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Down Syndrome

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Intellectual Disability
Intellectual Disability
Syndrome
Human chromosome abnormalities
Syndrome
Human chromosome abnormalities

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Images from the collections

Images about Down Syndrome

61 images from works
  • Down's syndrome in two young men and a young woman. Three photographs.
  • A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting in front of an ornate wooden screen, holding a small posy of flowers. Photograph by Chas Marshall.
  • Young girl with Down's syndrome
  • Teenage girl with Down's syndrome
  • Side profile of a young woman with a misshapen head, wrapped in a tartan shawl, probably in a hospital. Photograph.
  • Adult with Down's syndrome
  • Newborn baby with Down's syndrome
  • Down's syndrome in a young woman. Photograph.
  • A brain, viewed from the side, supposedly from a subject with mental deficiency. Photograph by N. Goulton May.
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].

Works from the collections

158 works

    • Videos

    A mixed blessing.

    | Date: 1997
    • Books

    John Langdon Down, 1828-1896 : a caring pioneer / O. Conor Ward.

    Ward, O. Conor. | Date: 1998
    • Videos

    Will.

    | Date: 1994
    • Books

    The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F.G. Crookshank.

    Crookshank, F. G. (Francis Graham), 1873-1933. | Date: 1925
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Down's syndrome in two young men and a young woman. Three photographs.

    Shuttleworth, G. E. (George Edward), 1842-1928. | Reference: 39112i

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