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  • A man in striped shorts and a cap walks down some stairs with another man representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • Catalogue of new and second-hand school and miscellaneous books : to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14, 1847 / by Phillips & Sampson, at their book and stationery auction rooms, 110 Washington Street, (up stairs.)
  • A young woman preceded by a lap-dog is coming down the stairs of a grand house; a man is standing by an open door; servant carrying a tray in the background. Etching by J.A. Atkinson after himself, 1 March 1807.
  • At a polling booth, reserve voters, consisting of disabled and sick men and others, proceed up the stairs to take oaths; in the background Britannia sits in a coach that has broken down while the coachman and footman play at cards. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Morellon de la Cave, 1758.
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy - normal female, chromosomes have been highlighted by a fluorescent probe for exon 45/47 (note the double yellow band). This disorder is caused by a recessive gene on the X chromosome, so is normally shown only by males, who lack a second X chromosome. The condition starts with difficulty in walking and climbing stairs in early childhood, usually resulting in confinement to a wheelchair by the age of 10, with death from respiratory infection or cardiac failure by about the age of 20.
  • Architecture: designs for stair balustrades. Etching.
  • Architecture: two designs for stair balustrades. Etching.
  • Architecture: three designs for stair balustrades. Etching.
  • Textiles: a loom for [stair?] carpet weaving, elevations (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
  • Architecture: designs for helical (spiral) staircases with twisted iron reinforcing bars. Lithograph by Dunn & Wright.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G. Longhi after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after S. Koninck.
  • An old beggar in very tattered old clothes is sitting on a staircase with his sleeping dog curled up at his feet. Etching by J.T.Smith, 1816.
  • The British Museum at Montague House: a layout plan, and elevation of the garden facade. Engraving by J. Roffe after A. Pugin, 1823.
  • Concrete steps within a stadium with broken chairs representing the destructive effect of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Dennis Adams, 1993.
  • Building: two floor plans, showing the layout of joists, and details (below). Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • 9 "Tabloid" medicine Cases used in Africa
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Chapel looking west, with people in the foreground. Aquatint by T. Malton, 1799.
  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • Mexico: reconstruction of the teocal (Aztec pyramidal temple) of Cholula. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • View of the Wellcome Library, 29 May 1974
  • Wellcome Building, interior view, 1932?
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Transport of injured people in civil defence: use of stretchers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.