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Hotel des Invalides du Travail, Lyon: frontal view and ground plans. Process print, 1913.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.

World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.

Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.

[Postcard from the British Red Cross Society, Bexhill Depot (September 1939), asking the recipient to report to the Metropolitan Convalescent Home, Bexhill].

Where the British bluejacket is cared for when sick or wounded : scenes at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar.

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1926 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Report of the Committee of Management  for 1925 / Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony.

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1947 / Papworth Village Settlement.

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Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1926 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Report of the Committee of Management for 1925 / Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony.

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.

Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1947 / Papworth Village Settlement.