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  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Feed the hungry. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • Asylum for Imbecile Poor, proposed for Leavesden Woodside, near Watford, and Caterham, Surrey: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.C. Smith, 1868, after J. Giles & Bivan.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • Life and labour of the people in London / edited by Charles Booth.
  • Hospital ward in Liverpool Workhouse; requisitioned for wounded soldiers. Pencil drawing.
  • A wealthy woman visiting the sick. Wood engraving after C. Baugniet.
  • A nurse bidding farewell to a poor woman leaving hospital with her new baby. Woodburytype by Goupil & Co., 1877(?), after L. Goupil.
  • A group of emaciated and starving physicians lamenting their lack of work. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Three poor men burdened with barrels of alcohol, being freed by a man from the Temperance Society, while a woman looks on. Wood-engraving by S. Barr, c. 1840, with letterpress.
  • Paris: a rich couple walk away in disgust at the feeding of poor and hungry soldiers. Wood engraving.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].