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Images from the collections

Images about Public welfare

13 images from works
  • Living with HIV in Coventry, Warwickshire or Solihull? : Drop in service : a new and independent confidential service with a trained advisor guiding you round the benefits maze / The HIV Network.
  • Lewisham Social Services HIV Unit suggestion box / Steve Ball, Lewisham Social Service HIV Unit.
  • A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Living with HIV in Coventry, Warwickshire or Solihull? : Drop in service : a new and independent confidential service with a trained advisor guiding you round the benefits maze / The HIV Network.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Living with HIV in Coventry, Warwickshire or Solihull? : Drop in service : a new and independent confidential service with a trained advisor guiding you round the benefits maze / The HIV Network.
  • Lewisham Social Services HIV Unit suggestion box / Steve Ball, Lewisham Social Service HIV Unit.
  • The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
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Works from the collections

91 works

    • Books

    Congrès colonial national de la santé publique et de la prévoyance sociale. Marseille, 11-17 septembre 1922 : organisation du congrès, comptes rendus des séances.

    Congrès colonial national de la santé publique et de la prévoyance sociale (1922 : Marseille) | Date: 1922
    • Ephemera

    Social services in Cleveland : what to do if you're not satisfied about the service / Cleveland County Council.

    | Date: [between 1980 and 1996]
    • Ephemera

    Libraries & leisure department special services : housbound readers' service / Cleveland County Council.

    | Date: [between 1980 and 1996]
    • Ephemera

    Are you cold? : contact coldline / Pensioners Link.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Books
    • Online

    The principles of relief / by Edward T. Devine.

    Edward Thomas Devine | Date: 1907
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Related topics

Social service
Caregivers
United Kingdom
Charities
Social Problems
Humanitarianism
Social Welfare
United States
History, 20th Century
Public Health

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