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  • Animals posing as human beings in an interior of a barber-surgeon's shop. Mezzotint.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • [Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on white paper].
  • [Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on white paper].
  • [Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on green paper].
  • By permission of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor : to the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born ... three wonderful phoenomena ... each with a monstrous CRAW under the throat ...
  • Laverack's embrocation : for horses and cattle : one of the best applications for general use in the stable and farmyard : for splints, curbs, sprains, sprung sinews, lameness, bruises, sore throat, influenza, wedged ures, &c., &c. : may be used with great advantage by human beings / Laverack and Sons.
  • Laverack's embrocation : for horses and cattle : one of the best applications for general use in the stable and farmyard : for splints, curbs, sprains, sprung sinews, lameness, bruises, sore throat, influenza, wedged ures, &c., &c. : may be used with great advantage by human beings / Laverack and Sons.
  • The white silhouette of a butterfly representing the fragility of those living with AIDS against a grey/black tablet form; with the message in German, ''Help. Disease and death. They are part of life. People with AIDS are fellow human beings. We help them by making them accept. Through encounters and integration"; one of 3 posters advertising the AIDS-Hilfe Tirol. Colour lithograph by Nicolai Buchinger.