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List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS from fever to red or purplish spots on the body; sixth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Recto: numerous black figures within blocks resembling houses; an illustration to an Ghanaian proverb; third of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.

Two condoms make up the words 'Condomplation', representing a play on the word 'contemplation' and safe sex to prevent AIDS by HEROglyphics. Colour lithograph by Christopher Hayes for Maryland Institute of Design CO-OP, 1991.

A woman in a red striped top leans on the shoulder of a man representing a lovesick couple with a warning to use condoms to prevent AIDS; advertisement for the Maryland AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph by Barbara Talbot, 1988.

The words 'respect yourself', 'protect yourself' against a background map of Africa; advertisement for the African American HIV/AIDS program by the American Red Cross. Colour lithograph 1990.

A list of points explaining how to protect against HIV infection; second of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Headache cured : Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills, a certain relief. Twenty-five cents.

The words 'HIV/AIDS Education' above 'American Red Cross'; first of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills : a sure cure. Twenty-five cents.

Blood collection and protection process; fourteenth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: the opening of the Henry Barton Jacobs Room, 1932. Photograph, 1932.

A history of epidemic cholera, as it appeared at the Baltimore City and County Alms-House, in the summer of 1849 : with some remarks on the medical topography and diseases of the region / [Thomas Hepburn Buckler].

Henry Mills Hurd, the first superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first professor of psychiatry / A. McGehee Harvey.

Baltimore's health service 150 years old / H.W.

John J. Abel and the early development of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University / John Parascandola.

Public health administration and the natural history of disease in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797-1920 / by William Travis Howard, jr., M.D.

A series of letters and other documents relating to the late epidemic or [sic] yellow fever; comprising: the correspondence of the Mayor of the City, the Board of Health, the Executive of the State of Maryland, and the reports of the Faculty and District Medical Society of Baltimore. Also, essays of the physicians, re-organising in answer to the Mayor's circular requesting information for the use of the City Council in relation to the causes which gave origin to this disease - To which is added, the late ordinance re-organising the Board of Health, &c. &c / Published by authority of the Mayor with the consent of the authors for the benefit of the Baltimore Second Dispensary.

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