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A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A maker of shoes and boots is selling shoes to a woman at the window of his workshop, as his assistants sew and hammer footwear. Woodcut by J. Amman.

An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.

Occupational health ephemera. Box 1.

Why the shoe pinches : a contribution to applied anatomy / by Hermann Meyer ; translated from the German by John Stirling Craig.

Place the first and second fingers of the left hand through the openings, and bend the finger ends through the horizontal slit : the result will surprise you / Pocock Bros.

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A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Occupational health ephemera. Box 1.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Why the shoe pinches : a contribution to applied anatomy / by Hermann Meyer ; translated from the German by John Stirling Craig.

Place the first and second fingers of the left hand through the openings, and bend the finger ends through the horizontal slit : the result will surprise you / Pocock Bros.