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31. P974

Reference (shelfmark):
P974
Title:
Les bords du Gange près de Calcutta. 1842. [The sick being brought to the banks of the sacred river.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:
Lithograph of the sick being brought to the banks of the Ganges near Calcutta by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of 1842 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1848.Hindus regard the River Ganges as amrita, the elixir of life, which brings purit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 Item

32. Photo 1225/5(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1225/5(78)
Title:
The Plague Quarantine Hosptial [Mukden].
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 1301

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1301
Title:
Photographs of Lepers. Being the first one hundred and forty-four admissions into the Matunga Leper Asylum, Bombay: with notes by K. R. Kirtikar, M.R.C.S., (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Surgeon Major I.M.D. Late Acting Health Officer, Bombay; Civil Surgeon, Thana. (Bombay: Printed at the Native Opinion Press, 1891). Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-leather bound volume measuring 300 x 260 mm, with printed titlepage as above and containing 144 albumen print portraits of inmates of the Matunga Leper Asylum; spine detached, but otherwise in firm condition; St Bartholomew's Hospital Library bookplate pasted to front fixed endpaper, with d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
Unspecified

34. Photo 1349(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1349(34)
Title:
'Unclean! Unclean!' wretched lepers outside Jerusalem, Palestine (St. Matt. viii: s-4). Photographer/Publisher: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic double.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1424/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(20)
Title:
Lepers. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a group of lepers on the banks of a river. A copy of a photograph probably taken at Khokana near Kathmandu. Khokana was established in 1857 for a member of the ruling Rana dynasty who had contracted the disease. The colony is still home to those suffering from leprosy (Hansen's disease).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

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