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  • Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil: workers washing for diamonds, supervised by 'feitores' (inspectors). Etching by A. Boilly after J. Boilly, 1836.
  • Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.
  • Mineral extraction: using water to expose gold-bearing rock at the Transvaal gold fields. Wood engraving, 1889.
  • A map of Witwatersrand goldfield, South Africa, showing properties of the Rand Mines Limited. Chromolithograph after Edward H. V. Melvill.
  • Diagrams illustrating mining implements. Etching by A. Bell.
  • A waterfall in Amalfi, driving a wheel outside an iron-works or iron mine. Drawing by J.Ph. Hackert, 1790.
  • Atlas geographique et physique du royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne : fondé sur des observations astronomiques, des mesures trigonométriques et des nivellemens barométriques / par Al. de Humboldt.
  • Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft. Coloured lithograph.
  • The river running through the salt mines of Bevieux, Bex, Switzerland. Line engraving by J.J. Maillet after J. Le Barbier.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.
  • Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
  • Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
  • Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
  • Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
  • Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • The physical and moral condition of the chil
  • Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
  • Tincroft tin mine, near Camborne, Cornwall: two miners at work in a mine shaft. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910.
  • A red and pink ribbon against a rainbow of colours and a quotation from Mother Jones to pray for the dead and fight for the living; with an advertisement by the Syracuse Cultural Workers. Colour lithograph by Amy E. Bartell, 1995.
  • Two women observing a sign for buying teeth, one of them remarks that she had recently had one extracted and the clinic had held on to it. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1914.
  • Two women observing a sign for buying teeth, one of them remarks that she had recently had one extracted and the clinic had held on to it. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1914.
  • A boy is accused of breaking a shop window while the real culprits hide behind a water pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H.Knight.
  • The dance of death: the sot. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A contented family of four: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria , ca. 1990.