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Map published in Wright, W. B.: Tools and the man, London : G. Bell & Sons, 1939.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0015224-M0015335

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0015224: Plaque carved in relief showing a man and snake

M0015225: Well head: Renaissance copy of an ancient original in Madrid

M0015226: Well head: Renaissance copy of an ancient original in Madrid

M0015227: Well head: Renaissance copy of an ancient original in Madrid

M0015228: Well head: Renaissance copy of an ancient original in Madrid

M0015229: Well head: Renaissance copy of an ancient original in Madrid

M0015230: Portrait of Sir Allen Daley (1887-1969) as a boy at Hardy College, Bootle

M0015231: Photograph of Sir Allen Daley and Aneurin Bevan

M0015232: Portrait of Sir Allen Davey (1887-1969)

M0015233: Photograph of Sir Allen Daley with his secretary N. F. Woodruff, 19 February 1952

M0015234: Photograph of Sir Allen Daley (1887-1969) during his after dinner speech at Harrow, May 1950

M0015235: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with a presentation of ambulances at Buckingham Palace, 1943

M0015236: Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, at a presentation of ambulances at Buckingham Palace, 1943

M0015237: Two faces of a Neolithic or Bronze Age perforator made on a fragment of a polished flint axe-head, Sussex

M0015238: Iron Age potsherd from Lent Rise, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

M0015239: Belgic vessel from Poyle Farm, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

M0015240: Belgic vessel from Poyle Farm, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

M0015241: Mortsafe and tombstone at Luss Kirkyard, Dunbartonsire, Scotland

M0015244: Watch-house at gates of Newhill churchyard, Aberdeenshire.

M0015246EA: Mortsafe in Banchory Devenick graveyard, Aberdeenshire

M0015246EB: Watch-house in Banchory Devenick graveyard, Aberdeenshire

M0015256: Miss Bolton speaking at an event to name the "Allen Daley Ward" at the Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate

M0015257: Photograph of Lord Brabazon of Tara, Mr Growforth, Sir Allen Daley and Lady Daley

M0015258: Photograph of group of individuals including Sir Allen Daley taken at the Royal College of Nursing, 3 November 1951

M0015259: Photograph of Sir Allen Daley talking to Sir Arthur Rucker, 1947

M0015260: Photograph of Sir and Lady Allen Daley with Mrs Godden, 1947

M0015261: Group photograph including Sir Allen Daley and the Lord and Lady Mayor of Liverpool

M0015262: Rickmann: Einfluss der Arzneiwissenschaft, 1771: frontispiece

M0015263: Rickmann: Einfluss der Arzneiwissenschaft, 1771: title page

M0015264: Barber-Surgeon's Hall, Monkwell Street, London, 1800

M0015265: Engraving of the Surgeon's Hall, Old Bailey, c.1800

M0015266: Pharmacopoeia Augustana, 1622: title page

M0015267: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, 1632: title page

M0015268: The fifth muscle tabula by Vesalius, 1543

M0015269: Illustrations of Carpue's operation for restoring the nose and Cline's operation for restoring the lip, 1825

M0015270: Portrait of Paolo Mascagni (1755-1815)

M0015271: Portrait of Paolo Mascagni (1755-1815)

M0015272: Leaf-shaped siliceous stone knife in bast grip, North American

M0015273: Illustration showing direct percussion, the manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp

M0015274: Illustration of Manden bone tools used in the preparation of stone implements, North Dakota

M0015275: Illustration showing direct percussion, first step in shaping an implement from a boulder

M0015276: The production of gravers (burins) by the direct blow method, demonstrated by A. D. Lacaille

M0015277: Pottery and weapons found in a grave in Alsace

M0015278: Illustrations of flint knives in use, Beni Hassan, Egypt

M0015279: Illustrations of flint knives in use, Beni Hassan, Egypt

M0015280: Exposure in gravel-pit at Belmont Park Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1934

M0015281: Two views of improvised bone implements, Upper Paleolithic

M0015282: Two views of improvised bone implements, Upper Paleolithic

M0015283: Illustration of an Upper Mousterian backed knife

M0015284: Upper Palaeolithic high relief carving of a horse on a rock shelter wall, Cap Blanc, Marquay, France

M0015285: Upper Palaeolithic horse and ox carved in low relief on rock shelter wall, La Roc, Charente, France

M0015286: Upper Palaeolithic clay models of male and female bison, Tuc d'Audoubert cave Montesquieu-Avantes, France

M0015287: Illustration of a horse found incised in clay in the Cavern of Montespan, France, Upper Palaeolithic period

M0015288: View of the great bend of the Bristol Avon at Shirehampton from the right bank looking downstream

M0015289: Reverse of a carved enigmatic pebble from Picquigny, Somme

M0015290: Neolithic rock engraving depicting a bear, Scandinavian

M0015291: Low relief carved representations of animals, Upper Palaeolithic period

M0015293: Rhinoceros carved on a rock wall, upper Palaeolithic

M0015294: Illustration of a group of horses and one bison, Upper Palaeolithic.

M0015295: Illustration of two horses, Upper Palaeolithic

M0015297: Illustration of the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope of 1879 packed for transport

M0015298: Illustration of a four-cell electro-bath of Dr Schnee for the application of low frequency currents.

M0015299: Illustration of the rhythmic interrupter operated by clockwork for the production of sinusodial currents for electrotherapy

M0015300: Illustration of the rhythmic interrupter operated by an electric motor for the production of sinusodial currents for electrotherapy

M0015301: An electric power generating station, 1904

M0015302: Illustration of Pacinotti's machine, an early form of electric motor designed in 1860 with a ring-wound armature

M0015303: The Radium Institute, Paris

M0015304: Room for preparing radon at the Radium Institute, Paris

M0015305: Measurement of radium tubes at the Raduim Institute, Paris

M0015306: Illustration of an early type of Siemens' Self Exciting dynamo with drum-wound armature and bar commutator, 1873

M0015307: The Edison 1,500 light 110 volt steam dynamo called the "Jumbo"

M0015308: View of the interior of the Old Grosvenor Gallery Station showing two of the Ferranti Alternators

M0015309: Three early types of electric lightning

M0015310: Coolidge x-ray tube for producing x-rays with a  heated cathode

M0015311: Portrait of Philipp Lenard (1862-1947)

M0015312: Portrait of Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

M0015313: Portrait of Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873)

M0015314: Cyclotron magnet and million volt generator

M0015315: Bombardment of boron with hydrogen to give 3 L-particles

M0015316: Experiments by Blackett in a Wilson Cloud Chamber

M0015317: Illustration of a specimen of Broch pottery and ornamented bronze pin from Valtos, Uig, Lewis

M0015318: Illustration of flint implements of Upper Paleolithic and Tardenoisian types, from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

M0015319: Illustration of gravers (burins) from Bourlon, Upper Paleolithic

M0015320: Illustration of types of types of gravers (burins), Upper Paleolithic

M0015321: Potsherd bearing impression of basketwork or cereal grains, from a site of Broch age at Valtos, Lewis

M0015322: View of prehistoric site Laugerie Basse, Laugerie and Vezere river near Les Eyzies-de Tayac, France

M0015323: Illustration of various gravers (burins) and waste from manufacture

M0015324: Illustration of various thick gravers (burins) and waste from manufacture

M0015325: Illustration of a series of Lower, Middle and Upper Paleolithic scrapers

M0015326: Illustration of a series of bronze age metal and post-prehistoric scrapers

M0015327: Two photographs of alignments of Neolithic Bronze Age megaliths around Carnac, Brittany

M0015328: Map of British Isles and adjoining lands, showing heights and submarine contours

M0015329: Sand-dunes overlying the early post-glacial raised beach at Shewalton Moor, Ayrshire

M0015330: Three views of a stone from a gravel-pit at Kindrochat, near Comrie, Perthshire

M0015331: Flint flake showing bulb of percussion resulting from use of a hard stone hammer, produced by Leon Coutier

M0015332: Flint flake showing bulb of percussion resulting from use of a hard stone hammer, produced by Leon Coutier

M0015333: Flint flake showing bulb of percussion resulting from use of a hard stone hammer, produced by Leon Coutier

M0015334: Flint flake showing bulb of percussion resulting from use of a hard stone hammer, produced by Leon Coutier

M0015335: Two views of a massive implement of the chopper sort flaked in a piece of gneissose rock from a Bronze Age site at Valtos, Uig, Scotland.

M0015292: Illustration of how a spear is thrown by people in the circumpolar region and Australia

M0015292: Illustration of how a spear is thrown by people in the circumpolar region and Australia

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