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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 29.6 x 20.9 cm

A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 21 x 54 cm folded to 21 x 11 cm

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

Promotional magazine insert for Sunlight Soap, possibly from the 1920s. The front has a colour illustration of a very large black woman in red headscarf, purple dress and white apron loading the laundry she has just done onto a basket held by a small black boy above his head. They are standing in a green field with a line of clothes drying behind them. The detergent requires "no rubbing, no boiling".

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

296 pages : illustrations, 2 folded maps ; 23 cm

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 2.

[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].

The people depicted in this print include a lady of fashion and her retinue, one of whom is black

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image and border 23.6 x 40.2 cm

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

Calendar for 1995 featuring carefully photographed pictures of naked black people coupled with poetry "telling the story of the HIV experience by use of verse, prose and artistic imagery." Photography by Nick Wright and Stewart Grant.

14 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 42 cm

Directorscut calendar 95.

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, brown and white ; sheet59.4 x 83.9 cm

A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "A family takes care"; an advertisement for the support services for gay men affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin.

3 volumes 3 vols. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Original calf bindings. Written on rectos only by several hands.

Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

HIV + AIDS : the facts you need to know : this leaflet will help you understand what AIDS and HIV are and how you or those around you can protect yourselves : [Afro-Caribbean] / Health Education Authority.

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A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

Directorscut calendar 95.

Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

HIV + AIDS : the facts you need to know : this leaflet will help you understand what AIDS and HIV are and how you or those around you can protect yourselves : [Afro-Caribbean] / Health Education Authority.

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A black man and a black woman embrace; advertising the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 2011.

Playin' it safe : African Caribbean heterosexual : young men talking about HIV, safer sex and themselves / produced by Sheffield Centre for HIV and Sexual Health ; written and reserched by D. Knights and P. Turner.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

Directorscut calendar 95.

Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

HIV + AIDS : the facts you need to know : this leaflet will help you understand what AIDS and HIV are and how you or those around you can protect yourselves : [Afro-Caribbean] / Health Education Authority.

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