A naked black man kisses and holds up another while putting on a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph, 1990.

Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.

Think, understand, act / Black HIV Forum, part of the HIV Network ; designed by Kulwant Dhaliwal at Depot Studios, Coventry.

[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].

Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.

The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.

Directorscut : positive : [man's abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms] / photo: Stewart Grant.

A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.

It am de stuff : Dingman's Electric Soap / [Pugsley, Dingman & Co.].

Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 29.6 x 20.9 cm

A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 21 x 54 cm folded to 21 x 11 cm

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

1 print : mezzotint ; image 16.3 x 12.3 cm

Head of a black man. Mezzotint by A.F. Girard, 1839, after a mezzotint.

<p>Promotional magazine insert for Sunlight Soap, possibly from the 1920s. The front has a colour illustration of a very large black woman in red headscarf, purple dress and white apron loading the laundry she has just done onto a basket held by a small black boy above his head. They are standing in a green field with a line of clothes drying behind them. The detergent requires "no rubbing, no boiling".</p>

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

296 pages : illustrations, 2 folded maps ; 23 cm

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

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A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

Head of a black man. Mezzotint by A.F. Girard, 1839, after a mezzotint.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

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A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

Head of a black man. Mezzotint by A.F. Girard, 1839, after a mezzotint.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

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