Place where several people are mostly temporarily housed

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Crimean War: cityscape view showing the barracks and hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving.

Boer War: the sanatorium camp used during the siege of Kimberley. Process print after Bennett, 1899.

Crimean War: aerial view of the general hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Tinted lithograph by Lady A. Blackwood.

People relaxing at a summer camp on the Thames. Photographic postcard, ca. 1911.

Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.

Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's kitchen camp. Wood engraving, 1855.

Boer War: British soldiers outside their tent in camp at Chieveley, eating pineapples. Halftone, c. 1900, after G. Browne.

Boer War: soldiers in camp at Bloemfontein being provided with tea as they awake. Halftone, c. 1900, after R. Cleaver after C. Ross.

Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.

Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.

Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.

June Johnson, holiday nurse.

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Camps

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Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.

June Johnson, holiday nurse.

Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.

Camps

Images from the collections

Images referencing Camps

Works from the collections

Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.

June Johnson, holiday nurse.

Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.

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