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The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing, 1897. Creator: HS Robert.
 
The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his..., 1897. Creator: HS Robert.
 
The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians..., 1897. Creator: HS Robert.
 
Head of a child with closed eyes and skin disease on the face, 1892. Creator: Unknown.
 
A man of Simla, standing in a prison with manacles around his ankles, 1866. Creator: R Clint.
 
St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley, 1881. Creator: Frank Collins.
 
St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley, 1881. Creator: Frank Collins.
 
St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley, 1881. Creator: Frank Collins.
 
St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley, 1881. Creator: Frank Collins.
 
King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital, 1837. Creator: EH Dixon.
 
The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?]..., 1891. Creator: Nurse Flower.
 
The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front..., 1891 Creator: Nurse Flower.
 
Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St  Pancras... Creator: James Gillray.
 
A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape..., 1900-1909. Creator: Edith Annie Ibbs.
 
World War I: Trinity College Cambridge, the Lime Walk..1st Eastern General., c1910s. Creator: Walter Ernest Spradbery.
 
Singapore: the quarantine station on St  John's Island, 1879. Creator: John Edmund Taylor.
 
A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Creator: Unknown.
 
A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume, (1910?). Creator: Unknown.
 
Four vignettes demonstrating different cauterisation points on naked human bodies. Creator: Unknown.
 
Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: gateway to the mausoleum..., (between 1820 and 1829?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A painter born without arms who paints with his feet. Creator: Unknown.
 
The dockside in Naples: a man is cooking snails in a pot over an open fire..., 1800-1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
A diseased foot and lower leg. Creator: Unknown.
 
A diseased part of the body. Creator: Unknown.
 
Female genitalia covered with syphilitic warts, c1824. Creator: Unknown.
 
A man playing the bagpipes. Creator: Unknown.
 
A man from Rossano in Calabria playing the bagpipes, 1800-1899. Creator: Unknown.
 
A young man dancing the tarantella. Creator: Unknown.
 
An Indian (?) man seated, reading a book. Creator: Unknown.
 
The death of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1821. Creator: Unknown.
 
Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: gateway to the mausoleum of the... (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
India: a drummer with an exotic bird, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and..., (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A woman from the Sultan's seraglio in Istanbul playing the violin. Creator: Unknown.
 
A man driving a cart pulled by two oxen; in the left foreground a woman picks fleas from a boy's hea Creator: Unknown.
 
Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
An education official about to conduct school entrance examinations; carrying a folded..., 1890. Creator: Pei Qun Zhou.
 
A blind musician carrying a shamisen (?) and walking with the aid of a cane, 1890. Creator: Pei Qun Zhou.
 
A dying (?) man dictates his will (?) to a scribe seated at a table by his bedside, 1890. Creator: Pei Qun Zhou.
 
A courtesan playing a sitar, c1890. Creator: Unknown.
 
Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: physicians and surgeons treating the sick, approx 1912. Creator: Unknown.
 
Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: a monk receiving the confession of a dying man, c1912. Creator: Unknown.
 
A woman appealing to Christ, to Sansovino's Virgin and Child and to Saint..., early 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
Interior of a palace converted into a Judge's court, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A man conducting a monkey show on the street, watched by some children, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A man with his performing bear watched by a group of people, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A musician holding a sitar, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body, 1899. Creator: William T Maud.
 
Six snake charmers displaying their snakes, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A woman acrobat with her belongings, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A street performer holding a small pot upside down, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A street performer standing on a disc balancing three pots on his head, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
A village woman carrying a musical instrument in one hand, a stick with..., (between 1800 and 1899?) Creator: Unknown.
 
A man holding a long arrow with two puppets (?) hanging from it, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
Agra: The Taj Mahal, (between 1800 and 1899?). Creator: Unknown.
 
Two lovers surrounded by an oval frame. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Creator: Unknown.
 
Two Sacred Hearts in a landscape, united by two doves, separated by an hour glass. Creator: Unknown.