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  • A street entertainer makes two monkeys on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer makes two sloth bears on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • 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 couple of male and a couple of female symbols dancing, representing a party provided by AIDS-Hilfe Flensburg e. V. and by lesbian and gay organizations. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • The legs of a woman dancing on a swirling green background with the words 'Red Hot + Rio The Party'; an advertisement for a Brazilian music event on 24th November 1996 at BKA-Zelt, a venue in Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • A crouching male figure with the words 'oppression' curving around his back and a another male figure raising his arms in the air with words 'liberation' representing an advertisement for Freedom, a safe-sex celebration dance party in aid of AIDS/HIV at The Old 'Star' Building, Christchurch in association with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Lithograph.
  • A man is playing a tambourine as couples are dancing in a ballroom. Process print after J.L. Stewart.
  • A young lady is being asked by a young man to join the other couples on the dance floor. Engraving by S.S. Smith after J. Stephanoff.
  • After a haymaking holiday, three couples are dancing to a man playing the flute and a woman playing the accordion. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
  • A man and a woman face one another on the dance floor as people behind look on with disapproving faces. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter.
  • Gladstone dancing with Lord Rosebery, who is wearing a kilt; celebrating the Liberal victory in the British General Election of 1880 and a crown. Engraving, 1880.
  • A ball in the Palais des Tuileries: the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie (?) take part in a quadrille. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Gustave Janet.
  • A woman in platform laced boots and a skimpy leotard raises her hands above her head appearing to hold the logo 'Big spender'; an advertisement for a charity music event presented by Big Spender and United Parties against AIDS on 4 December 1994 at the Metropol [Berlin[. Colour lithograph by Rene Habermacher and Blackline.
  • Two actors, one in drag, dancing together on stage. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • Two actors, one in drag, dancing together on stage. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunkenly dancing the polka and knocking over a tray of coffee, while his loved one looks on in a dismayed manner. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Tiki Carpenter in drag as "The dancing Australian". Photographic postcard, ca. 1927.
  • Tiki Carpenter in drag as "The dancing Australian". Photographic postcard, ca. 1927.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • Men and women dancing and playing music. Coloured engraving by J. Keyse Sherwin.
  • Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : the china clock ballet.
  • Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : the china clock ballet.
  • Glässner's Liliputaner.
  • Glässner's Liliputaner.
  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.
  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.