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Cartoon, A new way to pay the National Debt, by James Gillray. Showing King George III and Queen Charlotte receiving bags of money from the Treasury
Nautical Terms Illustrated - Anchored by Harold EarnshawIllustration showing an old sea salt finding himself in a bit of a fix after his wooden legs has caught in a drain grill and snapped
Thomas Barnardo with some physically disabled boys (then invariably referred to as cripples ) at one of his homes. Date: circa 1900
Bath Characters by Edouart - Thomas McDermottThomas McDermott, a native of County Cavan, Northern Ireland, who was born without hands or feet, 1793. Inventor and manufacturer of fancy flower vases
War Sites of the 1914-1918 CampaignBooklet entitled War Sites of the 1914-1918 Campaign, Belgian Army, Booklet No. 2. Sold by the War Sites Department for the Disabled Soldiers and War Orphans Funds
John Grooms Sekforde Street, LondonInmates at work at John Grooms home for poor and disabled flower-sellers on Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell. Date unknown
Groom, John A and JuniorJohn Alfred Groom and his son. Groom was a London engraver and evangelical preacher, whose concern for poor and often disabled flower-sellers
Fire Drill, Grooms Orphanage, Clacton-on-SeaFire drill at John Grooms Orphanage and Crippleage opened in 1890 at Clacton in Essex. Groom was a London engraver and evangelical preacher, whose concern for poor and disabled flower-sellers
Sanatorium at Grooms Crippleage, Clacton, EssexThe sanatorium and holiday home of John Grooms Orphanage and Crippleage at Clacton-on-Sea. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher
Workroom at Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls MissionBlind, Maimed and Crippled Girls at making artificial flowers at John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher
Winter work in the Royal Navy by G. H. DavisWinter work in the Royal Navy: taking a disabled submarine in tow. Showing a submarine in the foreground, hailing the parent ship. 1910
Two disabled tanks during WW2Two disabled tanks at the side of a building in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcardMemories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of
Disabled German Tank - WWI - Betheny (Marne) - captured on 29th May 1918 by the 100th Infantry Regiment on the Road to Neufchatel. Date: 1918
WW2 - Paris Liberation - Disabled Tank at Quai d OrsayWW2 - Paris Liberation - Disabled German Tank at Quai d Orsay - the graffiti reads: " Here died three French soldiers". Date: 1945
Old Man with pair of wooden legs advertising corn plastersVery black humour - An Old Man with a pair of prosthetic false legs advertising corn plasters! Date: 1895
Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home and College, Alton, HantsIn 1908, Sir William Purdie Treloar established The Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital and College in Alton, Hampshire - The Aviary. Date: circa 1910
Design for a certificate for the Philadelphia Association fo
Facing the future Uncle Sam offers training to every man disabled in the service - See that your man takes it - Ask the Red Cross
Street music: French fiddler and wifeA one legged beggar playing the fiddle in the street, while his wife plays the bones. Date: 17th century
Lady Mayoress and Lord Mayor of LondonThe Lady Mayoress watched by the Lord Mayor of London handing a Way Bill to one of the carmen who took hampers arranged by Sir William Treloar to the homes of disabled children
Sir William Treloar distributing Christmas giftsSir William Purdie Treloar (1843-1923) distributing Christmas gifts to the poor. He began his annual charitable activities in the East End of London by the distribution of Christmas hampers to poor
Royal Wedding 1934 - making rose petalsRose petals made to be thrown at the Royal Wedding between Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece who were married at Westminster Abbey on 29 November 1934
Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street
Royal Wedding 1919 -- Blind Trousseau WorkerA blind trousseau worker, making a finely knitted coat for Princess Patricias trousseau, operating a flat machine at the workshops of the London Association for the Blind, Churton Street, Victoria
Blind motor car driver, 1904Despite the fact Mr Sharp of Watford is totally blind, he has obtained a licence to drive a motor car. To warn other motorists, his bowler hat is inscribed with the words, Blind. Thats alright then
William Wostenholme, blind organistMr William Wostenholme (1865 - 1931), organist and composer. Totally blind from birth, who was a talented musician and studied at the College for Blind Sons of Gentlemen at Worcester
China - Fuzhou - Junior Boys Blind SchoolChina - Fuzhou (formerly Foochow) - a group of young children from the Junior Boys Blind School Date: circa 1910
Disabled tank near Premont, Battle of Cambrai, France, WW1Men of the 20th Manchesters resting by a tank which has been disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment, near Premont, during the Battle of Cambrai, France, First World War
Disabled ManThe disabled man. Date: 1833
German cruiser Blucher, Battle of Dogger Bank, WW1The disabled German armoured cruiser SMS Blucher which later sank, during the Battle of Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, First World War. Date: 24 January 1915
Scouts helping elderly manAmerican Scouts assisting an elderly person from his wheelchair onto a bus. circa 1930s
Disabled tank on Western Front, WW1A disabled tank on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918
Disabled tank in winter, Somme, France, WW1A disabled tank on the Somme, northern France, in winter during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918
Knocked-out British tank, France, WW1A knocked-out British tank on the Western Front, France, during the First World War. In the background a farmer drives his horse-drawn cart along the road. Date: March 1918
Princess Elizabeth at Portland Training CollegePrincess Elizabeth accepting a casket from Winifred Duchess of Portland after laying the foundation stone of the main building of the Portland Training College for the disabled
Childrens Choir, National Childrens Home, Chipping NortonThe so-called Cripples Choir at the National Childrens Home, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, opened in 1903 for what were described as delicate and affected children
Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable workA postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire
Disabled German tank on battlefieldView of a disabled German tank on a battlefield during the First World War
The Warriors Return, satirical postcardA wounded soldier, drawn as a wooden puppet and carrying his own broken-off leg, looks at a WD (War Department) signpost pointing to the workhouse
Nikolai Wassiljewittsch Kobelkoff - Freak Show StarKobelkoff, Freak show empresario pictured with his family. Nikolai Wassiljewittsch Kobelkoff (1851 - 1933) was born in Wossnesensk, Siberia, Russia
Hay Harvesting, National Childrens Home, Edgworth, LancsBoys harvesting hay at the National Childrens Home, Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire. They carry pitchforks and a horse-drawn wagon is fully loaded
Leavesden Asylum, HertfordshireMale attendants in a ward at the Asylum for Imbeciles opened in 1870 at Leavesden near Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire. The Asylum, with its twin at Caterham
Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, HampshireA group of physically disabled children have an outdoor lesson at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire. Some hold crutches while other lie on wooden beds or in a pram
British Troops fighting at Aanderberg Crossroads; Second WorSketch showing British infantry fighting off German paratroops at Aanderberg Crossroads, Holland, January 1945. On the left of the image is a disabled British Cromwell tank
SS Umbria, 1893Engraving of the Cunard steamship Umbria. During a crossing from Queenstown to New York in December 1892, the Umbrias propellor shaft broke and she was disabled
Street Doctor 1877A street " doctor" attempts to sell peppermint cough lozenges to a gullible woman
German DisabledA German battleship is disabled by HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland