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  • The head and shoulders of a bearded man (G.E. Shuttleworth?) Photograph by B. Wyles.
  • Down's syndrome: in two young men holding hands, one sitting and one standing. Photograph.
  • George Edward Shuttleworth holding a disabled male child on his lap. Photograph, 1895.
  • Down's syndrome in two young men and a young woman. Three photographs.
  • A group of hospital staff, including nurses wearing matching straw hats, standing outdoors. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • James Pullen, sitting on the end of a wooden trolley upon which rests a huge model ship made by him. Process print.
  • Down's syndrome seen in people from the same family. Four photographs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Down's syndrome in two young men and a young woman. Three photographs.
  • An overweight teenage girl, with a pearl necklace, sitting on a tricycle. Process print.
  • Down's syndrome: seen in two views of a man's head. Two photographs.
  • Small images of men and children, all of whom show signs of insanity. Nine process prints.