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  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A black woman wearing glasses and a head scarf holds up a condom packet; advertisment about the dangers of drugs, sex and AIDS by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Warwick May, 1991.
  • A black woman thanking a doctor for curing her husband. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1916(?).
  • Two black women hold a washing line to which condoms are pegged; advertising safe sex and AIDS prevention. Lithograph.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
  • A woman carrying a baby on her back, a tent in the background. Oil painting.
  • A woman carrying a baby on her back, a tent in the background. Oil painting.
  • A white man approaches a woman sitting on a bench in a garden, and when she turns her face to him he sees that she is black. Engraving by S. Davenport after R.W. Buss.