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  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    • Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857.
    Date
    1820
    Reference
    24451i
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  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

    Date
    1850
    Reference
    24422i
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  • A European man in the East Indies is lying in a litter with a roof as he is being carried by four men. Engraving by Walker after Walker, 17--.

    Date
    1700-1799
    Reference
    37157i
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  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

    • Funke, Wilhelm, active 1864.
    Date
    1864
    Reference
    24323i
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  • Patient being carried to Boston General hospital on a stretcher. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after R. Goodarce.

    • Goodarce, M.
    Date
    18 May 1831
    Reference
    15648i
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  • Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

    • Fisher, A. Hugh, 1867-1945.
    Date
    1900
    Reference
    22288i
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  • A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.

    Date
    27 Novr. 1804
    Reference
    37176i
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  • Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

    • Manley, William George Nicholas.
    Date
    1876
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  • World War One: a stretcher bearer walking towards a faint and blurred mass of wounded men receiving attention. Chalk sketch, c. 1914.

    • Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956.
    Date
    1914
    Reference
    24601i
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  • The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    20909i
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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.

    • Mackey, Haydn Reynolds, 1881-1979.
    Date
    1918
    Reference
    549556i
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  • Boer War: ambulance men taking the wounded into hospital at the entrance. Reproduction after a watercolour.

    • Swain.
    Reference
    22294i
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  • An ambulance corps in the field gathering by T. [S.] Crowther and attending to wounded men. Pen and ink drawing.

    • Crowther, T.
    Reference
    24325i
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  • Crimean War: turkish ambulance men collecting the wounded from the battlefield. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    20958i
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  • Transport of injured people in civil defence: use of stretchers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.

    Date
    [1984?]
    Reference
    986235i
    Part of
    Weiterbildung im Grundwissen der Zivilverteidigung
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  • The paralytic is lowered through the roof of a crowded house so that Christ can reach him and cure him. Engraving by J. Newton, 1795 (?), after C.R. Ryley.

    • Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798.
    Date
    1795
    Reference
    23853i
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  • Embarking sick below third cataract. Coloured lithograph by J.G. Keulemans after W.W.C. Verner.

    • Verner, William Willoughby Cole, 1852-1922.
    Reference
    20896i
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  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

    Date
    1904
    Reference
    23906i
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  • A physician holds up a glass of urine in a hospital. Pen drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

    • Terzi, A. J. E. (Amedeo John Engel), 1872-1956.
    Reference
    24547i
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  • The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured / by G. H. Darwin.

    • Darwin, G. H.
    Date
    1888
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  • Crimean War: arrival of wounded at Kalafat from Citate. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    21992i
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  • J.B. Douville in Africa being carried in a litter ("tipoi") suspended on poles between two people. Coloured lithograph attributed to Boulanger (?) afterJ.B. Douville.

    • Douville, Jean-Baptiste, 1794-1837.
    Date
    [1832]
    Reference
    37139i
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  • World War I: wounded soldiers in Palestine being carried on cacolets on the backs of camels. Oil painting by G. Pirie, ca. 1917.

    • Pirie, George, 1863-1946.
    Date
    [1917?]
    Reference
    12242i
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  • A woman in Japan being carried in a litter through the mountains by two men. Wood engraving, 1865.

    • Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903.
    Date
    [1865]
    Reference
    37191i
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  • Boer War: bringing the wounded dwom from Spion Kop. Process print after H.M. Paget.

    • Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott), 1857-1936.
    Reference
    22150i
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