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Barbed wire

Type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)

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  • Three grey and yellow faces behind barbed wire with a broken vision of the world above representing the fight against AIDS; an advertisement by the Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Guipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Sagutxo, 1996.

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    Three grey and yellow faces behind barbed wire with a broken vision of the world above representing the fight against AIDS; an advertisement by the Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Guipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Sagutxo, 1996.

    | Date: [19]96 | Reference: 675717i
    • Pictures

    Stonehenge.

    Chivers, John, active 1921. | Date: 1921 | Reference: 1541042i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    Help provided by the Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse to Anna, a child who cuts herself on a rusty piece of barbed wire. Colour lithograph, ca. 199-.

    | Date: [199?-] | Reference: 2072368i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Flowers, barbed wire and crucifixes in black and blue on a multicoloured ground

    Birch, Martin, 1935-1982 | Date: 9 June 1968 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/14/14
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)

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