Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.

A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.

A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.

A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.

A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.

A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.

A man vaccinating a child surrounded by its mother, family and other children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print after a lithograph (?) after a painting by L. Boilly, 1807.

MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 52.7 x 76.7 cm (kai ben [sheet format] 787 x 1092)

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

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Vaccination of children

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Images referencing Vaccination of children

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MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

Vaccination of children

Images from the collections

Images referencing Vaccination of children

Works from the collections

MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

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