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  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
  • Canine eye: a normal fundus of a Wheaten Terrier.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially pancreatised milk and wheaten food : January 1912.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially predigested milk and wheaten food : May 1913.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially pancreatsed milk and wheaten food : January 1911.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially pancreatsed milk and wheaten food : May 1911.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially predigested milk and wheaten food : August 1915.
  • The 'Allenburys' diet : a partially predigested milk and wheaten food : January 1915.
  • Food processing: threshing cereals
  • Slices of sunshine / Huntley & Palmers.
  • Slices of sunshine / Huntley & Palmers.
  • Slices of sunshine / Huntley & Palmers.
  • Slices of sunshine / Huntley & Palmers.
  • Slices of sunshine / Huntley & Palmers.
  • Where do they get their energy?.
  • The need for bones to be supplied to make glue, fertiliser, soap, and other products. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, ca. 1946/1948.
  • The need for bones to be supplied to make glue, fertiliser, soap, and other products. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, ca. 1946/1948.
  • The Sunny Jim rag doll... : wheatear cereal spoon / A.C. Fincken & Co. Ltd.
  • The Sunny Jim rag doll... : wheatear cereal spoon / A.C. Fincken & Co. Ltd.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Flor-ador food : suitable for the seven ages of man / Florador Food Company.
  • A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • Horlick's Malted Milk in powder form : valuable in typhoid and other fevers / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • Horlick's Malted Milk in powder form : valuable in typhoid and other fevers / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • Ceres on a chariot with children representing the months March, April and May, surrounded by forms of natural abundance, corybantes and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Etching by A. Tempesta, 1592.
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).