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Alterations to provide a Reading and Recreation Room for women patients, 1877-1878
Date: 1878Reference: RET/2/2/8Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Historical Medical Library: View of Reading Room showing steps leading to upper level.
Date: 1960sReference: WF/CA/P/09/07/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
Names in the frieze of the reading room of the Wellcome Library / Wellcome Library.
Wellcome Library.Date: 2007- Books
The unlikely hero of Room 13B / Teresa Toten.
Toten, Teresa, 1955-Date: 2015- Pictures
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The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
Sheeres, Charles William.Date: 1855Reference: 38459i- Books
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Hand-list of bibliographies, classified catalogues, and indexes placed in the reading room of the British Museum for reference.
British Museum. Department of Printed Books.Date: 1881- Pictures
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The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing east. Photograph.
Date: 1962Reference: 29211i- Books
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Hand-list of bibliographies, classified catalogues, and indexes placed in the reading room of the British museum for reference.
British Museum. Department of Printed Books.Date: [1881]- Books
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A list of books of reference in the reading room of the British Museum / Printed by order of the Trustees.
British Museum. Department of Printed Books.Date: 1859- Digital Images
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McGill University: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. Plan of the Library Reading Room, Wellcome Camera and The Osler Library.
- E-books
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Chloe surpriz'd: or, the second part of the Lady's dressing-room. To which are added, thoughts upon reading the Lady's dressing-room and the Gentleman's study. The former wrote by D---- S----t, the latter by Miss W----
Shepherd, Samuel- Pictures
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The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
Date: 1962Reference: 29207i- Pictures
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Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1842Reference: 35750i- Pictures
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A family group in their drawing room at evening prayer with the father reading from a large volume. Engraving by W. Holl after E. Prentis.
Prentis, Edward, 1797-1854.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 27028i- Books
Health lectures for the people : special selection for "National Home Reading Union".
Date: 1892- Pictures
An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 35495i- Pictures
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Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.Date: 4 April 1891Reference: 29212i- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Historical Medical Library: View of Reading room detail showing table and chair in foreground with lights and bookcases in background, overall tones green and brown.
Date: 1960sReference: WF/CA/P/09/07/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Historical Medical Library: View of Reading room detail showing table and chair in foreground with lights and bookcases in background, overall tones red and gold.
Date: 1960sReference: WF/CA/P/09/07/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Two boys peep round a door frame into a room where a woman is reading to other young children. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after T. Webster.
Webster, Thomas, 1800-1886Reference: 28979i- Books
Art from the asylum and the clinic : a small exhibition in the Wellcome Library Reading Room 9 April - 31 May 2001... / curated by William Schupbach.
Schupbach, William.Date: 2001- Pictures
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Four nurses in a large sitting room with a parquet floor; two are reading, one is playing the piano and one is obscured by a chair. Photograph.
Reference: 35833i- Pictures
An alchemist reading a book of alchemical instructions; his assistants stirring a crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 498502i- Pictures
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Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
Régamey, Guillaume Urban, 1837-1875.Date: [no date]Reference: 37747i- Books
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The mind; its capabilities and cultivation : being the substance of a lecture delivered in the reading room of the Calver and Stony Middleton Mutual Improvement Society / by James Wills.
Wills, James (junior, of Sheffield)Date: 1859