. Linton, 1846.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: after he has assured the monks of his monastery that God would not let them starve, several sacks of corn appear, which porters carry into the monastery. Line engraving by G. Giovannini after L. Massari.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Portrait of Jane Porter
  • The Pantheon. Line engraving by S. Porter.
  • Darwin : Darwin's tree of life / words: Dorothy Porter.
  • Darwin : Darwin's tree of life / words: Dorothy Porter.
  • Hydraulics: a pump for sanitary use [?]. Engraving by Porter.
  • A pedometer. Engraving by Porter after Farey junior.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by S. Porter after C. Varley.
  • Informal snapshot of Sir George Porter leaning over a fence
  • Electricity: 28 figures of electrical apparatus and experiments. Engraving by Porter, ca. 1806.
  • Clocks: the mechanism of a pocket watch. Engraving by Porter after J. Farey.
  • A young mother cradles her child in her arms. Mezzotint by J. Porter.
  • The dance of death: the porter's chair. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: porter at the Little Britain Gate. Photograph, c.1908.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: porter at the Little Britain Gate. Photograph, c.1908.
  • Gerardus Johann Mulder. Line engraving by D. J. Sluyter, 1854, after B. de Porter.
  • Gerardus Johann Mulder. Line engraving by D. J. Sluyter, 1854, after B. de Porter.
  • A labelled section through a porter brewery. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • A porter carrying a chest on top of his head. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.