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Cooper social club. 2.
Date: 1932- Books
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This is to inform those that can read, and those that cannot read, but will hear. At the theatrical shew-shop, or butcher's shop, James-Street, Hay-Market. Where Mr. Punch and his wooden-headed Family hack and butcher Common Sense. A little after Owl-Light the Game will begin First, A dish of capers on the Tight Rope by the Master Lawrences, and some celebrated in that art. Secondly, Singing by several clear and good pipes, after the manner of the Moderns, as the antient Method is quite exploded, Thirdly, Several new balances on the slack wire by Mr. Lawrence, who will toss the straw from head to foot to heel; and so to all parts of his body, till it falls on the terrestial globe. Fourthly, By a Company of-some with heads right-and some with heels light. The first of this class will perform a new piece, called piety in pattens; or, Comedy and Tragedy at War. Where our dismal Troop will out-do their usual out-doings By the second, will be some Tumbling, a-la-mode a-flip-flap, with such agility, that their right ends cannot be distinguished from the wrong. The Master Lawrences exhibit the most amazing Somerset Pieces, in quite a different manner to what has been seen on any Stage in England; they likewise perform the Italian Table Tricks, without spring-boards or tramplings, &c. A hornpipe in taste, by Master Lawrence, seven years of age, who will accompany himself on the Violin. Here will be given a Pantomime, in Grotesque Characters, called The Witch of Ender, or Nest of Witches, With Harlequin's Escape over the Gallery. Harlequin, by Don Parsloe; Furiosa, by Diagobabinetto; Don Crackemaralio, Signor Presto Jean; Don Arbobeco, by Cracomaropo; Vampomni by Don Vampo. Columbine, by Donna Larione; Cledpare the Clown, by Don Jefferies; Attendants, by Donna Collingham, Miss Twine, Miss Twist, and Madam Lightfoot, from Italy. First or highest seats, 2d. Second, or Middle Gallery, 4d. Third, or Pit, 6d. Fourth, or Boxes, 1s. The what we call a Theatre to be illuminated with lights. We shall begin exactly as the curtain is drawn up, and the whole to conclude with, being ended---̀̀Laugh where we must, be candid where we can.''
Date: 1780?]- Pictures
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Mary and Joseph walk to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1666, after S. François.
François, Simon, 1606-1671.Date: 1666Reference: 24062i- Pictures
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A mother who believes that an "Infants preservative" (medicine for infants) will preserve her child from danger in a collapsing house. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 563690i- Books
Animal health, human health, one health : the life and legacy of Dr. James H. Steele / Craig Nash Carter ; with Cynthia Gregg Hoobler.
Carter, Craig Nash, 1949-Date: [2015]- Pictures
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Books
Fatal flaws : how a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain / Jay Ingram.
Ingram, Jay.Date: 2013- Ephemera
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Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
Roper, Fred.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Pictures
Mary and Joseph ride to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 22309i- Pictures
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King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
Dixon, E. H., active 1835-1859.Date: 1837Reference: 38712i- Pictures
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King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
Dixon, E. H., active 1835-1859.Date: 1837Reference: 38709i- Videos
Playing with fire.
Date: 1947- Film
Playing with fire.
Date: 1947- Videos
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Playing with fire.
Date: 1947- Books
Stitches : a memoir ... / David Small.
Small, David, 1945-Date: [2009], ©2009- Film
One of them is Brett.
Date: 1965- Videos
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One of them is Brett.
Date: 1965- Videos
One of them is Brett.
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One of them is Brett.
Date: 1965- Archives and manuscripts
PATIENTS' RECORDS: CASE BOOKS
Date: 1870-1916Reference: H64/B/06Part of: SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}- Videos
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One of them is Brett.
Date: 1965