The exhibit covers draw on public collections and openly licensed research photographs. Here are the complete images, their creators, and the records that establish how they can be reused.
Instructions for ships arriving in British waters. The cover introduces the maritime-quarantine dossier; it is a historical document, not current guidance.
Public Domain Mark. Wellcome image record rtwc97vd identifies this digitisation as public domain.
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Influenza ward, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Harris & Ewing · c. 1918
A clinical scene from the 1918 influenza pandemic, one event within the much longer timeline.
No known restrictions. The Library of Congress states “No known restrictions on publication.” The catalogue dates the photograph c. 1918, Nov. 1, and cautions that its older caption-card data is unverified.
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Smallpox virus virions, transmission electron micrograph
CDC / Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield · 1975
The image depicts smallpox virus, one of the atlas’s pathogen profiles. The resized detail is not a calibrated measurement image.
Public domain. PHIL 1849 explicitly identifies this image as public domain, free of copyright restrictions.
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The Dreadnought, hospital ship for seamen, at Greenwich
The Illustrated London News; engraver not identified · 1870
A documented hospital ship. The interactive cutaway inside the exhibit remains a separate schematic teaching model and does not reconstruct this vessel.
Public Domain Mark. Wellcome image record hubucktr, image V0013350, marks this digitisation as public domain.
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Geographic context for movement and encampments. The map does not itself record disease cases. North is to the left in the original.
Public domain. Eighteenth-century manuscript map. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division; the catalogue dates it [1775?] and the download is unrestricted.
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Carolina Bertilsson · Published 2023; photograph date unspecified
Photograph released with the 2023 Varnhem dental study cited in the exhibit. The Varnhem sample is distinct from the Ribe and Birka samples.
CC BY 4.0. The PLOS media record credits Carolina Bertilsson and explicitly licenses this photograph CC BY 4.0.
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