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A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles.
Giles, R. H. (Robert Humphrey), 1802-1881.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 18206i- Books
Ernst L. Freud, architect : the case of the modern bourgeois home / Volker M. Welter.
Welter, VolkerDate: 2012- Pictures
The halt and the blind being summoned to the great supper. Oil painting by Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot.
Droochsloot, Joost Cornelisz, 1586-1666.Date: 1620-1629Reference: 45078i- Books
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An essay on the means hitherto employed for lighting streets, and the interior of houses; and on those which may be substituted with advantage in their stead; Intended as an Attempt Towards the Improvement of this Branch of Domestic Economy, by Increasing the Effects of Light, and Diminishing It's Expence. With Explanatory Figures. By J. G. J. B. Count Thiville.
Thiville, J. G. J. B., Count.Date: 1800- Books
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A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families : in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated ; to which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals ; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living / by Thomas Cooper, M.D. ; also, The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years, by M. Appert.
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839.Date: 1824- Pictures
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New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: wash and bath room. Colour lithograph, 1864.
Date: 1864Reference: 20139i- Pictures
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New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
Date: 1864Reference: 20140i- Pictures
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Women making lace. Watercolour after Q. van Brekelenkam.
Brekelenkam, Quiringh Gerritsz., approximately 1620-1668.Date: [1800?]Reference: 35168i- Pictures
To kill bedbugs William Tell uses a crossbow, but he should be using Hahnelyn Gas to kill them by fumigation. Colour lithograph, 190- (?).
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 583290i- Books
Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy's architecture and biopolitics / Beatriz Preciado.
Preciado, Paul B.Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
M0006954: Father with twins
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/49Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
The sanitary arts : aesthetic culture and the Victorian cleanliness campaigns / Eileen Cleere.
Cleere, EileenDate: [2014]- Books
Within walls : private life in the German Democratic Republic / Paul Betts.
Betts, Paul, 1963-Date: 2010- Pictures
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Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907Date: [1876]Reference: 37748i