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 ...

The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.

Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.

AIDS : guidelines for tattooists : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.

New Guinea / Royal Interocean Lines.

Guys like him don't have HIV : I reckon he has HIV like me : Don't assume you're both thinking the same thing / Terrence Higgins Trust.

[Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].

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A guide to hygienic skin piercing : tattoos, acupuncture, ear piercing, hair electrolysis / by Norman D. Noah.

xiv, 222 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bodies of inscription : a cultural history of the modern tattoo community / Margo DeMello.

94, [2] pages, [10] leaves of plates : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Pierced hearts and true love : an illustrated history of the origin and development of European tattooing : and a survey of its present state / by Hanns Ebensten.

The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 21.9 x 18.4 cm

Henare Taratoa: a chief of the Ngai Te Rangi tribe, in the heroic act of getting water for the British wounded at the battle of Gate Pa, a Maori victory in the Waikato War, 28 April 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.

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A guide to hygienic skin piercing : tattoos, acupuncture, ear piercing, hair electrolysis / by Norman D. Noah.

Bodies of inscription : a cultural history of the modern tattoo community / Margo DeMello.

Pierced hearts and true love : an illustrated history of the origin and development of European tattooing : and a survey of its present state / by Hanns Ebensten.

The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

Henare Taratoa: a chief of the Ngai Te Rangi tribe, in the heroic act of getting water for the British wounded at the battle of Gate Pa, a Maori victory in the Waikato War, 28 April 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.

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A guide to hygienic skin piercing : tattoos, acupuncture, ear piercing, hair electrolysis / by Norman D. Noah.

Bodies of inscription : a cultural history of the modern tattoo community / Margo DeMello.

Pierced hearts and true love : an illustrated history of the origin and development of European tattooing : and a survey of its present state / by Hanns Ebensten.

The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

Henare Taratoa: a chief of the Ngai Te Rangi tribe, in the heroic act of getting water for the British wounded at the battle of Gate Pa, a Maori victory in the Waikato War, 28 April 1864. Watercolour by H.G. Robley, 1864.

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