Images Dated 22nd June 2004

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr

Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom) a whip-block and tally-board; a hawser-cutter; a heaving-cane and line; a rocket machine; a fuse-box; a rocket; whip, hawser and breeches-buoy; a light; Board of Trade wagon; a cliff ladder in use; a triangle; a rocket-line box; a portfire; the rocket-line box from above; an anchor; a cliff-helmet

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Mental patient strapped into a restraining chair

Restraining chair. Engraving of a mentalpatient strapped into a restraining chair whichprevents movement. The patient has a device on hishead to restrict that part of his body. The chairhas a bucket attached to the underside to catchthe patient's excreta. Image of the "tranquilizingchair" of 1811 which was designed by Americandoctor Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). An influentialphysician, Rush tried to establish humaneconditions for the treatment of the insane and isknown as the "father of American psychiatry".However, he also believed that insanity could becured by bleeding and purging the patient

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Landing Oranges at Fresh Wharf, London Bridge, 1874

Engraving showing the belly of a cargo ship, being unloaded of oranges at Fresh Wharf, London. The oranges, in rectangular crates, are being lifted out of the hold by winches then carried ashore by dockworkers. In this picture one can clearly see the large cushions the dockers wore over their head and shoulders, in order to protect them from the crates that they carried on their heads. The oranges were a special cargo brought to London, from warmer climes, just in time for Christmas

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