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A lecture at the London InstitutionDr Syntax attends a scientific lecture at the London Institution. Date: 1820
GIRLS DANCE QUADRILLERobert Owens Institution at New Lanark : dancing classes for the workers children Date: 1825
Barnards InnAn 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, USAA 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 PericlesCoin with the portrait of Pericles. Greek art. Coin
Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrowVisitor 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, LondonPart 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, 1815A one penny workhouse token of the Sheffield Workhouse, Yorkshire, from 1815. During a national shortage of copper coins in 1812-15
Eleonore Zugun - 6Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, in a mental institution before taken into the protection of countess Wassilo-Serecki
Boundary Park Hospital, Oldham, LancashireArched 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, LincolnshireNorth 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 WorkFarmyard at Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution, near Nottingham. Boys are filling a cart hitched to a farm horse. Date: circa 1945
Girls school at Fianarantsoa, MadagascarA 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, LancashireA 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), ExeteThe Starcross Institution, formerly known as the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, near Exeter
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 processionBERICOURT, 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, LondonAn 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 embossedIMechE logo / service mark ?plain embossed
Zenith Carburettors / IMechE
Thomas Andrews, MIMechE, died aboard the Titanic
Westgate Road Workhouse / Institution, Newcastle-upon-TyneAn 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 SmithsonianThe 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), GriffithstThe 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 asylumA cunning lunatic dupes the staff at a mental institution into taking his irate captor into the incurables ward instead of himself. Date: 1838
Hydrotherapy treatment at French mental hospitalWater treatment at Asile d Alienes (lunatic asylum) of Sainte-Anne, Paris. Date: 1868
Gardening, Inebriates Reformatory, Lewes, SussexInmates gardening at the Southern Counties Inebriates Reformatory at Lewes, Sussex. The institution, housed in the former Lewes Union workhouse
Inebriates Reformatory, Ackworth, YorkshireThe North Midlands Inebriates Reformatory at Ackworth near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. The institution was one of several operated by National Institutions for Inebriates
Inmates in grounds, Inebriates Reformatory, Lewes, SussexInmates in the grounds of the Southern Counties Inebriates Reformatory at Lewes, Sussex. The institution, housed in the former Lewes Union workhouse
Union Workhouse, Haslingden, LancashireThe Haslingden Union workhouse at Higher Pikelaw, between Haslingden and Rawtenstall, Lancashire. The original workhouse buildings are at the far left