Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Hospitals

Part of
Health Facilities

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images about Hospitals

1,689 images from works
  • The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the recreation hall. Process print, 1926.
  • [Gilt-edged invitation card to the opening of the Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • The Middlesex Hospital: seen from the south. Wood engraving.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. Etching by J. Shury & Son after G.S. Shepherd.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Engraving by Eastgate.
View all

Works from the collections

7,314 works

    • Student dissertations

    "The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

    Watson, Jacqueline. | Date: 2008
    • Books
    • Online

    Annual report of the Board of Governors of the Eccles & Patricroft Hospital : 1928.

    Eccles and Patricroft Hospital (Eccles, Manchester, England) | Date: 1928
    • Books

    The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

    McAuliffe, Roma. | Date: 1973
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Lester, 1810, after R. Dighton.

    Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814. | Date: June 1810 | Reference: 16411i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    East India Company, Dinapore Division : letter book 1840-1841

    East India Company, 1600-1858 | Date: 1832-1850 | Reference: MS.2127
View all

Related topics

London
United Kingdom
19th-20th centuries
Paris
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
History, 20th Century
Thames River (England)
History, 19th Century
New York City
Nurses

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 20:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence