Stories
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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Photograph album
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: WA/HSW/PH/EPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Pictures
A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Pictures
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A 'kuttar' or line of blind beggars in a row, two other men in discussion, Kabul, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph after L.W. Hart, 1843.
Hart, Lockyer Willis, active 1843.Date: 2 April 1843Reference: 16490i- Pictures
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A doctor reading a newspaper article on the prospect of a decrease in influenza - his wife hopes for the reverse. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14297i- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i