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Hospital beds

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Beds
Hospitals - Furniture, equipment, etc.

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Images from the collections

Images about Hospital beds

62 images from works
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • A pregnant woman on an obstetrical bed. Line engraving by G.B. Cipriani, 1811, after S. Clementi.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • A ward in the Royal Northern Central Hospital, London. Photograph, ca. 1912.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale assessing a ward at the military hospital in Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
  • Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.
  • A blurred figure in the foreground looks at a hospital bed, a photograph by Gladys representing an advertisement for an exhibition entitled: "Views: caregivers at the heart of the AIDS years" at the Hôtel de Miramon from 1st December [World AIDS Day] 1992 to 16th January 1993 by the Musée de l'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Lithograph.

Works from the collections

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    Nottingham: a verandah open to the air with a bed and a cot, each containing a child being treated for acute illness. Photograph, 1893.

    | Date: 1893 | Reference: 666083i
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    A ward for men in a hospital. Photograph, ca. 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 642742i
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    Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

    | Date: 21 January 1860 | Reference: 20722i
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    An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.

    | Date: [1948?] | Reference: 580226i
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    Crimean War: Florence Nightingale at Scutari Hospital, 1856, plus a portrait drawing. Process print, 1908.

    | Date: 21 March 1908 | Reference: 21260i

Related topics

Patients
Hospital wards
Nurses
Hospitals
Hospitals, Military
Soldiers
South African War, 1899-1902
Military nursing
War - Relief of sick and wounded
South Africa

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