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  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Evidence of the flood man
  • Gods watch from the heavens as the Flood engulfs the terrified people. Etching.
  • Epidemics in the valley of Mexico 1520-1820, correlated with sunspots, flood, drought, and famine.
  • Gods watch from the heavens as the Flood engulfs the terrified people of Earth. Etching.
  • The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III, a funeral, a flood, and a battle in Africa. Coloured lithograph, [c.1857?].
  • Menufia Canal, Egypt: reconstruction work to the first Aswan Dam: men at work lowering a flood gate. Photograph by F. Fiorillo, 1910.
  • Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood; the Tower of Babel; God responds to Noah's sacrifice with a rainbow. Etching by J. Hulett.
  • Niagra Falls Flooded with Light.
  • Preparing flooded fields for rice planting
  • People being rescued from a flood in a boat bearing messages about safe sex and condoms; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph by Tahley (?), 1995.
  • Medical talisman for menstrual flooding (Chinese MS)
  • Milking a cow: flooding in transparent liner
  • Saint Bernard of Uberti stopping the flooding of the Po. Engraving by A. de Petri, ca. 1701, after C. Maratta.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.
  • Bucaramanga, Colombia: a mule is pulled through a stream flooded by heavy rain; International Sanitary Commission staff watch from the bank. Photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Colossal statues of Memnon (Pharaoh Amenhotep III), seen during the flooding of the Nile, Thebes, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Front view of a pregnant uterus, taken from a woman who died of 'a flooding' in the ninth month of pregnancy. Copperplate engraving by P. Maleuve (Maleuvre?) after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • Water tank, Srīperumbūdur: overflowing of the tank. Coloured aquatint by H. Merke after J. Hunter.
  • Messina Port, Messina, Sicily, Italy: with a numbered key. Tinted etching.
  • Willem de Rijck. Line engraving by C. de Visscher, 1655.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China.
  • Activities of the Netherlands Red Cross that can be supplied with the aid of donations of various amounts. Colour lithograph by Derf, 194- (?).