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  • Play safe play sexy : master / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Play safe play sexy : master / produced by Gay Health Network Ireland.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Scenes representing parts of life shown in cells of an underground grotto.

    Kurelek, William, 1927-1977 | Date: c.1953-1954 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/86
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Ephemera

    Leather & rubber / Clone Zone.

    | Date: [Approximately 1992?]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A person standing manacled to the walls and floor of a gabled cell against a black ground

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: 31 March 1958 | Reference: 2901316i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "Better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all"

    O'Conner, Michael, active approximately 1966 | Date: December 1966 | Reference: 3009220i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "Road to Recovery"

    J, M.G, active approximately 1969 | Date: 15 July 1969 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/82
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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