World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.

A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

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Prosthesis industry

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A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.