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  • St Marylebone Workhouse, watercolour, 1898
  • Lancet "commission for investigating...workhouse infirmaries"
  • Regulations for the workhouse at Dymock, Gloucs.
  • People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900
  • Authorization of payment of medical bills; Dymock workhouse.
  • Nat. Ass. of Workhouse Masters and Matrons, handbook
  • Bird's eye view of the Birmingham workhouse infirmary with a key. Photolithograph by J. Akerman.
  • The London Workhouse: view of the street facade. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The old men's ward in a Workhouse. This print is to illustrate a story but could have been drawn from life.
  • The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • Hamburg: four poor people accused of idleness are suspended in a basket over a table of diners in a workhouse. Engraving, 1779.
  • Part of St. Marylebone Workhouse prior to reconstruction. From a drawing by a pauper inmate in 1866, initials W.A.D., published 1881.
  • St,. Marylebone. New casual ward for the poor.
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.
  • Members of the United Cooks' Society preparing plum pudding.
  • Charing Cross Hospital: the Prince of Wales opening some new wards. Wood engraving.
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • George Rose, in profile, in a roundel. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after A. Wivell, 1818.
  • Elizabeth Brownrigg: her skeleton displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London. Engraving.
  • A poor depressed man prepares to hang himself in a noose attached to the ceiling. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Prison formerly connected with the St. Marylebone Infirmary.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • Ellen Sutcliffe, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.
  • Ellen Sutcliffe, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.