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  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.
  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.
  • Soldiers, one in drag, performing in the concert party "The Goods". Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • Soldiers, one in drag, performing in the concert party "The Goods". Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A dancing demonstration in a school, attended by the pupils' families and friends. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • World War I: The Red Cross in the trenches.
  • World War I: The Red Cross in the trenches.
  • Shaman's rattle.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Multicolour forms to celebrate the seventh Bundesversammlung der Menschen mit HIV und AIDS (national gathering of people with HIV and AIDS). Colour lithograph by b + d, 1996.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.