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  • Modern cremation : its history and practice with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England / by Sir H. Thompson.
  • Nepal; cremation on the Baghmati river, 1986
  • Five cremation urns. Etching after J. Barbault.
  • The cremation of Hippias. Etching with engraving.
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cremation is carried out under a wooden awning. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • The funeral procession for a royal prince, and the cremation of a royal prince. Etching with engraving.
  • Cremation of a native American lying on a plank of wood above a fire; warning issued by the Californian Rural Indian Health Board to native Americans to practice safe sex. Colour lithograph.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): the funeral meru for the cremation of King Pinklao (second king), January 1866. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Four men carrying a dead man on a wooden stretcher for his cremation, watched by grieving women. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
  • The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
  • Diaformin : creme universal de massagem.
  • Diaformin : creme universal de massagem.
  • Pour Etre Belle Creme Floreine/A. Girard
  • Gerard Mercator [Cremer]. Line engraving by H. Goltzius, 1574.
  • Gerard Mercator [Cremer]. Line engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Gerard Mercator [Cremer]. Line engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1682.
  • Grünland Ananas-Sahne-Käse-Creme : 60% Fett i.T. mit 10% Ananassaft / Allgäuer Käsewerke.
  • Grünland Ananas-Sahne-Käse-Creme : 60% Fett i.T. mit 10% Ananassaft / Allgäuer Käsewerke.
  • Grünland Ananas-Sahne-Käse-Creme : 60% Fett i.T. mit 10% Ananassaft / Allgäuer Käsewerke.
  • Grünland Ananas-Sahne-Käse-Creme : 60% Fett i.T. mit 10% Ananassaft / Allgäuer Käsewerke.
  • Crème de gruyère suisse : fromage fondu : fabriquée en Suisse : le laitier = Swiss gruyere cheese : made in Switzerland : "Milk Boy" brand / Lemann & Co.
  • Swiss cheese without crust = Queso de Suiza sin corteza : "Society brand" : made in Switzerland : Crème de Gruyère fromage fomdu [sic]... / Maurice Lustenberger's Sons & Dürst Brothers Ltd.
  • Two men sit in discussion top right with a further group of cartoon male figures at the bottom sit chatting around a small coffee table adorned with cups and a teapot by Rob [?]; an advertisement for an open discussion group for those living with HIV and AIDS mentored by Arnd Bächler (gay counseling) and Stefan Cremer (HIV e.V.). Photocopy, 1994.