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  • Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dressed in protective clothing with traps and equipment, Liverpool, England. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Two beggars dressed in ragged clothing, one with a large stick, are walking together on the road. Etching.
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.
  • The importance of protective clothing when handling toxic substances in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • Foochow, China: four people with leprosy, wearing thick clothing, standing outside a wooden hut. Photograph by J. Thomson, 1873.
  • Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • A woman in ragged clothing is carrying one child as another walks by her side. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • An arm support, part of a bodice to be worn beneath clothing, modelled by a seated man. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • A clothed man and mule perform various tricks involving clothing, a hand-bell, bottle, chair and table. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
  • An attendant wearing Lucknow style clothing, holding a pair of slippers (?) under his arm. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A workshop where plumage is applied to clothing, above; tools for making and applying plumage, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after Radel.
  • A man in protective clothing spraying the interior of a house: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2003.
  • A workshop where plumage is applied to clothing, above; tools for making and applying plumage, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after Radel.
  • A monkey sailor and a female monkey, both dressed in human clothing, standing on a dance floor. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A man in religious clothing standing on a balcony is handing out money to the crowd below him. Watercolour drawing by Le Sueur (?).
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Practical hydropathy (not the cold-water system) : including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing, and habits of life ... / by John Smedley.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • A child in a wig and affluent clothing greets and is greeted by a poor looking man, while village people look on. Tinted lithograph by Terogio.
  • A man in protective clothing spraying a wall with insecticide: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Division of Malaria Control, ca. 2000.
  • A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • A smiling elderly man gestures towards a happy family selling their clothing wares: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
  • Two men are standing behind the counter of a pawnbroker's shop in London, examining some articles of clothing which have been brought in to pawn. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
  • A young woman wearing a veil and black clothing mourning at a tombstone, with her dog attending on her. Mezzotint by H. Quilley after a painting by C. Hancock, 1836.
  • A man in ragged clothing has come upon a woman sitting inside a shelter made of sticks, reading a book: she looks startled as he approaches. Wood engraving by H. Linton.
  • Nepal; Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986. Two smiling children share an amusing moment in the village of Phakding (altitude 3000 metres). Their clothing highlights the poverty of some of the Sherpa families.
  • A man in oriental clothing is leading a horse which is shying away from a semi-naked man who is sitting by the side of the road. Etching by C. Schule after J.D.Schubert.
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. Two young Sherpas carry planks of wood up to the village of Kunde (altitude 3600 metres). Wearing boots which are barely held together and cast-off clothing from Western trekkers, these men transport building materials up a precipitous track.