Bandage Collection

Girl playing Nurse
A young girl in her nurses outfit, tends to her teddys injuries with copious bandaging, whilst a pet cat watches

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

Mummified sacred ibis, partially unwrapped
The sacred ibis, as well as the baboon, was linked to Thoth, god of the moon and writing. He was often represented as a man with the head of an ibis

Forceps and Bandages
A selection of medical appliances, including forceps and a hook to extract bullets (fig 8). Also bandage application diagrams

Postcard, Nurse and patient - Scatter seeds of kindness. Date: 1914-1918

Maids offer the day's catch of fish and lobster to a gourmet
Two maids offer the day's catch of fish and lobster to a gourmet with an eyeglass in an armchair in his parlour in a Gothic hall. His gouty foot is bandaged and rests on a stool. Indecision

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and patient - rising temperature Date: 20th century

Shell-shocked Italian soldier with bandage, WW1
Shell-shocked Italian soldier with bandage, travelling in a railway compartment, First World War. Drawing by Robert Sargeant Austin. circa 1918

The Bunnies return home after their accident Date: 1924

Members of London Peace Action campaigning against war toys outside a Toy and Hobby Fair at Earls Court, West London, 3 February 1981. Date: 1981

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and bandaged patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, The MacGregors Gathering Date: 20th century

Soldiers with vintage car, Blanefield, Scotland, WW1
Soldiers with vintage car, Blanefield, Scotland. One of the men has a bandage on his head. circa 1916

Cold running Sitz Bath - The Water Cure
Heres nice treatment! A cold running sitz bath at six in the morning, a bandage on the head, and snow on the ground - The Water Cure. 1870

18th century sutures, tourniquet, syringe and bandages
18th century sutures 1, 2, tourniquet 3, Dominique Anels fine-pointed syringe 4, siphon 5, injection tubes 6-9, 18-sheet bandage for complex fractures 10 and graded compress 11

Jean Louis Petits machine to compress the femoral artery during amputation of the thigh 1, and bandages 2, aneurysm needle 3 and scissors 4

Poster design, British Nursing, WW1
Poster design by Gerald Spencer Pryse, for The Nations Fund for Nurses, First World War. circa 1915

School Nurse - People You See. From Teddy Bear (15 January 1966). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1966

Nurse on Telephone Date: 1948

Hogarth - Marriage a la Mode
1. The Contract Date: 1745

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

Happy Families - Miss Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

WW1 poster, Buy More Liberty Bonds, Lend as they fight. Date: circa 1917

Four cats with toothache on a New Year card, quoting from Charles Dickens characters (Sairey Gamp, Mrs Harris, Betsy Prig and Tiny Tim) -- Its best to grin and bear it! Date: circa 1890s

Master Peter from Don Quixote, by William Heath Robinson
Master Peter from Don Quixote, illustration by William Heath Robinson (1902). The man is a puppeteer with an ape, met by Don Quixote on his travels. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Three young Somali Boys at Djibouti, East Africa
Three young Somali Boys (one with an injured and bandaged ankle) at Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1909

Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurse
WW1 - An injured colonial French Soldier (Senegalese?) cared for by a pretty nurse. Date: circa 1917

London AFS fireman at a hospital during the Blitz, WW2
London AFS fireman at a hospital for medical attention during the Blitz

Two Horses and a group of dogs
Portrait of Two Horses peering over the edge of their stall to check on a group of three dogs, including a terrier with a bandaged head. Date: circa 1910s

Portuguese soldiers captured on the Western Front, WW1
Portuguese soldiers who have been captured on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

Cartoon, mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, London
Cartoon -- They are getting the water out of the Criterion with all speed. Henry James Byron (1835-1884) is shown mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, London, after some flooding

Cupids and hearts on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Egyptian mummy. National Archaeology Museum. Madrid. Spain

The centurions servant sick in bed. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Allegorical scene
An allegorical scene, possibly depicting a charitable act. circa early 20th century

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Pill. circa 1935

Three Belgian hospital patients outside Quex House
Three Belgian hospital patients standing outside the front of Quex House. The verandah behind them was outside the Drawing Room where A Ward was situated

Four kittens playing blind mans bluff on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation, WW1
Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation. A German patient in a French hospital asks an orderly if he will be ok with his reconstructed chin containing silver

Cartoon, They don t have any in Germany, WW1
Cartoon, They don t have any in Germany. Allied soldiers celebrate with a drink of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk), happy to think that its not available in Germany

Cartoon, Regrets, WW1
Cartoon, Regrets. An elderly man is sorry to see that he has a rival for a ladys affections -- he can t win against a young soldier in uniform with a wounded hand. Date: 1916

Victorian Scrap, man taking medicine from a spoon. circa 1880s

Mother pig and her piglets
Mother pig consoling her piglets after their upsetting encounter with Bobby the dog and Fluff the cat. Date: circa 1933

WW2 greetings card, Cheer up! It won t be so long now!! A Scots terrier with a bandaged tail. V for Victory is painted on the fence. Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

Boy scouts at De Lesseps Park, Panama City, Panama
Boy scouts taking part in a First Aid demonstration at De Lesseps Park, Panama City, Panama, South America

Five boy scouts on an outdoor activity, Mauritius
Five boy scouts on an outdoor activity, connected with first aid bandaging skills, Mauritius

Scouts during Accra Scout Week, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts at the Gold Coast Hospital during Accra Scout Week, Ghana, West Africa. They are standing by the bed of a sick boy patient, with a nurse alongside. Date: 1951

Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training, WW2
Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training during a blackout -- one boy bandages another boys arm. Date: circa 1940s

First Aid class, 32nd Vancouver Scout Troop, Canada
First Aid class in progress at the 32nd Vancouver (Chinese) Boy Scout Troop, British Columbia, Canada

Volunteer nurses learning to bandage, outbreak of WW1
Volunteer nurses practising their bandaging techniques on children at Kensington Town Hall shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Motor cyclist on the Western Front, WW1
A motor cyclist putting his enthusiasm to good use on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

A variety of pistols, including Colts Deringer pistol
Masterful Reinecke. Silhouette of a wailing fox (or a wolf), in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to a goose, which he has swatted out of a tree and an observant perched owl

The Wailing Bear
Silhouette of a wailing bear, in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to the moon (and a perched owl). Date: circa 1910s

Have a Pain-free Year - Danish New Years Card
Have a Pain-free Year - Humorous Danish New Years Card showing a Gent atop an early aeroplane approaching his victim with tooth-removal pliers. Date: 1905

Domestic Violence discussed on a London street
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a conversation on a London street discussing domestic violence

Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier
A Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier. Date: circa 1912

Bandages from a calf mummy

Japanese Imperial Princesses making bandages during the Russo-Japanese War. Date: circa 1905

Feeding medicine to a poorly kitten
The Patient. A sick kitten is spoon-fed some medicine - the patient does not seem too keen.....!! Date: circa 1910s

Wounded Romanian soldiers taking a bath, WW1
Wounded Romanian soldiers taking a bath outside a military hospital during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Australian medical centre, Becourt Chateau, France, WW1
An Australian medical centre in Becourt Chateau, northern France, during the First World War. Showing Australian soldiers having their wounds dressed. Date: July 1916

Wounded German prisoners of war, WW1
Wounded German prisoners of war captured by the British on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Three German prisoners of war, WW1
Three German prisoners of war, two of them with bandaged heads and labels attached to their coats, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Attending to wounded German prisoner, WW1
An Allied soldier attending to a wounded German prisoner in a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Australian ambulance men at Bernafay, France, WW1
Australian ambulance men carrying soldiers suffering from trench feet at Bernafay, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1916

German prisoners at Verdun, France, WW1
German prisoners of war walking along a road at Verdun, north eastern France, during the First World War. 1917

Sketch of soldier with bandage and medal, WW1
Profile sketch of a soldier during the First World War with his head bandaged and a medal on his chest. Date: 1914-1918

Operation dugout of field ambulance, Western Front, WW1
An operation dugout of a field ambulance of the 42nd East Lancashire Division during the First World War. A bullet has just been removed from a mans arm. Date: 1914-1918

American wounded and German POWs, Argonne, France, WW1
Wounded American troops and German prisoners of war in Argonne, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 5 October 1918

Captured British troops, Dardanelles, WW1
Captured British troops in the Dardanelles (Turkey), during the First World War. Date: 1915-1916

Scots Highlander - WWI Patriotic Postcard - Union Flag
Scots Highlander soldier from the First World War on this patriotic postcard, bearing the caption Do or Die

Wounded Belgian troops in Calais, France, WW1
Wounded Belgian troops from Furnes, marching through Calais, north western France, during the First World War. Date: 11 November 1914

R101 survivors arrive at Croydon
Survivors of the R101 airship crash near Beauvais, France, on 5th October 1930 arrive at Croydon Airport ten days later

Diagram showing five stages in bandage folding
Diagram showing five stages in the folding of a bandage, resulting in broad, narrow and medium options

British Earthquake 1931
A woman with a bandage over one eye, sitting among the havoc caused by an earthquake

Queueing for Soup 1877
Queueing for leg of beef soup at 2 pence a bowl outside working class dining room

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