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  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • Animals, including fleas, performing various human activities. Wood engraving by Randon.
  • St. John's Schools, Liverpool, Merseyside. Wood engraving by Laing, 1850, after B. Sly after Hay.
  • Carpentry: a lathe, with an assortment of tools for turning, and examples of turned work. Engraving by Louvet after Gallet.
  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • Hanoi, Vietnam: four seated men restrained by the cangue round their necks are being tried for violent crimes by the tribunal of the French resident; armed guards standing by. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.
  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • A family looking at the view across the sea from the first floor balcony of a boarding house. Wood engraving.
  • Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Wood engraving by F.L. Méaulle, .
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • Harvest time in a hop-garden at Farnham, Surrey. Wood-engraving, c. 1835.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • The Middlesex Hospital: seen from the south. Wood engraving.
  • The coffin containing the remains of Mr. Peabody on display in the chapel on board of the ship "The Monarch". Wood engraving, 1869.
  • A breast pump manufactured by H. Wright. Wood engraving and letterpress, 18--.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
  • The battle of Fleurus. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Ernest Grandier, a prisoner of the Zulus, stands naked and tied to a post before the tribe awaiting judgement from the chief he has been brought before. Wood engraving by J.C.D.
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • A water-wheel or "sãkiyeh" on a canal. Wood engraving by (?) W.
  • Aqueduct at Culegarton, near Loch Ard. Wood engraving.
  • A Swedish clergyman showing the chalice to children at their first communion. Wood engraving after E. Oehme, 1881.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed from Greenwich to Chatham by tugs. Wood engraving by J. Greenaway, with letterpress and view of St Paul's Cathedral in title area, 1872.
  • Many unemployed doctors sitting by the roadside waiting for a possible road accident and some work. Wood engraving by L. Wood, 1907.
  • A man using a raft of inflated skins to navigate the River Tigris. Wood engraving.
  • A barber shaving a man in his shop in 1825. Wood engraving after F. Barnard, 1875.
  • Two types of chimney. Wood engraving.
  • Gorey School, Ireland: ground plans and architectural details with printed text. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1844.
  • Magdalen College, Oxford: the tower. Wood engraving by S. Redd.