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Before and after photographs of (top) a child with rickets treated by heliotherapy and (bottom) a sick boy treated with sun and open-air treatment.

Before and after photographs for heliotherapy

1 print : lithograph, printed in colour ; sheet 59.5 x 42 cm

The sun rising with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

Actina - The Portable Sun lamp. Produced by Perihel Ltd, London

The creation of Sun and Moon. Fresco in the Vatican.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr and Mrs Cantlie.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr. James Cantlie's wife.

Astronomy: the earth's progression round the sun. Engraving after Langley.

Surya means the sun or its deity. He is one of the three chief deities in the Vedas, as a great source of light and warmth

Surya the sun deity driving in his chariot. Gouache drawing.

1 print (album page 2) : lithograph ; image 34.9 x 47.5 cm

Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.

Astronomy: the sun, showing a sunspot. Lithograph after de la Mare.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, Sir James Stuart Lockhart, establishing that if Sun Yat Sen landed in Hong Kong then he would be arrested. Dated 4th October 1897; second page.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong,

Air, light and sun baths in the treatment of chronic complaints

Saxon deities: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Seater. Etching.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, Sir James Stuart Lockhart, establishing that if Sun Yat Sen landed in Hong Kong then he would be arrested. Dated 4th October 1897; first page.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong

The sign is made from copper and measures 305 mm in diameter. The ‘Sun’ also has a face moulded in the centre. This sign may have hung outside a shop to attract customers or it might have been part of the internal decoration. Apollo was the Greek god of light and for this reason is associated with the Sun. He was also a patron of medicine and healing and was said to be the judge of sickness and health.

maker: Unknown maker

Place made: Europe

Apothecary's shop sign in the shape of the Sun, Europe, 1701

Astronomy: the sun, showing sunspot activity. Lithograph after de la Mare.

The creation of Sun and Moon. Woodcut from Genesis, Paul Nash.

For the hot-headed. Illustrating hats to prevent sun-stroke.

Caricature: For the Hot-Headed.

The distances of the moon, the planets, and the sun, deduced theoretically

Astronomy: a diagram of the sun, as seen from other planets. Engraving.

1 painting : red and cerise watercolour ; sheet 55.8 x 45.7 cm

A sun of red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.

A case of meningo-cerebritis, caused probably by exposure to the sun

Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun

Astronomy: the sun, showing the progress of sunspot activity. Engraving by Seale.

The sun shining above the sea with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS while on holiday. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

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Before and after photographs for heliotherapy

The sun rising with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

Actina - The Portable Sun lamp. Produced by Perihel Ltd, London

The creation of Sun and Moon. Fresco in the Vatican.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr and Mrs Cantlie.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr. James Cantlie's wife.

Astronomy: the earth's progression round the sun. Engraving after Langley.

Surya the sun deity driving in his chariot. Gouache drawing.

Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.

Astronomy: the sun, showing a sunspot. Lithograph after de la Mare.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong,

Air, light and sun baths in the treatment of chronic complaints

Saxon deities: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Seater. Etching.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong

Apothecary's shop sign in the shape of the Sun, Europe, 1701

Astronomy: the sun, showing sunspot activity. Lithograph after de la Mare.

The creation of Sun and Moon. Woodcut from Genesis, Paul Nash.

Caricature: For the Hot-Headed.

The distances of the moon, the planets, and the sun, deduced theoretically

Astronomy: a diagram of the sun, as seen from other planets. Engraving.

A sun of red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.

A case of meningo-cerebritis, caused probably by exposure to the sun

Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun

Astronomy: the sun, showing the progress of sunspot activity. Engraving by Seale.

The sun shining above the sea with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS while on holiday. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

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Before and after photographs for heliotherapy

The sun rising with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

Actina - The Portable Sun lamp. Produced by Perihel Ltd, London

The creation of Sun and Moon. Fresco in the Vatican.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr and Mrs Cantlie.

Letter from Sun Yat Sen to Dr. James Cantlie's wife.

Astronomy: the earth's progression round the sun. Engraving after Langley.

Surya the sun deity driving in his chariot. Gouache drawing.

Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.

Astronomy: the sun, showing a sunspot. Lithograph after de la Mare.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong,

Air, light and sun baths in the treatment of chronic complaints

Saxon deities: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Seater. Etching.

Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong

Apothecary's shop sign in the shape of the Sun, Europe, 1701

Astronomy: the sun, showing sunspot activity. Lithograph after de la Mare.

The creation of Sun and Moon. Woodcut from Genesis, Paul Nash.

Caricature: For the Hot-Headed.

The distances of the moon, the planets, and the sun, deduced theoretically

Astronomy: a diagram of the sun, as seen from other planets. Engraving.

A sun of red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.

A case of meningo-cerebritis, caused probably by exposure to the sun

Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun

Astronomy: the sun, showing the progress of sunspot activity. Engraving by Seale.

The sun shining above the sea with a yellow condom instead of the sun; representing protection against AIDS while on holiday. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.

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