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  • Hairstyles through history. 6, Rome, Patrician lady, 1st century A.D.
  • Hairstyles through history. 6, Rome, Patrician lady, 1st century A.D.
  • Benin: a woman and child with braided hairstyles. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Twenty figures showing different types of Roman (?) hairstyles and hair accessories for women. Coloured engraving.
  • Two women with elaborate hairstyles and necklaces (designated as Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon) and two others wearing hats and fancy dress (Punch and his wife Joan). Coloured wood engraving.
  • A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.
  • Illustration which identifies and names the acupuncture points in some of the fourteen bodily tracts on the body. This illustration is derived from Chinese medical illustrations and depicts figures whose dress, facial hair and hairstyles identify them as Chinese; Japanese reading marks have been added to the text to ease understanding.
  • South Africa: a Pondo man with an elaborate hairstyle. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • A woman wearing the fashionable "porcupine" hairstyle looks at herself in a mirror. Coloured etching.
  • South Africa: a Pondo man attends to the hairstyle of a fellow man. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • A hairdresser holding a bust of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle. Coloured engraving by A. Joly, ca. 1813.
  • Two Indian men sitting cross-legged; one appears to be a barber and is shaving the front of the other's head, presumably to match his own hairstyle. Photograph.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons; the lower two also wear flowers and ribbons. Coloured line block, 1876.
  • An Englishman is startled when he sees his reflection in the mirror and finds his Chinese barber has given him a queue. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the north elevation with many people passing by. Coloured aquatint by T. Malton, 1800.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Chapel looking west, with people in the foreground. Aquatint by T. Malton, 1799.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • Heads and faces of twenty men facing one another in pairs. Coloured aquatint with etching.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • National Children's Home and Orphanage : 30 branches, 4000 children : chief offices: Highbury Park, London, N.5.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.