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Railroad accidents

Images

  • A collapsed bridge and a railway accident with an overturned train. Process print.
  • RE carriage of milk / W. Owen.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.
  • RE carriage of milk / W. Owen.
  • A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
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Catalogue

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    Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

    Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891. | Date: 1869
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    A railroad boy's appeal.

    | Date: [1885?]
    • Ephemera

    In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

    | Date: 1861
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    Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

    | Date: 1972 | Reference: 778393i
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    Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

    Herrick, Clinton B. (Clinton Bradford), 1859-1915 | Date: 1899
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