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M0005576: Tattoo designs used in medicine
Date: 8 August 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/88
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
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M0005575: Illustrations with the caption "Tattoo designs used in medicine"
Date: 8 August 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/87
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0005574: Illustrations of tattoo designs seen during an expedition to the Torres Straits
Date: 8 August 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/86
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
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Six arms showing different designs of tattoo, and two smaller views of tattoos. Process print, 1903.
Date: 25 November 1903Reference: 35574i
Pictures
Pec Spectacular.
Date: [between 1980 and 2000]Reference: 3304964i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
Pictures
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Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.
Shortland, Dr.Reference: 533474i
Journals
Things & ink.
Date: [2013-2015]
Books
Alcohol = Alkogol' / compiled, edited and designed by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell.
Date: 2017
Pictures
A man tattooing a design on a young woman's leg. Process print.
Reference: 35576i
Pictures
Online
An Algerian woman with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot against a studio backdrop.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 538968i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
Pictures
Head of a man with ear- and nose-rings and a tattoo, with advice on piercing and tattoing practices which do not lead to AIDS. Colour lithograph after Andrew Dineley, 1992.
Dineley, Andrew.Date: 1992Reference: 25412i
Pictures
Moko: a fully tattooed face with individual designs numbered and named. Drawing by H.G. Robley.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Reference: 533505i
Pictures
Names of moko designs: drawing of a tattooed face with numbers and text. Drawing by H.G. Robley.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Reference: 533487i
Pictures
Online
Puhoro: tracing of the chisel cuts used in a Maori design of tattooing on the thigh. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Reference: 533403i
Books
Queer tattoo / edited by Florian Rudolph, Benjamin Wolbergs, Brody Polinsky ; author, Andrew Burford, Brody Polinsky (interviews), Stewart O'Callaghan (preface).
Date: [2022]
Pictures
Chair design: detail for chair leg and strut showing carved Maori(?) figures. Watercolour.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Reference: 533451i
Pictures
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Te Mutu: portrait showing detail of moko design, Tauranga 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Date: 1864Reference: 533510i
Pictures
A bare-chested man with tattoos and piercings, looking knowingly into the camera; representing awareness of AIDS patients. Colour lithograph by JungeHelden and M. Steger for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 728558i
Pictures
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Te Manawa: an Arawa warrior. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-Reference: 533412i
Pictures
A naked man with a snake tattoo on one buttock wearing boots and socks bends over as another man in camouflage trousers and pierced nipples places a hand on his other buttock; with the statement in German 'Be so kind!'; one of 9 safe-sex advertisements for the AIDS-Hilfe Wien. Colour lithograph by Matthias Hermann, ca. 1995.
Herrmann, Matthias, 1963-Date: [1995?]Reference: 675200i
Pictures
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A man within a group wearing a t-shirt with the logo 'safe sex', another man with a tattoo bearing the words 'no fear' with his arms around another, and a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Scott Sidorsky and Michele Clement, 1992.
Date: 1992Reference: 667806i
Pictures
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A face with nose and ear ring and flower tattoo with block of text explaining risks of body piercing; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Agency. Colour lithograph, 1994.
Date: 1994Reference: 666740i
Pictures
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A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674556i
Pictures
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A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674557i
Pictures
Borneo (Bold Black).
Date: [between 1981 and 2000]Reference: 3304978i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.

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M0005576: Tattoo designs used in medicine

M0005575: Illustrations with the caption "Tattoo designs used in medicine"

M0005574: Illustrations of tattoo designs seen during an expedition to the Torres Straits

Six arms showing different designs of tattoo, and two smaller views of tattoos. Process print, 1903.

Pec Spectacular.

Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.

Things & ink.

Alcohol = Alkogol' / compiled, edited and designed by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell.

A man tattooing a design on a young woman's leg. Process print.

An Algerian woman with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot against a studio backdrop.

Head of a man with ear- and nose-rings and a tattoo, with advice on piercing and tattoing practices which do not lead to AIDS. Colour lithograph after Andrew Dineley, 1992.

Moko: a fully tattooed face with individual designs numbered and named. Drawing by H.G. Robley.

Names of moko designs: drawing of a tattooed face with numbers and text. Drawing by H.G. Robley.

Puhoro: tracing of the chisel cuts used in a Maori design of tattooing on the thigh. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.

Queer tattoo / edited by Florian Rudolph, Benjamin Wolbergs, Brody Polinsky ; author, Andrew Burford, Brody Polinsky (interviews), Stewart O'Callaghan (preface).

Chair design: detail for chair leg and strut showing carved Maori(?) figures. Watercolour.

Te Mutu: portrait showing detail of moko design, Tauranga 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.

A bare-chested man with tattoos and piercings, looking knowingly into the camera; representing awareness of AIDS patients. Colour lithograph by JungeHelden and M. Steger for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., ca. 2000.

Te Manawa: an Arawa warrior. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.

A man within a group wearing a t-shirt with the logo 'safe sex', another man with a tattoo bearing the words 'no fear' with his arms around another, and a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Scott Sidorsky and Michele Clement, 1992.

A face with nose and ear ring and flower tattoo with block of text explaining risks of body piercing; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Agency. Colour lithograph, 1994.

A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.

A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.

Borneo (Bold Black).