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  • A naked black man kisses and holds up another while putting on a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph, 1990.
  • Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.
  • Think, understand, act / Black HIV Forum, part of the HIV Network ; designed by Kulwant Dhaliwal at Depot Studios, Coventry.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man's abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms] / photo: Stewart Grant.
  • It am de stuff : Dingman's Electric Soap / [Pugsley, Dingman & Co.].
  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • A black man and woman sit chatting on a bench with an Asian woman holding a child in her lap; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Tjenbé Rèd! : Questions noires - métisses - LGBT - outre-mer - Hexagone / Tjenbé Rèd Prévention, association de prévention des racismes, des homophobies & du sida issue des communautés afro-caribéennes.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man's full body in 'jumping' pose on white background] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man and woman's heads and shoulders, arms streched out to sides] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • A young black man in a tracksuit holding a towel representing the risks involved in dabbling with drugs; advertisement about AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • Big Up : black men who have sex with men delivering HIV/AIDS information to black men who have sex with men / Big Up.
  • A Latin-American man embraces a black man holding a condom; advertisement for safe sex and the AIDS Program by the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. Lithograph.
  • Nice 'n' easy / Big Up.
  • Big Up : black men who have sex with men delivering HIV/AIDS information to black men who have sex with men / Big Up.
  • Big Up : black men who have sex with men delivering HIV/AIDS information to black men who have sex with men / Big Up.
  • Talking shop one to one / Big Up.
  • A naked black man with his head pointing right holding his hands in his groin area, advertising membership of AIDS-Hilfe NRW e.V. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • A black man in shorts holds a weight beside two others in a gymn representing gay men with HIV. Advertisement for the Consorcio de Hombres Gay de Color. Colour lithograph.
  • Worried about sexual health and HIV? : talk to us at Blackliners.
  • Tjenbé Rèd! : Questions noires - métisses - LGBT - outre-mer - Hexagone / Tjenbé Rèd Prévention, association de prévention des racismes, des homophobies & du sida issue des communautés afro-caribéennes.
  • Worried about sexual health and HIV? : talk to us at Blackliners.
  • Worried about sexual health and HIV? : talk to us at Blackliners.
  • Basement sessions (1) : Sunday February 20 2000 to Sunday 12 March 2000 / Big Up.
  • Lord Goderich shaving, and Lord Howick shoeing, a group of slaves: referring to the abolitionists. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1832.