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  • The IV International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. Photograph, 1948.
  • An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • Titlepage to Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench in the process of being filled, in an area of ground used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • Bacteria: twenty-two figures showing examples of bacteria, as seen through a microscope. Colour photograph, ca. 1948, after A. Assmann, 1875, after F. Cohn, ca. 1872.
  • Bacteria: twenty-two figures showing examples of bacteria, as seen through a microscope. Colour photograph, ca. 1948, after A. Assmann, 1875, after F. Cohn, ca. 1872.
  • The anthrax bacillus: ten examples, as seen through a microscope. Colour photograph, ca. 1948, after A. Assmann, ca. 1876, after R. Koch and F. Cohn, ca. 1876.
  • The anthrax bacillus: ten examples, as seen through a microscope. Colour photograph, ca. 1948, after A. Assmann, ca. 1876, after R. Koch and F. Cohn, ca. 1876.
  • Skeletons of a cliff dweller and an inland Bushman, plate XV in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
  • British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association : registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act, 1948, and as a Charity under the Charities Act, 1960. No.207621 : [letterhead].
  • The Gibralter Neanderthal skull and Rhodesian skull in side view, plate VII in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
  • Skulls and restored heads of the Hominidae, plate 1 opp p. 80 in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
  • Mandibles of male, female and female child gorilla, plate VI in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1948
  • Two old Korana women and Boskop type of skull in a modern Hottentot, plate XIV in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View, by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
  • A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • The Heidelberg jaw and Steinheim skull showing a heavy supra-orbital torus but the occipital region rounded as in modern man, plate XXII, Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View, by R. Ruggle Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
  • Concrete steps within a stadium with broken chairs representing the destructive effect of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Dennis Adams, 1993.
  • Alcoholism as a monstrous boa constrictor which forces a man to drink from a bottle held in its jaws, and crushes him and his wife and children. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.
  • Bacterial metabolism / by Marjory Stephenson.
  • Andrews Liver Salt : "I must have left it behind".
  • Andrews Liver Salt : "I must have left it behind".
  • Alcoholism: Death as a skeleton clothed in black comes to seize a family destroyed by alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.
  • Theodore Roosevelt reads to an audience of pigs their forthcoming fate in filthy Chicago slaughterhouses. Colour line block after T. Heine, 1906.
  • A red triangle neatly supported by wooden blocks spelling tidiness. Colour lithograph after Reiss.
  • A girl with a large bow in her hair faces a boy wearing a hat and a large bow tie: she tells him she has heard he is a womaniser. Colour lithograph after C.H. Twelvetrees.
  • Infant mortality : a social problem / by George Newman.
  • Infant mortality : a social problem / by George Newman.
  • The globe of the Earth as an AIDS virus (HIV), which people of various races disable by clearing away the glycoproteins; representing the disablement of HIV by safe sex . Colour lithograph by C. Luyet for the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS.
  • The globe of the Earth as an AIDS virus (HIV), which people of various races disable by clearing away the glycoproteins; representing the disablement of HIV by safe sex . Colour lithograph by C. Luyet for the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS.