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Child Welfare

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Images from the collections

Images about Child Welfare

30 images from works
  • M0013538EA: Illustration of child apprentices in a textile factory
  • M0013642: Women bottling milk for the Infant Welfare Centre, Brussels
  • M0018465: Silver pap boat, 1728-1729
  • M0013539: Illustration of children in a cotton factory 'picking cotton'
  • M0013543: Illustration of homeless children asleep in Naples
  • M0013058: First page from <i>De historia plantarum</i>, 1497
  • M0018464: Silver pap boat, 1797-1798
  • [Leaflet outlining what the British Red Cross Society does, giving their peacetime aims (after WW2)].
  • M0013541: Illustration of a child using a machine for cutting and hollowing tags
  • M0013538EB: Illustration of child apprentices outside a textile factory
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Works from the collections

691 works

    • Books

    British chimney sweeps : five centuries of chimney sweeping / Benita Cullingford.

    Cullingford, Benita, 1939- | Date: 2000
    • Books

    Fifty years of child life and health at Edinburgh University Medical School / Haldane Tait.

    Tait, Haldane. | Date: 1982
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0018464: Silver pap boat, 1797-1798

    | Date: February 1961 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/164/25
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0012479: Illustration of Arnold & Sons' artificial incubator for premature babies

    | Date: April 1952 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/53
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Hospitals and child health : Hospitals and dispensaries, convalescent care, medical social service. Reports of the Subcommittees on Hospitals and Dispensaries, Convalescent Care [and] Medical Social Service.

    White House Conference on Child Health and Protection (1930). | Date: [1932]
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Related topics

United Kingdom
History, 20th Century
Child
Child Care
United States
19th-20th centuries
Child welfare
Disease
England
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