Prevention Collection

Hospital of N.Y. Women's League for Animals, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Hospital of N.Y. Women's League for Animals, 1914. Shows the hospital of the New York Women's League for Animals at 350 Lafayette Street, New York City which opened in March, 1914

The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Captain Cecil Lyon. This regiment, under the command of Major H

Preparing for the Evacuation of Warsaw, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Preparing for the Evacuation of Warsaw, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Removing church bells and other metal objects - capable of being melted for munition purposes - to prevent them from falling

The Patrolman Matsui Yasumichi Prevents a Double Suicide, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Patrolman Matsui Yasumichi Prevents a Double Suicide, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 603

A Police Patrol Preventing a Rape in a Graveyard, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Police Patrol Preventing a Rape in a Graveyard, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 466

Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 525

Venus asks Neptune to prevent Telemachus from landing on Ithaca, c.1719-c.1775. Creator: Ruik Keyert
Venus asks Neptune to prevent Telemachus from landing on Ithaca, c.1719-c.1775.. Design for a wall painting

Allegory, unknown date. Creator: Anon
Allegory, unknown date

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman, Hinds County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Thin dimes around the ankles to prevent headaches

Member of the committee... erects sign on U.S. 99 highway, near Hanford, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Hanford, California. On U.S. 99. A member of the committee from adjoining town erects sign on the highway. [Sign: Abstinence Not Moderation, Will Reduce Accidents. W.C.T.U

Member of the committee... erects sign on the highway, U.S. 99, near Hanford, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Hanford, California. On U.S. 99. A member of the committee from adjoining town erects sign on the highway. [Sign: Abstinence Not Moderation, Will Reduce Accidents. W.C.T.U

Mandala of the One-Syllable Golden Wheel, 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Mandala of the One-Syllable Golden Wheel, 18th century. The Mandala of the One-Syllable Golden Wheel (Japanese: Ichiji Kinrin Mandara) envisions the power of a single Sanskrit syllable

Catherine Douglas Barring the Door, (15th century), c1910
Catherine Douglas, later Catherine Kate Barlass, was a historical figure who tried to prevent the assassination of King James I of Scotland (1394-1437) on February 20, 1437

Christian missionaries interrupting a human sacrifice, 1878. Artist: J Christie
Christian missionaries interrupting a human sacrifice, 1878. From The Illustrated London News (1 June 1878)

Hampden and Pym prevented from emigrating to New England by order of the government, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow

The meeting between the Roman Ambassador, Popillius, and King Antiochus, Egypt, c18th century. Gaius Popillius Laenas was sent as an envoy to prevent a war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes of

Vaccinations of the old soldiers, Paris, 1900. Artist: Eugene Damblans
Vaccinations of the old soldiers, Paris, 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 30th December 1900

Heroism of a teacher, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 7th December 1902

The Arrest of Ravachol, 1892. Artist: Francois Claudius Koeningstein
The Arrest of Ravachol, 1892. Francois Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, (1859-1892), was a French anarchist best known for terrorism, and responsible for several bombings in Paris

Firing a cannon into clouds to prevent a hail storm, 1901. It was claimed that rain fell instead of the anticipated hail which would have damaged the grape vines in the wine producing area of

Britannia holding back Cholera at British ports, 1892. Artist: John Tenniel
Britannia holding back Cholera at British ports, 1892. In an outbreak of the water-borne disease in 1892 about 260, 000 died in Russia and 7600 in Hamburg. An epidemic was prevented in Britain

Free Smallpox vaccination clinic on premises of French newspaper, Paris
Free vaccination clinic on premises of French newspaper. Heffer has shaven portion of flank infected with Cowpox; serum transferred with stylus to arms of waiting Parisians to give immunity to

The Police (of the Future), 1886. Artist: Corbould
The Police (of the Future), 1886. This, according to Punch is what the appropriately equipped police officer will be wearing to go about his day to day duties

No You Don t!, 1885. Artist: Joseph Swain
No You Don t!, 1885. The British Lion warns the Russian Bear not to cross over into Afghanistan, seen in the distance in this cartoon

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season, 1876. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season, 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon

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