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- Archives and manuscripts
Sunflowers
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013Date: 1986Reference: PP/AMI/C/3/17/2Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
Sunflowers and eggshells : one woman's journey of discovery / Kate Milton-Jones.
Milton-Jones, Kate.Date: 2009- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: sunflowers, roses, carnations, daffodil buds (August 1985-January 1986)
Date: 12/08/1985-30/01/1986Reference: PP/AMI/B/224Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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Yellow sunflowers with the words "Postiv-Gruppe", an [HIV] positive group organised by the AIDS-Hilfe Hamburg e.V. Colour lithograph by Sunnah Wagner and Axel Göttsch.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 673575i- Pictures
A young woman wearing a bonnet and 19th-century costume walks towards a bed of sunflowers. Drawing by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: June 66 [June 1966]Reference: 2913406iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
An oil painting of a sunflower in a flower-pot, against a dark blue ground; representing the brightness that a donation can bring to the lives of people with tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by Herbert Leupin, 1959.
Leupin, Herbert, 1916-1999.Date: 1959Reference: 575115i- Pictures
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A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
Date: [Jan '94]Reference: 677314i- Pictures
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A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
Date: [Jan '94?]Reference: 677315i- Pictures
Clytie abandoned by the sun god is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by G. Duchange after N. Bertin.
Bertin, Nicolas, 1668-1736Date: [not after 1757]Reference: 2500255i- Pictures
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Dirty Vlas the organ-grinder demonstrating that people who spit or crack sunflower-seeds spread tuberculosis and are therefore enemies of the people's health. Colour lithograph by T. Pashkov, 192-.
Pashkov, T.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 545730i- Pictures
Clytie abandoned by Apollo, is rejected by Cupid and is turned into a sunflower. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi after a follower of Annibale Carracci.
Date: Novr. 26th. 1772Reference: 2804067i- Pictures
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Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a sunflower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27503i- Pictures
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Sunflower (Helianthus giganteus L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1772]Reference: 17785i- Pictures
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The Virgin with Child and a seraph within a sunflower. Etching.
Reference: 30721i- Books
Domestication of sunflower and sumpweed in eastern North America / Richard A. Yarnell.
Yarnell, Richard ADate: 1978- Ephemera
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Sunflower & other seeds... : proteins punch / designed and produced by Compass Group UK and Ireland's Design Centre.
Date: 2005- Ephemera
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Oils for all occasions / Tesco.
Tesco (Firm)Date: 1993- Pictures
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A sunflower representing the group Body Positive for women living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666484i- Pictures
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A sunflower with a family of four in the center: family planning in Uganda . Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Uganda, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 811802i- Pictures
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A sunflower with a family of four in the center: family planning in Uganda . Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Uganda, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 812079i- Pictures
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A sunflower with a family of four in the center: family planning in Uganda . Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Uganda, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 812080i- Pictures
A sunflower bearing two hearts as leaves: health services for adolescents in Mozambique. Colour lithograph by Serviços Amigos de Adolescente e Jovens, 2002.
Date: 2002Reference: 767012i- Pictures
A sunflower bearing two hearts as leaves: health services for adolescents in Mozambique. Colour lithograph by Serviços Amigos de Adolescente e Jovens, 2002.
Date: 2002Reference: 767013i- Pictures
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Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27445i- Digital Images
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Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
Dr Henry Oakeley