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Images from the collections

Images about Veterans

55 images from works
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: panoramic view. Line engraving.
  • A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • Three uniformed German army officers in the Kingdom of Württemberg, two from the disabled soldiers corps. Coloured lithograph by H.M.D. Monten, ca. 1838.
  • Boer War: soldiers relaxing by Southampton Water with a view across the estuary to Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph by W. Gregory & Co., London.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Tinted lithograph by Aubrun after himself.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.
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Works from the collections

114 works

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    War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

    Linker, Beth. | Date: 2011
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.

    | Reference: 21881i
    • Books

    Gulf War illnesses : dealing with the uncertainties / [primary authors, Peter Border, Michael Norton].

    Border, Peter. | Date: [1997]
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    Broken men : shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 / Fiona Reid.

    Reid, Fiona. | Date: 2010
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    Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.

    Sumner, G. Heywood Maunoir. | Reference: 23120i
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Related topics

Soldiers
United States
Disabled veterans
World War I
Combat Disorders
History, 20th Century
United Kingdom
Hospitals
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Crutches

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