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Philippines

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Images from the collections

Images about Philippines

16 images from works
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • A list of universal precautions for infection control by the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program, Department of Health, Philippines. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • An army of red people behind a blue barrior bearing sparkling religious symbols attempting to quell a group of red devils bearing the word 'AIDS' and holding forks; an advertisement to use religions as a shield against AIDS by the Catholic Commision on AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • An illustrated information sheet showing things you should know about AIDS; an advertisement by the Population and Community Development Assocation (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].
  • Mummified remains of eight Igorot people, Philippines.
  • Philippines: the dead body of a wealthy man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 24 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • The mule litter ambulance used at the battle of Mt. Dajo in the Philippines / by William N. Armiger (late of the sixth United States Infantry).
  • Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Mountain Province, the Philippines: villagers of Caneo, Bontoc region, roasting a dog; a human head lies on the ground. Photograph, 19--.

Works from the collections

135 works

    • Books

    Fatboy zine : the Philippines 2000-2002.

    O'Leary, Chris | Date: [2019]
    • Books

    An American doctor's odyssey : adventures in forty-five countries / by Victor Heiser, M.D.

    Heiser, Victor (Victor George), 1873- | Date: [1936], ©1936
    • Books

    Los viajes de Don Francisco Xavier de Balmis : notas para la historia de la expedición vacunal de España a America y Filipinas (1803-1806) / Francisco Fernandez del Castillo.

    Fernández del Castillo, Francisco, 1864-1936. | Date: 1960
    • Books

    The audiencia in the Spanish colonies : as illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila / [Charles Henry Cunningham].

    Cunningham, Charles Henry, 1885- | Date: 1971
    • Film

    Place of happiness.

    | Date: c.1963

Related topics

Latin America
History, 20th Century
Dead
Igorot (Philippine people)
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Plants, Medicinal
Medicine, Traditional
Spain
United States
World War II

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