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Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

1 print : transfer lithograph, with watercolour ; border 23 x 16.4 cm

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Letters, papers and mementoes of A L Ward relating to his service as private secretary to Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816-1887), US Minister in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. With related letters and papers of other members of the Ward family.
1-13: Letters to A.L. Ward (1870-1871).
14-19: Letters to Lucy Leigh Ward, A.L. Ward's mother (1870-1876).
20-26: Miscellaneous letters, including some by Genevieve Ward (1838-1922) (1857-1921)
27-40: Passports, permits and other official documents issued to A.L. Ward and L.L. Ward (1858-1871).
41-50: Receipts for despatches, issued to A.L. Ward (1870-1871).
51-54: Lists of Americans resident in Paris (1870-1871).
55-74: Certificates and ephemera of the Red Cross (1870-1871).
75-115: Miscellaneous ephemera, including Balloon and Pigeon Post documents (1854-1886).
116-135: Medals, badges and other souvenirs of the Franco-Prussian War and siege of Paris (1870-1871).
Language: mainly French, partly German.

MS.6243/134-135 comprises a small hand bomb from the Franco-Prussian War and original object label from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

1 print : wood engraving ; image 23.8 x 20 cm

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 11.2 x 23.2 cm

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

1 print : aquatint photogravure ; platemark 21.5 x 26.4 cm

Franco-Prussian War: after the battle of le Bourget with and the removal of wounded soldiers. Photo-aquatint by Goupil & Co., 1870, after A. de Neuville.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour and gum arabic ; image 25.9 x 20.4 cm

A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 16.1 x 23.7 cm

Franco-Prussian War: the use of railway carriages as hospitals. Wood engraving by P. de Kartow.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 16.3 x 22 cm

Franco-Prussian War: convalescent soldiers in Bordeaux. Wood engraving by G.P., ca.1870.

1870 [i.e. Dix-huit cent soixante-dix] : une révolution chirurgicale les origines et le développement de la chirurgie civile et militaire moderne / Jean de Blonay.

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Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: after the battle of le Bourget with and the removal of wounded soldiers. Photo-aquatint by Goupil & Co., 1870, after A. de Neuville.

A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

Franco-Prussian War: the use of railway carriages as hospitals. Wood engraving by P. de Kartow.

Franco-Prussian War: convalescent soldiers in Bordeaux. Wood engraving by G.P., ca.1870.

1870 [i.e. Dix-huit cent soixante-dix] : une révolution chirurgicale les origines et le développement de la chirurgie civile et militaire moderne / Jean de Blonay.

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Le service pharmaceutique pendant la guerre Franco-Allemande de 1870-1871 / [Claude Moison].

Franco-Prussian War: a nurse looking out of a window at the queues for bread during the siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by F. Betbeder, ca. 1871.

Ward, Albert Lee (born c. 1835), American diplomat and Red Cross Volunteer

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: after the battle of le Bourget with and the removal of wounded soldiers. Photo-aquatint by Goupil & Co., 1870, after A. de Neuville.

A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

Franco-Prussian War: the use of railway carriages as hospitals. Wood engraving by P. de Kartow.

Franco-Prussian War: convalescent soldiers in Bordeaux. Wood engraving by G.P., ca.1870.

1870 [i.e. Dix-huit cent soixante-dix] : une révolution chirurgicale les origines et le développement de la chirurgie civile et militaire moderne / Jean de Blonay.

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