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ALT A black-and-white photography of the English comedian Dick Emery looking especially jovial as he waves at the camera in a matching floral tracksuit and flat cap. Credit: Dick Emery waving in a park. Photograph, 197-. Source: Wellcome Collection.
ALT In a bold comic book style and colours, the feminist symbol of a fist within the venus symbol is in vivid red with a spiky blue action bubble around. “Campaign against Corrie Frankie Armstrong + Red Rinse”.
ALT Against a mustard yellow background is the preamble to the Corrie parliamentary bill stamped over in red with “Fight this bill”. “A commentary on the Corrie Bill - and what you can do…published by the abortion law reform association September 1979”
ALT A circular logo: “March for Abortion Rights Oct.28”. Below is a sketch of a protest crowd holding up protest banners: “No return to the back-streets” “Fight the Corrie Bull” “It’s a woman’s right to choose”.
ALT A sketch of the Statue of Liberty saying “Abortion: A woman’s right to choose!”. Followed by three paragraphs outlining the changes in the language of the law proposed by the Corrie Bill.
ALT COCAINE - “A brief history” “An Annotated Bibliography” “The Great White Plague”. If you’re feeling a little mellower “Cannabis and Culture” and “Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine”.
ALT HE SEX SIDE OF LIFE: Mary Ware Dennett’s Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education. “Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916 - 1945”, “The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany”, “American Religious Debate over Birth Control”, “The Afro-American Community and the Birth Control…”
ALT A shelf on Indian medicine: “The Ayurvedic System of Medicine”, “Pharmaceutic of Metals in Ayrveda” “An Appraisal of Tribal-Folk Medicines”...
ALT A shelf on folklore and medicine: “Folk Medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans”, “The Medicine Men”, “Texas Folk Medicine” “Popular Beliefs and Practices from Alabama”. “Afro-Caribbean Folk Medicine”...
ALT Things are getting a bit rustic on this shelf: “The Agrarian History of England & Wales VIII 1914 - 1939”, “A History of Agricultural Science in Great Britain”, “The Farming of Prehistoric Britain”, “The Old English Farm Books”...
ALT “The Heretic in Darwin’s Court” “Alfred Russell Wallace”, “In Darwin’s Shadow”. “Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington” “Horace Walpole’s Library”...
ALT A shelf on infectious disease: “A Destroying Angel”, “The Speckled Monster”, “Smallpox and the Literary Imagination”...
ALT Finally a shelf on art: “Colonial Art in Mexico”, “The Blood of Kings”, “Drawings by an Artist with Autism”..
ALT A shelf on mental health: “Misogyny or Mental Illness?”, “Daughters of Parvati”, “Child Insanity in England, 1845 - 1907”, “Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of women and the mind…”
ALT Another shelf on psycho-active substances: “Artificial Paradises” “Reefer Madness Comics”, “Psychonauts” “The Sacred Mushroom Seeker”, “A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy”...
ALT he painting depicts wounded British sailors on the deck of a ship listening to a military band who are in the foreground playing a piano and violins. Many other sailors sit or stand around listening as well. The canvas is divided diagonally with shadow on the left while the right is in a golden light perhaps this being at the going down of the sun.
ALT A woman sitting at a desk in a bright white coat, looking engrossed in a book. Behind her is a book cabinet with glass doors.
ALT A list of those who had served in the Allied forces in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum during the Second World War. Men: Dowling, R A (Prisoner of War) Earnshaw, C. A. Glanville, V.J. Lane, T.H.C. Port, E.T. (Killed in action) Poynter, F.N. Webb, F. Women: Cowderoy, M.H. Rowbottom, M.
ALT A poster listing “Members of Units of The Wellcome Foundation serving in the forces of the United Nations”. It is divided by nation- Great Britain, Canada, Australia- and by areas of the Wellcome Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome & Co, The Wellcome Research Institution and so on.
ALT Guy Fawkes, conspirator against King and Parliament, crouches down in the dark basements below the Houses of Parliament. Holding up a lamp in the gloom he lays a trail of gunpowder leading to barrels of explosives piled high. Have a happy bonfire night! Guy Fawkes in the crypt of the Houses of Parliament laying the powder fuse to barrels of gunpowder. Etching by G. Cruikshank, ca. 1841. Reference: 3006308i
ALT A finely adorned lady in a pink and red sari gazes at herself in a square hand held mirror. Beside her are palm trees and she is set against a shade of vibrant turquoise. 575153i
ALT Two strong men printed in dark blue flex their arm muscles while wearing only thongs. From the 15 September 1906 issue of “La Culture Physique”. S1104
ALT Durga kills the demon. Watercolour by an Indian artist, ca. 1890. A many armed Hindu God and a lion finished off a small green skinned demon. Behind them is a background of brilliant mustard. 582940i
ALT An advert for “Vimbos” featuring a ox in a teacup against a background of loud scarlet red. The teacup is labeled with “The Prince of Fluid Beef”. EPH/48/33
ALT The plate armour of Henry VIII from circa 1540 against a bright blue background. EPH302
ALT A very yellow advert for “Ovum Thorley’s Poultry Spice” featuring rectangular packaging labeled “Healthy Poultry Abundance of Eggs”.
![Alt text: Zodiac man is here pictured in a half-squat, with lovely coloured illustrations of the zodiacal signs all over his body.
Credit: The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] Reference: 582971i](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbStEjKXQAAUYpT.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Alt text: Zodiac man is here pictured in a half-squat, with lovely coloured illustrations of the zodiacal signs all over his body. Credit: The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist. Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] Reference: 582971i
ALT Alt text: A close up of zodiac man's face, his perfectly spherical head with a deer across his face.