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  • Bridges: a drawbridge, details of the winding mechanism. Engraving.
  • Clocks: the plan of a horizontal clock mechanism. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: side elevation of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: plan of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a trammeling mechanism for threads. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.
  • Clocks: a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland?].
  • Clocks: a repeater clock mechanism, exploded view. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
  • Two chuck mechanisms for an engineer's lathe: elevations, cross-section, and details. Engraving by J. Bacon after J. Clement.
  • Papeterie Darblay, Essonne, Ile de France: mechanized, shaft-driven paper-making machines attended by workmen. Wood engraving by H. Linton, 1859, after E. Bourdelin.
  • Do not be afraid of getting AIDS in a supermarket.
  • Advertisement for condoms by AIDES
  • advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe
  • Liverpool, England: a ship storage area at the port: neatly arranged ropes and equipment. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • A drug user advised to use a clean syringe to prevent HIV/AIDS; an advertisement for the Drogues Info Service by the CFES and Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, Secrétariat d'état à la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).
  • A motorbike helmet inscribed with the letters 'UConn'; promotion for use of protection and safe sex by the Student Health Services. Colour lithograph by Shelley Czaban, 1992.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • A barefoot Basque fisherman posing with several medals on his tunic.