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<p>Card from a package containing 9 other illustrated cards showing images from the recently digitized AIDS posters collection in the Wellcome Library at 183 Euston Road, London and a text card giving background information. Issued in November 2012.</p>

Picturing AIDS.

Picturing AIDS

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 8 x 11 cm.

The power of love : stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

Wir schützen uns, weil wir uns lieben : Stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 36 x 68 cm

A toppled broken drinking glass with the remainder of a drink and some ice cubes in, representing alcoholism as breaking human relations. Colour lithograph, 2001.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 59.6 x 42 cm

A corkscrew, bottle opener, cork, stoppers, bottle-tops etc.; representing alcohol consumption. Colour lithograph, ca. 1999.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 42 x 29.5 cm

Blocks of flats against a big field of dried grass, with some lights on and some lights out, representing smokers dying in Switzerland every day. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.

A child's bedroom empty with a big flat (deflated?) teddy bear on the floor and a stuffed teddy bear seated on it, the child absent; representing oxygen deprivation in children due to the mother's smoking during pregnancy. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.

An abandoned retirement home in a garden, with an empty swimming pool in front of it, representing the premature death of smokers from heart attacks. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.

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The power of love : stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

Wir schützen uns, weil wir uns lieben : Stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

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The power of love : stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

Wir schützen uns, weil wir uns lieben : Stop AIDS ... / Wellcome Library.

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