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Images about Czechoslovakia

12 images from works
  • [Humorous postcard of a Red Cross nurse bringing a basket of wine etc].
  • The bad effect of alcohol drinking on industrial productivity: a healthy young man carrying a drill walking from a smoking factory, contrasted with a bottle of spirits wrapped by a hissing snake. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • Head of a child with a thoughtful expression, advertising International Children's Day, 1 June 1953. Colour lithograph by J. Flejšar, 1953.
  • The disease AIDS represented as a hole in the road, the advice "Stop AIDS" as a warning not to fall into the hole. Colour lithograph after J. Chadima, 1988.
  • A woman holding a cup of mineral water from Marienbad; advertising the waters of Marienbad. Colour lithograph after H.V. Rosol, 1958.
  • A small boy holding a big cone filled with various kinds of candy. Colour lithograph after R. Vepřek, 1956.
  • Bottles labelled with humorous quotations comparing healthy lifestyle with excessive drinking; representing consequences of alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Pekárek, 1952.
  • A happy socialist mother, dressed in her workwear, holding her baby, surrounded by productive factories and wheat-fields; advertising International Women's Day, 1951. Colour lithograph after Čermáková, 1951.
  • Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • Three children on their way to school with their packed lunches in school bags. Colour lithograph, 195-.
  • [Humorous postcard of a Red Cross nurse bringing a basket of wine etc].
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Works from the collections

157 works

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    Antropofagie a pohřební ritus doby bronzové : materiály z pracovního setkání, Brno, pavil[i]on Anthropos 24.-25. 10. 1988 / sestavila Marta Dočkalová.

    | Date: 1988
    • Books

    Čtrnáct let působení Prof. Sternberga v Brně / M. Hirt.

    Hirt, Miroslav. | Date: 1991
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    Lékarĭ a pr̆írodovĕdci doby Purkynŏvy : zĭvotopisné studie.

    Matoušek, Otakar, 1899- | Date: 1954
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    Head of a child with a thoughtful expression, advertising International Children's Day, 1 June 1953. Colour lithograph by J. Flejšar, 1953.

    Flejšar, Josef, 1922- | Date: Květen 1953 | Reference: 664466i
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    50 let veterinárního lékars̆tví v Cĕskoslovensku.

    | Date: [1968]
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Related topics

History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Prague
Physicians
19th-20th centuries
Hospitals
Health Resorts
History of Medicine
Czech Republic
Schools, Medical

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