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Mustaches

Images

  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • Human mustache hair
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards / Lucinda Hawksley.

    Hawksley, Lucinda | Date: 2014
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man, in a satin tunic and fur hat, dancing a "Cossack" measure in a studio setting.

    Hana Studios Ltd | Date: [between 1899 and 1908] | Reference: 528635i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Human mustache hair

    Macroscopic Solutions
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.

    Leech, John, 1817-1864. | Date: [1854?] | Reference: 35215i
    • Pictures

    A grey-haired Samoan man, with a moustache.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 540985i
    Part of: Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.
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