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  • Seal of St Giles of Solop. it bears the figure of a Hind, by whose milk St Giles was supported in his desert. The squarish figure above may have denoted, but on this conjecture we do not insist; the clack-dish or alms basket with a clapper, which lepers were obliged to employ in begging charity standing "afar off", lest their touch should pollute the benevolent.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 3, Discrimination at work / Immunity.
  • Milnholm (?) Asylum: nine members of staff. Photograph, July 1862.
  • A man holding a peacock feather and a gold fan, with a woman holding a spear. Gouache, 18--.
  • An ill man being visited by a suspicious looking man. Coloured lithograph.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of a grave looking patient, his servant holds a bottle and bowl. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
  • A mechanical housemaid constructed from pieces of household equipment. Engraving by G. Bickham the younger.
  • An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
  • A woman stealing some sugar by emptying it into her pocket is discovered by a manservant of the household. Wood engraving by Swain & Co..
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • Four men employed on extracting the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands, Peru. Wood engraving, ca. 1869.
  • A young woman stands at a counter in Paris making packages of hardware goods. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Philipon, 1828.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: servants (auxiliary staff). Photograph, 1902.
  • Two colleagues, a woman and a man, sharing a drink in the office, promoting access to information on HIV/AIDS at workplace. Coloured lithograph by Roloff, 199-.
  • A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
  • Chubdah or running footman and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who virtually falls off his chair in pain, a servant hovers in the background. Etching.
  • Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Eyes watching out for carcinogenic materials in the workplace. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding/KWF, ca. 2001.
  • A physician is examining a boil on a woman servant's arm, and asks if she has had boils in any other places: she replies that she has, but that there were also Jewish people there. Lithograph after F. Jüttner, 1909.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.