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Images

  • A Swedish clergyman showing the chalice to children at their first communion. Wood engraving after E. Oehme, 1881.
  • A woman wearing a waistcoat smiles beside another woman who looks at her; a warning about HIV within the work place by the Arbetarskyddsstyrelsen Folkhälsoinstitutet (Swedish National Public Health Insitute). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The face of a middle-aged blonde-haired woman wearing black; French version in a series of AIDS prevention advertisements entitled 'Yes' by Folkhälsoinstitutet. Colour lithograph by Nina Vestlund & Co and Anti Wendel, ca. 1995.
  • Annie Söderberg, a social worker in Stockholm and a pioneer in addiction treatment; with the message in Swedish 'You must take the love game seriously'. Lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.
  • Nine famous Swedish doctors, numbered with a key from 28-36. Lithograph by A. Hardh.
  • A head, a hand and a torso of a criminal, each deposited on a cartwheel on top of a stripped tree-trunk. Engraving by R. Pollard after E.D. Clarke, 1819.
  • A figure dives off a cliff into the sea; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements for Swedish addiction support groups including the AIDS delegation, the Federation of alcohol and drug awareness, Youth Federation and Soldiers Against Drugs. Colour lithograph by Annerino-Liaison, 1992.
  • A comic human figure looking dubiously at a bowl of soup; advertising food hygiene. Colour lithograph after L. Bramberg for the Swedish Red Cross, 1954.
  • People making tar in the forests of Sweden. Etching after E. D. Clarke.
  • Caroli Linnaei ... Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciae regni qvadrupedia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, distributa per classes et ordines, genera et species. Cum differentiis specierum synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, locis habitationum, descriptionibus insectorum / [Carl von Linné].
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Works

    • Books

    Gymnastikens dekadans i varå dagars Sverige / [Svenska gymnastikdirektörs förbundet].

    | Date: 1941.]
    • Books

    Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

    Shampo, M. A. (Marc A.) | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

    Nyberg, Gudrun, 1942- | Date: 2011
    • Books

    Syphilis in Sweden about 1800 / Inger Wikström-Haugen.

    Wikström-Haugen, Inger, 1944- | Date: 1981
    • Books

    Genetic-statistical and psychiatric investigations of west Swedish population / by Torsten Sjögren ; [translated by Erica Odelberg].

    Sjögren, Torsten, 1896- | Date: [1948]
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