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  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • A maidservant on the doorstep of an Amsterdam house purchases milk from a local milkmaid. Coloured lithograph by J. Vallou de Villeneuve, 1828/1829, after H. Greeven.
  • The words 'Walk For Life' incorporating the AIDS red ribbon representing an advertisement for a fund-raising walk for AIDS in Amsterdam on 2 June 1996 by Stichting AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph by Marga van Liemt.
  • The eyes of two Chinese people representing an advertisement for the Chinese AIDS Information telephone line. Colour lithograph.
  • Artificial respiration of a man who has been rescued from drowning, electric shock or carbon monoxide poisoning. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 194-.
  • Message from AIDS Fonds warning that the race against AIDS need sponsors. Colour lithograph.
  • Message about the AIDS Fonds fund asking should it be supplemented or is it complete. Colour lithograph.
  • Message that the only medicine that will work against AIDS is a financial injection; advertisement by AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • Message about taking the fight against the sword of Damacles, representing an allusion to the fight against AIDS; advertisement by AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • Message from AIDS Fonds asking must we accept that we live in a world in which love can mean death. Colour lithograph.
  • Message from AIDS Fonds warning that AIDS does not disappear with thinking alone. Colour lithograph.
  • A hand lifting the edge of a carpet in the shape of the Netherlands to sweep under the words 'AIDS' splashed in red on the floor; an advertisement for an information booklet entitled 'Alles over AIDS' and the AIDS Information line by the AIDS FONDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A message that AIDS projects should not be venturous but should supportive; advertisement by AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • Courtyard view with trees of the Leper Hospital, Amsterdam. Etching by W. Writs, 1768, after J. de Beyer, 1765.
  • A stylized blue head and the sun forming the silhouette of an Ionic capital; advertising an exhibition on food and hygiene in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by G. Scheepstra, 1933.
  • Message from AIDS Fonds stating 1 million AIDS patients have died but hope remains for a medicine. Colour lithograph.
  • The message 'AIDS has no cultural boundaries. Protect us!' in Arabic, Lingali, Turkish and French within an oval shape against a decorative background of varying sizes of stars connected by white lines; an advertising campaign under the Social Service d'Accueil des Etrangers et de Formation with the help of the Ministry of Health of the French Community of Belgium. Colour lithograph by Zakaria Bouazza and J-F Carlier, 1996.
  • Amsterdam: bird's eye view of the city as a place of drug users, overseen by crime, death and the devil. Colour lithograph after P. Pontiac, 1992.
  • A bird with outstretched wings representing the Stichting de Regenboog (the Rainbow Foundation for the care of the homeless and drug-addicted) with the repeated word 'AIDS', 'drugs' and 'buddy'. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • A blurred view of the back of a man wearing a coat with a warning 'Don't allow AIDS to destroy friendship'; an advertisement for the AIDS Information Line by the Stichting AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • A hairdresser raising her scissors and comb in the air after removing all but a tuft of the hair from her client who sits on a red stool; an analogy to cutting the funds of AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • A telephone directory list highlighting the numbers for the AIDS information line and HIV + line with times available; advertisement by AIDS Fonds Stichting. Colour lithograph by Doc Visser of Harry Poortman Design Works.
  • City break : Amsterdam / Boyz London, KLM in conjunction with Uranian Travel.
  • Two naked men in need of vaccination against hepatitis B. Lithograph by Menne Vellinga for the GG & GD Amsterdam, 1983.
  • City break : Amsterdam / Boyz London, KLM in conjunction with Uranian Travel.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • Cain, a bald-headed man with a nose ring and denim waistcoat bearing badges holds his hands in fists in a threatening posture with the message "AIDS is not the threat, it's carelessness ..."; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Jan Gort for the SAD Schorerstichting.
  • Eduardo, a bare-chested man wearing a hat and neck-scarf with his jeans undone within a green star shape with the message "I love sex, I love life"; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Jan Gort for the SAD Schorerstichting.
  • The matron and governesses of the Old Men's House, Amsterdam. Heliogravure after F. Hals, 1664.