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  • The grim reaper attacks a young woman shielding a centaur and nine vignettes show disasters predicted to occur in the year 1834, including a fire in London that destroyed the Houses of Parliament and part of the city. Aquatint.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • Mining: A full acount of the dreadful disaster...1823
  • Two angels blowing trumpets, about to cause disaster at the Apocalypse. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Royal West India Mail Steamer 'Tyne'. Dr. Acland - a passenger wrote a long letter to the 'Oxford Herald' about this disaster.
  • A child with diarrhoea, malnutrition and vector related disease and means of prevention: The Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph by P. Wambu, ca. 2000.
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Envelope ro return donations to the British Red Cross Society accompanying a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [Envelope ro return donations to the British Red Cross Society accompanying a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [British Red Cross Society envelope containing a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangaladesh and an envelope to return it in (EPH464:156) from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [British Red Cross Society envelope containing a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangaladesh and an envelope to return it in (EPH464:156) from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
  • A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.
  • The cruise of the "Port Kingston" / by W. Ralph Hall Caine.
  • Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv. Diatribe. De prodigiosis crucibus, quae tam supra vestes hominum, quam res alias, non pridem post vltimum incendium Vesuuij montis Neapoli comparuerunt / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv. Diatribe. De prodigiosis crucibus, quae tam supra vestes hominum, quam res alias, non pridem post vltimum incendium Vesuuij montis Neapoli comparuerunt / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv. Diatribe. De prodigiosis crucibus, quae tam supra vestes hominum, quam res alias, non pridem post vltimum incendium Vesuuij montis Neapoli comparuerunt / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.
  • Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.
  • John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.
  • Rescue of people from buildings damaged by explosion in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Transport of injured people from damaged buildings in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Rescue of people from damaged buildings in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Transport of injured people in civil defence: use of stretchers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Activities of the Netherlands Red Cross that can be supplied with the aid of donations of various amounts. Colour lithograph by Derf, 194- (?).
  • Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Angels blow trumpets and fire descends upon the earth. Woodcut, 16th century.