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Persons with Disabilities

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Images from the collections

Images about Persons with Disabilities

115 images from works
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War : Honourably discharged on ...
  • Alton Cripples Home & College : founded by Sir William Treolar : Hornsey Cot.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • This is to acquaint the nobility, gentry and the curious in general : to be seen ... during the time of the fair, the surprising Italian Dwarf, two feet six inches high, 25 years of age, born without arms, legs, or thighs. Yet has feet and hands.
  • A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.
  • Saint Martin of Tours: he cuts a piece of his cloak for a man with impaired legs. Etching by R. Sawyer.

Works from the collections

1,467 works

    • Ephemera

    Attendance allowance : help for people with an illness or disability who are aged 65 or over / Department of Social Security ; Benefits Agency.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Attendance allowance mobility allowance : major changes to disability benefits in April 1992 / Camden Welfare Rights.

    | Date: 1991
    • Ephemera

    Attendance allowance mobility allowance : major changes to disability benefits in April 1992 / Greenwich Welfare Rights.

    | Date: 1991
    • Ephemera

    Claim severe disablement allowance on this form : SDA 1 / Department of Social Security.

    | Date: 1990
    • Ephemera

    Claim severe disablement allowance on this form : SDA 1 / Benefits Agency.

    | Date: 1990
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