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  • A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
  • China: a Manchu man with a servant, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu man with a servant, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The house of Charles White on King Street, Manchester. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio after J. Ralston, 1823.
  • A black woman preparing to go out by brushing her hair, applying lipstick, attaching an earring and putting a condom in her bag with a message about the benefits of using a condom to prevent AIDS; advertisement by HERO, Health Education Resource Organisation, Baltimore. Lithograph by HEROglyphics, 1990.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.
  • Titus Oates standing in the pillory surrounded by medaillons of people executed as a result of the Popish Plot in 1678. Etching with engraving.
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.
  • James Henry Lambier, "the American giant". Drawing.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Panels from the AIDS Memorial quilt ; advertisement for an exhibition of the Quilt at Fort Mason on June 21-24 1990. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782.
  • William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1801, after himself.
  • A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
  • 10th self-portrait.
  • 10th self-portrait.
  • Two men sitting with a sedan chair in a Hong Kong street waiting for custom, one smokes his pipe. Wood engraving by J.C. after J. Thomson.
  • Clock and Watchmakers Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: panoramic view. Coloured wood engraving by J. Knight.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.