City and state capital of Tamil Nadu, India

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AIDS safety guidelines with illustrations (Malayalam version); part 1 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.

An AIDS patient in a bed with a girl on his lap surrounded by his family; a warning about the importance of AIDS prevention by the State AIDS Cell, Goverment of Tamil Nadu. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

Ayurvedic medicines prepared by Ayurveda Marthanda Bhishangmani Pandit D. Gopalacharlu, A.V.S., at the Madras Ayurvedic Laboratory, Georgetown, Madras.

A couple wearing garlands, a packet of condoms, a nurse tending to sterilizing needles and a man receiving a blood transfusion in a hospital bed; a warning issued by the State AIDS Cell of the Goverment of Tamil Nadu about the importance of safe sex and sterilization of hospital equipment to prevent the spread of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

Naval Hospital, Madras, India. Coloured aquatint by Baily, 1811, after J. Inman.

A couple in bed, a man having a blood transfusion in hospital, a range of sharp objects including a syringe and scissors and a pregnant woman; a warning about the importance of safe sex and sterilization within hospitals to prevent AIDS by the State AIDS Cell, Goverment of Tamil Nadu sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

AIDS safety guidelines with illustrations; part 1 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.

A man standing in a garden in Madras playing the stick zither or tingadee. Wood engraving, 1876.

Lawrence Asylum, Ootakamund, Madras, India. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley, 1873, after R.F. Chisholm.

An AIDS patient in a bed with a girl on his lap surrounded by his family; a warning about the importance of AIDS prevention sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.

Culinary jottings for Madras : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian exiles, based upon modern English, & continental principles, with twenty-five menus for little dinners worked out in detail / by "Wyvern".

Report of the Health Officer, Corporation of Madras Health Department.

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Chennai

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Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.

Culinary jottings for Madras : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian exiles, based upon modern English, & continental principles, with twenty-five menus for little dinners worked out in detail / by "Wyvern".

A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

Report of the Health Officer, Corporation of Madras Health Department.

An AIDS patient in a bed with a girl on his lap surrounded by his family; a warning about the importance of AIDS prevention sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

Chennai

Images from the collections

Images referencing Chennai

Works from the collections

Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.

Culinary jottings for Madras : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian exiles, based upon modern English, & continental principles, with twenty-five menus for little dinners worked out in detail / by "Wyvern".

A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

Report of the Health Officer, Corporation of Madras Health Department.

An AIDS patient in a bed with a girl on his lap surrounded by his family; a warning about the importance of AIDS prevention sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.

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