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  • Men and women are buying and selling clothes, hats and shoes at a market. Process print (?) by A.S. Boyd.
  • A Chinese entertainer spinning hats in the air with the assistance of a girl. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the Pensioners cheering and waving their hats and sticks, at a King Charles's Day Parade. Wood engraving.
  • Men in top hats releasing their dogs from the kennels and preparing them for a race. Etching by E. Hacker after E. Corbet.
  • A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
  • A battle: an army wearing metal armour, and firing guns, meets an army wearing hats and breastplates, wielding swords and guns. Line engraving.
  • A man with crutches is going down the steps of a swimming pool; men wearing top hats in the background. Etching, ca. 1870.
  • Two men wearing the fashionable dress of checked trousers, top hats, cravats, waistcoats and top coats. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • The heads of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons, hats, and flowers. Coloured engraving, 1875, after A. Max (?).
  • Women in fur capes and hats with feathers in are skating on a frozen lake, a man in a top hat and coat is watching from the side. Colour process print, 18--.
  • Women are gathered in a milliner's shop looking at the hats for sale, a dummy is on the table wearing a large elaborate hat. Coloured process print by S. Kraków after A. Robida.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • Six men are working with combs, irons and brushes as they make hats of various descriptions, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • Recife, Brazil: a street with men in high hats and uniform pointing out with long sticks the slaves they wish to purchase. Aquatint by Edward Finden after Augustus Earle.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • 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.
  • Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).
  • Children are playing a game with one child curled up on the floor with a rope around his neck and the others running past hitting him with their hats. Stipple engraving.
  • A worker preparing a feather for use as a plume by scraping and curling, above; further preparation of a plume, two hats with plumes and a single plume, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after Radel.
  • Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.
  • Use your big head, use condoms : hats are for your big head, condoms for your small, negotiate, play it safe you will have a ball : call card / designed and produced by Health First.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • The heads and shoulders of four women and a lace collar: the upper two women wear hats decorated with flowers and ribbons, the lower two wear lace head-dresses. Coloured line block by A. Chaillot after E. Jecqueurs.
  • 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.
  • "Jack" wearing a white hat.
  • "Jack" wearing a white hat.
  • A dwarf holding his hat. Engraving.
  • A man in a top hat is leading the hunting party waving his hat. Chromolithograph after G. F. Mason.
  • Bear hat. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn.