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The last glass-eye maker in Britain
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A doctor, his community and coronavirus
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Anecdotes relative to our affairs in Germany: carried back to The Debarking of the first British Regiment at Emden; and brought down to the present critical Time: in a series of letters to a noble lord in - shire. Authenticated By a Gentleman on the Spot, and confirmed by his Correspondents here, during the War. In this Tract is Elucidated The Nature of the French Commissariate; and a Parallel drawn between theirs, and the British Commissaries. As also An Explanation of the French Embodied Militia, and a comparison made, in Respect to our own.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Pictures
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A man with a moustache points his finger with the message: 'Ohne gummi auf den Strich, so was tut Mann lieber nicht! [Without rubber/condoms on the streets, so what do men prefer no to!]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674459i- Pictures
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The sun wearing a headband with a star, against a backdrop of hearts; advertising a Christopher Street Day Gala in Cologne on 7 July 1995. Colour lithograph by Gerhard Malcherek, 1995.
Date: 1995Reference: 673458i- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 18
Date: June - November 1904Reference: WF/E/03/18Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 18
Date: June - November 1904Reference: WF/E/03/18 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd