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  • Sanitation: mother supervising child washing hands
  • The regular washing of hands. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • The regular washing of hands. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • A girl washing her hands in a bowl above a tap in a washing cubicle; health education in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Hygiene: a woman washing her hands to prevent transmission of hepatitis. Colour lithograph, 197-.
  • M0008007: Woman washing clothes and beating them in the stream with wooden "hands", 14th century
  • Children washing their hands, cleaning and tidying: World Health Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2003.
  • Washing hands: global handwashing day October 15th in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • Washing hands: global handwashing day October 15th in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • The importance of washing hands before cooking and sterilising water in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A child washing his hands with soap and water: preventing diarrhoea in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A child washing his hands with soap and water: preventing diarrhoea in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Women preparing a chicken and washing their hands: protecting from avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2006.
  • Women preparing a chicken and washing their hands: protecting from avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2006.
  • A man washing his hands: the importance of personal hygiene at work in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • God appears radiantly behind a black cloud as Moses swings an incense burner; four people are washing their feet and hands in preparation. Etching.
  • Illustrated guide to preventing infection by washing hands: preventing spread of coughs, colds and influenza in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A woman washing her hands in a bowl held by a boy servant; to the left a seated man reads a letter. Engraving after C. Netscher.
  • Vaccination, washing hands, exclusive breastfeeting and prompt treatment for respiratory illness: protecting children from pneumonia in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • A mother tending her sick child, a boy washing his hands, a man bandaging a wound, a woman washing clothes and 2 people cleaning their teeth; one of a series of AIDS prevention educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A woman coughing into her arm, a man sneezing into a tissue and washing hands: preventing the spread of flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A woman coughing into her arm, a man sneezing into a tissue and washing hands: preventing the spread of flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A young woman washing her hands in water poured from a jug by a maid; behind are a bed and a table. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. Ter Borch (Terborch).
  • A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A woman washing her hands in a bowl of water held by a maidservant; a man enters through a door on the right. Engraving by C.L. Lingée, 1772, after G. Metsu.
  • Verso: two people hugging with list of ways of taking care from washing your hands to compassionate care for people with HIV/AIDS (English version); part of a project by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph.
  • An illustrated list of ways in which people can be protected from AIDS, from washing their hands to sterilising euipqment properly; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Cell of the Directorate of Health Service, Goverment of New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ravi Chopra, ca. 1995.
  • Bones of the arm and hand: figures. Pencil and wash with bodycolour, 18--.