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[The queen-elect is brought to the king]

[The queen-elect is brought to the king]

Native men carrying the queen seated on a throne supported by a litter; trumpeters lead the procession which is followed by young women carrying baskets of fruit and by a contingent of bodyguards. Illus. in: Br... More

Shōno, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Shōno, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows travelers, including two porters carrying a litter, walking up an incline near the Shōno station on the Tōkaidō Road during a rain storm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Totsuka, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scenic drawing

Totsuka, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows travelers, including two carrying a litter with passenger, on the Tōkaidō Road at the Totsuka station. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

[Palanquin or litter] - Public domain drawing

[Palanquin or litter] - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a traditional enclosed, box-like palanquin or litter, mounted on two supports. Includes Japanese text on the right. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. 1878. From "... More

Chair and cago - Public domain drawing

Chair and cago - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman in a sedan chair and a woman in a palanquin (or kago) on a street in front of a building. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict birds in the upper right and a seated woma... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Please! somebody help us to let go of this load

Please! somebody help us to let go of this load

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

The Arab's shibriyeh, a home on the desert, Egypt

The Arab's shibriyeh, a home on the desert, Egypt

Stereograph showing man leading a camel which has a tented litter on its back with two people inside. 44920-BB2 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: "Copyright by 1896 by Underwood & Underwood."

[Bicycle stretchers bringing Russian wounded to a surgical station -- siege of Port Arthur]

[Bicycle stretchers bringing Russian wounded to a surgical station -- ...

H63725 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7789.

[A gallant defender of Russian Fort No. 3 -- coming back to Port Arthur on a bicycle stretcher]

[A gallant defender of Russian Fort No. 3 -- coming back to Port Arthu...

H63453 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7791.

[Ready to care for the wounded -- Red Cross station near Kuropatkin Fort, north of Port Arthur]

[Ready to care for the wounded -- Red Cross station near Kuropatkin Fo...

Photograph shows a row of bicycle stretchers; in background a low building in front of which sit a group of men. H63720 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from publi... More

[Wagons and bicycle stretchers used to transport injured Russian soldiers]

[Wagons and bicycle stretchers used to transport injured Russian soldi...

H63724 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

[Lifting a wounded Russian to a bicycle stretcher -- a Red Cross post during battle -- Port Arthur]

[Lifting a wounded Russian to a bicycle stretcher -- a Red Cross post ...

H60454 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7788.

Suffrage parade, NYC, Oct. 23, 1915

Suffrage parade, NYC, Oct. 23, 1915

Photograph shows four women carrying ballot boxes on a stretcher during a suffrage parade in New York City, New York. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Title from caption on original print. Caption on neg.: Red Cross demonstration, 1918. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.lo... More

The "skirmish line" searching for the lost graves ... Company A, 321st Labor Battalion, spread out in "skirmish line" formation by twos, searching for dead along the south bank of the Vesle in the Chateau-Thierry section. The stretchers are used to transport the bodies to the cemeteries U.S. Army Signal Corps A.E.F. photographic laboratory

The "skirmish line" searching for the lost graves ... Company A, 321st...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

A class of Russian high school girls who are being trained as nurses' aides for the A.R.C. hospital at Ekaterinodar. These girls have superb health, smooth brown skins and even, patient dispositions. Other girls of their age carry the litters for wounded soldiers with the Volunteer Army. The fearlessness of these girl litter carriers, who in the face of fire search "No Man's Land" for the wounded, is common

A class of Russian high school girls who are being trained as nurses' ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Hospitals, Russia. On caption card: (21) Used in: ... More

Removing bodies after Wall St. explosion Volunteers removing the bodies of the dead following the explosion in Wall Street yesterday. Photo taken in front of the U.S. Assay Office / / Underwood & Underwood.

Removing bodies after Wall St. explosion Volunteers removing the bodie...

Photograph shows men carrying covered corpse on a stretcher surrounded by a crowd after an explosion in front of the offices of J.P. Morgan. No. 233856NF. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

Buna, New Guinea. Papuan natives shouldering litters carrying blood plasma to the evacuation stations just behind the front liine at Buna. They are given a large measure of credit for the Allied successes in New Guinea. The litters are made of betelwood, by hand, and bound with bark rope

Buna, New Guinea. Papuan natives shouldering litters carrying blood pl...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Impression - litter bearers Mt. Aestin [i.e. Mt. Austen] front - Guadalcanal

Impression - litter bearers Mt. Aestin [i.e. Mt. Austen] front - Guada...

Sketch shows four soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a litter at the front during the World War II battle of Guadalcanal. More finished version: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 11 (A size). Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodi... More

Captain Nelson inspecting a half-ton jeep with a permanent metal frame for carrying three litters somewhere in Australia

Captain Nelson inspecting a half-ton jeep with a permanent metal frame...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buna, New Guinea. Papuan natives shouldering litters carrying blood plasma to the evacuation stations just behind the front liine at Buna. They are given a large measure of credit for the Allied successes in New Guinea. The litters are made of betelwood, by hand, and bound with bark rope

Buna, New Guinea. Papuan natives shouldering litters carrying blood pl...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Additional number on caption card: C-148. Image source: American Red Cross. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Off... More

[Litter bearers on a jungle trail at the front]

[Litter bearers on a jungle trail at the front]

Drawing shows four soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a litter at the front during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Signed: Sgt. Howard Brodie Guadalcanal. Sketch version: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 33 (A... More

Stretchers on a roadway in the Nidual River valley leading to the 3rd Marine Division Navy field hospital, which was the scene of a dawn attack by Japanese forces Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

Stretchers on a roadway in the Nidual River valley leading to the 3rd ...

Caption on verso. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unidentified German medical soldiers in uniform carrying wounded soldier on stretcher Eduard Ertl, Bodenmais, bay, Wald

Unidentified German medical soldiers in uniform carrying wounded soldi...

On verso: German address and message. Postmarked "23.5.15.7-8V." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Title from caption on original print. Caption on neg.: Red Cross demonstration, 1918. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.lo... More

Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead, battlefield scene, France

Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead, battlefield scene...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18864. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Title from caption on original print. Caption on neg.: Red Cross demonstration, 1918. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.lo... More

Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead, battlefield scene, France

Picking up the severely wounded from among the dead, battlefield scene...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18864. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washingt...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Going to the fair] / Helen Hyde.

[Going to the fair] / Helen Hyde.

Adults, carrying children in litters, approaching bridge, going toward tents at fair, Japan. K13407 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Monogram "HH" and four-leaf clover device in block. Copyright by Hele... More

[Going to the fair] / Helen Hyde.

[Going to the fair] / Helen Hyde.

Adults, carrying children in litters, approaching bridge, going toward tents at fair, Japan. K13407 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Monogram "HH" and four-leaf clover device in block. Copyright by Hele... More