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  • Japan: spear-men wearing protective clothing and masks. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.
  • Two men are standing behind the counter of a pawnbroker's shop in London, examining some articles of clothing which have been brought in to pawn. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. Two young Sherpas carry planks of wood up to the village of Kunde (altitude 3600 metres). Wearing boots which are barely held together and cast-off clothing from Western trekkers, these men transport building materials up a precipitous track.
  • Smallpox epidemic, Palestine: men waiting for their disinfected clothes. Photograph.
  • Two men wearing different traditional clothes. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Men and women wearing clothes that are exaggerated in size and style. Etching.
  • Two men doing embroidery on a piece of cloth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two washer-men cleaning clothes by beating them against washing racks in a river. Watercolour painting.
  • Four men posing together wearing street clothes and coats, in front of a curtain. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Four men posing together wearing street clothes and coats, in front of a curtain. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Mpara Hill (?), Tanzania: Tanzanian men (railway porters) washing their clothes in a muddy stream. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Two men embroidering a piece of cloth stretched out on a frame. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Men and women are buying and selling clothes, hats and shoes at a market. Process print (?) by A.S. Boyd.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • A European man in Mozambique travelling in a litter (machila) carried by four men wearing loin cloths. Line block by Max Cowper after F.L.M. Moir.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • A couple walking through a garden dressed in fine clothes are being watched closely by three other men as the woman looks surprised. Etching (?) by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.
  • Men and women in smart city clothes are picking their way across a farmyard with chickens and dung; in the background there is a garden much more to their taste with a grotto and statues. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A house with a turret: to the left a woman is bathing, to the right another woman is wringing out clothes, and in the centre five men are juggling plates, all in a mediaeval style. Painting on silver foil by John Armstrong.
  • Beate, Bianca and Babette, three male models dressed in women's clothes with a glamour checklist that includes safe sex precautions; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education by the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.