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  • Foochow, China: four people with leprosy, wearing thick clothing, standing outside a wooden hut. Photograph by J. Thomson, 1873.
  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • Fiji (?): village chiefs wearing white robes with slaughtered animals outside a large grass-roofed hut. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Zimbabwe: an African man standing in front of a hut, in a village near Umtali. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • Buvuma, Uganda: a small, circular hut with a low grass-roof surrounded by lush vegetation, on a banana plantation. Photograph, 1902.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; the landing and observation point for a small isolation hut. Photograph, 1904/1911.
  • A boy riding a saddled ostrich that is held in reins by another boy while a couple standing outside their hut watches on. Wood engraving.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a landscape with a lake, palm trees and a hut with a pathway leading to it. Lithograph.
  • Chippewa Indians camping at Shell Lakes, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Indian girl and baby and dog seated outside a hut. The baby is in an Indian carrier cradle.
  • A group of adults and children standing in a line outside a bamboo hut with a thatched roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Basra, Iraq: the Indian General Hospital: milk is served from large metal bowls to waiting men outside the Indian cook house (a straw hut). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.
  • A pregnant woman carrying a child and bundle on her head approaches a hut in which another family sit having dinner: family life in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, 1989.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • A young woman is walking along a plank near a beach hut as another reads a book and the children play in the sand. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • A smiling couple in traditional Maldivian dress with a green hut and palm tree in the background with Maldivian (Divehi) lettering; an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a large hut with a straw roof has a chair outside and a table with a water barrel on it. Lithograph.
  • Formosan tribal peoples engaged in raising the thatched roof of a hut, mending fishing nets and tending lobster traps in a stream. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • A man in the jungle, holding a gun; two men carry the body of a woman towards a hut in the background. Wood engraving by H. Linton after V. Bromley, 1873.
  • The Kilwa area (Nanganachi village ?), Tanzania, East Africa: a Tanzanian man spit-roasting meat over an open fire in front of a grass hut. Photograph by Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • A man and a woman of Norton Sound, Alaska, in front of their hut; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by B.T. Pouncy, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Notice to bathers : a penalty of forty shillings will be incurred: 1.-- By every person who shall bathe (otherwise than from a bathing machine or from a bathing hut), on any part of the Yarmouth sea beach ... / P. O'Connor, inspector.
  • A variety of methods of torture: a man has been rolled into a carpet and is dragged to death by a horse, a woman is hit with a rifle-butt and a man is tied to a post outside a hut. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after B. Castelli.
  • A man carrying a blue sack tied around his shoulder and a grey pouch with a hut beyond in a rural setting; represention of a man leaving for another country to earn money not AIDS ; an advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • View of Margate bathing huts.
  • Natal, South Africa: traditional kraal huts. Albumen print.
  • A man dressed in white with a blue turban holding a white sack greets a woman in a blue sari and her child on a rural road next to her hut; his horse and cart with further white sacks wait idle nearby; with a message about the dangers of having unprotected sex with foreign women; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.