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Older people

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  • HIV & STD prevention after 50 / written by Marcia Quackenbush.
  • An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Eating through the years : healthy eating in retirement / Heinz.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
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Catalogue

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    The other side of growing older / Pat Brown ; illustrated by Gillian Simmonds.

    Brown, Pat. | Date: 1982
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    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
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    Elderly antiquarians examining a chamber pot purported to be Boadicea's. Etching by F. Grose.

    Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791. | Date: [1788] | Reference: 747986i
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    A group of Chelsea Pensioners disputing in the Hall at the Royal Hospital. Colour lithograph after E.R. White.

    White, Edward Richard, active 1864-1908. | Reference: 20769i
    • Books

    Tactile paving : design guide 003 / [Surface].

    Surface | Date: 2012
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