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The drunken Hercules urinating. Photographic postcard, 196-.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 2045887iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.
Date: MDLXIX [1569]Reference: 567364i- Pictures
King Louis XIII as Hercules defeating the Habsburgs and their allies in the Thirty Years' War. Etching by A. Bosse, 1635.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: [1635?]Reference: 2822711i- Books
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A scheme for improving small sums of money, by which, great part of the nation's specie, which now lies dead and unimproved, may be employed to the most important uses of the government, of trade, and of private persons. Exhibiting, At One View, the certain Reward of virtuous Servants, and the yearly Profit which will arise from thus imploying their Wages, or any Small Sum, from five to twenty Pounds, &c. Which, By the Blessing of God, will be a Means to prevent our Hospitals, Parishes, Charitable Clubs, Street, and Highways from being crowded thro' the Extremity of so many Poor and unfortunate People as we now have.
Date: [1745]- Pictures
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A pregnant school girl in tears walks past a school sign followed by her mother holding a large suitcase: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 1991.
Date: [1991?]Reference: 755387i- Books
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The fortune hunters: shewing, (from experience) 1. How people may improve their fortunes, and raise themselves in London, by different and quite opposite Ways. II. How Servants, of various Denominations, may obtain the Favour of their Masters and Mistresses, the Love of their Fellow Servants, the Esteem of all People, and gain Preferment. III. Many useful Instructions and Receipts for a great Variety of Businesses; as Brewing, Gardening, Making Wines, Dressing a Turtle, and Victuals of all Sorts, &c. &c. IV. The most distinguishing Characteristics of the several Sects and Professions of Religion in this great City; with some Queries proposed to the Atheistical Clubs. V. How pernicious some epidemic vices practised in London are to the welfare of society; with Proposals for the Suppression thereof. Being a Guide to such as are Strangers to the Ways and Customs of London. By John Breues, Late of Perth, Merchant, &c.
Breues, John.Date: [1754]- Pictures
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A butterfly and its shadow with a warning in English and Chinese about the dangers of having multiple partners and the risk of getting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1992.
Date: [19]92Reference: 678268i- Ephemera
Postage stamps ephemera. Box 2A.
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Postage stamps ephemera. Box 2B.
- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.112 Eye Disease - Blindness #3
Date: 1916-2012Reference: EPH751:112Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.111 Eye Disease - Blindness #2
Date: 1954-2015Reference: EPH751:111Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Ephemera
Postage stamps ephemera. Box 11A.
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An arch decorated with a panel representing Ferdinand of Spain as Hercules choosing duty over pleasure. Etching by T. van Thulden after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [1642]Reference: 11332i- Ephemera
Postage stamps ephemera. Box 11.
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Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47096i- Pictures
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Hercules, seated on a column, in a state of depression. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1781.
Date: 1781Reference: 11297i- Pictures
Attributes of Pehar and his four companions in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47072iPart of: Fifteen banners from a Tibetan Protector chapel.- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 9
Date: May 1905 - Feb 1906Reference: WF/E/01/01/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd