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Reproduction of a cave painting in Roca dels Moros, or the Caves of El Cogul, Spain, published in Breuil, Henri: "Etudes de morphologie paleeolithique", Revue anthropologique, vol.21, 1911

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0015747-M0015849

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0015747: Stone artifacts from La Grotte des Fees, Chatelperron

M0015748: Body protection, armour etc. Late Bronze to early Iron ages

M0015749: Illustrations of unguentaria, Iron Age Glass

M0015750: Three types of Neolithic dagger

M0015751: Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances

M0015752: Drawing of men wearing penial sheaths for protection

M0015753: Drawing of an animal and a man wearing penial sheath for protection

M0015754: Drawing of several human figures

M0015756: Small bronze wheels, probably amulets associated with a solar cult

M0015757: Daggers, flint, Neolithic

M0015758: Neolithic club

M0015759: Late Bronze Age: fibulae, razors, bits, feeding-bottles

M0015760: Early Metal Ages: fish hooks, tweezers, buttons etc.

M0015761: Rondelle from a human trephined skull, traingular and imperforate

M0015762: Bones of Neanderthal Man, with descriptive text relating to supposed signs of disease

M0015763: Casts of vertebrae pierced with flint points from La Grotte de Villemard, France

M0015764: Two views of a drawing of a human dorsal vertebra pierced by a quartzite point from Grotte de Montford, France

M0015765: Photograph of the side view of the skull of La Chapelle-aux-saints Man

M0015766: Photograph of the lower jaw of Ehringsdorf Woman

M0015767: Drawing of a side view of the skull of Halling Man

M0015768: Photograph of the side view of the skull of La Quina Man, showing tartar deposits and evidence of gingivitis

M0015769: Photograph of the side view of the skull of Rhodesian Man

M0015770: Photograph of a diseased lower jawbone from Krapina

M0015771: Side-view of a diseased lower jaw-bones of a skull from Krapina

M0015772: Water supply basin cut into rock at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France

M0015773: Water supply basin cut into rock at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France

M0015774: View of platform overhanging a water supply basin cut into rock at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France

M0015775: View of platform overhanging a water supply basin cut into rock at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France

M0015776: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display labels for six photographs of megaliths

M0015777: Views of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France

M0015778: Views of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France, under the overhanging rocks

M0015779: View of La roque Saint-Christophe, Peyzac and Laugherie-Haute, Tayac

M0015780: View of huge overhanging rocks and River Vezere at Laugerie-Busse, Tayac

M0015781: View of prehistoric station of La Ferrassie, before excavation, from field opposite

M0015782: View of prehistoric station of La Ferrassie, before excavation, from the road

M0015783: General view of Laugerie-Basse and view of prehistoric station of Le Moustier

M0015784: Portrait of Robert Adams (1791-1875)

M0015785: Portrait of Timothy Richards Lewis (1841-1886)

M0015786: Timothy Richards Lewis (1841-1886) and David Douglas Cunningham (1843-1914) and their families

M0015787: Portrait of Timothy Richards Lewis (1841-1886) with his wife and daughter at "Bywood", Southampton

M0015788: Portrait of Timothy Richards Lewis (1841-1886) in his garden at "Bywood", Southampton

M0015789: Portrait of Timothy Richards Lewis (1841-1886) / M0015790: Portrait of Emily Frances Lewis nee Brown, wife of Thomas Richards Lewis (1841-1886)

M0015791: Indian sculptor at work on a statuette of the wife of Timothy Richard Lewis

M0015792: Guests at a dinner to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the British Journal of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest, 1956

M0015793: Orthopaedic mannekin, 17th century: front view

M0015794: Orthopaedic mannekin, 17th century: back view

M0015795: Instruments to treat contractions and straighten bent limbs, 1530

M0015796: Illustration of acacia vera

M0015797: Illustration of acacia catechu

M0015798; Chopper of gneiss showing effects of blows

M0015799: "The Sack-'Em-Up-Man", from a drawing "The Body-snatcher" by H. Meredith Williams

M0015800: Portrait of Louise Boursier (1563-1636)

M0015801: Seal of Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

M0015802: "A rich banquet", from Salzman: English life in the middle ages (1926)

M0015803: "Interior of Tavern", from Salzman: English life in the middle ages (1926)

M0015804: "A Fraudulent Baker", from Salzman: English life in the middle ages, 1926

M0015805: Lithotomy operation, 1768

M0015806: Lithotomy table, 1768

M0015807: La Forest: L'art de soigner les pieds, 1782: title page

M0015808: Dowie: The Foot and its Covering, 1861: title page

M0015809: Dowie: The Foot and its Covering, 1861: title page

M0015810: Dowie: The Foot and its Covering, 1861: introduction to part I

M0015811: Bones of the foot, from Dowie: The foot and its covering, 1861

M0015812: Bones of the foot, from Dowie: The foot and its covering, 1861

M0015813: Engraving of the London Hospital

M0015814: Example of "pot-lid fracture" in flint

M0015815: Example of starch fracture in flint

M0015816: Eoliths from France, Belgium and England

M0015817: Eoliths from France, Belgium and England

M0015818: Specimen of naturally fractured flint simulating a prehistoric a scraper or flaked tool

M0015819: Example of natural "frost-pitting" in flint

M0015820: Effects of the artificial application of pressure on flint

M0015821: The manufacture of flint knives as represented in Tomb 15, Beni Hasan, Egypt

M0015822: The manufacture of flint knives as represented in Tomb 15, Beni Hasan, Egypt

M0015823: Two Crookes' type discharge tubes: aluminium disc cathode and rod anode

M0015824: Three discharge tubes with aluminium electrodes

M0015825: Two Geissler tubes

M0015826: Three Geissler tubes of different shapes with zig-zag pattern

M0015827: Two Geissler tubes with inner glass spiral / M0015828: "Penetrator" x-ray tube introduced in 1896

M0015829: Two Geissler discharge tubes for experiments on the effects of cathode rays / M0015830: Early x-ray tube with convex cathode, anti-cathode and anode, c.1897

M0015831: Discharge tube with anode in the shape of the Maltese Cross

M0015832: Two Crookes' type discharge tubes with anodes in the shape of the Maltese Cross

M0015833: Crookes' type discharge tube and X-ray tube with ring-shaped anode

M0015834: Two focus type x-ray tubes introduced by Sir Herbert Jackson in March 1896

M0015835: Focus type of x-ray tube introduced by Sir Herbert Jackson in March 1896

M0015836: Three examples of the modified version of the focus tube introduced by Sir Herbert Jackson

M0015837: Two examples of the modified version of the focus tube introduced by Sir Herbert Jackson

M0015838: X-ray tube, double focus type, introduced in Germany in 1896

M0015839: Portable X-ray tube, c. 1897, designed by Chaubaud and Villard

M0015840: Two x-ray tubes with anode and cathode, c.1900

M0015841: X-ray tube, focus type, c. 1897, made by Radiquet, France

M0015842: X-ray tube for therapeutic work

M0015843: X-ray tube for therapeutic work, introduced by Cossor

M0015844: X-ray tube combined with a Villard valve, c.1900

M0015845: X-ray tube, with cathode, anti-cathode, anode and a vacuum regulator, c.1910

M0015846: X-ray tube, American type introduced by MacAlister, Wiggen & Co. and termed the Victor type, c. 1912

M0015847: X-ray tube, possibly of French make, c.1905

M0015848: X-ray tube, c.1910

M0015849: X-ray tubes, modified version of the Coolidge tube

M0015755: Drawing of nine partially clothed women and one young man

M0015755: Drawing of nine partially clothed women and one young man

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