Chair with wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability

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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.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

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.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a corner of the Gibbs courtyard with many trees and the fountain in the centre. Etching by Lillian C. Smythe.

A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.

A little girl seated in a baby carriage urges her mother to pull faster in order to overtake her father who is seated in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Régnier Bettannier et Morlon after N. Bassaget, 1864.

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Society figures strolling along the parade, Bath. Coloured etching.

[Red cross nurse tending to a recovering soldier (?) in a wheelchair].

Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: the gentleman's verandah. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.

A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.

A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair in a garden. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

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Wheelchairs

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wheelchairs

Works from the collections

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

Wheelchairs

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wheelchairs

Works from the collections

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

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