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  • Ecuadorian metal object with three holes, from Huigra
  • Jesus and the apostles pass judgement on the dead, who emerge from square holes in the ground. Etching.
  • A smith makes holes in a sheet of metal on an anvil, other tools lie nearby. Etching by José Garcia Hidalgo.
  • Bought of George Walker : florist, fruiterer & greengrocer : button holes, dress sprays, wreaths and crosses : families waited upon daily for orders.
  • A girl eating sweets and looking at a note warning of "holes ahead", referring to the danger of dental caries. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • A man in Africa sitting imprisoned on the ground, with his hands and feet locked into holes made in cut-down tree trunks. Wood engraving after P.B. Du Chaillu, 1867.
  • Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944.
  • A Scotsman using a lavatory for the first time, is seated on a latrine with his legs thrust down the holes in the board and his hands placed before him; his urine trickles over the edge of the toilet. Engraving by C. Mosley, 1745.
  • Elephant's hair. Slide by Topping - x165 - lamp. Beck Intensity and ground glass and wratten 45a filter. Condenser - Leitz 1.4 NA. Camera ext. 215 mm. Plate - Kodak Pan. Exp. 5.75m. Fine grain 1D11. Talen F.C. Griggs 29.9.48 op.lat. Top lens removed. OBJ. Watson Holes 12mm. 0.65 N.n. used 182 mm. thickcore Eyepiece x 14.
  • Two pronged plugs with pink condoms coming out of opposite holes and the message in German: 'Safer Sex rule no. 1: always use condoms and kiss to your heart's content'; an advertisement for safe sex by the AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero]. Colour lithograph.
  • Milking machine: air-bleed hole
  • Milking machine: air-bleed hole
  • James Geikie. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • A man with toothache. Etching by W. Hole.
  • Alexander Crum Brown. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Peter Guthrie Tait. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Milking machine: groove - air-bleed hole
  • George Chrystal. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Alexander Dickson. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • John Chiene. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Thomas Annandale. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • SEm old bone with hole and new trabeculae
  • Sir Douglas Maclagan. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Sir William Turner. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • James Cossar Ewart. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Thomas Smith Clouston and Douglas Argyll Robertson. Etching by W. Hole.
  • Sir Alexander Russell Simpson. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.
  • Edinburgh Skull, trepanning showing hole in back of skull