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A plague patient being transported on a manually propelled ambulance carriage...,  1896/1897. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India: the gateway, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India: entrance gate, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges, 19th cent Creator: Unknown.
 
The Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, c1873.  Creator: William Pryor Floyd.
 
A segregation camp during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India, 1897. Creator: Unknown.
 
Scutari: people in the Turkish burial ground; city in the background, 1854. Creator: Montagu O'Reilly.
 
Black Death - pictorial diagram..., late 19th-early 20th century?  Creator: Monro Scott Orr.
 
Grotteschi in the Vatican: mural decorative panels showing birds and figures, c1520s. Creator: Giovanni da Udine.
 
New Zealand: Maori carvings, c1840s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Tree in central Africa where David Livingstone's heart is buried, showing the inscription.., c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Larnaca, Cyprus, 1878. Creator: John Thomson.
 
China, 1869. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments.., c1920s.  Creator: Unknown.
 
Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India,..., c1930s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Winchester: tombstone of Thomas Thetcher, who "died of a violent fever contracted by..., 1800-1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks, c1900. Creator: Unknown.
 
Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, two objects..., c1890s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village, c1930s. Creator: Unknown.
 
The birth of the Virgin, late 16th century.
 
A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag, c1610s. Creator: Unknown.
 
Giza, Egypt: a dance by sword dancers in the commandant's house, c1780s. Creator: Luigi Mayer.
 
A sick, dying or dead woman lying on a bed in the presence of three figures, c1700. Creator: Gerard Hoet.
 
A man taking the pulse of another man, between 1800 and 1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: Maori funeral rites, c1880s. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: two Maori women, c1880s. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: a Maori woman and child, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Zealand: a group of Maori in front of a traditional building, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
Canton, Kwangtung province, China, 1869, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Kowloon, Kwangtung province, China, 1869, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Peking, Pechili province, China, 1869, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Cyprus, 1884, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Lefka, Cyprus, 1880, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Cyprus, 1885, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
Fukien province, China, 1871, (1981). Creator: Unknown.
 
People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay, 1906. Creator: Criouleansky & Marshall.
 
A young woman with a short fringe, showing signs of mental deficiency, c1860s. Creator: John Davis.
 
A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting, wearing striped socks, c1890s. Creator: Joseph Arthur Baldry.
 
Siam (Thailand): a khon (masked dance drama) and lakhon (acting) troupe, 1865. Creator: John Thomson.
 
A Thai monk holding a fan, 1865. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Siam [Thailand]: monks and their assistants, 1865. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law, 1869. Creator: John Thomson.
 
China: a Manchu lady with her daughter in-law and grandchildren, Beijing, 1869. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Formosa [Taiwan], 1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Hong Kong, 1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Peking, Pechili province, China: a Mongol tent, 1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: ancient Chuting stone memorial..., 1871. Creator: John Thomson.
 
A young woman in mourning dress, 1868/1872. Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron.
 
Gwendoline Syrie Maud Wellcome (née Barnardo), Syrie Maugham and Henry Mounteney Wellcome, c1904. Creator: Lambert Weston & Son.
 
Gwendoline Syrie Maud Wellcome (née Barnardo), Syrie Maugham and Henry Mounteney Wellcome, c1904. Creator: Lambert Weston & Son.
 
A girl, holding a doll, sitting on a wall, c1890s. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Royal African Society dinner, 1931. Creator: Frank Arthur Swaine.
 
Miss Pailthorpe (Mary Elizabeth Pailthorpe?), c1880s. Creator: Thomas Charles Turner.
 
Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with..., 1873-1874. Creator: John Thomson.
 
Louis Cobbett, 1907. Creator: Unknown.
 
May French Sheldon, c1880s. Creator: Unknown.
 
British servicemen in drag acting out a cooking class, 1918. Creator: Unknown.
 
British servicemen performing a sketch on the power of the press, c1918. Creator: Unknown.
 
British airforce servicemen performing a sketch, striking an animated pose, 1918. Creator: Unknown.