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  • Wicker bodies and ironwork for invalid chairs.
  • Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.
  • Cabinet-making: two chairs. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • Open air baths in Budapest: people swimming, or sitting on chairs around the edge. Photograph.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Hong Kong: westerners promenading and taking sedan chairs along Kennedy Road. Wood engraving after C.J. Uren, 1883.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
  • Men of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching a very tall man (Moissan?). Lithograph by L. Fuchs.
  • Men of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching a very tall man (Moissan?). Lithograph by L. Fuchs.