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Images from the collections

Images about Ghana

35 images from works
  • A pregnant mother in tears living in poverty with her many children: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A couple with their heads together and a couple in silhouette representing Kamal contraceptive foaming tablets in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, ca. 2000.
  • A male-female couple hold hands looking at each other representing Secure oral contraception in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Social Marketing Program, ca. 2000.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Oral rehydration salt treatment for children with diarrhoea in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Ghana, ca. 2000.
  • A smiling couple stand in front of rows of bread with small pictures showing different types of contraception below: contraception choices in Ghana. Colour lithograph, 2001.
  • A woman accosts another at a water collecting point before a crowd of onlookers waiting to fill their buckets: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health Ghana, ca. 2000.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Départ d'une flotte de commerce des Indes pour le pays de l'or sur la côté orientale de l'Afrique / Compagnie Liebig.
  • A man at a dispensary counter raises his arms in despair before crowds of waiting people: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health Ghana, ca. 2000.
  • A man hands a woman some pills: family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Apple Pie Publicity for Ministry of Health, Ghana, ca. 2000.

Works from the collections

178 works

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    Report on the Medical and Sanitary Departments / Government of the Gold Coast.

    Gold Coast. Medical Department. | Date: [1927]
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    Report on housing in the Gold Coast / prepared for the government of the Gold Coast by Charles Abrams, Vladimir Bodiansky, Otto H.G. Koenigsberger.

    Abrams, Charles, 1902-1970. | Date: 1956
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    Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

    Gold Coast. Medical Department. | Date: [1911]
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    Annual report on the Gold Coast / Colonial Office.

    Great Britain. Colonial Office. | Date: [1951]
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    Annual report on the Gold Coast / Colonial Office.

    Great Britain. Colonial Office. | Date: [1954]

Related topics

Public Health Administration
Health Services Administration
Sanitation
Birth control
History, 20th Century
Family size
Medicine, African Traditional
History
Tropical Medicine
Soldiers

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