Litters
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
A Dandy, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2602
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a Western woman being carried in 'a vehicle of locomotion in the Himalayas - a chair with poles', by four men on a mountain side in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
MS documents relating to Sir John Spencer Login, and proposing the use of specially constructed litters for battlefield casualties
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1396
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
MS memorandum (pp.11) titled Field conveyance for the sick and wounded signed J. S. Login, and dated 30 June 1857, Castle Menzies, Perthshire. The document outlines Login's idea and the approaches made to the War Office and the subsequent bureaucratic referrals. The War Office subsequently undertook the manufacture of a 'blessiere' to the design...
Dates:
1855-1857
Sow and Litter, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/539
Scope and Contents
Magazine article entitled, A useful Device for Protecting Suckling Pigs: a Device Used in Switzerland, and illustration of a sow and litter from 'Food, 18/1/17.'
Dates:
1870s-1930s