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Persons with Disabilities

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Images from the collections

Images about Persons with Disabilities

115 images from works
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War : Honourably discharged on ...
  • Alton Cripples Home & College : founded by Sir William Treolar : Hornsey Cot.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • This is to acquaint the nobility, gentry and the curious in general : to be seen ... during the time of the fair, the surprising Italian Dwarf, two feet six inches high, 25 years of age, born without arms, legs, or thighs. Yet has feet and hands.
  • A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.
  • Saint Martin of Tours: he cuts a piece of his cloak for a man with impaired legs. Etching by R. Sawyer.

Works from the collections

1,392 works

    • Books

    A quick & easy guide to sex & disability / A. Andrews.

    Andrews, A. (Cartoonist) | Date: 2020
    • Books

    War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

    Linker, Beth. | Date: 2011
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An old woman dying with her hand held by her daughter; two men, with impaired limbs, pay their last respects. Colour stipple print by E. & M.A. Scott after T. Stothard.

    Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834. | Reference: 17216i
    • Ephemera

    Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

    • Books

    Abrégé de rééducation fonctionnelle et de réadaptation / par Cl. Hamonet et J.N. Heuleu; avec la participation de J.C. Chignon [and others].

    Hamonet, Claude. | Date: 1978

Related topics

United Kingdom
Cerebral Palsy
Self-Help Devices
London
History, 20th Century
Aged
Rehabilitation
Sports
Paralympic Games
Children with Disabilities

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