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  • Masks and goggles against light and heat
  • World War One: stretcher bearers wearing gas masks
  • Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
  • Three musicians, one in drag, in masks for an "Olympia" masked ball.
  • Japanese masks: six masks, including two representing a dog and a demon, with an old man shown to their left. Colour woodcut with pop-up flaps on strings, 1860/1920?.
  • Japanese masks: six masks, including two representing a dog and a demon, with an old man shown to their left. Colour woodcut with pop-up flaps on strings, 1860/1920?.
  • Two masks showing physiognomies expressing complaisance (left) and probity (right). Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • A family, all members wearing grotesque masks, the father in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • A family, all members wearing grotesque masks, the father in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Yellow fever: two scientists wearing face masks at work in a laboratory. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Yellow fever: two scientists wearing face masks at work in a laboratory. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Japan: spear-men wearing protective clothing and masks. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • The Maidan park, Calcutta, India: traditional Bhutan Devil dancers, some wearing masks: group portrait. Photograph, 1906.
  • Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes; modelled by two women at a typewriter. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes; modelled by two women at a typewriter. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes; modelled by two women at a typewriter. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Two men wearing masks club Hudibras, as Ralphos, removing his mask, and a widow (dressed in black), watch from a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Two masks, one red, the other green, broken down the middle: representing the protection of children. Colour lithograph by (Paul?) Reding, 1961.
  • A masquerade: two men in masks pretend to play musical instruments for a young woman who is wearing a veil. Engraving after Jacques de Gheyn II.
  • Athenians wearing masks celebrate the vintage by dancing around a statue of Bacchus and sacrificing a goat to him. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
  • A canoe with men from the Hawaiian Islands wearing masks, encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by C. Grignion, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Two men facing each other holding phone receivers wearing white masks to imply confidentiality; an advertisement for an AIDS helpline for gay men in Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two men wearing face masks, another with his arm over his mouth: preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by Desalegn Worku for USAID and TB/CTA, ca. 2000.
  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • Rows of the faces of women, some with death masks, representing women with AIDS; advertisment for free HIV/AIDS tests by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Colour lithograph by Kerr and Malley, 1992.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.