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  • An Indian snake: Tar Tutta. Engraving by W. Skelton, ca. 1796.
  • Section of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • Sectio of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • "We'll take this into the nursery" : Wright's Coal Tar Soap : 4d per tablet.
  • People making tar in the forests of Sweden. Etching after E. D. Clarke.
  • Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford in 1858 & 1873. Plant belonging to W. H. Perkin and his brother, T. D. Perkin.
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
  • A tarred and feathered countryman is paraded past crowds in the streets. Wood engraving.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Coltar tablets: advertisement. Lithograph.
  • A call for combined penicillin/streptomycin injection...is a call for Crystamycin.
  • A call for combined penicillin/streptomycin injection...is a call for Crystamycin.
  • A snake, slender and light brown in colour, with pale triangular patches edged with black, running along its back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • John Bull on a throne receiving emaciated and tattered supplicants for charity, including Napoleon. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • Weymouth or white pine (Pinus strobus L.) and scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.): cones and leaves. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • Fred Roper with one of his midgets : John Tweedlie McPherson : age 19, height 40 inches.
  • Fred Roper with one of his midgets : John Tweedlie McPherson : age 19, height 40 inches.
  • A sailor from HMS Dreadnought, clenching his fist. Process print, 1915.
  • A sailor from HMS Dreadnought, clenching his fist. Process print, 1915.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : you may want it / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : you may want it / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : trial by jury / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : trial by jury / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Recruitment and measurement of soldiers outside a village inn. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.