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  • Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • A Malagasy female hairdresser dressing the hair of a woman. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • A Yoruba female hairdresser dressing the hair of a woman. Halftone after A.W. Gelston.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • A hairdresser powdering a wig on a stand. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • A hairdresser holding a bust of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle. Coloured engraving by A. Joly, ca. 1813.
  • A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.
  • Japan: a hairdresser wearing a loin cloth at work on a kneeling man; a man in a robe squats in front of him. Coloured photograph, 1870/1890.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An obese bald-headed old man seated in an armchair while a hairdresser pours macassar oil from a bottle on to his scalp. Etching after T. Rowlandson, ca. 1814.
  • Public activities, from eating and drinking together to a comb and head representing the hairdressers; ways in which you can't catch AIDS by the British Deaf Association. Colour lithograph.
  • A fashionable man takes his hat off while strolling; his hairdresser assists him by supporting the weight of his large wig. Coloured engraving by J. Caldwell after M.V. Brandoin.
  • Madeng longjia Maio. Two women and one man with a child, of the Madeng ('Stirr-up') Miao tribe, on their way to the fields. The woman's hairdress accounts for the name of 'Stirr-up Miao'
  • 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.
  • A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • 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.
  • Split end of a human hair
  • Human hair (Asian origin)