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  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Library with shelves of medical ceramics. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1954].
  • The Pain-killer Polka Song, an advert for Perry Davis' Pain Killer by F. Archer, ca. 1899. Wellcome Library no. EPH+57
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
  • Carbolic smoke ball, a new American remedy that will positively cure colds, used by innumerable ladies of note, ca. 1892. Wellcome Library no. EPH 299
  • Letter to Mr. Peter Johnston-Saint from Max Neuburger, regarding his appointment in the Wellcome Research Library. Sent from the Royal Hotel, London, 29 August 1939.
  • Brass name plate inscribed, "HICKMAN", presumably a relic of H.H.Hickman. Presumably among Hickman relics lent or given to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum or Library.
  • Interior of Wellcome library, shelves in background, and a table showing title page of W. Cowper, The anatomy of humane bodies, 1698
  • Plan of Wellcome museum galleries: 3rd floor showing new arrangement, 1942, Dr Daukes scheme: cosmogony, evolution, prehistory, primitive medicine, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, library etc...
  • Batonga Beauty by having front teeth removed.
  • Leibig's Laboratory at Giessen : right half of drawing.
  • The carnival of lost emotions / The Centre for the History of the Emotions.
  • 4 George Street, London, and neighbouring buildings, subsequently 169-173 Gower Street, including in the centre the home of the University Dispensary 1828-1834. Photograph, 1960.
  • 4 George Street, London, subsequently 171 Gower Street, the home of the University Dispensary 1828-1834. Photograph, 1960.
  • Early Printed Books in strong room
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • View of main library hall towards stairwell.
  • W.P.R.L staff at Brockwell Hall
  • Poynter, Gaskell and Walkins in library reading room, 1962
  • View of printed catalogues: manuscripts and pre-1850 books
  • Wellcome museum: display cases
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the American Room showing a reader's table and display case with automatic guide lecture equipment. Photograph.
  • Dutch Royal Library: sellers catalogue, 1923
  • Wellcome museum: prehistoric gallery
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Oriental Room with a reader, Dr. A. Z. Iskandar, working on Arabic medical manuscripts. Photograph.
  • A pharmaceutical business (John Bell & Co.): rooms for manufacture, dispensing, and shop. Etching by R.W. Macbeth.
  • Two tape measures with the rule pulled out and back to create the effect of 'damning eyes'; a warning about discrimination against workmates with AIDS by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • George Edwards. Etching, 1741.
  • A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth.