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Transforming the decorative into dissent
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The solidarity of sickness
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The use of handkerchiefs to prevent flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
Date: 1950Reference: 576156i- Pictures
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The use of handkerchiefs to prevent against flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
Date: 1950Reference: 576155i- Ephemera
"Tempo" hygienic handkerchiefs : medicated plain.
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The case of the poor people employed in weaving gause for hoods, scarfs, neck-handkerchiefs, and in weaving silk-handkerchiefs.
Date: 1712]- Pictures
A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman, ca. 1951.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: [1951?]Reference: 576162i