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  • A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Razors and pins, presumably from Belgian Congo, Africa. Possibly Manbetu or Azande, certainly Ouelle District.
  • An arm after an operation, showing pins and new bone growth: x-ray. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • X-ray (of an arm ?), showing pins in the bones (the radius and ulna ?). Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • A group of men playing a game outside with a ball and nine pins, a woman watches from a doorway. Engraving by A. Laurent, 1743, after David Teniers.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption similar to stocks which constrains the movement of his head and pins his legs down on the wooden planks. Watercolour drawing.
  • The heads of three women wearing chignons attached to their natural hair; two hair-pins, five hair-pieces and a lace and ribbon head-dress. Wood engraving, 1888.
  • Two men are in a workshop making wooden objects such as rolling-pins, wooden balls and skittles, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • Three men work near an open fire on anvils with hammers making nails and pins of various sizes, some tools of their trade hang on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.
  • A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.
  • A seated woman having her hair combed by a male hair-dresser. Wood engraving.
  • Three entertainers appear to stand on top of coloured roses with a pvc-clad woman and an open-mouthed DJ bottom right; includes two vertical strips of the numerous logos of associated organisations from l'Ambassade [top] to Actoria studio [bottom] with further logos arranged along the bottom and right [radio stations] and a list of DJ's performing; an advertisement for the Red Ribbon ball, a fund raising evening event in aid of "Sol en SI" [Solidarité Enfants SIDA] and the SIDA Info Service to commemorate World AIDS day on Saturday 29 November. Colour lithograph.
  • Event to mark Solidarité Enfants SIDA
  • A boy with a guardian angel pointing to heaven. Engraving by P. Aquila after C. Maratti.
  • Three celebrities: Anthony Perkins (actor), Magic Johnson (basketball player), Freddie Mercury (singer); representing victims of AIDS. Colour lithograph after V. Rytina and M. Vojáček, 1994.
  • Celebrity victims of AIDS
  • A huge solitary tree (lime?) at dawn; representing the beginning of the year 1995 for health organizations in the Czech Republic. Colour lithograph after V. Rytina, 1994.
  • A naked woman angel as a temptress and the cause of the transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph after A. Slavíček, 1994.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Engraving after M. Buchinger, 1724.