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  • Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Knot in hair
  • Knot in hair
  • AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Children playing at being adults; a boy sits at his dressing table having his hair dressed by a boy pretending to be a hair-dresser; another boy in the background folds clothes. Coloured lithograph by C. Bargue after H. de Montaut.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A hairdresser raising her scissors and comb in the air after removing all but a tuft of the hair from her client who sits on a red stool; an analogy to cutting the funds of AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • An episode in The history of Pendennis by W.M. Thackeray: Harry Foker has his hair dressed and curled by Anatole, his valet. Etching after W.M. Thackeray.
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Human hair (Caucasian descent), SEM
  • A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • Hair brain sculptures
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM