Institution Collection (page 5)

A lecture at the London Institution
Dr Syntax attends a scientific lecture at the London Institution. Date: 1820

GIRLS DANCE QUADRILLE
Robert Owens Institution at New Lanark : dancing classes for the workers children Date: 1825

Barnards Inn
An engraving depicting the front entrance of Barnards Inn. Barnards Inn is a former Inn of Chancery in Holborn, London. It is now the home of Gresham College

IMechE 75th anniversary dinner card (1846-1921). Date: 1921

County Home, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA
A view of the County Home at Mercer, Pennsylvania - a publicly funded home for the elderly poor. Date: Date unknown

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Divinity (undress)
A Doctor of Divinity at Oxford University sporting a mortar board and long, black gown. Date: 1920s

Coats of arms of colleges at Cambridge University Date: 1920s

Coin with Pericles
Coin with the portrait of Pericles. Greek art. Coin

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Wandsworth & Clapham Workhouse, Garratt Lane, London
Part of the new Wandsworth & Clapham Union Workhouse, at Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane in south west London. It opened in 1886 and was designed by TW Aldwinckle

Sheffield Workhouse Token, 1815
A one penny workhouse token of the Sheffield Workhouse, Yorkshire, from 1815. During a national shortage of copper coins in 1812-15

Eleonore Zugun - 6
Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, in a mental institution before taken into the protection of countess Wassilo-Serecki

Boundary Park Hospital, Oldham, Lancashire
Arched entrance to Boundary Park Municipal Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, Lancashire. The hospital began life in 1851 as the Oldham Union workhouse

Portrait of Alex McKay, IMechE Secretary, 1976-1987. Date: circa 1987

Portrait of Edgar Worthington, IMechE Secretary, 1898-1920. Date: circa 1920

Portrait of WR Browne, ImechE Secretary, 1878-1884. Date: circa 1884

Golden Arrow, 1929. Date: circa 1970s

Bluebird, 1931. Date: circa 1970s

Portrait of Magnus Mowat, IMechE Secretary, 1920-1939. Date: circa 1939

Portrait of Alfred Bache, IMechE Secretary, 1884-1897. Date: circa 1897

Portrait of William Prime Marshall, IMechE Secretary, 1849-1877. Date: circa 1877

North Sea Camp Borstal Institution, Lincolnshire
North Sea Camp Borstal Institution at Freiston, Lincolnshire. Boys with spades at work reclaiming land from the sea. Small wagons with hoppers run on a railway track. Date: circa 1945

Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution - Farm Work
Farmyard at Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution, near Nottingham. Boys are filling a cart hitched to a farm horse. Date: circa 1945

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Chadwicks Orphanage, Bolton, Lancashire
A view of the grounds of Chadwicks Orphanage for girls at Bolton, with a number of the inmates at play. The institution was founded by a gift from Dr Samuel Taylor Chadwick. Date: Date unknown

Starcross Institution (Western Counties Idiot Asylum), Exete
The Starcross Institution, formerly known as the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, near Exeter

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Civil Law or Medicine
A Doctor of Civil Law or Medicine at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, red gown. Date: 1920s

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Music (undress with hood)
A Doctor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, black gown with white and magenta hood. Date: 1920s

FERDINAND I of Austria (1793-1875). Emperor of Austria (1835 and 1848). Oil on canvas. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Museo Centrale del Risorgimento (Central Museum of the Risorgimento)

PRAT DE LA RIBA, Enric (1870-1917). Catalan nationalist politician and writer. First president of the Commonwealth of Catalonia in 1914

ISOCRATES (436-338 BC). Ancient Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic orators. From the book Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium by Gian Vittorio de Rossi (1577-1647). Engraving. SPAIN

BERICOURT, Etienne (18th c. ). Revolutionary procession
BERICOURT, Etienne (18th c.). Revolutionary procession, c. 1789. Watercolour. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

RICHARD I of England, called the Lion-Heart (1157-1199). King of England (1189-1199). Richard the Lionheart, John of Gaunt, Edward III, Joan Plantagenet and Philippa of Hainault. Engraving

Francisco Franco going for a drive through the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid after presiding the Parade of the Victory. He is with the Minister of the Army, Juan Casta񯮮 1964

Royal Infant Orphanage, Wanstead, London
An aerial view of the Royal Infant Orphanage at Wanstead in north-east London. The institution was founded as the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum in 1841 by Congregational minister Andrew Reed to

Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy, a charitable institution dating back to the Middle Ages. Seen here transporting a sick man. Masks are worn to preserve anonymity

IMechE register of debentures and debentures etc, 1912 Date: 1912

IMechE logo / service mark ? plain embossed
IMechE logo / service mark ?plain embossed

Zenith Carburettors / IMechE

Thomas Andrews, MIMechE, died aboard the Titanic

Westgate Road Workhouse / Institution, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
An aerial view, from the north-west, of the former Newcastle-upon-Tyne Union workhouse, also known officially the Westgate Road Institution

Enola Gay presented to the Smithsonian
The superfortress bomber Enola Gay, the first aircraft to carry the atomic bomb in war when it dropped the bomb Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan in World War Two

The Coedy-Gric Institution (Pontypool workhouse), Griffithst
The Pontypool Union workhouse at Griffithstown, later also known as the Coedy-Gric Institution. The buildings in the foreground are childrens cottage homes with boys

A case of mistaken insanity: wrongly admitted to the asylum
A cunning lunatic dupes the staff at a mental institution into taking his irate captor into the incurables ward instead of himself. Date: 1838

Royal Wedding Presents - satin blankets
Work in progress on the making of one of the two satin covered blankets ordered by Princess Marina from the Royal School of Needlework on the occasion of her marriage to Prince George

Hydrotherapy treatment at French mental hospital
Water treatment at Asile d Alienes (lunatic asylum) of Sainte-Anne, Paris. Date: 1868

Gardening, Inebriates Reformatory, Lewes, Sussex
Inmates gardening at the Southern Counties Inebriates Reformatory at Lewes, Sussex. The institution, housed in the former Lewes Union workhouse

Inebriates Reformatory, Ackworth, Yorkshire
The North Midlands Inebriates Reformatory at Ackworth near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. The institution was one of several operated by National Institutions for Inebriates

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