Four wheeled vehicle (mostly pulled by draught animals)

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An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.

Two men securing a large block of stone on a cart drawn by four buffalo. Etching by A.J. Strutt.

Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.

A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.

A camp scene at dusk with ambulance carriages and three men round a small fire. Colour halftone, c. 1903.

Rome: the site of the ancient Forum Boarium, subsequently the Piazza della Bocca della Verità: temples and other buildings. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1758.

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Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.

Rome: the site of the ancient Forum Boarium, subsequently the Piazza della Bocca della Verità: temples and other buildings. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1758.

An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.

A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.

A camp scene at dusk with ambulance carriages and three men round a small fire. Colour halftone, c. 1903.