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  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • The carnival of lost emotions / The Centre for the History of the Emotions.
  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • Months of the year: February, in which people celebrate carnival by over-indulgence, frost-fairs etc. Engraving after P. Stevens II.
  • If you have a patient who cannot smell a rose...the remedy may be Otrivine : rosa 'Cologne carnival' H.T.
  • If you have a patient who cannot smell a rose...the remedy may be Otrivine : rosa 'Cologne carnival' H.T.
  • Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
  • Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales: members of Life Saving Clubs put on a display at a surf carnival. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • Royal North Woolwich Gardens ... : W. Holland's grand carnival benefit on Monday, August 23rd, Tuesday, 24 & Wednesday 25, 1875. This is the event of the season!.
  • A washing line bearing two inflated condoms and a red and yellow flag representing a safe-sex advertisement during the Brazilian Carnival by Gapa/BS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The carnival in Rome (?): an old man is playing the guitar and young women are gathered around a sedan chair carrying a man. Wood engraving after L. Alvarez Catalá.
  • Coloured condoms and streamers representing the carnival in Brazil; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Ministério de Saude Programa Nacional de Controle das DST/AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • A yellow butterfly representing part of a message that life goes on after the Trinidad Carnival; a safe-sex advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad and Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker, ca. 1995.
  • Bartholomew fair in London represented as a place where crowds of people watch entertainments inspired by the devil, and indulge in drunkenness and fighting; demons incite them to crime. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • An old woman is carrying a masked pierrot on her shoulders. Watercolour.
  • Pieter Brueghel, A cripple with hand crutches.
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • A strongman (Emile de Suyck?) invites a woman to volunteer to help him in his final feat. Process print, 1906 (?).
  • A strongman (Emile de Suyck?) invites a woman to volunteer to help him in his final feat. Process print, 1906 (?).
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • A family educating themselves on HIV and AIDS: four figures; advertising an AIDS prevention fair and exhibiton for families in Tsuen Wan district, Hong Kong, supported by the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.