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Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous - War use

Images

  • World War I: a poisonous gas attack on the Canadians in Flanders, 24 April 1915. Coloured chalks by Louis Raemaekers. ca. 1918.
  • A family (two adults and two children) lying dead in a room in their house as a result of poison gas emitted from an aeroplane flying overhead. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • A family (two adults and two children) lying dead in a room in their house as a result of poison gas emitted from an aeroplane flying overhead. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • A gigantic human skull, representing death, spewing out poison in the form of warships armed with poison gas. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • World War I: the face of a soldier suffering from the effects of phosgene gas poisoning. Pastel by A.K. Maxwell, ca. 1915.
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Catalogue

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    Defence against gas : 1927 : Provisional / by command of the Army Council ; the War Office, 17th June, 1927.

    | Date: 1927
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    World War I: a poisonous gas attack on the Canadians in Flanders, 24 April 1915. Coloured chalks by Louis Raemaekers. ca. 1918.

    Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956. | Date: 1918 | Reference: 46016i
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    Decontamination of materials : air raid precautions handbook no. 4 / Home Office, Air Raid Precautions Dept.

    | Date: 1937
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    Tear gas poisoning: two views of an eye with conjunctivitis. Watercolour by A.K. Maxwell, ca. 1915.

    Maxwell, A. K., 1884-1975. | Date: 1915 | Reference: 571889i
    • Books

    Home guard. Instruction no. 43-192.

    | Date: [19??]
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