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Corsets

Images

  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.
  • Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.
  • Con Oram laces A.P. Holland (in drag) into a boned corset in a show for the Bow bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.
  • Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.
  • Con Oram laces A.P. Holland (in drag) into a boned corset in a show for the Bow bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.
  • A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
  • A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
  • Über die Wirkungen der Schnürbrüste.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The hand-book of millinery ... comprised in a series of lessons for the formation of bonnets, capotes, turbans, caps, bows, etc. : to which is appended a treatise on taste, and the blending of colors; also an essay on corset making / by Mrs. M. J. Howell.

    Howell, M. J. (Mary J.) | Date: 1847
  • view Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31643i
  • view The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.
    • Books
    • Online

    The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.

    | Date: 1900
  • view Dr. Scott's electric corset : health, strength, comfort, elegance : a great boon to delicate ladies : a beautiful invention ... / the Pall Mall Electric Association.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Dr. Scott's electric corset : health, strength, comfort, elegance : a great boon to delicate ladies : a beautiful invention ... / the Pall Mall Electric Association.

    | Date: [1882?]
    • Ephemera

    Electrotherapy & vibrators ephemera. Box 1.

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