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Wheelchairs

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Orthotic Devices
Chairs for people with disabilities

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Images from the collections

Images about Wheelchairs

66 images from works
  • A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
  • A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a corner of the Gibbs courtyard with many trees and the fountain in the centre. Etching by Lillian C. Smythe.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • A little girl seated in a baby carriage urges her mother to pull faster in order to overtake her father who is seated in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Régnier Bettannier et Morlon after N. Bassaget, 1864.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Society figures strolling along the parade, Bath. Coloured etching.
  • [Red cross nurse tending to a recovering soldier (?) in a wheelchair].
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.

Works from the collections

159 works

    • Ephemera

    Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

    • Books

    Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

    Kenny, Jane | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

    South West Trains. | Date: 2009
    • Books
    • Online

    Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

    Manley, William George Nicholas. | Date: 1876
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

    | Date: 1881 | Reference: 25277i

Related topics

Persons with Disabilities
Self-Help Devices
Convalescence
United Kingdom
Hospitals
Costume
Children with disabilities
Patients
Health resorts
Bath

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