University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.

The General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth. Engraving by J. Shury, 1830, after N. Whittock.

Hospice de la Maternité, Paris: facade and keyed floor and street plans. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1810.

Lady Lyall and Dufferin Hospital for Women, Agra, India. Photograph, 19--.

Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund Convalescent Home, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare: nurses (?) outside the patients' entrance. Photograph by R.W. Brown & Son, 1936.

Hospice Maternité allaitement, Paris: facade with a keyed floor and street plan. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1811.

Asylum for Lying-in-Women. Coloured wood engraving.

Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846 / by J.Y. Simpson.

110 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm

The chapbook of the Rottenrow / edited by Mrs Robert Jardine.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 29.5 x 40.1 cm

The laws, orders, and regulations of the British Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of lying-in married women / collected together, revised, enlarged, and digested under proper heads, by the Weekly Committee, in pursuance of an order of the Quarterly General Court.

1 print : photolithograph ; image 24.9 x 38.3 cm

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Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846 / by J.Y. Simpson.

The chapbook of the Rottenrow / edited by Mrs Robert Jardine.

Hospice de la Maternité, Paris: facade and keyed floor and street plans. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1810.

The laws, orders, and regulations of the British Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of lying-in married women / collected together, revised, enlarged, and digested under proper heads, by the Weekly Committee, in pursuance of an order of the Quarterly General Court.

University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.

Women's hospitals

Images from the collections

Images referencing Women's hospitals

Works from the collections

Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846 / by J.Y. Simpson.

The chapbook of the Rottenrow / edited by Mrs Robert Jardine.

Hospice de la Maternité, Paris: facade and keyed floor and street plans. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1810.

The laws, orders, and regulations of the British Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of lying-in married women / collected together, revised, enlarged, and digested under proper heads, by the Weekly Committee, in pursuance of an order of the Quarterly General Court.

University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.

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