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Background imageCare Collection: Public Information Poster - Preventing Idle Talk

Public Information Poster - Preventing Idle Talk
Talk Less - You Never Know A Public Information Poster

Background imageCare Collection: Caring for Evacuated Mothers and babies

Caring for Evacuated Mothers and babies
Public Information poster issued by the Ministry of Health relating to the caring of evacuated babies during the bombing of Britain

Background imageCare Collection: Ministry of Health Poster - Evacuation

Ministry of Health Poster - Evacuation
Shes in the Ranks too! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Background imageCare Collection: Poster - Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme

Poster - Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme
Mothers - let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health. Public Information poster issued by the Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme circa 1942

Background imageCare Collection: Evacuation as a National Service - Poster

Evacuation as a National Service - Poster
It Might by You! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Background imageCare Collection: National Air Safety Committee Poster

National Air Safety Committee Poster
Poster, National Air Safety Committee, providing instructions to new pilots -- please help to keep flying safe. 1933

Background imageCare Collection: Claybury Asylum, near Woodford, Essex

Claybury Asylum, near Woodford, Essex
General view of Claybury Asylum, near Woodford, Essex

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Ellimans Universal Embrocation

Advertisement for Ellimans Universal Embrocation, for the treatment of stiffness, sprains, aches and bruises. Showing an athletic young woman about to take a swipe at a golf ball. early 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Calber cosmetic products

Advertisement for Calber cosmetic products (skin creams, soaps and perfumes), showing a woman diving into a bright blue sea. The company is based in San Sebastian, Spain. early 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Cintura Calliano

Advertisement for Cintura Calliano (the Calliano Belt), as seen at an exhibition in Turin in 1898. The belt was designed to combat seasickness

Background imageCare Collection: Poster: Blood Donors Wanted

Poster: Blood Donors Wanted. Your blood can save the life of someone, somewhere. Showing two soldiers tending a wounded colleague. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Poster: Keep on keeping up tyre care

Poster: Keep on keeping up tyre care, giving advice on how to make your car tyres last as long as possible. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Poster: Heat plays havoc with shoe leather

Poster: Heat plays havoc with shoe leather. With advice on how to look after your shoes so that they last as long as possible. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service

Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service
Wartime leaflet about the blood transfusion service, showing how blood, and blood transfusion equipment, are dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to save the lives of wounded soldiers. 1940s

Background imageCare Collection: Doctor and patient, Japan

Doctor and patient, Japan. circa 1890s

Background imageCare Collection: Doctor and geisha patient, Japan

Doctor and geisha patient, Japan

Background imageCare Collection: Woman checking for lice, Naples, Italy

Woman checking for lice, Naples, Italy
A woman checking a boys head for lice, Naples, Italy. late 19th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Neobiol skin treatment

Advertisement for Neobiol skin treatment

Background imageCare Collection: National homage to Louis Pasteur, French scientist

National homage to Louis Pasteur, French scientist
National homage to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist who made many breakthroughs in disease prevention. late 19th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Decontractyl to promote relaxation

Advertisement for Decontractyl to promote relaxation. Showing a woman in holiday mood, in a straw hat. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Dysarene, for digestive health

Advertisement for Dysarene, for digestive health, designed to combat intestinal infections and parasitosis. Showing a toilet brush hanging up beside a picture of intestines -- lovely! 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Neurogastrine

Advertisement for Neurogastrine, showing a contented stomach relaxing in a deckchair on the beach. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Outside an old peoples home in Daventry

Outside an old peoples home in Daventry
Scene outside an old peoples home in Daventry, West Midlands. An elderly man walks through the yard as the snow falls. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: A District Nurse

A District Nurse standing in the doorway of her single-storey thatched cottage circa 1910s

Background imageCare Collection: Hospital nurse doing some ironing

Hospital nurse doing some ironing
A hospital nurse doing some ironing with a rather primitive looking iron. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Wartime poster seeking blood donors

Wartime poster seeking blood donors. They ve got him! Have we got you as a blood donor? With a space at the bottom for details of a local donation centre

Background imageCare Collection: Poster: Pots and Pans

Poster: Pots and Pans
Poster giving advice on looking after Pots and Pans so that they last as long as possible. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Dressing wounds of injured Anzac soldier, WW1

Dressing wounds of injured Anzac soldier, WW1
Dressing the wounds of an injured Anzac soldier during World War One. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: Mother feeding her baby

Mother feeding her baby

Background imageCare Collection: Hospital treatment for wounded horse, Western Front, WW1

Hospital treatment for wounded horse, Western Front, WW1
Hospital treatment for a wounded horse on the Western Front in France during World War One. A piece of shrapnel is being removed. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: British casualty clearing station, Western Front, WW1

British casualty clearing station, Western Front, WW1
Scene at a British casualty clearing station on the Western Front in France during World War One. Nurses are treating French and British soldiers who have been wounded in the same battle. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: British soldiers leading wounded horses, WW1

British soldiers leading wounded horses, WW1
British soldiers leading wounded horses for treatment on the Western Front in France during the German offensive, World War One. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: Sickbed scene with three cats

Sickbed scene with three cats

Background imageCare Collection: Two Babies by Muriel Dawson

Two Babies by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a red dress has been bathing her doll. 1930

Background imageCare Collection: Wounded British horse, Western Front, France, WW1

Wounded British horse, Western Front, France, WW1
A vet tends a wounded British horse hit by shrapnel on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: Convalescent British soldiers, Western Front, WW1

Convalescent British soldiers, Western Front, WW1
Convalescent British soldiers relaxing at tables in a recreation hut provided by the BRCS (British Red Cross Society) near the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson

How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy tends his springtime bulbs, watched by a robin on a branch. 1942

Background imageCare Collection: King George V meeting wounded soldiers, WW1

King George V meeting wounded soldiers, WW1
King George V meeting wounded soldiers at a medical centre on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Background imageCare Collection: Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy

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. late 19th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care

Advertisement for Solit䲠Fine Shoe Care
Part of a German advertising campaign promoting a shoe care product using silhouette images Date: 1941

Background imageCare Collection: Daventry old peoples home

Daventry old peoples home
At an old peoples home in Daventry, an eldery man and woman holding walking sticks stand in front of a table set for tea. She laughs as he puts his arm around her and says something to her

Background imageCare Collection: Women in Daventry old peoples home

Women in Daventry old peoples home
Three elderly women sit in armchairs chatting at an old peoples home in Daventry. One woman is laughing heartily. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: Methodist Home for the Aged, Muswell Hill

Methodist Home for the Aged, Muswell Hill
Three old women sit in chairs on a patio outside the Methodist Home for the Aged in Muswell Hill, London. One of the women is getting up from her seat. Date: 1966

Background imageCare Collection: Muswell Hill old peoples home

Muswell Hill old peoples home
Two old ladies stop to talk in a corridor at an old peoples home in Muswell Hill, London. One woman holds a pile of leaflets/posters and the other smiles and holds up a flower. Date: 1966

Background imageCare Collection: Men in Daventry old peoples home

Men in Daventry old peoples home
A group of elderly men sit in armchairs in a room watching television in an old peoples home in Daventry, Northhamptonshire. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: Bed-ridden woman at old peoples home

Bed-ridden woman at old peoples home
A woman who has been bed-ridden for twenty years at an old peoples home in Daventry stares at a television from under her sheets. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: Medication time at old peoples home

Medication time at old peoples home
At an old peoples home in Daventry, a nurse with a tray of medicines arrives at a table where old women are having tea, to supply them with the correct pills. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: Advert for Amor Skin, 1930

Advert for Amor Skin, 1930
Advert for Amor Skin face cream, 1930 Date: 1930

Background imageCare Collection: Night nurse at Guys Hospital

Night nurse at Guys Hospital
A nurse on night duty at Guys Hospital, London, doing some paperwork at her desk. Date: 1957

Background imageCare Collection: Hospital for the disabled

Hospital for the disabled
Scene in a hospital for the disabled -- young men in wheelchairs, and an attendant. Date: 1960

Background imageCare Collection: Two schoolboys give first aid to a teddy bear

Two schoolboys give first aid to a teddy bear
Two boys giving first aid to a teddy bear in the gymnasium of their school. Date: 1963

Background imageCare Collection: Old peoples home in Daventry

Old peoples home in Daventry
Five elderly men in the sitting room of an old peoples home in Daventry, West Midlands. Date: 1964

Background imageCare Collection: Kissing a Ladys Hand

Kissing a Ladys Hand
A gentleman kisses a ladys hand through her glove, taking care not to catch his nose on the flap of her built-in wrist watch! Date: early 1930s

Background imageCare Collection: Bukta Rucksack Advert

Bukta Rucksack Advert
Advertisement for Buktas rucsacs - the care-free spirit of the hiker and rambler is the outcome of careful forethought. Date: July 1931

Background imageCare Collection: Teacher and pupil at MacIntyre School, Westoning Manor

Teacher and pupil at MacIntyre School, Westoning Manor
A teacher with a pupil, working on a jigsaw, at MacIntyre School, Westoning Manor, near Flitwick, Bedfordshire. Another pupil sits at a table in the background, working happily on his own

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Pastillas Morello

Advertisement for Pastillas Morello, pastilles for the treatment of colds, coughs, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, hoarseness, pulmonary abscesses, etc

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Le Thermogene medicine

Advertisement for Le Thermogene medicine
Advertisement for Le Thermogene, a medicine designed to combat coughs, flu and rheumatic pains. circa 1930s

Background imageCare Collection: Louis Pasteur on a Chocolat Poulain trade card

Louis Pasteur on a Chocolat Poulain trade card
Louis Pasteur featured on a Chocolat Poulain trade card. circa early 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Advertisement for Kolynos toothpaste

Advertisement for Kolynos toothpaste, featuring a smiling nurse with brilliant white teeth, her face illuminated by a torch. 20th century

Background imageCare Collection: Collecting on Cradle Day

Collecting on Cradle Day
A policeman puts some money in a charity box on Cradle Day in London. Nurses collect money for the babies and infants they care for. Date: 1931



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