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  • The Capitol building, Washington D.C.: Pennsylvania Avenue in the foreground. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • The IV International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. Photograph, 1948.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: horses and carriages on Adderley Street, with Table Mountain in the background. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • General Andrew Jackson: equestrian statue: Lafayette Park, Washington D.C. Photograph, ca. 1880, of a bronze statue by Clark Mills, 1853.
  • World War One surgeons (including George Grey Turner, far left): an international gathering in Washington D.C.: group portrait. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1918.
  • A red lace representing the AIDS red ribbon; advertisement for the AIDSWALK in Washington on Saturday, September 23, 1995. Colour lithograph by Annie Adjchavanich and Audrey Denson, 1995.
  • General Andrew Jackson: equestrian statue; showing the White House in the background: Lafayette Park, Washington D.C. Photograph, ca. 1880, of a bronze statue by Clark Mills, 1853.
  • A red lace representing the AIDS red ribbon; advertisement for the AIDSWALK in Washington on Saturday, September 23, 1995. Colour lithograph by Annie Adjchavanich and Audrey Denson, 1995.
  • Aerial view of an AIDS memorial event in front of the White House in Washington surrounded by close-up photographs of people involved; advertisement for Lifeline, a project to support those affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Three figures leaning out with their arms joined representing a warning about HIV; advertisement for the Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education services available from the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington. Colour lithograph by Annie Adjchavanich and Jayson Hait.
  • A battle between British forces and the Continental American army: a man on a horse carrying a cutlass (George Washington?) is surrounded by other men, some carrying standards. Pencil and ink wash by H. Brueckner, 1874.
  • Three figures leaning out with their arms joined representing a warning about HIV; advertisement for the Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education services available from the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington. Colour lithograph by Annie Adjchavanich and Jayson Hait.
  • Silhouette of crowds standing before the AIDS Memorial quilt in front of the Whitehouse in Washington ; advertisement by ACT-UP for an AIDS demonstration on Friday October 6th 1989. Colour lithograph by B. Rader, 1989.
  • Catalogue of new and second-hand school and miscellaneous books : to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14, 1847 / by Phillips & Sampson, at their book and stationery auction rooms, 110 Washington Street, (up stairs.)
  • Beate, Bianca and Babette, three male models dressed in women's clothes with a glamour checklist that includes safe sex precautions; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education by the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • The number five in purple and yellow with a list of five things to do before you have sex; advertisement for Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education Services at the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • The head and shoulders of a man with the words 'Afterward, I worry about what I've done'; an advertisement for ARIES, a phone group project organised by the University of Washington for gay men to promote safer sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Megan Adcock.
  • A Japanese advertisement for the film, Philadelphia about HIV and AIDS featuring the faces of the stars of the film, actors Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington against a backdrop of the bridge in Philadelphia; representing an advertisement for the International AIDS Conference in Yokohama in 1995. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • World Health Organisation (WHO) buildings in the cities of Manila, Washington, Lyon, Copenhagen, Alexandria, Geneva, New Delhi and Brazzaville surrounded by a series of numbered images interspersed with the WHO logo and the words 'AIDS Stop SIDA' in the shape of a board game; an advertisement by the World Health Organisation. Colour lithograph by G. Padey and G. Auberson.
  • Dierama pulcherrimum Baker Iridaceae. Angel's Fishing rods, African harebell.. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: South Africa. Said to be used in South African Muthi medicine, but no references found other than it being grown at the Medicinal Garden of the University of Washington and the Royal College of Physicians, London. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge aged 42, seated on a chair, a book in his left hand; gothic window in the background. Mezzotint by S. Cousins, 1854, after W. Allston, 1814.
  • Abraham A. Cohen. Photograph by G.W. Wilson & Co.
  • Alexander Theodore Brand. Photograph by G.W. Wilson & Co.
  • William (?) Keith. Photograph by G.W. Wilson & Co.
  • William Pirrie. Photograph by G.W. Wilson & Co.