Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.

World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.

Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.

Convalescent home for children, St. Leonards: perspective view. Wood engraving, 1881.

Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund Convalescent Home, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare: nurses (?) outside the patients' entrance. Photograph by R.W. Brown & Son, 1936.

Suffolk Convalescent Home, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Line engraving by W. & C. Yates.

A man with a broken leg is having its muscles stimulated by an electrical machine. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.

1 print : lithograph ; image and border 25 x 33.7 cm

1 print : process print ; sheet 32.5 x 45 cm

1 print : lithograph ; image 25.1 x 38.7 cm

Das Hygiocomium, oder, Beschreibung eines medicinischen Institutes für die Pflege des heilenden Gesunden im Kranken nebst einer einleitenden und durch Tabellen erläuterten Uebersicht der gesammten Medicin : ihrem Inhalte, ihrer Bestimmung und ihrem Werthe, so wie ihrer gegenwärtigen Entwickelungsstufe nach / von F.W.G. Kranichfeld.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plan of one of the hospital buildings. Process print, 1913.

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Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plan of one of the hospital buildings. Process print, 1913.

Hospitals, Convalescent

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Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plan of one of the hospital buildings. Process print, 1913.

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