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  • An affluent family forced to leave their home due to plague in their neighbourhood sitting outside temporary huts in a camp: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A plague house in Bombay: the wall has been marked with circles. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay about to begin the day's work, during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of women and children wearing decorated rings in their noses: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A plague house being whitewashed by men standing on scaffolding in Bombay. Photograph, 1896.
  • A plague patient being transported on a manually propelled ambulance carriage to the Wari Bunder Hospital in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • 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.
  • A curved pathway past a small garden, probably leading to a plague hospital in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A camp of huts made out of bamboo and matting, where refugees from Bombay live and work during the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Two men and a boy sitting cross-legged on the ground surrounded by leaves; their faces are painted white and one of them appears to be smoking a pipe: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay about to begin the day's work, during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of officials making a visit to a house in Bombay, suspected of holding people with plague. Photograph, 1896.
  • A plague patient who has just been discharged from hospital being examined outdoors in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A woman with plague being carried on a stretcher made from a slim branch into the Hindu Plague Hospital. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A plague patient being transported on a manually propelled ambulance carriage to the Wari Bunder Hospital in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A man with plague lying on a rattan bed, Bombay.
  • Four men sitting cross-legged outside a building with bells hanging from the roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Two groups of people on opposite sides of a railway line in Bombay awaiting the arrival of a plague patient by train. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of people in Bombay, mostly uniformed, standing around a wooden bed marked 17 on which a man is lying, during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A family standing in a leafy area: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Sick looking men, women and children with the question what does a person with AIDS look like; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A mother tending her sick child, a boy washing his hands, a man bandaging a wound, a woman washing clothes and 2 people cleaning their teeth; one of a series of AIDS prevention educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Text and illustrations explaining how HIV is spread from sexual intercourse to transfusion of infected blood; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Bombay plague epidemic, 1896-1897: interior of a temporary hospital for plague victims. Photograph.
  • Bombay plague epidemic, 1896-1897: inoculation against plague. Photograph attributed to Clifton & Co.
  • Bombay plague epidemic, 1896-1897: plague hospital, with stretcher carriers and staff standing outside the buildings. Photograph by Clifton & Co.