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Box file containing 50 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. From 1935 to 1947.

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Publishing ephemera. Box 8.

Box file containing 25 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Empire Cancer Campaign, Brooklyn Cancer Committee (fund-raising seal, 1947), Sir Ranulph Fiennes' Dyson Antarctica Solo expedtion to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer (1996), Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden (2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show).

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: many certificates in first aid / home nursing, concert programme (fund raising : 1913 : Richmond), a 1915 postcard for the St. John Ambulance Association Malta Centre ("Help the wounded"), Presentation of certificates for first aid training and medallions (Syston Village Hall, 27 September 1893 : silk place mat?), air raid precautions / air raid casualties training certificates (1940, 1942), first aid in industry (1966 'seal'), postal cancellation stamp ("Over to you John" : 1992), 'Who cares?' caring programme (1992?), Greenwich Women's Equality Unit programme (1991-2 : first aid training), first aid materials and supplies (1992).

St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

Compliments slip for Sheffield AIDS Education Project.

AIDS ephemera : Support & centres. Box 2.

Sheffield AIDS Education Project : 37 Stone Grove, Sheffield S10 2SW ... project manager: Jo Adams : with compliments.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves, arranged alphabetically by manufacturer: L-Z.
The leaflets are mostly advertising beds for hospitals but also include bathing and patient lifting equipment, anti-pressure and floatation pads (to prevent bed sores), book supports (for reading in bed), urine bottle holders, ripple mattresses, a Weylux baby weighing machine, J.&H. Lieberg's "Neversick" Injections-Spritze (syringes) for urethral lavage in cases of gonorrhoea (Kassel, 1904 - including a small engraving of their 1802 factory) and a similar one from H. Unger (Friedrichstrasse, Berlin) - the "Bequema" model, Newton & Co. Ltd. (optical & scientific instrument makers : 1942), Philips 'Metalix' x-ray machinery (1951), Mme Vve Van Wichelen hygienic articles (Bruxelles : 1921), Roche Pathology Workstation (DNA analysis).

Hospitals equipment ephemera. Box 2.

Medical insurance ephemera. Box 3.

Change of address slip for Stonewall, the lesbian and gay equality campaigning group.

Homosexuality ephemera : Politics. Box 1

We've moved! : from Monday 26 June 2000 the new address for Stonewall will be... / Stonewall, for lesbian and gay equailty.

Writing paper for the Centre. Printed in black type on white paper. Text to the upper left, with "Ministère de l'Agriculture" to the upper right.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Commercial & Professional. Box 2

Institut national de la recherche agronomique : Station de pathologie de la reproduction : Centre de recherches vétinaires et zootechniques de Tours-L'Orfrasière : 37, Nouzilly, France ...

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves including advertisements and stationery relating to eye tests in hospitals and independent opticians, Boots (2008, 2011), free eye tests at home (Healthcall, 2010), free eye tests for close relatives of people with glaucoma (NHS, 2010), home eye tests for over 60s (the Outside Clinic, community opticians, Swindon, 2011), Specsavers free eye test & digital retinal photography (2012), Greenwich Eye Studio (London), 'Eye test, spectacles, contact lenses' (Greenwich Optometrist : 2014), Understanding you (Boots).

Eye tests ephemera. Box 1.

Compliments slip printed in black type on white paper. 27 cm CVL Weybridge logo in upper left corner with green and grey circles overlapping and a snake around the staff of Aesculapius in the green one. "Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food" along the bottom edge.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Commercial & Professional. Box 1

With compliments / Central Veterinary Laboratory.

Certificate with coupons for the year May 1873 to April 1874 with spaces for details of the alcohol retailer and spaces to confirm the receipt of payment of special tax paid to the U.S. Internal Revenue.

United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.

Compliments slip for the Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société. Printed in turquoise and black on pale blue paper. CERMES logo in an oval in the top left corner.

CERMES : Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société : à l'attention de : à la part de : 182 Boulevard de la Villette 75019 Paris.

Box file containing 50 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Mostly invoices from various breweries, wine and spirit merchants in the London area to Johnson Basker & Co. of Grantham between 1880 and 1910.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Box file containing 50 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. From 1973 to 1976.

Publishing ephemera. Box 15.

Box file containing 52 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets offering products and services from: Potter's (Herbal Supplies) Ltd., Seven Seas Health Care, Neal's Yard Remedies, Bioforce (UK) Ltd., Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd., Höfels Pure Foods, Aru Herbal Products, Weleda (UK) Ltd., G.R. Lane Health Products Limited, Claud Manfull, Modern Health, Australian Bodycare (UK) Ltd., Salus (UK) Ltd., Lord & Lady Flower Essences (Glastonbury), Pegasus Products at Shambhala (Glastonbury - flower essences and gem elixirs), Ethicare, the Chelsea Herbalist, Kaye McInnes, Simon Mills, Aylett Nurseries, Laboratoires Phytosolba, Ricqles, the Nutri Centre (London W1N), National Institute of Medical Herbalists, Viper (for men - apparently a herbal viagra), Homeostatic Herbs, Green Farm, Drogunion Herb Trading Ltd., Forever Living Products.

Herbal medicine ephemera. Box 2.

Food ephemera : Meat and fish.

C. Shippam Ltd. : Chichester, Sussex : founded 1750 ... : meat & fish pastes, soups, sausages, tongues, invalid specialities.

Compliments slip for the Lifeshield Foundation, an organisation which worked to prevent AIDS / HIV..

AIDS ephemera : Legal, social & training.

Lifeshield Foundation : 10 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9PA ... : with compliments.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: The Brighton Turkish Bath Company Limited (shares certificate : 5 April 1869), Foots' Hot Air Vapor Bath Cabinet (J. Foot, 171 New Bond Street, London : 1901), a vapour bath at Buxton Hospital (postcard : photograph : 1900s?), the Invalids' Walk in Bournemouth, Apsley House in Slough, Dr. Wiedeburg's sanatorium in Bad Blankenburg, the Post Office Sanatorium Society (for relief from tuberculosis), 4 poster stamps for sanatoria (Finkenmühle in Thürwald and Kindersanatorium Maison Blanche, Leubringen-Evilard, ca. 1910), a series of 48 perforated stamps (possibly from Holland in the 1920s) showing different sanatoria with the tuberculosis symbol on them, the Century Thermal Bath Cabinet, Merano's radioactive waters, Droitwich Spa, the Hydro Centre in Westbury, Dorset, Balsan Hydrotherapy, Aquatherapy Limited, Établissement Hydrothérapique Orthomorphique, Paris, colonic hydrotherapy, Sárvári thermal crystal, Shitari intelligent hydrotherapeutic system, saunas and steam rooms, Swedish National Sanatorium (Denver, Colorado - Christmas seal, 1952), the 'Quaker' turkish or vapour bath cabinet (1902), The Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London (turkish baths : 1910s?), Sauna Ltd.'s finnish baths and massage (Abingdon Road, Kensington, ca. 1940?).

Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 8.

Booklet of 3 sheets of gummed strips for sticking pressed flowers into the album with. Black text printed onto thin white card inside a decorative border. The sheets of gummed paper are pale green.

Science & chemistry ephemera. Box 1

Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.

Food ephemera : Healthy eating. Box 4.

Illustrated letterhead for G.E. Whitmore's fish and game shop in West Bromwich. The illustration shows a pheasant and rabbit hanging, a fish and [plucked bird behind them.

Whitmore's fish, game and poultry : 168 High Street, West Bromwich ... / G.E. Whitmore.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Barmforth comic postcard (1947), the Abbeyfield Society, Alf. Evans Convalescent Home (Hazelhurst, Bexhill-on-Sea), All Saints' Convalescent Hospital for Adults and the Hospital for Children (Eastbourne), British Home & Hospital for Incurables (Streatham, 1925), Buckingham Nursing Home (1896), Carlton House (Pinner), Clinic & Nursing Home Ltd. shares (Lloyds Bank, 1938), Convalescent Home (Lowestoft : a postcard that was sent out in World War 1 in May 1916 to say that the convalescent home was closed due to bombing by the German fleet), Convalescent Hospital (Woodcote Park, Epsom : postcard), Gate Helmsley Retreat (6 miles from York), owned by James Martin for "persons of both sexes afflicted with disorders of the mind" (ca.1840), Herne Bay Railway Men's Convalescent Home (postcard : 1914), St. Anne's Home (Herne bay : postcard : 1906) Invalids walk, Bournemouth (postcard, 1910), Invalid's Walk, Bournemouth (postcard, 1905),King's Knoll Holiday Home (for the disabled and elderly), Leonard Cheshire Foundation, Metropolitan Convalescent Institution (1926, Bexhill-on-Sea), Mrs. Gould's Residential Advisory Centre for the Elderly ('Grace': Cobham, Surrey), Park Abbey (Warlingham, Surrey), Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals (Roehampton : for sailors and soldiers who have lost their limbs in the war), Queen Victoria Jubilee Convalescent Home (Durdham Down, Bristol : 1927), Rosemary Convalescent Home (1927, Herne Bay), St. Luke's Nursing Home (Sheffield), Sheffield Convalescent Home (Botley), Surrey Convalescent Home for Men (Victory ward postcard)Ticehurst House, Fit for work service (Kensington & Chelsea, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, 2012), Tonics (Bamforth postcard, 1947).

Convalescence and nursing homes ephemera. Box 1.

Printed receipt for (in this instance) Lord George Beauclerk's 1879 annual subscription to the Hodgson Five-Shillings Fund, based at 1 Queen Street, Cheapside, London.

Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, or National Hospital at Margate : for poor scrofulous persons from London and elsewhere : established in 1796 : received of... / Hodgson Five-Shillings Fund.

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Publishing ephemera. Box 8.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

Sheffield AIDS Education Project : 37 Stone Grove, Sheffield S10 2SW ... project manager: Jo Adams : with compliments.

Hospitals equipment ephemera. Box 2.

Medical insurance ephemera. Box 3.

We've moved! : from Monday 26 June 2000 the new address for Stonewall will be... / Stonewall, for lesbian and gay equailty.

Institut national de la recherche agronomique : Station de pathologie de la reproduction : Centre de recherches vétinaires et zootechniques de Tours-L'Orfrasière : 37, Nouzilly, France ...

Eye tests ephemera. Box 1.

With compliments / Central Veterinary Laboratory.

United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.

CERMES : Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société : à l'attention de : à la part de : 182 Boulevard de la Villette 75019 Paris.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Publishing ephemera. Box 15.

Herbal medicine ephemera. Box 2.

C. Shippam Ltd. : Chichester, Sussex : founded 1750 ... : meat & fish pastes, soups, sausages, tongues, invalid specialities.

Lifeshield Foundation : 10 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9PA ... : with compliments.

Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 8.

Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.

Food ephemera : Healthy eating. Box 4.

Whitmore's fish, game and poultry : 168 High Street, West Bromwich ... / G.E. Whitmore.

Convalescence and nursing homes ephemera. Box 1.

Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, or National Hospital at Margate : for poor scrofulous persons from London and elsewhere : established in 1796 : received of... / Hodgson Five-Shillings Fund.

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Publishing ephemera. Box 8.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

Sheffield AIDS Education Project : 37 Stone Grove, Sheffield S10 2SW ... project manager: Jo Adams : with compliments.

Hospitals equipment ephemera. Box 2.

Medical insurance ephemera. Box 3.

We've moved! : from Monday 26 June 2000 the new address for Stonewall will be... / Stonewall, for lesbian and gay equailty.

Institut national de la recherche agronomique : Station de pathologie de la reproduction : Centre de recherches vétinaires et zootechniques de Tours-L'Orfrasière : 37, Nouzilly, France ...

Eye tests ephemera. Box 1.

With compliments / Central Veterinary Laboratory.

United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.

CERMES : Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société : à l'attention de : à la part de : 182 Boulevard de la Villette 75019 Paris.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Publishing ephemera. Box 15.

Herbal medicine ephemera. Box 2.

C. Shippam Ltd. : Chichester, Sussex : founded 1750 ... : meat & fish pastes, soups, sausages, tongues, invalid specialities.

Lifeshield Foundation : 10 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9PA ... : with compliments.

Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 8.

Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.

Food ephemera : Healthy eating. Box 4.

Whitmore's fish, game and poultry : 168 High Street, West Bromwich ... / G.E. Whitmore.

Convalescence and nursing homes ephemera. Box 1.

Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, or National Hospital at Margate : for poor scrofulous persons from London and elsewhere : established in 1796 : received of... / Hodgson Five-Shillings Fund.

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