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Lifesaving

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  • [Card certifying proficiency in life saving and water safety (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1939 - used in 1942)].
  • Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.
  • A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.
  • Martha Gunn, a Brighton bather holding a small child that she has just saved from drowning. Coloured engraving by W. Nutter, 1797, after J. Russell.
  • Important recommendations to rescuers / Royal Life Saving Society.
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Catalogue

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    The value of life and charitable institutions : a discourse delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semi-annual meeting, June 11th, 1805. ... / By Thomas Gray, minister of the Church of Christ on Jamaica Plain, Roxbury.

    Gray, Thomas, 1772-1847. | Date: 1805
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    Bulletin de la Société française de sauvetage : assemblée générale du 7 Décembre 1884.

    Société française de sauvetage et des sauveteurs de la Seine. | Date: 1885
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    Applications of anaesthesia in physiological research.

    | Date: [between 1950 and 1959]
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    A discourse, before the Humane Society, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, June 14, 1808 / By Thomas Danforth.

    Danforth, Thomas, 1772-1817. | Date: 1808
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    Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.

    R., T., active 1878. | Date: 10 February 1883 | Reference: 17940i
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