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  • Luxor, Egypt; blacksmith selling his wares. Shows men, one with a goat, examining metal implements. Trades such as smithing are often performed by landless villagers who are often amongst the poorest groups. In 1990, as much as 40% of the rural population was landless. These people often provide village services including carpentry, machinery maintenance, and livestock herding or cultivate land for absentee landlords as tenants and sharecroppers. Photographed in January 1990.
  • Nepal; travelling butcher in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpas buying yak meat from butcher, near Lukla (altitude 2827 metres). Meat is not generally eaten by Sherpas who are Buddhists, adhering to the oldest, unreformed sect of Tibetan Buddhism known as Kar-gyud-pa. Buddhists make up about 5.3% of Nepal's population whilst 89.5% are Hindu. The cultural heritage of the Sherpas, however, has always remained with Tibet.
  • Uni-Sorb : catalog no. U-01 : ready-to-use nylon wool column for the preparation of enriched T and B cell populations / WAK-Chemie Medical GmbH.
  • Uni-Sorb : catalog no. U-01 : ready-to-use nylon wool column for the preparation of enriched T and B cell populations / WAK-Chemie Medical GmbH.
  • A tree populated by six different specimen of cuscus of the genus phalanger. Coloured etching.
  • A tree populated by six different specimen of the genus Nasalis (apes). Coloured etching by S. Milne.
  • A shepherd's dog standing in front of a mountainous landscape populated by sheep. Etching by J. Scott after P. Reinagle.
  • A tree populated by nine different specimen of the family of Scividae (squirrels). Coloured etching by W. Warwick after Captain T. Brown.
  • A steep rock face in the sea is populated by a large number of animals. Coloured etching by R. Scott and J. Stewart.
  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • Above, fishermen hunting a spermwhale; middle, indigenous huntsmen hunting kangaroos; below, an island populated by petrels, sea elephants and sea lions. Wood engraving by N. Knilling after H. Leutemann.
  • A walkway curving around into a street plaza/square populated with people engaged in various activities with numerous signs with messages relating to AIDS and HIV; an advertisement by the Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The Dutch minister Bergansius and Hendrik Pieter Tindal visit an influenza hospital populated with representations of the countries of Europe; Bergansius points to the Dutch representative, attempting to persuade the apocalyptic Tindal that all is indeed well. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1889.
  • A collection of papers, intended to promote an institution for the cure and prevention of infectious fevers in Newcastle and other populous towns. Together with the communications of the most eminent physicians relative to the safety and importance of annexing fever-wards to the Newcastle and other infirmaries / [John Clark].
  • A sword slaying the hydra; representing the fight against cancer. Colour lithograph after G. Georget, 1960.
  • A woman looking up at a hand holding a microscope slide; representing the fight against cancer. Colour lithograph after P. Chonneaux.
  • A scientist looking down a microscope; representing the fight against cancer. Colour lithograph after G. Georget.
  • A radiologist conducting a chest x-ray of a young man in order to detect early signs of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after A. Wilquin, 1949.
  • A stamp showing Einar Holbøll; representing the need for contributions to help the tuberculous. Colour lithograph after R. Serres, 1954.
  • A crowd of Rwandans around a speaker: democracy and governance in Rwanda. Lithograph, ca. 2001.
  • Crowds of Rwandans guided by arrows to different groups watched by a speaker: democracy and governance in Rwanda. Lithograph, ca. 2001.
  • A man speaking to a crowd: democracy and governance in Rwanda. Lithograph, ca. 2001.
  • A man speaking to a crowd: democracy and governance in Rwanda. Lithograph, ca. 2001.
  • A contented mother breastfeeds her baby in a hospital bed tended by a nurse: promoting benefits of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A couple with their baby within a map of Nigeria: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos ca. 1990.
  • The wedding outfits of a couple on hangers beside a table with a wedding bouquet of flowers representing an advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A family of four eating a good meal: nutrition in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by NERDC, ca. 1995.
  • A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising national childhood week in France. Process print, 1947.
  • A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising national childhood week in France. Process print, 1947.
  • Life and labour of the people in London / edited by Charles Booth.