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  • A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A woman at her toilet being assisted by a maidservant; to the left a seated maidservant reads to a small child. Colour reproduction of an engraving by P.W. Tompkins after C. Ansell.
  • You can't get HIV from : giving blood, insect bites, glasses, cutlery, towels, toilet seats, shaking hands, sharing meals, cups, kissing : you risk getting HIV by sharing needles or syringes, having unprotected sex / LHB.
  • Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • A Scotsman using a lavatory for the first time, is seated on a latrine with his legs thrust down the holes in the board and his hands placed before him; his urine trickles over the edge of the toilet. Engraving by C. Mosley, 1745.
  • A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A woman at her toilet, having her hair dressed by a male assistant; a small girl holds her hand, and a man sits next to her; in the left is a female assistant who is looking at a dog. Engraving by G. Flipart after himself.
  • A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph, 1993.
  • A couple embracing, a woman spitting/coughing on the face of another, a woman kissing her baby; a woman on the telephone, men shaking hands and a man using a public toilet; an advertisement about ways in which AIDS and HIV are not contracted by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • A man and woman about to kiss, a pair of hands joined, children dancing, a novel toilet seat, a table set for dinner, a razor and a toothbrush, an extended condom and a splatter of blood; with a warning that the only protection from AIDS is information on protection; an advertisement by AIDES Lorraine Nord. Colour lithograph by Communatuté Municipale de Madrid.
  • Leaflet advertising Bromo paper toilet tissue manufactured by Diamond Mills Paper Company of 44 Murray Street, New York, probably about 1878 or early 1880s. The paper contained the "disinfectants and curatives" Bromo chloralum and carbolic acid "as to render its use not only a positive preventive of that most distressing and almost universal complaint, the Piles, but also a thorough deodorizer and disinfectant of the water closet." The paper had a watermark "Bromo" in every sheet.
  • Three toilets in the form of ducks in flight: appeal to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2001.
  • Three toilets in the form of ducks in flight: appeal to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2001.
  • Beecham passport break away : Beecham toiletries.
  • Beecham passport break away : Beecham toiletries.
  • Beecham passport break away : Beecham toiletries.
  • Beecham passport break away : Beecham toiletries.
  • Cartoons illustrating ways in which you can't get AIDS including eating at restaurants and using toilets in public places; advertisement for the Minnesota AIDS Project by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph by Max.
  • [Leaflet advertising Weleda UK's natural medicines and toiletries].
  • [Leaflet advertising Weleda UK's natural medicines and toiletries].
  • [Leaflet advertising Weleda UK's natural medicines and toiletries].
  • Ways in which AIDS cannot be transmitted including a woman on a telephone, people sitting in a stream, using public toilets, kissing, shaking hands, sharing food and mosquito bites; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Laos. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Boots policy on the testing of cosmetics and toiletries products / Boots.
  • Boots policy on the testing of cosmetics and toiletries products / Boots.
  • [1992 letterhead for Weleda UK, makers of natural medicines and toiletries].
  • Boots policy on the testing of cosmetics and toiletries products / Boots.
  • Boots policy on the testing of cosmetics and toiletries products / Boots.
  • A courtesan at her toilette, seated under a tree. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1800.
  • An Indian lady attending to her toilette with a helper holding a mirror for her. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A young woman is disturbed at her evening toilette by a boy arriving at the door. Colour engraving by Emmanuel de Ghendt, ca. 1778, after P. A. Baudouin.