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  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a storage space for bed linen, pillows and mattresses. Photograph, 1921.
  • Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The broad planks serve as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows.
  • Africa: a display of Zulu shields, mats, pillows, smoking horns, monchies, spoons, baskets, tschinala and amas pots, and beadwork. Albumen print.
  • A sick old woman, sitting supported by pillows as a skeleton pounces aiming his spear at her eyes. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • A boy grinds a barrel organ as two small girls dance to amuse another child who is leaning against pillows in a chair. Engraving by W. Finden after T. Webster.
  • Bamboo pillow, tunnel shaped.
  • Chinese woodcut: Jade Pillow abscess
  • Chinese woodcut: Jade Pillow abscess and Calamitous abscess
  • A Chinese man in grey robes holding a pillow. Watercolour.
  • Doris Day and Rock Hudson in 'Pillow talk'. Photographic postcard, 196-.
  • Doris Day and Rock Hudson in 'Pillow talk'. Photographic postcard, 196-.
  • A small child asleep leaning against a pillow. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi.
  • A lady reclines on a pillow attended by one male. Engraving by an Indian artist, 18--.
  • A woman in a mob cap is sitting on a chair making bobbin lace on a lace pillow. Lithograph.
  • A woman sitting on a chair making lace on a lace-pillow. Engraving by Thomas Sherratt after A.J. Woolmer.
  • Egyptian wooden pillow with inscription on base; translation; The Chief Doctor of the King, the faithful vassal of Ptah, Khnemarkh
  • A woman is sitting on a chair making bobbin lace on a lace pillow. Engraving by A. H. Payne after G. Metsu.
  • A young uniformed man sitting with a pillow on his chair, facing a machine giving electro-magnetic treatment; a nurse holds his head in position. Photograph.
  • Two black men lie with their heads together on a pillow; an advertisement for safe sex by the Health Education Authority for the National Aids Helpline. Colour lithograph.
  • A bed with cream linen and a pillow case bearing the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) representing the transmission of AIDS in the bedroom. Colour silk screen print after J. Sterbak, 1993.
  • A naked man lies on a bed with his arms resting on the pillow representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Australian AIDS Council with a list of regional council telephone numbers. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman is sitting by the window making lace on a pillow while another woman sits by a spinning wheel watching a kitten play with a reel of cotton; a man holds a swift or skein winder. Engraving by W. French after F.J. Luckx.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.
  • An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.
  • A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • The adoration by the magi of Christ, shown as young and old. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1794, after J. Carter, after a bas-relief in Long Melford church, Suffolk.
  • The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Lithograph by F. Decraene after B. Murillo.
  • Aerva tomentosa Lam.: flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A rentboy offers himself subject to use of a condom; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Martin E. Kautter and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Madar plant (Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.): flowering and fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1705.