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  • Guinea pigs in animal houses
  • Slaughter-house reform / The Animal Defence and Anti-vivisection Society.
  • Slaughter-house reform / The Animal Defence and Anti-vivisection Society.
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Animal house (vivarium) of the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Earls Court House, with animals from John Hunter's menagerie. Watercolour attributed to J. Foot, ca. 1822.
  • The central corridor of the vivarium (animal house) with cages for the animals, in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Glauber salts for animals or the bath / J.F. Hart, pharmaceutical chemist, Man of Ross House, Ross-on-Wye.
  • The Queen's House seen from Greenwich Park, with people and animals in the foreground, Naval Hospital in the distance. Coloured engraving, 1814.
  • A local doctor asking a mother what career she thinks her son will pursue, she insists he is going to be a butcher due to his love of animals and the time he spends at the slaughter-house. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1899.
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
  • A vital issue / Alfred Brisco.
  • A vital issue / Alfred Brisco.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Two pigs lying in straw in an outdoor pen. Etching with aquatint and grey wash after G. Morland(?).
  • Three anglo-merino sheep in an open stall. Etching, ca 1839.
  • An outdoor pen of five pigs with the interior of a farm shed behind. Etching by R. Hills, ca 1815.
  • The real face of British meat / Viva!.
  • This your burger... this is the trash / Viva!.
  • A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
  • This your burger... this is the trash / Viva!.
  • The real face of British meat / Viva!.
  • Egg production : laying hens: imprisoned for life / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • Egg production : laying hens: imprisoned for life / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • Noah's ark and all its compartments displayed. Etching by J. Mynde.
  • A foppish doctor paying a house call on a young lady with her mother and baby; represented as a mule, a cat, a dog and a kitten respectively. Coloured etching, 1827.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.