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  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.
  • 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.
  • The figure of a skeleton in a shroud is pulling the laces on a girl's stays. Process print.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women: the upper two wear fancy hats with feathers, the central figure is hatless and wears an ornate lace collar, and the lower two wear head-dresses. Coloured line block by P. Lacouriere.
  • Woman wearing appliance for treatment against masturbation.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • A male écorché standing, leaning against a tree, exposing the anatomy of his thorax and his left breast. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • A male écorché standing, leaning against a tree, exposing the anatomy of his thorax and his left breast. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.
  • In a lady's bedchamber a young woman struggles as a man pulls her towards him clutching at her dress. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Man de Wirth in drag. Photographic postcard, 190-.
  • Man de Wirth in drag. Photographic postcard, 190-.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • George Scholey in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • George Scholey in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A.P. Holland in drag posing for the Bow Bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A.P. Holland in drag posing for the Bow Bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.