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  • A bloodhound with a heavy collar is looking intently towards a heavy door. Half tone after an oil painting by E. H. Landseer.
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • Willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus): male and female with chicks. Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.
  • An iguana is sitting on a piece of wood in a forest while two dung-beetles are pushing a dungball. Colour half tone.
  • Two dingoes standing in a grassy bushland. Colour halftone.
  • Surgeons examining a Mauser bullet in a man's chest via the use of an X-ray. Halftone, 1900, after W. Small.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Three prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • Bufflehead duck (Charitonetta albeola): male and female. Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • An "Abor barber" dressing a man's hair. Halftone.
  • Kiwis foraging on the shore and two burrowing owls by their burrow. Colour halftones after J. Green.
  • A Yoruba female hairdresser dressing the hair of a woman. Halftone after A.W. Gelston.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • A marmot sitting in a rocky landscape with a couple of marmots sitting in the background. Colour halftone.
  • Benjamin Franklin presents his young son to Voltaire for benediction. Halftone.
  • Royal Society of Arts, London: Sir Henry Trueman Wood lecturing on photography. Halftone print after P.B. Hickling.
  • Crowds of people are watching the horse racing in a large field with marquees in it. Colour process print.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • Ovens district hospital (back view), Beechworth, Victoria (Australia). Process print.
  • Two hoopoes by their nest and a group of bower birds by their bower. Colour halftones after J. Green.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A medical pracitioner examining a flask of urine brought by one of his patients. Process print after P. van der Wielen, 1928, after A. Pisano after Giotto.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • An elk (moose) standing on the grassy verge of a forest. Colour halftone.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Aeroplanes with large movable wings. Process print.
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.