Images Dated 10th June 2004 (page 2)

Gypsy camp on Exmoor
A gypsy camp on Exmoor

Street betting - a bookmaker taking bets
An illustration of street betting showing a bookmaker taking bets in a London street and highlighting the problem of bribery between bookies and policemen

A Black Forest Nurse of Germany in full costume. From an article in the Sphere showing nurses from all countries

London fog. Pollution from the city
A London fog; smoke carried from the city covering an area of twenty miles with thick smog. Smog tends to form in urban areas when there is a large amount of chimney

War photography - two soldiers with camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. Two soldiers are pictured here about to load the rocket into its framework before it is positioned ready to fire

The Black Country
A view of the Black Country with smoke rising from the industrial factories around Wolverhampton in the Midlands

Holloway Castles prison creche
Holloway Castle womens prison introduced the first creche for prison babies. Babies were admitted if they were born in prison or were under three months when their mothers were jailed

Fairy stories by photography; Grimms stories illustrated
The little brother and sister: the little sister placing her golden garter round her brothers neck. Grimms fairy stories told with photographs and illustrations. From the Christmas Number 1907

An advertisement for the Verascope
The Verascope, a stereoscopic pocket camera

Bradford
View of the industrial factories of Bradford in the week that the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visited the town

Dry digging, Turon gold fields, Australia
Dry digging on the Turon, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. This proved to have the richest finds on the river yielding approximately 400 ounces

Fairy stories by photography, Grimms stories illustrated
The prince climbing the golden ladder of Rapunzels hair. Grimms fairy stories told with photographs and illustrations. From the Christmas Number 1907

Childrens nurse in London
A childrens nurse walking through a London park, taken from an article describing nurses from different countries

The art of war photography, fixing the negative at camp at t
Processing a photograph taken by Mr Burke, war photographer, during the Afghan War

Ensign photography advertisement
An advertisement for Ensign photography manufacturers

Gold diggers at rest
Gold diggers resting in the evening at Mount Alexander, Australia

M. Mieczkowskiego, photographer to the Imperial court, with
In the camp of the besiegers. M. Mieczkowskiego, photographer to the Imperial Court at work photographing the Russian army manoeuvres before the Czar, at Brest Litewsk, Poland

Scene in a photographers studio, example of portrait making
Portraiture in the early twentieth century. A photographer entertaining his subject while his assistants capture her photograph

A ships photographer coping with the storms
Photography in treacherous conditions; a ships photographer recording conditions on board

Day nursery in Holloway prison
A day nursery in Holloway, a women only prison where babies who were either born there or were under three months when their mothers were jailed were cared for in prison

Mr Maskelynes experiment - female spirit emerging from man
A photographic example of Mr Maskelynes experiment - a mechanical illusion of spiritual manifestations. Miss Cassie Brucea can be seen emerging from her father-in-laws body

Advertisement for tooth powder
Calox oxygen tooth powder, for cleaning teeth

The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick
A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick

Advertisement for liver pills
Carters little liver pills, to cure all liver ills

Advertisement for toothpaste
Jewsbury and Browns Oriental toothpaste

Preparing Red Cross food parcels
Voluntary workers packing some of the 70, 000 parcels of food dispatched each week by the Red Cross to the British prisoners of war

Radium Safe
A radium safe in the Middlesex Hospital, showing a massive lead block, in which the radium was stored. The safe weighed about a ton and was fitted with a swing doors

Russian cholera epidemic
Transporting those who have died of cholera to the burial ground. Cholera broke out in St Petersburg in September 1908, with the first cases among people living in particularly unsanitary conditions

Uniforms of state registered nurses
Pictured on the left a Cambridge blue washing dress, on the right a blue woollen mess dress

Cholera in Hamburg
Linen being left with customs officers for disinfection. Many precautions were taken in preventing the spread of cholera. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease

Red Cross food parcels
Voluntary workers packing some of the 70, 000 parcels of food dispatched each week by the Red Cross to the British prisoners of war

A Bedford-Buick ambulance presented to Colchester. The vehicle features the Delco self starting gear, lighting and ignition system

M. Pasteur in his laboratory in Paris
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He studied chemistry under Delafosse. Discovering the nature of fermentation, he went on to research his germ theory of disease

Cholera precautions in England
A sketch of the sailors hospital. Fires were used to prevent the infection spreading from the hospital. In September 1892, Dr R

Diphtheria at Woolwich
Sketches of the diphtheria huts on Woolwich Common. The huts were used to confine those infected by the epidemic

Dairy research work in a Reading laboratory
A scientist in the bacteriological laboratory making plate cultures of bacteria

War casualties awaiting treatment at a dressing station
The battle of Menin Road. A photograph of British and German soldiers being treated at a dressing station near Zonnebek

A radium safe
A safe at the Radium Institute, showing lead blocks holding radium needles. 4 inches of lead sat between where the radium was kept and the front of the safe

A motor ambulance supplied by Carters, New Cavendish Street
A motor ambulance presented for service with the Russian cavalry, a Carters type 20 H.P. The ambulance could carry four stretchers and had accommodation for a nurse attendant

Florence Nightingale visiting the Hut Hospitals, at Balaclav
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florences social standing to become

Preparing Red Cross food parcels
A parcel almost ready for dispatch. Volunteers packing parcels at the Red Cross headquarters, where acres of cardboard and miles of string were used each week in the distribution of 70

Cholera in Egypt
Scene in the courtyard of a house in Cairo. The patients were laid in the courtyard partly because of the cooler temperatures and also because the occupants were afraid of infection

Inoculated dog in cage
An image of a dog used in Louis Pasteurs experiments into the treatment of rabies (Hydrophobia). The dog had been inoculated with the rabies virus in order to observe the effects of the disease

Transporting patients through busy London streets
Method of transporting patients before the introduction of ambulances. In 1905 a proposal was put forward to Parliament to establish and maintain a street ambulance service

Nurses decorated with the Royal Red Cross
Nurses, from left, Sister Edith King, Sister Louisa Mackay and Sister Emma Durham were awarded the Royal Red Cross, by Queen Victoria for their exceptional service in the nursing profession

Cholera in Hamburg
Fumigating an Illustrated London News artist. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease as cholera spread from Northeast India towards the east coast of Africa during the nineteenth

Dr Kochs treatment for consumption
A sketch of Professor Pfuhl inoculating a patient against consumption at the Royal Hospital, Berlin

Sufferer of toothache
An illustration of a patient with toothache

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