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  • Saint Adalbert: his martyrdom. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a library with patients(?), doctors (?), possibly patient ledgers in bookcase. Photograph.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: visitors in hired wheelchairs, touring the fair pushed by guides. Photograph, 1904.
  • A maid bringing medicine and soup to her master who has a cold. Lithograph, 1857, after W.H. Simmons after J. Collinson.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: (left) prisoners are walking in a long file leaving spoons in a bowl as they go past; (right) prisoners stand in line to receive a loaf of bread. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer, 1876, after F. Régamay.
  • An American man reads from a newspaper with amazement the latest news on the Mexican war, surrounded by an attentive group of men. Etching by A. Jones after a painting by R.C. Woodville, 1851.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • The word "AIDS" repeated many times in the style of the painting "Love" by Robert Indiana. Colour lithograph by General Idea, ca. 1987.
  • J. Blewitt, Perfect Song of the Cure
  • Brooklyn Bridge, New York
  • A family demonstrating underclothes sold by "Docteur Rasurel". Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1911.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians; in a series of letters and notes. Written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing / With three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings. By Geo. Catlin.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • White Star Line passenger list
  • Brooklyn Bridge, New York
  • A young woman, posing naked in a classical attitude, against a square column in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1890/1910.
  • Viola Hamilton, posing in a classical attitude against a square column.
  • Question marks interspersed with images of gay men representing Nitty Gritties, a series of free, informative workshops for gay men in Auckland and Wellington; advertisement by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
  • Jean Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Stipple engraving by P. Condé after R. Cosway.
  • Jean Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Stipple engraving by P. Condé after R. Cosway.
  • Gold cup designed by Henry S. Wellcome and presented to Thomas F. Bayard. Photogravure, ca. 1897.