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On the wall are three scrawled signs: "preserved seats", "cheep seats" and "dolls seats"

1 photomechanical reproduction : printed in colour ; image 15.2 x 22.1 cm

Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

A reduced version of Wellcome Library catalogue no. 38742i

1 print : mezzotint ; image 13.8 x 11.3 cm

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

King's College School, Norwich, Norfolk. Wood engraving by UTWC.

The School for the Indigent Blind was rebuilt in 1834 in the then fashionable neo-Gothic style
Among the incidents which crowd this print a brewer's dray is delivering barrels of beer to the public house on the corner, the crossing sweeper is helping two ladies across the junction and being rewarded for his pains, passengers alight from the King William coach as a placard-carrier looks on: his sign reads "Civit Cat"

1 print : lithograph ; image 26.3 x 39.4 cm

The blind school, Southwark: with a bustling street scene. Lithograph by L. Haghe, ca.1835, after J. Johnson.

Frank Rowntree is asked to discuss a new craze - clackers. This has resulted in a new kind of illness described as 'clacker wrist'. He expands his discussion and describes other unsuitable toys. He exhorts all parents to consider the long-term repercussions of new interests.

Walk Right In.

Walk Right In

1 encoded audio file (3.21 min.) : 44.1kHz.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Track 6.

The Evelina Hospital was founded in 1869 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. His wife Evelina died in childbirth in 1866

1 print : process print ; image and border 27.8 x 23.5 cm

The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a small child. Process print by R. Taylor, 1891, after T. Walter Wilson.

The baby in the bottom-right hand corner moves in a walking frame, holding a small mannequin. One baby holds a toy and is being helped to walk, another is being fed, and two others cry. Animals graze peacefully in the background

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.4 x 24.2 cm

Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

Croom Helm special education series

Toys and play for the handicapped child / Barbara Riddick.

According to Yves-Marie Bercé in 'La chaudron et la lancette' (Paris: Presses de la Renaissance, 1984, p.209-10), prints joking about the 'animalisation' of the vaccinated were rife in the early 19th century

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 16.3 x 24.7 cm

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; border 26 x 33

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Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

King's College School, Norwich, Norfolk. Wood engraving by UTWC.

The blind school, Southwark: with a bustling street scene. Lithograph by L. Haghe, ca.1835, after J. Johnson.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Track 6.

The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a small child. Process print by R. Taylor, 1891, after T. Walter Wilson.

Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

Toys and play for the handicapped child / Barbara Riddick.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

Children playing with various toys, in the background are paintings of the Creation and the creation of Adam. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1636.

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Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

King's College School, Norwich, Norfolk. Wood engraving by UTWC.

The blind school, Southwark: with a bustling street scene. Lithograph by L. Haghe, ca.1835, after J. Johnson.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Track 6.

The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a small child. Process print by R. Taylor, 1891, after T. Walter Wilson.

Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

Toys and play for the handicapped child / Barbara Riddick.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

Children playing with various toys, in the background are paintings of the Creation and the creation of Adam. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1636.

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