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Culture, Posters & Adverts · 1849 · Waverley corridor

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Records must match the selected period. Films must additionally connect to the Waverley corridor—Edinburgh, Midlothian, the Borders or the route itself—so unrelated Glasgow and Highlands material no longer appears here. Broader period posters remain clearly labelled as context.

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Adverts, posters & visual culture · 1849

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Poster for the Great Exhibition in London in 18511851The Great Exhibition, LondonGeorge Cruikshank print showing crowds going to the Great Exhibition of 18511851All the World Is Going to See the Great ExhibitionInterpretive illustration for Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition1851-1852Official Catalogue of the Great ExhibitionInterpretive illustration for A Drop of London Water1850A Drop of London WaterJohn Snow map plotting cholera deaths and water pumps in London in 18541854John Snow's Cholera Map1855 colour lithograph titled A Hot Night in the Batteries during the Crimean War1855A Hot Night in the BatteriesTinted 1855 lithograph of Lord Raglan's headquarters during the Crimean War18 January 1855Lord Raglan's HeadquartersInterpretive illustration for A Patient, Many Drugs and an Undertakerc. 1850A Patient, Many Drugs and an Undertaker1851 newspaper advertisement for the Equitable Fire Office1851Equitable Fire Office
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Popular print · 1851

All the World Is Going to See the Great Exhibition

George Cruikshank's crowded comic print captures the excitement and mass movement associated with the 1851 exhibition, at a moment when railways were reshaping British travel.

George Cruikshank / Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0

Exhibition catalogue · 1851-1852

Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition

The four-volume official catalogue documented raw materials, machinery, manufactures, fine arts and international exhibits; its supplementary volume also carried advertisements.

Interpretive illustration · not an archive imageWellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark

Public-health satire · 1850

A Drop of London Water

This Punch image visualised anxieties about contaminated urban water before the major sanitary reforms of the later nineteenth century.

Interpretive illustration · not an archive imageWellcome Collection · Archive link

Public-health map · 1854

John Snow's Cholera Map

John Snow mapped deaths around water pumps during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, helping establish a spatial case for waterborne transmission.

John Snow, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Crimean War print · 1855

A Hot Night in the Batteries

William Simpson's published colour lithograph brought a view of British batteries during the Crimean War to the Victorian public.

Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Crimean War print · 18 January 1855

Lord Raglan's Headquarters

William Simpson's tinted lithograph records the British headquarters during the Crimean War and the visual material through which distant conflict reached the home audience.

Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Medical advertising satire · c. 1850

A Patient, Many Drugs and an Undertaker

A coloured lithograph shows a heavily medicated patient receiving a visit from an undertaker, a pointed contemporary comment on excessive remedies.

Interpretive illustration · not an archive imageWellcome Collection · Archive link