Mask protecting from toxic molecules and particles

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Six soldiers demonstrating putting a gas mask on over the face. "To show stages in adjustment of a SBR".

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

Chart of war gases / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.

An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.

PP/CLE/A.3, Charles Lovatt Evans, "To show a

PP/CLE/A.3, Charles Lovatt Evans, "Protected

An ex-soldier entering a dentist's surgery with his gas mask on - for his operation with gas. Line block after C. Graves, 1934.

People in gas masks; representing the proponents (or the opponents?) of animal experiment. Lithograph after Fritz Bühler, 195-.

A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

[Wills' cigarette card depicting rubber clothing used during World War II] / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.

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Gas masks

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People in gas masks; representing the proponents (or the opponents?) of animal experiment. Lithograph after Fritz Bühler, 195-.

A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

PP/CLE/A.3, Charles Lovatt Evans, "To show a

[Wills' cigarette card depicting rubber clothing used during World War II] / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.

Gas masks

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Images referencing Gas masks

Works from the collections

People in gas masks; representing the proponents (or the opponents?) of animal experiment. Lithograph after Fritz Bühler, 195-.

A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

PP/CLE/A.3, Charles Lovatt Evans, "To show a

[Wills' cigarette card depicting rubber clothing used during World War II] / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.

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