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  • Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.
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    Health and safety: a hook carrying a load, to represent the necessity of weighing loads of uncertain weight rather than guessing their weight. Photograph with gouache, 194-(?).

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?] | Reference: 29101i
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    A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.

    Bothway, J. | Date: [1820?] | Reference: 44590i
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    Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.

    Bennett, active 1899. | Date: [1899] | Reference: 23374i
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