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  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD. Photograph by Anderson, 192-.
  • Show Bill, 'Beware of your children' 'The Superhuman Boy'. Demonstrated at the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch by a man called Professor Anderson, a boy of seven able to cause a grown man to fall flat.
  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.
  • William A. MacCall. Photograph by N.S. Kay & Foley.
  • Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution. In four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / By Christopher Caustic.
  • Two kissing naked black men; advertisement for safe sex by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Colour lithograph.
  • An advertisement for safe sex by the Terrence Higgins Trust depicting two naked men in a swimming pool. Colour lithograph.
  • A physician of Margate, Kent. Oil painting attributed to John Wollaston.
  • A physician of Margate, Kent. Oil painting attributed to John Wollaston.
  • The New Hospital for Women, London
  • A naked white man puts a condom on a black man lying down; advertisement for safe sex by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Colour lithograph.
  • The white silhouette of a butterfly representing the fragility of those living with AIDS against a grey/black tablet form; with the message in German, 'Verdict. AIDS. People with AIDS. Convicted of fear. AIDS see and judge. As the disease. We are concerned'; one of 3 posters advertising the AIDS-Hilfe Tirol. Colour lithograph by Nicolai Buchinger.
  • The white silhouette of a butterfly representing the fragility of those living with AIDS against a grey/black tablet form; with the message in German, 'Fear. Disease and death. We shun them because we are alive. We displace it, because we are afraid. Meet the fear. Through confrontation'; one of 3 posters advertising the AIDS-Hilfe Tirol. Colour lithograph by Nicolai Buchinger.
  • The white silhouette of a butterfly representing the fragility of those living with AIDS against a grey/black tablet form; with the message in German, ''Help. Disease and death. They are part of life. People with AIDS are fellow human beings. We help them by making them accept. Through encounters and integration"; one of 3 posters advertising the AIDS-Hilfe Tirol. Colour lithograph by Nicolai Buchinger.
  • A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Sir Arthur Hurst with a group of British and Parisian doctors, on the occasion of his visit to the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris. Process print, 1928.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.