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Rio Claro, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.

Empson, Charles, active 1836.

Date: [1836]

A man is standing on the banks of a river with a broken fishing line and an escaping fish; he then appears from out of the water with the fish in his arms. Coloured process print after John Leech.

Leech, John, 1817-1864.

Report upon inquiry as to the truth or otherwise of certain allegations contained in a memorial from the vicar and other inahbitants of Barking, in the county of Essex, calling attention to the pollution of the river Thames by the discharge of sewage through the Northern Main Outfall Sewer of the Metropolitan Board of Works

Rawlinson, Robert, 1810-1898.

Date: 1870

Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.

[River Min?], [China?] [No information]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.

Thomson, J. 1837-1921.

Date: 1870

Siris in the shades : a dialogue concerning tar water; between Benjamin Smith, lately deceased, Dr. Hancock, and Dr. Garth, at their meeting upon the banks of the river Styx.

Date: 1744

Young men bathing naked in the Tiber. Process print after Georges Paul Leroux, 1909.

Leroux, Georges, 1877-1957.

Date: [1909?]

The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, as Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c.&c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained

Bell, John, professor of animal magnetism.

Date: 1792

River Menam, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

Shui Kow, River Min, Fukien province, China.

Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

Thomson, J. 1837-1921.

Date: 1981

Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti; folio 14 recto

Krsnalilasukamuni

A large bridge is suspended over a river and a train is travelling on it. Wood engraving.

Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across a river to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan.

Date: 1890

Geography: a grouping of the highest mountains and waterfalls, and the longest rivers. Coloured lithograph after C. V. Monin.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a street corner with hospital buildings and people. Photograph.

Date: 1885-1898

Letter written by B S Hobson to his father, River Tate, South Africa, 1st February 1869, describing how he and his party fail to find gold at the place they have journied to which was recommended by the German, Mauch.

River Ganges at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.

Hodges, William, 1744-1797.

Date: 27 April 1788

Yangtze river, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Pearl River,China, by John Thomson, 1870.

Crimean War: showing the strait Bosphorus and the hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Process print.

A palm tree found on the River Wenamu, Guyana. Watercolor after C. Goodall, 1846.

Taylor's condition balls : in packets : six balls 3s; three balls, 1s. 9d...

Date: [188-?]

North branch Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China.

Photograph of prehistoric carving on rock colum, Jamaica.

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