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  • The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants: particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added observations on the air, soil, and waters: with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / By Mark Catesby ... Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les Isles Bahama: contenant les desseins des oiseaux, animaux, poissons, serpents, insectes, & plantes. Et en particulier, des arbres des forets, arbrisseaux, & autres plantes, qui n'ont point été decrits, jusques à present par les auteurs, ou peu exactement dessinés. Avec leur descriptions en françois & en anglois. A quoi on a adjouté, des observations sur l'air, le sol, & les eaux, avec des remarques sur l'agriculture, les grains, les legumes, les racines, &c. Le tout est precedé d'une carte nouvelle & exacte des païs dont il s'agist.
  • The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants: particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added observations on the air, soil, and waters: with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / By Mark Catesby ... Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les Isles Bahama: contenant les desseins des oiseaux, animaux, poissons, serpents, insectes, & plantes. Et en particulier, des arbres des forets, arbrisseaux, & autres plantes, qui n'ont point été decrits, jusques à present par les auteurs, ou peu exactement dessinés. Avec leur descriptions en françois & en anglois. A quoi on a adjouté, des observations sur l'air, le sol, & les eaux, avec des remarques sur l'agriculture, les grains, les legumes, les racines, &c. Le tout est precedé d'une carte nouvelle & exacte des païs dont il s'agist.
  • A wheel-chart (pie-chart), the seven sectors of which show seven different types of food which need to be combined in a balanced diet. Colour lithograph, 1943.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • The hand of an American sailor about to pick up a lace handkerchief representing venereal disease. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Wipe out brucellosis : cut.. lifestock losses : stop.. human infection / Animal Disease Eradication Branch [of the] Agricultural Research Service.
  • Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Wipe out brucellosis : cut.. lifestock losses : stop.. human infection / Animal Disease Eradication Branch [of the] Agricultural Research Service.
  • Wipe out brucellosis : cut.. lifestock losses : stop.. human infection / Animal Disease Eradication Branch [of the] Agricultural Research Service.
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • Wipe out brucellosis : cut.. lifestock losses : stop.. human infection / Animal Disease Eradication Branch [of the] Agricultural Research Service.
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
  • Wipe out brucellosis : cut.. lifestock losses : stop.. human infection / Animal Disease Eradication Branch [of the] Agricultural Research Service.
  • Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944.
  • Tapeworms of poultry : how to control them / [prepared by the Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service]