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Dormitories

Sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students

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Images referencing Dormitories

3 images from works
  • Great value student accommodation in the heart of London : find out more online at www.loveiq.co.uk : iQ Shoreditch, iQ Hoxton.
  • Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a dormitory. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the King Charles Ward, with some "cabbins" and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

Works from the collections

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    Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the King Charles Ward, with some "cabbins" and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

    | Date: 1840-1849 | Reference: 29950i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Great value student accommodation in the heart of London : find out more online at www.loveiq.co.uk : iQ Shoreditch, iQ Hoxton.

    | Date: [2013?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a dormitory. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].

    London & County Photographic Co. | Date: [1893?] | Reference: 43460i
    • Pictures

    World War I: an abandoned dormitory for German troops in a requisitioned lace factory at Le Cateau. Oil painting by John Hodgson Lobley, 1918.

    Lobley, John Hodgson, 1878-1954. | Date: 1918 | Reference: 583831i

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