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Images about Buenos Aires

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  • Women attending the theatre in Buenos Aires are wearing very large, ornate head dresses, which makes it very difficult for men to talk to them. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle, 1834.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • A woman is walking down the street in Buenos Aires wearing a very large head dress which is knocking people over and poking them in the eye. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • A man in Buenos Aires is holding on to the skirts of a woman as she is being blown away by the wind that has caught in her large head dress. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • A man in Buenos Aires is knocking down the wall of a house so that a woman wearing a very large head dress can get out. Lithograph by C.H. Bacle.
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.
  • An exasperated looking figure holding a lead with a dog beside him representing a man looking for information on the HIV virus; an advertisement for the 1st AIDS Prevention Manual/Guide for teachers and health promoters by the Fundacion R.E.D. Colour lithograph by Fontanarrosa, ca. 1995.

Works

51 works

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    El Jardín botánico de Buenos Aires / por Carlos Thays.

    Thays, Carlos, 1849-1934. | Date: 1910
    • Books

    Historia de las epidemias de Buenos Aires / por Nicolás Besio Moreno.

    Besio Moreno, Nicolás, 1879- | Date: [1939?]
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    Los betlemitas en Buenos Aires : convento, economía y sociedad (1748-1822) / Carlos Alberto Mayo.

    Mayo, Carlos A. | Date: 1991
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    Dispensario Central Antituberculoso "Maria Ferrer", Buenos Aires: chaises longues for tuberculosis patients on the sun terrace. Photograph, 1945.

    | Date: 1945 | Reference: 674107i
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    Escena de la peste de 1871 en Buenos Aires : cuadro original del artista oriental Don Juan Manuel Blanes.

    Lamas, Andrés, 1817-1891. | Date: 1871
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Related topics

19th-20th centuries
Hospitals
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hair ornaments
Societies, Medical
History of Medicine
Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine

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