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  • The Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth (?) Engraving by S. Mulinari, 1778.
  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
  • A cartoon figure of a man reading a newspaper with the heading 'VIHPS Revue' outside a newspaper kiosk bearing further AIDS-related headlines; an advertisement in Basque by the Associació Ciutadana AntiSIDA de Catalunya. Colour lithograph by Azagra Pevuelta, ca. 1994.
  • The presentation of the infant Jesus at the temple. Etching by A. Campanella, 1771, after Fra Bartolommeo.
  • A family gathers to hear the last will and testament of a deceased member with the old lady by the door looking startled. Engraving after D. Wilkie.
  • A young woman holds a basket of fruit while another dangles an orange for a baby in a crib to play with and a boy looks on. Engraving by S.S. Smith after C.L. Eastlake.
  • A black family representing the idea that love and faithfulness protects your family from AIDS; advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad & Tobago. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Shiva with the Ganges flowing from his head and Parvati seated on a tiger skin with Ganesha, Skanda and Nandi bull surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • A family demonstrating underclothes sold by "Docteur Rasurel". Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1911.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.

Works from the collections

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    Ellen Key : her life and her work / by Louise Nyström-Hamilton; authorized translation from the Swedish by A.E.B. Fries; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis.

    Nyström-Hamilton, Louise, 1838-1917. | Date: 1913
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    Flexible working : your right to have a say in the hours you work / USDAW.

    | Date: 2011
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    A healthy family free of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.

    | Date: [1994] | Reference: 665270i
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    The family and human adaptation : three lectures / Theodore Lidz.

    Lidz, Theodore. | Date: [1963]
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    Big brother / Lionel Shriver.

    Shriver, Lionel. | Date: 2013
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
United Kingdom
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Mary
Christianity
Women in Christianity
United States
Marriage
Family Relations
Death

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