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  • An old man in a wheelchair is fed by three boys; around him a family goes about its business. Etching by F. Vasconi after P.L. Ghezzi, 1719.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • The Royal Exchange, London: view from roof height, with various men at business in the courtyard, emblematic devices in the sky area. Etching by B. Howlett, 1808, after F. Hogenburg, 1570.
  • A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A central circle with four penis-like extensions surrounded by numerous small circles and flower shapes in each corner; one of a series of Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Education about AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph, 1993.
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • Hospital Saturday Fund : [fold-out presentation album of T. Stevens and W.H. Grant's 14 street collection flags from between 1886 to 1897 with a 1996 congratulatory telegram from Mr. and Mrs. Eusden and their business card].
  • Hospital Saturday Fund : [fold-out presentation album of T. Stevens and W.H. Grant's 14 street collection flags from between 1886 to 1897 with a 1996 congratulatory telegram from Mr. and Mrs. Eusden and their business card].
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • A multi-coloured wavy background with two black silhouettes reaching toward each other and an eye in between them; one of a series of [5] Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Caring for People with AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • "AIDS Prevention: everyone's business", a list of policies about AIDS prevention endorsed by the SIDA Info Service; one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph by L M Communiquer.
  • Three male employees engaged in business at a table and workers fixing equipment; a message about caring for those with HIV/AIDS at work; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • Important notice ! : Everybody should see our girls : to be seen only at Elliss's Exhibition which will visit this town during the fair : consisting of the Scottish-Canadian giantess twin sisters ... / Raper, Frank, business manager and agent-in-advance ; Seth Elliss, sole proprietor.
  • A discourse upon prodigious abstinence: occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire demosell: proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat and drink. With an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / By John Reynolds. Humbly offered to the Royall society.
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • The interior of a busy pharmacy. Line engraving by C. Le Roy.
  • Jaffa, Palestine: a busy street scene. Photograph by Félix Bonfils, ca. 1880.
  • A Chinese woman busy at needlework. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese lady busy at needlework. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A busy Chinese fruit and vegetable market with vignettes of daily life. Gouache painting.
  • The Rotunda and Lying-in Hospital with busy street life, Dublin, Ireland. Etching, 1842.