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Underwear

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  • A field of grass with a row of poplar trees and a pair of white boxer shorts floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • A family demonstrating underclothes sold by "Docteur Rasurel". Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1911.
  • A woman in white underwear strokes the hair of a man lying down wearing boxer shorts with a portable radio, their car and a fox in the undergrowth nearby; two packs of red condoms lie in a bag to the left; an Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • A field of grass with a row of poplar trees and a pair of white boxer shorts floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; German version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • A man lying back in boxer shorts pulls off the briefs off the bottom of a man disappearing to the right representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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    A lake setting in which a man lies back in a boat wearing only boxer shorts; he holds up some underwear which he offers to his female companion with a smile; a pink condom lies on a white garment beside the man while two ducks swim beside the boat; German version of a series of safe sex 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674638i
    • Books

    Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

    Divine (Firm, Earls Barton, England) | Date: [2002?]
    • Books

    Chilprufe for children 1936-37 / The Treasure Cot Co., Ltd.

    Muller, Blatchly & Co. | Date: 1936
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    The history of underclothes / C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington ; with revisions by A.D. Mansfield and Valerie Mansfield.

    Cunnington, C. Willett (Cecil Willett), 1878-1961. | Date: 1981
    • Books

    Products for incontinence / Boots.

    Boots Company. | Date: [1997?]
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