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  • Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • A Roman altar, a Greek metal vase and an Etruscan altar. Etching by L. Roccheggiani, ca. 1811.
  • Africa: a man wearing a hat and large metal and yarn necklace. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
  • Africa: a medicine man, seated, holding a wooden staff with metal prongs. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
  • British Togoland or Ghana: a man with metal woven into his hair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.
  • Artificial left arm, metal, with hand and canvas shoulder strap. Made by the Mckay Artificial Limb Company.
  • Artificial left arm, metal, with hand and canvas shoulder strap. Made by the Mckay Artificial Limb Company.
  • A man hammering metal (?), to make a mirror (?). Watercolour by a Chinese artist, ca. 1800.
  • Vulcan forges metal chains while Venus sleeps. Engraving by Antonio Salamanca after G.F. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
  • The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: metal girders. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.
  • A Japanese prisoner, bound hand and foot by metal cuffs. Gouache painting by a Japanese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An armourer is is beating metal into shape as armour for men and horses. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Vulcan (Hephaestus) and his assistants make armour and metal chains. Engraving by the Monogrammatist FG after F. Primaticcio.
  • Malaria control supplies, Italy: large metal barrels being unloaded from a truck by three men. Photograph, 1940/1950 (?).
  • Ship fumigation using hydrogen cyanide: metal jugs and other equipment on deck. Photograph by P. G. Stock, 1900/1920.
  • Experiments and observations on the danger of copper and bell-metal in pharmaceutical and chemical preparations: / by William Blizard.
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: large wooden-handled metal tools used in malaria control work. Photograph, 1910/1937 (?).
  • An operation in progress: a metal clip in an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • A fruit farmer advertising fruit-tree protection with insecticides produced by the firm of Teerag. Colour embossed metal, 19--.
  • Malaria control equipment, Italy: men setting up some equipment, with metal barrels of supplies in the background. Photograph, 1940/1950 (?).
  • A man standing by a pool surrounded by vegetation, with metal bucket and wooden bowls, southern Nigeria. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • North Africa (?): institutional dwellings (possibly an orphanage?) constructed of corrugated metal, with children standing in the foreground. Photograph, 1900/1920?.
  • India: metal rodent traps in a pile, being baited by three Indian men. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1915/1935 (?).
  • India: metal rodent traps, for plague prevention, being distributed in an Indian city. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1915/1935 (?).
  • A Trinidadian woman in traditional costume carrying a metal milk pail with a tap, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Serbian soldiers queuing to fill water bottles from metal tanks, on a First World War military camp (?). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Ali Gharbi, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): an earthen field oven with metal cooking equipment on a British military camp. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Ship fumigation using hydrogen cyanide: operators at work with metal funnels on board the ship. Photograph by P. G. Stock, 1900/1920.
  • An iron forge in which metal linings are being applied to the rims of wheels. Engraving by R. Bénard after Harguinier.
  • One of the chests which the photographer John Thomson (1837-1921) used to carry his glass negatives. Wood and metal, 18--.