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Concept

Personal Protective Equipment

Images

  • A worker in construction or in heavy manufacturing industry looking favourably at items of protective clothing; advertising the use of protective clothing in heavy industry. Colour lithograph, 1982.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour.
  • A man in protective clothing pouring a toxic substance: the importance of protective clothing in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • The importance of protective clothing when handling toxic substances in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • A physician dressed in protective plague costume. Line engraving after J.J. Manget.

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    An American astronaut walking on the moon with the message in French 'Great voyages are never done without protective clothing/suits. The condom - remove it safely'; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Infor SIDA and the Ministere de la Communaute Français. Colour lithograph by Pierre Brandenbourger, ca. 1996.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 675554i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0002005: Reproduction of a watercolour of a physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive costume in Marseille

    | Date: June 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/79
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Ephemera

    Occupational health ephemera. Box 2.

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A worker in construction or in heavy manufacturing industry looking favourably at items of protective clothing; advertising the use of protective clothing in heavy industry. Colour lithograph, 1982.

    | Date: 1982 | Reference: 659558i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0002004: Reproduction of a watercolour painting of a physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive costume

    | Date: June 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/78
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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