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  • Food being served by charitable ladies to poor women in Paris. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for working women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for professional women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • British Red Cross Hospital, Turin: women who work in the laundry. Photograph, c. 1918.
  • Textiles: two women in a room, seated at work-tables making bobbin-lace. Engraving.
  • Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.
  • The work of medical women in India / by Margaret I. Balfour ... and Ruth Young ... with a foreword by Dame Mary Scharlieb.
  • The female sign incorporating the faces of five women who work in the AIDS field with a list of list of HIV-related conditions common in women by the Maricopa Area Health Education Center. Colour lithograph by Jeff Dorgay and Creative Syndicate.
  • Djibouti: involvement of women in computer work, agriculture, healthcare and child care, as a key to personal and national development, leading to health for women. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and the World Health Organization, ca. 2002.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • South Africa: Magwamba women grinding corn outside mud huts; one woman works with a baby in a fabric sling on her back. Photograph by H.F. Gros, ca. 1888.
  • [1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].
  • [1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].
  • World War One: women working in a factory
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, two women working at a loom. Engraving.
  • Three working women breastfeeding in Nigeria. Lithograph by Staywell Health for Unicef, ca. 2000.
  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • Four scenes involving health workers advising young men and women in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2002.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Three women working with axes in a field as their childen sit playing to the right representing women who are supporting themselves and avoided AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.
  • Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.
  • A woman kneels in a church with a collecting purse in her hand. Coloured lithograph.
  • A wealthy woman visiting the sick. Wood engraving after C. Baugniet.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Pen and ink drawing after J.B. Greuze.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Line engraving by Th.-F. Vi-., 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.