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  • The plague of lice. Coloured etching.
  • German soldiers with heads shaved to avoid lice.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • One ape removing lice from the fur of another ape. Reproduction of an etching by F. Lüdecke.
  • Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Fumigating a building (to destroy typhus-carrying lice ?) with the Clayton Type B machine, England (?). Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • Crabs representing a nickname for pubic lice or 'VD' with chinese lettering; a safe-sex advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An old woman wearing spectacles picking fleas or lice from a man's hair; behind her stands a man who holds up a jug. Engraving by J. Aliamet after A. van Ostade.
  • Vincente Licea. Photograph, Mexico.
  • Peacock louse
  • A type of louse (Polyplax spinulosa). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • The female body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Head louse clinging to strand of human hair, SEM
  • Head louse clinging onto strands of human hair, SEM
  • Head louse, SEM
  • Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • The female human louse (Pediculus humanus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • The male body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • Human hair (Asian origin)
  • A peasant family in a farm-house. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. Zocchi.
  • A peasant family in a farm-house. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. Zocchi.
  • Ox louse clinging to a hair - coloured SEM
  • World War II: hygiene instructions against typhus for the British army in Italy. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, 1944.
  • Human hair (Caucasian descent), SEM
  • EPHEMERA: London nursery pomade [label].
  • Salmon sea louse, fish parasite
  • EPEMERA: To mothers only: for nursery use: F