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  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • Cétonia pencils for use against mosquito bites: advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1912.
  • A Culicidae mosquito (Aedes aegypti). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • Panama Canal Zone: large 'mosquito-proofed' houses with screened porches. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Lewis's drawing of the embryo filariae in mosquito. Sketches from notebook, made by Lewis, just after he heard from Manson that the latter had seen the maturation of the embryos of the mosquito.
  • A mosquito-proof water barrel with a tap; residents in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A blue cross containing stylised representations of situations in which the Aedes aegypti mosquito can flourish: discarded rubbish, a bin, water, a house etc. , and a representation of the mosquito itself. Colour lithograph, ca. 1982.
  • Ancon, Panama Canal Zone: a mosquito oil plant interior showing rows of barrels. Photograph, 1910.
  • An American soldier stripping and exposing his body to attack by a mosquito. Colour lithograph, 1946.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a square brick drain (to aid mosquito control) in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Nettuno, Italy: a long, narrow drain (to aid mosquito control) in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Nettuno, Italy: an earthenware drain (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a wooden mosquito breeding cage in a classroom. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • The pupa of a mosquito (Anopheles maculipennis). Photograph of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.
  • A baby beneath a mosquito net: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a square stone drain (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Israel (?): mosquito nets and folded mattresses on camp beds: the rooftop of a military hospital. Photograph, 1914/1940 (?).
  • A parasitic nematode (Filaria immitis) and its vector, the mosquito (Myzomyia superpicta). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a drain made of mortar (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).
  • A child lying beneath a mosquito net: malaria prevention in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.