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1 photograph : autochrome, transparency on glass, printed in colours ; glass 12 x 8.8 cm

A dead man with smallpox (?) and gangrene. Colour photograph, 1936.

<p>Two children, the elder seated on the same chair as shown in Thomson's negative number 648. The younger, with pierced ears and heavy earrings, standing holding the left arm of the chair. The seated child is holding a metal object in his right hand, and has the remains of smallpox scars on his face</p>

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 in.)

Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 92 x 60.5 cm

Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.

1 photograph : autochrome, transparency on glass, printed in colours ; glass 15.2 x 20.3 cm

Smallpox pustules on the face of a man. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

Smallpox pustules on the body of a young woman. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

3 photographs : photoprints ; sheet 11.1 x 15.3 cm (No. 1) ; sheet 7.5 x 9.8 cm (No. 2) ; sheet 9.9 x 9.3 cm (No. 3)

A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.

<p>A young woman (left) summons three middle-class young women in brightly-coloured costumes (right) to look at a boy who has been disfigured and partially blinded by the effects of smallpox. She says "Look at Daniel! He has a remarkable face, not beautiful! He looks as if hands have torn pieces out of his face, or as if a mouse has bitten holes in it." He replies: "Shame on you, girls, to laugh at me like that! If you want to know the truth, my father and mother are responsible for my singular appearance. If they had vaccinated me, I would not now look so unpleasant, but as it is I'm doomed to be like a scarecrow with everybody laughing at me"</p>

Vidan︠n︡ia Prosvitno-Hihienichnoho Viddilu Holovnoho Viĭs'kovo-Sanitarnoho Upravlin︠n︡ia

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 67.4 x 50.8 cm.

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A dead man with smallpox (?) and gangrene. Colour photograph, 1936.

Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.

Smallpox pustules on the face of a man. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

Smallpox pustules on the body of a young woman. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.

Young women in the Ukraine teasing a boy who is pockmarked and blinded in one eye by smallpox. Colour lithograph by Sudimora, ca. 1929.

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A dead man with smallpox (?) and gangrene. Colour photograph, 1936.

Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.

Smallpox pustules on the face of a man. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

Smallpox pustules on the body of a young woman. Colour photograph, ca. 1926.

A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.

Young women in the Ukraine teasing a boy who is pockmarked and blinded in one eye by smallpox. Colour lithograph by Sudimora, ca. 1929.

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