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Sex in graphic novels
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Making sunstroke insanity
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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World War One: Contalmaison, France: medical soldiers bearing a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Photograph, 1916.
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World War One: Contalmaison, France: medical soldiers bearing a wounded German soldier on a stretcher. Photograph, 1916.
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World War One: Contalmaison, France: medical soldiers bearing a wounded Prussian officer on a stretcher. Photograph, 1916.
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Pictures
World War One: Contalmaison, France: soldiers outside a dug-out in front of a bomb-damaged building. Photograph, 1916.
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