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Images of Portrait photographs

3,406 images from works
  • William Loudon Reid. Photograph by Weir.
  • James Hunter. Photograph.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Sir Thomas Lewis. Photograph.
  • John Gay. Photograph by Schnadhorst.
  • HM Queen Elizabeth II looking at a Ceylonese mask. Photograph by the Associated Press Ltd., 1962.
  • M. Kalida Afridi. Photograph, 1949.
  • Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865/1866.
  • World Health Organisation Malaria conference in Kampala. Photograph, 1950.
  • Thomas Annandale. Photograph by George Shaw.
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Images about Portrait photographs

2 images from works
  • William Blair Bell. Photograph by J. Bacon & Sons.
  • Quinine researchers of the 19th century: I. Process print after A. Tschirch.

Works from the collections

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Works using this type/technique
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Works about this type/technique

3,504 works

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    Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

    | Reference: 13530i
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    John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

    | Reference: 14146i
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    Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

    | Reference: 14959i
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    Govindas Sambasivan. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.

    | Reference: 14588i
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    Sir St. Clair Thomson. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

    | Reference: 13663i
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Eyeglasses
Women
Photography of the nude
Surgery, Plastic
World War I
World War, 1914-1918 - Medical care
Morestin, H. (Hippolyte), 1869-1919.
Patients
Smallpox
Gloucester

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