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Images

  • 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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Works

    • Pictures

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

    | Date: [approximately 2011] | Reference: 2476975i
    • Books

    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.

    Knights, D. | Date: 1993
  • view Head of a black man. Mezzotint by A.F. Girard, 1839, after a mezzotint.
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1839 | Reference: 34808i
    • Ephemera

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

    Lever Brothers Ltd | Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
    • Books

    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.

    Willoughby, W. C. (William Charles), 1857-1938. | Date: 1923
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