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  • Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • Africa: a group of African warriors. Albumen print.
  • David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.
  • Two young Kikuyu men, carrying sticks. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • David Livingstone arriving at Lake Ngami in 1849. Lithograph.
  • Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.
  • Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.
  • David Livingtone's followers, Susi and Chuma, pictured with his former possessions. Photograph, ca. 1873.
  • Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.
  • David Livingstone, suffering from fever, carried above water on the shoulders of one of his men. Wood engraving after J.B. Zwecker.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
  • Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. Lithograph.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • David Livingstone, seated on the ground, reading from the Bible to two African followers. Wood engraving and letterpress, 1874.
  • Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W----y M----e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c., in different parts of Europe. Which contain among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks. Drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers / [Mary Wortley Montagu].
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone reading the Bible to a group of African men. Photoprint.
  • The healer.
  • Geography: Victoria Falls, seen from a distance. Wood engraving.
  • Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
  • A rhinoceros, possibly a Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Engraving by J McGahey.
  • A young Masai man, wearing a very large earring. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Slave traders on an African coast enslave some of its inhabitants: a man is taken by two slave traders to their boat, while his wife and child is taken by a different slave trader to another boat. Coloured stipple engraving by Citoyenne Rollet after George Morland.
  • Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W----y M----e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c., in different parts of Europe. Which contain among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks. Drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers / [Mary Wortley Montagu].
  • Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.
  • A grey-haired African man, with an stomach oedema. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.
  • Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • Tree in central Africa where David Livingstone's heart is buried, showing the inscription bearing his name. Copy photograph after original photograph by P. Weatherley.
  • David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley on the River Ruzizi. Wood engraving.