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  • Coloured condoms on a chequered black and white background; representing an advertisement for safe sex by Verkerke C&L GmbH. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A nurse attending the wounded in a Soviet military hospital. Oil painting by Sophia Uranova, ca. 1962.
  • A nurse attending the wounded in a Soviet military hospital. Oil painting by Sophia Uranova, ca. 1962.
  • A nurse attending the wounded in a Soviet military hospital. Oil painting by Sophia Uranova, ca. 1962.
  • Two young men, one in drag, playing rag and bone merchants. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Two young men, one in drag, playing rag and bone merchants. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Queen of the Liliputians : height 31 inches, age 26.
  • Queen of the Liliputians : height 31 inches, age 26.
  • British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • An Indian man reaches out to touch his young bride who wears a red sari that covers her face; a woman raising her arms in terror as flames envelop her and all her belongings, a man setting off to earn his fortune abroad with a blue sack over his shoulder and a woman (his wife?) staying at home stirring a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement within a decorative border by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • Three seated monkeys: one hiding his eyes, one with his hands over his mouth, and the other hiding his genitals with another monkey scratching his head in bemusement below; with the message in French: 'We die. What do you do?'; an advertisement for an event on Saturday 27 November [in Geneva] to commemorate World AIDS Day featuring a rock concert entitled 'Rock against AIDS'; sponsored by Dialogan, Groupe SIDA Géneve, PVA Géneve and the AIDS Ministry. Colour lithograph.
  • Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
  • High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: tomb of William Henry Kirby. Photograph, 19--.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu official seated. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu official seated. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mother with two children. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mother with two children. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a standing Manchu official, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a standing Manchu official, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
  • Minerva visiting Envy in order to punish Aglauros. Etching by J.W. Baur, 16--.
  • A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
  • The Westminster Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth. Engraving on silk by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • Two British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two British prisoners of war, one in drag, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.