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  • An older woman is undressing; her broad sash (obi) lies on the ground behind her. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1858.
  • An unidentified actor as Hayano Gampei in the poor house, tying on his sash (obi). Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1859.
  • Elephant's hair. Slide by Topping - x165 - lamp. Beck Intensity and ground glass and wratten 45a filter. Condenser - Leitz 1.4 NA. Camera ext. 215 mm. Plate - Kodak Pan. Exp. 5.75m. Fine grain 1D11. Talen F.C. Griggs 29.9.48 op.lat. Top lens removed. OBJ. Watson Holes 12mm. 0.65 N.n. used 182 mm. thickcore Eyepiece x 14.
  • Three young women posing in a photographic studio, one seated on a bench, in front of a painted backdrop of a rural scene.
  • Left, a midwife (?) fastens a band of cloth around a pregnant woman's waist, watched by an attendant; right, two attendants bring refreshments. Woodcut by Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1748 (?).
  • Fusobacteria observed in the bloody sputum of a patient with Castellani's bronchitis. Drawing by H. Vincent.
  • Vincent's angina: microscopic views of spirochetes (left) and bacillus fusiformis (right). Drawing by Jean Hyacinthe Vincent.
  • Hercules holds up the world between two philosophers representing astronomy and mathematics. Etching by P. Aquila after G. Rossi after Annibale Carracci.