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A Japanese man in jeans and a leather jacket representing an advertisement in Japanese for The Aids Health Project. Lithograph.

Silhouette heads with a warning to those with HIV to take the tuberculosis test; advertisment by the San Francisco Division of Tuberculosis Control and American Lung Association. Colour lithograph.

A naked black man kisses and holds up another while putting on a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph, 1990.

A range of condoms; advertisement by De Anza College Health Services. Colour lithograph.

A T-cell infected with HIV within a poster by the New Scientist describing the science of AIDS. Colour lithograph.

Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.

We can train you to complete the San Francisco Marathon or half marathon : training begins February 5, 2005 / National AIDS Marathon Training Program ; a Walk.The.Talk production.

Two rows of photographs of college students with reasons why they cannot get AIDS; advertisement about the HIV virus by De Anza College Health Services. Colour lithograph.

Bartlett Alley (subsequently Beckett), Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Photograph, ca. 1880.

I'm negative. I assumed he was too : how do you know what you know? / Gay Life, San Francisco AIDS Foundation ; funded in part by the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

A naked man drapes a kimono around the shoulders of another man within an oriental decorative red border incorporating flowers; advertisement for Kimono Condoms and safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Mark I. Chester.

Two gay men, one holds up a condom to his shoulder representing an advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Blake Sorrell Design and Curium Design, 1991.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Coloured process prints, 1915.

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Colour process prints, 1915.

Interviews with Clark Kerr, Ph.D. and Morton Meyer, M.D. : eyewitnesses to UC campus turmoil in the mid-1960's / interviewer, Nancy M. Rockafellar.

Unsubmissive women : Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century San Francisco / by Benson Tong.

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San Francisco

Images from the collections

Images referencing San Francisco

Works from the collections

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Coloured process prints, 1915.

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Colour process prints, 1915.

Interviews with Clark Kerr, Ph.D. and Morton Meyer, M.D. : eyewitnesses to UC campus turmoil in the mid-1960's / interviewer, Nancy M. Rockafellar.

Unsubmissive women : Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century San Francisco / by Benson Tong.

San Francisco

Images from the collections

Images referencing San Francisco

Works from the collections

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Coloured process prints, 1915.

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: the pavilions and setting of the exposition. Colour process prints, 1915.

Interviews with Clark Kerr, Ph.D. and Morton Meyer, M.D. : eyewitnesses to UC campus turmoil in the mid-1960's / interviewer, Nancy M. Rockafellar.

Unsubmissive women : Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century San Francisco / by Benson Tong.

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