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  • The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
  • World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.
  • Highland dwarfs.
  • A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.
  • World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.
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Catalogue

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    Dr. Alexander Hamilton and provincial America : expanding the orbit of Scottish culture / Elaine G. Breslaw.

    Breslaw, Elaine G., 1932- | Date: [2008], ©2008
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    A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.

    | Reference: 25032i
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    A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1861 | Reference: 30383i
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    A seated bare-chested man wearing a belted kilt; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 666928i
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    A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: Jan 4 1780 | Reference: 585026i
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