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Handkerchiefs

Piece of cloth for personal use

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Images of Handkerchiefs

2 images from works
  • Handkerchief printed with a map of London. Engraving, 1820/1843.
  • A silk handkerchief printed with a description of an erotic encounter with the words in the form of breasts. Mixed media, 1802, after E. Parny.

Images about Handkerchiefs

25 images from works
  • An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.
  • A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.
  • A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman, ca. 1951.
  • A man using a handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds to productive workers. Colour lithograph.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Uncle Toby looks into Widow Wadman's eye, as she holds it open for him. Line engraving by L. Stocks(?) after C.R. Leslie, 1831.
  • The use of handkerchiefs to prevent flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • A woman coughing or sneezing without a handkerchief in a draper's shop. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A woman coughing in a railway carriage. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A woman coughing or sneezing without a handkerchief in an office with three other office workers. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Photograph of a man sneezing and lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph.
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Sneezing
Cough
Airborne infection
Hygiene
Respiratory Tract Infections
Microorganisms
Industrial feeding
Bacteria
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