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Steamboats

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  • Malaya: steam yacht of the governor of the Straits Settlement on a Malaysian river. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • Singapore: St. John's Island and The Sisters from the beach at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Boer War: a wounded Boer General prisoner being taken off the ship at Cape Town. Process print after F. de Haenen after Fyne.
  • Carlist War, Spain: Spanish sick and wounded being carried on board the "Somorrostro". Wood engraving by I. Nash.
  • Malaya: a steam yacht in the entrance to the Lower Klang River, Selangor. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1880.
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    The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 20909i
    • Student dissertations

    How did the introduction of steamships in the early nineteenth century affect the spread of disease : and international action aimed to counter the spread of disease in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century? / Samuel Alexander Stacey Clarke.

    Clarke, Samuel Alexander Stacey. | Date: 2009
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    Steam navigation.

    Woodcroft, Bennet, 1803-1879. | Date: [1847]
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    Malaya: steam yacht of the governor of the Straits Settlement on a Malaysian river. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1880 | Reference: 32652i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    People suffering from seasickness on board a steam boat; off Margate a man asks the steward for a brandy. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 10754i
    Part of: Sketches by Seymour
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