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Handicapped Collection

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex

Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex
The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Helen Keller with her Great Dane

Helen Keller with her Great Dane
Helen Keller (1880-1968) born blind deaf mute. Thanks to her governess she overcame these handicaps, studied and created in 1921 the American Foundation for the Blind. Pictured here on the S.S

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Aerial view of Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, used for the care of children with tuberculosis. The site was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Children with tuberculosis at Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex. Beds were placed on the balconies to provide sun and fresh air

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Dickens / Christmas Carol

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit with Tiny Tim, his crippled youngest son

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Members of the Guild of the Poor Brave Things established to help crippled

Members of the Guild of the Poor Brave Things established to help crippled and otherwise handicapped youngsters learn crafts and trades, seen in their workshop at the training school of the guild

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Buckets & Spades Home, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex

Buckets & Spades Home, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex
The Buckets and Spades Home, St Leonards on Sea for mentally handicapped Jewish children

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Bath Characters by Edouart - Thomas McDermott

Bath Characters by Edouart - Thomas McDermott
Thomas McDermott, a native of County Cavan, Northern Ireland, who was born without hands or feet, 1793. Inventor and manufacturer of fancy flower vases

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Diasbled scooter

Diasbled scooter
A disabled man with his motor scooter, Landskrona, Sweden 1952. Date: 1952

Background imageHandicapped Collection: Disabled Man

Disabled Man
The disabled man. Date: 1833


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