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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: many certificates in first aid / home nursing, concert programme (fund raising : 1913 : Richmond), a 1915 postcard for the St. John Ambulance Association Malta Centre ("Help the wounded"), Presentation of certificates for first aid training and medallions (Syston Village Hall, 27 September 1893 : silk place mat?), air raid precautions / air raid casualties training certificates (1940, 1942), first aid in industry (1966 'seal'), postal cancellation stamp ("Over to you John" : 1992), 'Who cares?' caring programme (1992?), Greenwich Women's Equality Unit programme (1991-2 : first aid training), first aid materials and supplies (1992).

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St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

Concert programme for a fund-raising concert in 1921. Printed in black and red on white paper.

Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : The Assembly Hall, Framlingham, Monday August 15th, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.

Concert programme for a fund raising event at the Scala Theatre in London. Includes cartoons, advertisements for: Amm-i-dent toothpaste, Bisto, Cerebos salt, Cow & Gate baby food, Ovaltine, Allinson wholewheat bread, Welgar Shredded Wheat, Imperial Chemicals (Pharmaceuticals) Limited (ICI), Curry & Paxton opticians, John Bell & Croyden chemists, Adam Rouilly & Co. human skeletons, Oxo, W.H. Bailey & Son Ltd., surgical instrument makers, Barlova malted milk beverage, Marmite, Accoson blood pressure measuring device, Amalgamated Dental Trade Distributors Ltd., Euthymol toothpaste, British Oxygen Co. Ltd., Bovril, Crosse & Blackwell, Anadin pain relief, Marconi instruments, R. & J. Beck Ltd.'s microscopes, MacLean's toothpaste, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd. Cover illustration by Carl Giles shows a boy on an operating table wielding a large knife defensively, blood dripping from the tip against a team of 4 surgeons and a nurse, one of whom is sucking the bloodied finger that the boy has cut.

68 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

The Middlesex Hospital 55th annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

Concert programme for a fund raising event at the Scala Theatre in London. Includes a Ronald Searle cartoon of 'The rake's progress : the doctor' and other cartoons, advertisements for: Horniman's tea, Ovaltine, Bisto, Cerebos salt, Barlova malted milk drink, Amm-i-dent toothpaste, W.H. Bailey & Son surgical instruments, Curry & Paxton opticians, Marconi instruments, Euthymol toothpaste, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., R. & J. Beck Ltd.'s microscopes, Cow & Gate baby food, Lyles's Golden Syrup, British Oxygen Co. Ltd. anaesthesia equipment, MacLean's toothpaste, Amalgamated Dental Trade Distributors Ltd., Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd., Imperial Chemicals (Pharmaceuticals) Limited (ICI), Anadin pain relief, Bourne & Hollingsworth. Cover illustration by Joan Dawson shows a crowd of people in an outpatients waiting room.

The Middlesex Hospital 53rd annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

Fund-raising programme in aid of rebuilding the Royal Free Hospital which had been badly damaged at its original site in the Gray's Inn Road, London, by a German bomb during an air raid on July 5th 1944. It includes a history of the hospital bySir Alan Garrett Anderson, including a section on women in medicine and a description of the damage during the war by Dr. May Thorne. Includes views in 1892 and 1939.

31 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Programme of the Five Arts Ball : Friday Sept. 27th 1946 at the Royal Albert Hall / [Royal Free Hospital].

Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : Victoria Hall, Town Hall, Ealing, Monday January 31st, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.

32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Solidays : des jeunes en colere : 100 associations, 40 concerts, 2 jours : programme : Paris, Hippodrome de Longchamp, 5 & 6 juillet 2003 / une initiative Solidarité sida.

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm

A diamond celebration celebrity extravaganza : The Café Royal, 16th June 1994 / British Diabetic Association.

20 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm

Vellore concert : Eileen Joyce : Monday, 16th April, 1956 : programme and notes / Friends of Vellore.

Concert programme in aid of the British Red Cross Society. Includes adverts from Bovril and North Thames Gas.

Pianoforte recital by Denis Matthews in the chapel, the Royal Hospital Chelsea  ... on Wednesday, 15th July, 1953 at 8.0 p.m. ... / The British Red Cross Society.

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St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

The Middlesex Hospital 55th annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

The Middlesex Hospital 53rd annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

Programme of the Five Arts Ball : Friday Sept. 27th 1946 at the Royal Albert Hall / [Royal Free Hospital].

Solidays : des jeunes en colere : 100 associations, 40 concerts, 2 jours : programme : Paris, Hippodrome de Longchamp, 5 & 6 juillet 2003 / une initiative Solidarité sida.

A diamond celebration celebrity extravaganza : The Café Royal, 16th June 1994 / British Diabetic Association.

Vellore concert : Eileen Joyce : Monday, 16th April, 1956 : programme and notes / Friends of Vellore.

Pianoforte recital by Denis Matthews in the chapel, the Royal Hospital Chelsea ... on Wednesday, 15th July, 1953 at 8.0 p.m. ... / The British Red Cross Society.

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St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

The Middlesex Hospital 55th annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

The Middlesex Hospital 53rd annual variety concert : in aid of the Cancer Research Fund.

Programme of the Five Arts Ball : Friday Sept. 27th 1946 at the Royal Albert Hall / [Royal Free Hospital].

Solidays : des jeunes en colere : 100 associations, 40 concerts, 2 jours : programme : Paris, Hippodrome de Longchamp, 5 & 6 juillet 2003 / une initiative Solidarité sida.

A diamond celebration celebrity extravaganza : The Café Royal, 16th June 1994 / British Diabetic Association.

Vellore concert : Eileen Joyce : Monday, 16th April, 1956 : programme and notes / Friends of Vellore.

Pianoforte recital by Denis Matthews in the chapel, the Royal Hospital Chelsea ... on Wednesday, 15th July, 1953 at 8.0 p.m. ... / The British Red Cross Society.

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