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Message from AIDS Fonds stating 1 million AIDS patients have died but hope remains for a medicine. Colour lithograph.

The message 'AIDS has no cultural boundaries. Protect us!' in Arabic, Lingali, Turkish and French within an oval shape against a decorative background of varying sizes of stars connected by white lines; an advertising campaign under the Social Service d'Accueil des Etrangers et de Formation with the help of the Ministry of Health of the French Community of Belgium. Colour lithograph by Zakaria Bouazza and J-F Carlier, 1996.

On vacation? : keep it safe! / Buro GVO.

A stylized blue head and the sun forming the silhouette of an Ionic capital; advertising an exhibition on food and hygiene in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by G. Scheepstra, 1933.

Gay sex & AIDS : English / Buro GVO.

A man in a white bathrobe sits against the legs of a man dressed in a jacket and shirt with the head of a roaring lion to the left and the message to 'Live wild. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's, 1991.

Two line-drawn faces joined together by the AIDS red ribbon by F. Boisnon advertising a fund-raising evening event broadcast on the radio on 7 April for the fight against AIDS with the logos of radio stations involved below. Colour lithograph.

Message from AIDS Fonds warning that the race against AIDS need sponsors. Colour lithograph.

Sebastiaan Egbertsz demonstrating skeletal anatomy to five syndics of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam. Photogravure after W. Valckert, 1619.

A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.

Proeve eener geneeskundige plaatsbeschrijving (topographie) der stad Amsterdam / [Conradus Johannes Nieuwenhuijs].

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Lithograph by Desguerrois after C.C.A. Last after Rembrandt, 1632.

Berigten betreffende de Asiatische cholera te Amsterdam en in andere deelen des Rijks / Onder medewerking van G. Vrolik, C.J. Nieuwenhuys, etc. Uitgegeven door W. Vrolik.

Well-being in Amsterdam's golden age / Derek Phillips.

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Proeve eener geneeskundige plaatsbeschrijving (topographie) der stad Amsterdam / [Conradus Johannes Nieuwenhuijs].

A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Lithograph by Desguerrois after C.C.A. Last after Rembrandt, 1632.

Berigten betreffende de Asiatische cholera te Amsterdam en in andere deelen des Rijks / Onder medewerking van G. Vrolik, C.J. Nieuwenhuys, etc. Uitgegeven door W. Vrolik.

Well-being in Amsterdam's golden age / Derek Phillips.