32 pages : colour illustratrions ; 21 x 30 cm

The order of things / Fred Langford Edwards.

Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.

William Loudon Reid. Photograph by Weir.

A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.

James Hunter. Photograph.

A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Yuen Ming Yuen, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

Sir Thomas Lewis. Photograph.

John Gay. Photograph by Schnadhorst.

View of the dissecting room of St George's Hospital. Taken 27 March 1860. To Henry Gray Esq.r F.R.S. as a respectful remembrance from Joseph Langhorn.

Harold Chapman in drag poses with Mark Leslie dressed as a Golliwog, in an act for the Bow Bells. Photographic postcard, 191-.

China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

An man in drag as "Gertie" wearing a checked coat. Photographic postcard, 1916.

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; 17.3 x 25 cm

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

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Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

An man in drag as "Gertie" wearing a checked coat. Photographic postcard, 1916.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

The order of things / Fred Langford Edwards.

Photographs

Images from the collections

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Works from the collections

Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

An man in drag as "Gertie" wearing a checked coat. Photographic postcard, 1916.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

The order of things / Fred Langford Edwards.

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