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- Archives and manuscripts
M0008575: Barbers shop sign
Date: April 1942Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/74/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of Corbyn, Stacey & Co's shop sign
Date: c.1900Reference: MS.8101/5/2Part of: Corbyn & Co., chemists and druggists, London- Pictures
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Saint Leopold: shop sign for St Leopold's pharmacy, Vienna. Oil painting by E. Nacht, 18--.
Nacht, E. (Painter in Vienna)Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 44797i- Pictures
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An artist before a crowd painting a shop sign. Lithograph by F. Le Villain, 1822, after H. Bellangé.
Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.Date: [1822]Reference: 33183i- Pictures
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The doorway into a chemist's shop in Shanghai: there is a sign outside written in both English and Chinese. Photograph.
Reference: 36257i- Books
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M. Burchell, in Long-Acre, cutler, & great toy-shop, the sign of the famous anodyne necklace ... and case of knives ... Almanack / [Matthew Burchell].
Burchell, Matthew.Date: [1730?]- Books
At the sign of the cat and herrings.
Date: 1970- Digital Images
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Nepal; herdsmen of the Khumbu, 1986. Three herdsmen stop for refreshments at the Shomare Hotel. The sign above the door of this tea shop reads: 'Wel-come to Shomare Hotel', evidence that westerners pass the door en rout to the high mountains.
Carole Reeves- Pictures
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A barber in his shop preparing to shave a customer. Coloured etching.
Date: 1 October 1804Reference: 30548i- Pictures
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Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.
Mansergh, R. St. G.Date: 11 October 1773Reference: 16094i- Pictures
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People standing outside an apothecary shop in Rotterdam. Lithograph by J.C. d'Armand Gerkens after L.A. Vintcent.
Vintcent, Lodewyk Antony, 1812-1842.Reference: 15960i- Pictures
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A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672184i- Pictures
The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
Date: 8 August 1931Reference: 16806i- Books
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A tutor to astrologie: or astrology made easie : being a plain introduction to the whole art of astrology: whereby the meanest apprehension may learn to erect a fugure, and by the same, to give a determinate judgement upon any question or nativity whatsoever. Also new tables of houses, calculated for the latitude of 51 degrees 32 minutes, being the latitude of London. Whereunto is added, an ephemeris for the year 1657. With all other necessary tables, that belong to the art of astrology. Also how to erect a figure, the rational way, by the tables of triangles, more methodically, than hath yet bin pub ished. [sic] Digested into this pocket volumn, for the conveniency of those that erect figures abroad. / By W.E. Philomat.
Eland, WilliamDate: [1657]- Pictures
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A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1831Reference: 31578i- Pictures
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A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 1 March 1772Reference: 29464i- Books
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Markhams faithfull farrier : wherein the depth of his skill is laid open in all those principall and approved secrets of horsemanship, which the author never published but hath kept in his brest, and hath been the glory of his practise.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1661- Pictures
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Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847.Date: [1816]Reference: 30807i- Books
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The institutions or fundamentals of the whole art, both of physick and chirurgery : divided into five books. Plainly discovering all that is to be known in both; as the subject and end of physick; the nature of all diseases, their causes, signs, differences, events and cures. Also the grounds of chymistry, and the way of making all sorts of salves, and preparing of medicines according to art; nothing of the like nature in English before. / Written first in Latine by that great and learned phycitian D. Sennertus, Doctor and Professor of Physick. Made English by N.D.B.P. late of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge.
Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637Date: 1656- Books
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A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman : wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies both inward and outward are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyryrgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton Chyrurgeon.
Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632Date: MDCLXXV. [1675]- Books
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A rational account of the cause, Nature, and Cure of Gleets, and other such weaknesses usually attending persons after former cures, self-abuses, &c. By the author of the Practical scheme. This book is given gratis only at the four following places, and no where else, viz. up one pair of stairs, between the Rose Tavern and the pamphlet shop, at the sign of the celebrated anodyne necklace, (recommended by the late Dr. Paul Chamberlen) for Childrens teeth, &c. without Temple-Bar. At the Sign of the Spanish Lady at the Royal-Exchange Back Gate, next Threadneedle Street. At the Unicorn an Apothecary's Shop, on St. Margaret's-Hill, in the Borough, Southwark. And (for the convenience of seafaring persons) at the Indian handkercher facing the New Stairs in Wapping. Entred in the Hall-Book.
Author of The practical scheme.Date: 1718- Books
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A declaration of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and the bishops in and near London, testifying their abhorrence of the present rebellion; With an exhortation to the clergy and people under their care, to be zealous in the discharge of their duties to His Majesty King George.
Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.Date: 1715- Books
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The kentish election, a new comedy. By L*** N*****.
L. N.Date: MDCCXXXV [1735]- Books
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The french convert. Being a true relation of the happy conversion of a noble French lady, from the errors and superstitions of popery, to the reformed religion, by means of a Protestant gardener her servant. Wherein is shewed, Her great and unparallelled sufferings on the the Account of her said Conversion; as also her wonderful deliverance from two Assassins hired by a Popish Priest to murder her: And of her miraculous Preservation in a Wood for two Years; and how she was at last providentially found by her Husband, who (together with her Parents) was brought over to the embracing of the true Religion, as were divers others also. To which is added, Some considerations against popery.
Auborn, A. d'.Date: 1762- Books
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The French cook : Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. / Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G.
La Varenne, François Pierre de, 1618-1678Date: 1653