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Images from the collections

Images about Nurses

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  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • A man administers an enema to a baby. Reproduction of a painting by J.A. Garemyn, 1778.
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Dr Simon Sparrow (played by Dirk Bogarde) spanking a nurse in the film 'Doctor at large'. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
  • Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor as her spirit rises in the form of an angel. Process print after A. Rosell, ca. 1915.
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Works from the collections

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    Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

    | Date: 1999
    • Books

    Gentle Annie : the true story of a Civil War nurse / Mary Francis Shura.

    Shura, Mary Francis, 1923-1991. | Date: [1991], ©1991
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    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
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    The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

    Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592. | Reference: 17897i
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    Nurses in the political arena : the public face of nursing / Harriet R. Feldman, Sandra B. Lewenson.

    Feldman, Harriet R. | Date: [2000], ©2000
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Related topics

Hospitals
Patients
Nursing
United Kingdom
History of Nursing
Florence Nightingale
History, 20th Century
Hospital wards
Soldiers
United States

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