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  • Magdalen College, Oxford. Showing the Founder's Towers.
  • Goliath, covered in splendid armour, towers over the humble David. Engraving.
  • Burma: a sanctuary (?) with towers, temples, musicians and dancers. Gouache painting.
  • Cairo, Egypt: Mameluk tombs with decorative towers. Photograph by Pascal Sébah, ca. 1870.
  • Chemistry: various vessels, including cracking towers. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Antioch, Turkey: towers of a ruined castle, with a fortified wall. Engraving by M. Picquenot after L.F. Cassas.
  • Above, a temple with a furnace; below, emaciated bodies lying at the top of two towers with vultures feeding on the carrion. Engraving.
  • The twin towers of a church wearing condoms with the message that AIDS is not God's punishment; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Klaus Staeck, 1987.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wig (which towers above her head in an oval form, and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed by a French hair-dresser who stands on the top of a step-ladder; the woman's husband, a naval officer, is holding a sextant to his eye to ascertain the altitude of the adornment. Engraving, 1771.
  • Tower Hamlets HIV/AIDS services / Dorothy Mukasa, HIV/AIDS Development Officer, Tower Hamlets Social Services Strategy Group.
  • Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and another man chatting at the base of the tower. Photograph, 1889.
  • Tower mutant colony of baker's yeast
  • Pomander, silver, showing Tower of London.
  • Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and Adolphe Salles standing by railings on a platform of the tower. Photograph, 1889.
  • Magdalen College, Oxford: the tower. Tinted line engraving.
  • South Africa: the Clock Tower at Maritzburg. 1896.
  • Miniature minuet : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
  • Miniature minuet : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
  • Tower Records and Mercury Communications present Counter Revolution : a 24 hour charity event : on 1st December come to Tower Records, Piccadilly and help support World AIDS Day.
  • Tower Hamlets HIV/AIDS services : an easy guide / Social Services Strategy Group.
  • Tower Hamlets HIV/AIDS services : an easy guide / Social Services Strategy Group.
  • Magdalen College, Oxford: the tower. Wood engraving by S. Redd.
  • John Lester's Lilliputian Ladies : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
  • John Lester's Lilliputian Ladies : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
  • St Charles Hospital, London: the main tower. Photograph, c. 1930.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The Galata Tower, Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
  • Magdalen College, Oxford: Founder's tower. Process print by V.H. Bailey, 1902.