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  • The black silhouette of a singer bearing the AIDS red ribbon and holding up a microphone in the air with silhouette musicians in the foreground; advertising an AIDS benefit concert at the Cathedral Esplanade in Lausanne on 14-15 June 1996 to support SID'Action. Colour lithograph.
  • Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665. Etching, 18--.
  • The word "plague" hovers above a victim's face. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A farmer fallen victim to the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat on board a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague through countryside and towns. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Accusing the anointers in the great plague of Milan in 1630; a scene from Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
  • Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665: : with precautionary directions against the like contagion. / By Nath. Hodges, M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the city all that time. To which is added, An essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France, and the most probable means to prevent its spreading here. By John Quincy, M. D.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • All forms of transport play their part in the transmission of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Adolf Hitler. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats fighting; the plague spreading. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A young man in a white vest and blue trousers wearing wrist bands sits on a bench with a woman and a black bearded man either side and a crowd of people standing behind; representation of a man not alone with AIDS; an advertisement for the Portuguese League Against AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ihood (?), 1993.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Engraving by G. Tolosano after G. Courtois after N. Poussin.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • The plague of Florence, 1348; an episode in the Decameron by Boccaccio. Etching by L. Sabatelli the elder after G. Boccaccio.
  • Rats stowing away in large boxes, carrying the plague to new places. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The angel of God bringing three days of pestilence as atonement for David's sins. Woodcut.
  • Cholera vaccination of the Third Gurkhas in India at the time of the 1893 epidemic. Reproduction, 1894, of a wood engraving.
  • A group of men standing with a large white cow; one of the men is Robert Koch, about to experiment on the animal, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.