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  • Advert for Harness' Magnetic Corsets which shows two woman, one seated and one standing, wearing the corsets. Available from The Medical Battery Co. Ltd. 52 Oxford Street, London
  • Advertisment for Ball's Health Preserving Corsets, as worn by the Queen of Song, Adelina Patti.
  • Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.
  • A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.
  • The interior of a salon with fashionable people in hoop skirts and corsets, and in which even the servant and the dog are dressed up; satire of contemporary fashion. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after W. Hogarth.
  • Corset of iron, 18th century.
  • Maitland Cecil Melville Wills posing in a black corset and heavy skirt.
  • Maitland Cecil Melville Wills posing in a black corset and heavy skirt.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: back view of a girl in a corset. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A woman at her toilet: a maidservant fastens the stays of her corset, a man sits to the right hand side. Engraving.
  • Con Oram laces A.P. Holland (in drag) into a boned corset in a show for the Bow bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • 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 brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • Lord Salisbury opens a briefcase representing the "Conservative programme" and finds inside a corset representing "Fair trade". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 17 December 1887.
  • Dr. Scott's electric corset : health, strength, comfort, elegance : a great boon to delicate ladies : a beautiful invention ... / the Pall Mall Electric Association.
  • A young woman in her bed chamber trying a wig on her bottom for effect: her maid-servant holds a mirror for her and sniggers with amusement; a cat arches its back in fright and a dog dives for cover under the young woman's corset which is lying on the floor. Etching, 1778.
  • Diagram of a corset for the treatment of masturbation. Suspensoir a poche elastique. (Suspending rod has pocket elastic) Fig. 1. Elevation de face, et tel qu'il doit etre place et vu sur le sujet. (Elevation in face, and such as it must be placed and seen on the subject) Fig. 2. Elevation lateralr, ou profil (Elevation lateral, or profile)
  • Über die Wirkungen der Schnürbrüste.
  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.
  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.
  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.