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  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • [Red cross nurse tending to a recovering soldier (?) in a wheelchair].
  • [Red cross nurse tending to a recovering soldier (?) in a wheelchair].
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair in a garden. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A figure is pushed in a wheelchair. A painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821.
  • An invalid being drawn through a garden in an early wheelchair, called the 'voiture de malade'. Lithograph, 1830/1860?.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair in the back garden of a semidetached house. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A girl in bed clutching a knife as she anxiously looks towards a nurse entering the room with a wheelchair. Watercolour.
  • A wheelchair belonging to Michael Faraday, designed by Thomas Twining III, ca. 1845, displayed at the Athenaeum Club, London. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • A lame dwarf being helped to a wheelchair by a monk. Pen and ink drawing after a design attributed to P.L. Ghezzi.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • An old man leaping out of his wheelchair after being cured of his ailments at Plombières-les-Bains. Colour lithograph after J. d'Ylen, 1931.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy in a wheelchair, writing, using his mouth to hold a pencil. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • An old man in a wheelchair is fed by three boys; around him a family goes about its business. Etching by F. Vasconi after P.L. Ghezzi, 1719.
  • A little girl seated in a baby carriage urges her mother to pull faster in order to overtake her father who is seated in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Régnier Bettannier et Morlon after N. Bassaget, 1864.
  • A group portrait of black and white people of mixed races with a disabled man in a wheelchair at the centre; representing an advertisement for the AIDS Life Line in South Africa. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A line of people, including a person in a wheelchair, look out to a black city skyline representing an advertisement for a leaflet on facts on AIDS at Work by the Department of Health, New Zealand. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A naked man lies back against another naked man in a wheelchair who licks his mouth and tweaks his nipples; with the message in German: "self-confident and gay, self-confident and disabled"; advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Ines de Nil and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "Familien-Bande"; an advertisement for the support services for all those affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "A family takes care"; an advertisement for the support services for gay men affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • 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.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: visitors in hired wheelchairs, touring the fair pushed by guides. Photograph, 1904.