Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a girl. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A girl looking through a window on a rainy day, disappointed that her walk outside will be cancelled. Photoengraving, 1857, after S. Anderson.

Two children are brought to the nurses of the Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth, London. Etching.

Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a girl. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

To house-keepers! : Beware of peddlers who are trying to sell washing powders in place of Soapine ... / Kendall Manufacturing Company.

Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...

Two girls sitting in floral dresses on a beach, representing children with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Chris Taylor and HDM Eggert for Kinder-AIDS-Hilfe Deutschland e.V.

A convalescing girl. Heliogravure by P. Dujardin after J.E. Millais, 1875.

A girl lies in a hayloft with her discarded hat beside her. Colour process print after Jessie Wilcox-Smith.

Lambeth Female Orphan Asylum (formerly Beddington Park): view of the grounds. Etching by Flemming after T. Allom.

A school girl being pulled away from a man offering her money for sex; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the IEC Unit, STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph [by Bayo, D.S.], 1993.

"Isabel": a woman outside her house in the country holding a letter from her departed lover. Woodcut and letterpress, ca. 1800.

The care of the adolescent girl : a book for teachers, parents, and guardians / by Phyllis Blanchard, with prefaces by Mary Scharlieb and G. Stanley Hall.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 16.6 x 24.7 cm

Royal Freemasons' school for Female Children, Wandsworth, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1851.

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; platemark 24.7 x 18 cm

A girl holding a pet bird and a schoolbook. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after J.E. Schenau.

A girl's eyes. Drawing, c. 1794.

A plan for a preservatory and reformatory , For the benefit of Deserted Girls, and Penitent Prostitutes; by John Fielding, Esq;.

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Girls

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The care of the adolescent girl : a book for teachers, parents, and guardians / by Phyllis Blanchard, with prefaces by Mary Scharlieb and G. Stanley Hall.

Royal Freemasons' school for Female Children, Wandsworth, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1851.

A girl holding a pet bird and a schoolbook. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after J.E. Schenau.

A girl's eyes. Drawing, c. 1794.

A plan for a preservatory and reformatory , For the benefit of Deserted Girls, and Penitent Prostitutes; by John Fielding, Esq;.

Girls

Images from the collections

Images referencing Girls

Works from the collections

The care of the adolescent girl : a book for teachers, parents, and guardians / by Phyllis Blanchard, with prefaces by Mary Scharlieb and G. Stanley Hall.

Royal Freemasons' school for Female Children, Wandsworth, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1851.

A girl holding a pet bird and a schoolbook. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after J.E. Schenau.

A girl's eyes. Drawing, c. 1794.

A plan for a preservatory and reformatory , For the benefit of Deserted Girls, and Penitent Prostitutes; by John Fielding, Esq;.

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