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A woman with long black gloves secures the zip of her sleeveless red dress; promotion for safe sex by the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.

Child safety: a child's hand reaches towards a saucepan on a stove; a child stands on the curb of a road holding a teddy; the arm of a child reaches out for a syringe;a girl pours a dangerous substance into a dolls teacup; promotion for child safety by the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.

Two motorbike helmets with the names Lachlan and Lorna next to a packet of Mates condoms; representing the price of protection against AIDS by the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.

AIDS in bold letters with a speech bubble containing the words 'Bruidhinn mu dheidhinn'; advertisement for the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.

AIDS in bold letters with a speech bubble containing the words 'Talk about it'; advertisement for the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Lithograph.

The great Highland famine : hunger, emigration, and the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century / T.M. Devine, Willie Orr.

Healing threads : traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands / Mary Beith.

Observations on a tour through the Highlands and part of the Western Isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill ... to which are added a description ... of the country round Moffat, and an analysis of its mineral waters. In two volumes ... / By T. Garnett ... Illustrated by a map, and fifty-two plates, engraved in the manner of aquatints, from drawings taken on the spot by W. H. Watts.

Burt's letters from the north of Scotland : with facsimiles of the original engravings / With an introduction by R. Jamieson. And the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle, a ms. communicated by Sir Walter Scott.

A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans / by James Browne ... ; illustrated by a series of portraits and other illustrative engravings.

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Highlands (Scotland)

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Images about Highlands (Scotland)

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The great Highland famine : hunger, emigration, and the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century / T.M. Devine, Willie Orr.

Healing threads : traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands / Mary Beith.

Burt's letters from the north of Scotland : with facsimiles of the original engravings / With an introduction by R. Jamieson. And the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle, a ms. communicated by Sir Walter Scott.

A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans / by James Browne ... ; illustrated by a series of portraits and other illustrative engravings.

Highlands (Scotland)

Images from the collections

Images about Highlands (Scotland)

Works from the collections

The great Highland famine : hunger, emigration, and the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century / T.M. Devine, Willie Orr.

Healing threads : traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands / Mary Beith.

Burt's letters from the north of Scotland : with facsimiles of the original engravings / With an introduction by R. Jamieson. And the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle, a ms. communicated by Sir Walter Scott.

A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans / by James Browne ... ; illustrated by a series of portraits and other illustrative engravings.

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