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The Thames boating guide : showing distances between each lock, etc. ; with cautions against accidents / by Henry Allnutt.
Allnutt, Henry, 1813-1898.Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Pictures
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A boat capsized on the Thames leaving three ladies and four men swimming to the shore. Engraving.
Date: 16 December 1793Reference: 43063i- Pictures
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A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956.Date: [1895]Reference: 23487i- Pictures
"Ben Backstay", a sailor with a wooden leg. Lithograph by W.H. Holbrooke, 183-.
Holbrooke, W. HDate: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 2008271i- Books
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An account of the extraordinary deliverance of Thomas Cross, one of the Bristol-Gazette newsmen: who was overset in a small boat, crossing the New Passage, on the River Severn, on Sunday. Nov. 6, 1774, in company with seven other persons, who were all drowned.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: [1798]- Books
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An account of the extraordinary deliverance of Thomas Cross, one of the Bristol-Gazette newsmen: who was overset in a small boat, crossing the New-Passage, on the River Severn, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 1774, in company with seven other Persons, who were all drowned.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: [1776]- Books
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An account of the extraordinary deliverance of Thomas Cross, one of the Bristol-Gazette newsmen: who was overset in a small boat, crossing the New-Passage, on the River Severn, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 1774, in company with seven other persons, who were all drowned.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: [1777]- Books
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An account of the extraordinary deliverance of Thomas Cross, one of the Bristol-Gazette newsmen: who was overset in a small boat, crossing the New-Passage, on the River Severn, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 1774, in company with seven other persons, who were all drowned.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: [1777]- Pictures
A rowing boat ("eight") going straight, representing working safely when sober. Colour lithograph for the Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik, ca. 1999.
Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik.Date: [1999?]Reference: 755728i- Pictures
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A boy has cut his finger which is being treated by his mother; two other siblings hold him back while he resists. Coloured etching (?) after D. Wilkie, 18--.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 665663i- Ephemera
Dreadful accident at Windsor : nine persons drowned : on Wednesday evening, as one of the small boats which ply at and about Windsor for hire, was returning, with the extraordinary number of nineteen persons on board, from Egham Races to Windsor.
Date: [1833?]- Books
A code of instructions for the treatment of sufferers from railroad and steam-boat accidents; sudden attacks of illness, and suspended animation from various causes, until medical aid can be procured, also an essay on the cure of diseases by means of water, exercise, and diet / [Sir Arthur Clarke].
Clarke, Arthur, Sir, 1773-1857.Date: 1849- Books
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A code of instructions for the treatment of sufferers from railroad and steam-boat accidents : sudden attacks of illness, and suspended animation from various causes, until medical aid can be procured ; also, an essay on the cure of disease, by means of water, exercise, and diet / by Sir Arthur Clarke.
Clarke, Arthur, Sir, 1778-1857.Date: 1849- Pictures
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Electrical instruments exhibited at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition; including a tramway, an electric boat and an electric chair. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1881.
Marie, Adrien-Emmanuel, 1848-1891.Date: 1881Reference: 578800i- Books
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An Account of the sad and dreadful accidents that was done about the cities of London and Westminster, and the liberties thereof, by the prodigious hurricane of wind, which happened on Saturday morning the 27th of this instant November, 1703. Giving a relation of several men, women and children, that were kill'd & wounded; some cast away in the river of Thames through the oversetting of boats; with the number of boats, barges and lighters lost; trees blown up by the roots in moor-fields, St. James's and Hyde-Park: with a great many other casualties that happen'd by the tumbling of stacks of chimneys, tops of houses and pentices.
Date: Anno Dom. 1703- Audio
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Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 4, Track 15.
Date: 1972- Pictures
The contrast between the effects of drinking alcohol and of temperance. Colour lithograph after R.Sartirana, ca. 1947 (?).
Sartirana, Roger.Date: [1947?]Reference: 675399i- Videos
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An appeal from the heart to the pocket.
Date: 1925- Film
An appeal from the heart to the pocket.
Date: 1925- Videos
An appeal from the heart to the pocket.
Date: 1925- Ephemera
First aid ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd