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Concept

Telephone

Images

  • A telephone representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The numbers of the AIDS Hotline in Hong Kong '2780 2211' arranged in squares in a semi-circle with the silhouette of a hand pointing to the digits of a telephone below; advertisement by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Franol-Plus. 1, Ericsson Magneto Telephone circa 1900.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Record Room, with two women answering the telephone and writing in registers. Photograph, September 1918.
  • A phone receiver [?] in the form of a creature with tails as antennae, and a body comprising an egg box opened to reveal 6 red eggs as the telephone digits [?]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Raúl, ca. 1995.
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Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    Sound / by John Tyndall.

    Tyndall, John, 1820-1893. | Date: 1883
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678381i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Various objects and symbols on a light grey ground

    Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957 | Date: 25 August 1954 | Reference: 2958228i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Books

    Mobile phones and health : summary and recommendations / Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones.

    Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (Great Britain) | Date: 2000
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922), teacher of the deaf and inventor of the telephone

    Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922. | Date: 1878 | Reference: MS.8748
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