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Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

Crimean War, England: caricature possibly a play on class and language or corruption within the Crimean Fund Office connected with Florence Nightingale. Wood engraving by N.

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at  Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.

Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.

Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.

Russo-Turkish War: Princess of Roumania's Hospital at Bucharest. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.

Franco-Prussian War: Society for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded, London office Wood engraving.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded brought to Paris by canal boats. Wood engraving, 1871.

Franco-Prussian War: Galerie de Diane, Tuileries Palace, shown as a hospital ward for the wounded. Wood engraving by Smyth, 187-.

Franco-Prussian War: war relief packages to wounded German soldiers from the Prussian Embasssy. Wood engraving.

Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.

Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.

Turn backward, O time : the Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton / edited by Kathleen S. Hanson.

Gender and conflict since 1914 : historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Ana Carden-Coyne.

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Women and war

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Images about Women and war

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Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.

Turn backward, O time : the Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton / edited by Kathleen S. Hanson.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.

Gender and conflict since 1914 : historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Ana Carden-Coyne.

Women and war

Images from the collections

Images about Women and war

Works from the collections

Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.

Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.

Turn backward, O time : the Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton / edited by Kathleen S. Hanson.

Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.

Gender and conflict since 1914 : historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Ana Carden-Coyne.

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