A footman at a seaside establishment asks a man who is about to leave if he will take a barrel of sea-water with him on behalf of another resident. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.

Designs by John Fowler for a steam ship carrying rail traffic across the English Channel. Wood engraving, 1870.

Two gay men meet in a train corridor by an open window with a verse about the importance of safe sex below in Swedish. Colour lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.

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