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  • A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.
  • Woodwork: a mechanical band-saw. Engraving after a photograph.
  • A native band owned by Lukala, [chiefteners] at Lusambo
  • A procession to war with a band and cavalry. Gouache drawing.
  • Woodwork: a mechanical band-saw. Engraving by J. W. Lowry.
  • A band of seven blinded soldiers playing the banjo. Photograph, ca. 1919.
  • A young woman with a moon-shaped head-band (Diana). Etching by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • A band of brigands robbing and killing men in a wild terrain. Etching by D.A. Fossati, 1743, after M. Ricci.
  • American Pharmaceutical Association: an outdoors event: members listening to a band concert: panoramic view. Photograph by Schutz, 1934.
  • A band of militiamen in uniform marching in a disorderly manner, headed by a drummer. Etching by M. Darly, 1777, after E. Topham.
  • A fat man in uniform and carrying a sword leads a disorderly band of men with rifles. Etching by F. Grose after himself.
  • The jagged edges of a metal fastening band which has broken around a crate. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden, ca. 1940-1950.
  • Men on a sports field are throwing axes at a statue, a man is whipping a monkey and a band plays in the background. Colour lithograph.
  • A hornet, and a metal band which has sprung loose from around a crate, comparing the effects of the two. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris.
  • A band is tuning up in a theatre; the stage curtain is inscribed "The autumn session 1890-1". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 22 November 1890.
  • Left, a midwife (?) fastens a band of cloth around a pregnant woman's waist, watched by an attendant; right, two attendants bring refreshments. Woodcut by Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1748 (?).
  • A drunken party with sailors and their women drinking, smoking, and dancing wildly as a band plays. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A wedding procession: the bridegroom sits on a horse surrounded by a large crowd carrying decorations and pennants, accompanied by a band of musicians. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • John Mitchel striding to his trial in the middle of a marching band: the trombonist has accidentally knocked over the triangle-player in front. Letterpress and wood engraving after J. Leech, 1848.
  • A young woman with her head thrown back wearing a band in her hair representing a woman with AIDS, a painting by a 19 year old haemophiliac who died of AIDS; an advertisement for Children Living in a World with AIDS, ca. 1997.
  • A woman wearing a decorative dress and head band waves a large flag bearing the words 'Stop AIDS Now'; an advertisement for Women Unite Against AIDS by the Johannesburg City AIDS Prevention Programme. Colour lithograph by Charlotte Preden, ca. 1990's.
  • Hearing aid for constant use. Two light cornets of imitation tortoiseshell joined by metal spring forming a head-band. Introduction of this form of instrument attributed to Napoleon's surgeon D. J. Larrey (1776-1842).
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A woman in a black and white dress singing next to a microphone with a man as their band members play the drums and guitar in the background; an advertisement for support for those with AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • Galvanic anti-neuralgic headband made up of a series of 24 alternate zinc and copper discs mounted onto a felt and ribbon band. The headband was tied around the head, with the discs resting on the temples, where perspiration would act on the discs by producing a mild galvanic current
  • Galvanic anti-neuralgic headband made up of a series of 24 alternate zinc and copper discs mounted onto a felt and ribbon band. The headband was tied around the head, with the discs resting on the temples, where perspiration would act on the discs by producing a mild galvanic current
  • Galvanic anti-neuralgic headband made up of a series of 24 alternate zinc and copper discs mounted onto a felt and ribbon band. The headband was tied around the head, with the discs resting on the temples, where perspiration would act on the discs by producing a mild galvanic current
  • Galvanic anti-neuralgic headband made up of a series of 24 alternate zinc and copper discs mounted onto a felt and ribbon band. The headband was tied around the head, with the discs resting on the temples, where perspiration would act on the discs by producing a mild galvanic current