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Making the Steel Wires for the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1865.

The liver, Chinese woodcut, Ming period

Preparing for the Final Attempt to Grapple the Lost Cable. - From a Sketch by Our Special Artist. 

Testing the Recovered Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1865.

Anatomical drawing: lanmen (ileocoecal conjunction), Chinese

A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.

Artist, an illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries

Anatomy of the kidney in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.

Xiehao, an edible wild plant, Chinese woodcut

Mang niu'er miao, a wild plant, Chinese woodcut

Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.

A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.

Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Jin gua'er (a kind of pumpkin), Chinese woodcut

Ciji cai (edible field thistle), Chinese woodcut

Chinese woodcut, dietetic longevity techniques. Chinese

Anatomical drawing: Sea of Qi and diaphragm, Chinese MS

Anatomy of the small intestine in ancient Chinese medicine

Moxibustion techniques for reinforcing and purging, Chinese

Anatomical drawing: mingmen (r. kidney as 'Portal of Life')

Anatomical drawing: the lungs and heart nexus, Chinese MS

Landing the Cable at Porthcurnew Bay. 

The Coiling of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board H.M.S. "Agamemnon."

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