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  • A girl pours coffee from a cup into a saucer. Colour halftone from an engraving by L. Marin.
  • The male and female Irish elk (Cervus megaceros), now extinct. Reproduction of a painting by J Smith.
  • A stag standing on the grassy verge of a forest. Colour halftone.
  • An Australian monitor lizard on a branch. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Charles Dickens on his deathbed. Halftone, 1870.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A group of sea lions. Colour half tone.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • An opium den in San Francisco, early 20th century, with two Chinese men smoking. Process print after a photograph.
  • Chinese farmers irrigating land. Halftone after Maynard Owen Williams.
  • A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • The heads of a two-headed calf, stuffed and mounted. Halftone.
  • Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.
  • Parasites of the tropical diseases kala-azar and oriental sore. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1921.
  • The heads of two male antelope, possibly oryx, one blazed and one dappled. Reproduction of a painting by G E M(?).
  • A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Ovens benevolent asylum and grounds, Beechworth, Victoria (Australia). Process print.
  • A Persian dentist extracting a tooth from a squatting patient. Halftone.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • A rose (Rosa rapa): flowering stem. Colour halftone after J. L. A. Charlin, c.1821, after P. J. Redouté.
  • A horse-drawn circular cider mill. Process print after a painting by E. Borough Johnson.