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  • A large belt-driven printing machine, made by Alauzet of Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven loom. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.
  • The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.
  • Chastity belt, complete with waistbelt and padlock. Covered with velvet and mounted on a modern lining.
  • Textiles: Crompton's belt-driven power loom, with a man standing by and a woman working. Watercolour.
  • A chastity belt decorated with a representation of Adam and Eve under the Tree of Life. Process print.
  • A Montenegrin man wearing national dress with medals, with a pistol in his belt and holding a tobacco pipe.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt walks, carrying a rifle with fixed bayonet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A Chinese figure, seated, wearing brown ragged clothes and a belt of oak leaves. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The Roman miliary punishment of Humiliation either by taking away the Military Belt or Girdle or by making the offender do a task that is beneath them, more a temporary or part of a punishment
  • A bare-chested man against a brick wall wearing sadomasochism gear including leather trousers, a leather jacket, a leather belt across his chest, a pierced nipple and a belt bearing an eagle logo; with the message in German: ''randy on safer sex'; an advertisement for safer hard sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, sponsored by Loge 70 Schweiz. Colour lithograph by Hans Wilner.
  • A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • A man pours a drink for a woman carrying milk jugs and a man with an axe in his belt, as they all stand by a windmill. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule inside an iron-framed spinning shed, workers setting machines and clearing cotton waste, etc. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, holding a rifle in his right hand, raises it, angled behind his head and lowers it again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, lies on the ground on his front and takes aim. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand, transfers it to his left then holds it at an angle across his torso. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.
  • A pair of jeans and a belt slung over the seat of a wooden chair with a yellow condom on the floor representing an AIDS prevention calendar for the year 1996 and 1997. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • Disease exterminated from the system and every form of nervous, muscular, or organic weakness cured without drugs ... : Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour to the debilitated / the Medical Battery Company Limited.
  • Disease exterminated from the system and every form of nervous, muscular, or organic weakness cured without drugs ... : Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour to the debilitated / the Medical Battery Company Limited.
  • All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belt : for suffering men & women : for nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion, sleeplessness, ladies ailments &c. it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand: he grasps it with his left, raises then lowers it, resting the butt on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt transfers a rifle from his left to his right hand, holds it out in front of him, raises it to his right shoulder and stands to attention. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines & drugs & simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's cool feather-weight electric body belt ... / Dr. Carter Moffat.
  • A black man with the belt of his jeans undone leans back on a white man who embraces him with the message "I have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Projectgroep Publiekscampagne AIDS/SOA. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, holds it in front of him as he falls backwards on to the ground, his left hand holding his head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Omar stands in front of a target shape wearing a white vest bearing the words 'AIDS Positive' and a studded waist and neck belt; he holds a gun up in the air; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Jan Gort for the SAD Schorerstichting.