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Walkers

Tool for disabled or elderly people who need additional support to maintain balance or stability while walking

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Images referencing Walkers

2 images from works
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • Children playing a game with one of them being pulled along on a baby-walker with ribbons. Etching by N. Larmessin, 1735, after N. Lancret.

Works from the collections

6 works

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    Keeping the elderly moving in old people's homes / [Helen Ransome].

    Ransome, Helen. | Date: [1981]
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    Children playing a game with one of them being pulled along on a baby-walker with ribbons. Etching by N. Larmessin, 1735, after N. Lancret.

    Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743. | Date: [1735] | Reference: 33269i
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    Specification of Francis Graham Bennett : apparatus for facilitating the walking of invalids.

    Bennett, Francis Graham. | Date: 1866
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    A woman physiotherapist helping an elderly women to walk with a walking frame. Colour lithograph for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, ca. 1988.

    | Date: [1988?] | Reference: 997528i
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    Ancient walking aids / Keith Armstrong.

    Armstrong, Keith. | Date: [date of publication not identified]

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