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  • Portrait of Henry Cline or Peter Clare, identity uncertain. Head and shoulders in oval.
  • On the elements of light and their identity with those of matter, radiant and fixed / [John Howard Kyan].
  • The dance of death: Death, seen on top of a barricade, reveals his true identity to the people. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Garuda carrying two identical figures possibly Krishna and Balarama. Watercolour drawing.
  • 3 identical silver coins joined to form triangle. On one side are three little men.
  • Some Fellows of the Royal Society: with a key to the identities of the sitters. Wood engraving, 1889.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
  • General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • General Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren : in the identical costumes worn before Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, at the Palace of the Tuilleries, Nov. 29, 1864.
  • General Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren : in the identical costumes worn before Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, at the Palace of the Tuilleries, Nov. 29, 1864.
  • Two identical chicks representing the difficulty in distinguishing between those who have AIDS and those who do not; an advertisement by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS, Gapa/BS, Brazil. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two identical doves apparently asleep representing the difficulty in distinguishing between those who have AIDS and those who do not; an advertisement by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS, Gapa/BS, Brazil. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A cross with the horizontal line representing a book bearing 2 impressions of an identical hand wearing a ring; a red shoe above and faded images sewn at the edges including a bike, a crab and an upside down figure feature along the bottom edge; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ofelia Rodriguez, 1994.
  • Illustration depicting semi-conservative DNA replication. A DNA double helix prior to replication is shown in the top left of the image. The sugar phosphate backbone and nucleotide bases are visible. Complementary base pairing of adenine with thymine (blue with green) and guanine with cytosine (red with yellow) is shown. During replication, a length of the double helix temporarily unwinds and separates into two strands. Free nucleotides bind by complementary base pairing to the recently exposed nucleotides on each strand which act as a template. Two new double helices are formed, each containing one original generation and one new generation strand of DNA. The sequence of base pairs in each double helix is identical to the original.
  • Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis.
  • A man with a carpetbag and an umbrella enters a lodging house and asks for a room, but the landlady rejects his request, thinking that his carpetbag identifies him with a man who had defrauded other lodging houses. Wood engraving after Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
  • An Armenian man in Istanbul. Watercolour.
  • L'orientation sexuelle / Crips Île-de-France.
  • L'orientation sexuelle / Crips Île-de-France.
  • L'orientation sexuelle / Crips Île-de-France.
  • L'orientation sexuelle / Crips Île-de-France.
  • Photos of obese man with Infantilism and thyroid disorder
  • Ça change quoi pour toi?.
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
  • A girl playing at being a nurse by rubbing "Vick" ointment on the chest of a doll. Colour lithograph.
  • The message in Swedish 'Don't forget. Men'; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements by the RFSL, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.