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  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • A smiling couple with small pictures showing different types of contraception below: contraception choices in Ghana. Colour lithograph, 2001.
  • A smiling seamstress with small pictures showing different types of contraception below: contraception choices in Ghana. Colour lithograph, 2001.
  • A Ghanaian family of five representing Famplan, the injectable contraceptive in Ghana. Colour lithograph by GSMF International, ca. 2000.
  • Accra, Ghana: African people waiting to be inoculated on the porch and steps of a (hospital?) building. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Kumasi, Ghana: a mother holding a child with unshaved hair; a group stands in the background. Photograph, 1920/1940 (?).
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Cape Coast Castle, Ghana: a blind man is led through the street by a boy. Wood engraving by J.J.
  • A pregnant mother in tears living in poverty with her many children: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A smiling couple stand in front of rows of bread with small pictures showing different types of contraception below: contraception choices in Ghana. Colour lithograph, 2001.
  • Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
  • Cylindrical wooden soum covered with medicine and with four small bags containing power-giving substances. Used for the causation of disease by human agency. Ghana, West Africa.
  • Above, English and Dutch Forts in Accra; below, animals, including lizards, scorpions and worms. Etching by J. Basire after Smith.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Départ d'une flotte de commerce des Indes pour le pays de l'or sur la côté orientale de l'Afrique / Compagnie Liebig.
  • The funeral of an Ashanti chief. Engraving by A. Thom, 1858.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Départ d'une flotte de commerce des Indes pour le pays de l'or sur la côté orientale de l'Afrique / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Army physicians vaccinating soldiers below decks on the SS. Bathhurst. Process print by C. Henschel after a drawing by C. Staniland after A. Cox.
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: disinfection with a spray from a tank. Photograph, 1928.
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: medical researchers working on yellow fever. Photograph, 1928.
  • Coconuts and trees (Cocos nucifera), a cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) and pinang tree (Areca catechu), in a tropical landscape. Line engraving after J. Nieuhoff.
  • Recto: numerous black figures within blocks resembling houses; an illustration to an Ghanaian proverb; third of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.
  • American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program
  • Recto: numerous black figures within blocks resembling houses; an illustration to an Ghanaian proverb; third of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.