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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.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33097iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Pictures
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A woman wearing the fashionable "porcupine" hairstyle looks at herself in a mirror. Coloured etching.
Reference: 31907i- Pictures
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Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
Reference: 644307i- Digital Images
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Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
John Thomson- Digital Images
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Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
John Thomson- Pictures
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A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
Date: April 11 1777Reference: 35488i- Books
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A six line dispute challenging all the independants, presbyterians, and baptists in Dublin to answer it. Occasioned by a discourse between Mr. Weilds, dissenting minister in New-Row in Dublin: and Ambrose Farmer, Taylor: on the 29th day of December, 1707, in his house, in the morning, where you have their discourse repeated first, the subjects we discoursed was about men's long hair, and womens high heads ...
Farmer, AmbroseDate: 1708]- Pictures
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.
Date: 8 February 1772Reference: 31720i- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 35286i- Books
Don't touch my hair / Emma Dabiri.
Dabiri, EmmaDate: 2019- Books
Hair : styling, culture and fashion / [edited by] Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.
Date: 2013- Books
Hair : styling, culture and fashion / [edited by] Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.
Date: 2008- Books
Please don't touch my hair.
Hey ChanteDate: [2018?]- Pictures
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A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Reference: 23497i- Books
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A treatise on bear's grease, with observations, to prove how indispensible the use of that incomparable substance, to preserve the head of hair, in that state of perfection, Which can alone rendered it the Delight of all Beholders. By A. Ross.
Ross, Alexander, perfumer.Date: 1795- Pictures
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A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 21317i- Books
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The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians : In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, impudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669Date: Anno. 1628- Books
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The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians : In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, imprudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669Date: Anno. 1628- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the north elevation with many people passing by. Coloured aquatint by T. Malton, 1800.
Malton, Thomas, 1748-1804.Date: 15 November 1800Reference: 20605i- Books
Good hair days : a history of British hairstyling / Caroline Cox.
Cox, Caroline.Date: 1999- Pictures
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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.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 10756i- Pictures
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Chapel looking west, with people in the foreground. Aquatint by T. Malton, 1799.
Malton, Thomas, 1748-1804.Date: 2 September 1799Reference: 28201i- Books
The salon / created by Korantema Anyimadu.
Anyimadu, KorantemaDate: [2019?]- Archives and manuscripts
Newspaper Cuttings
Date: c1880Reference: GALTON/2/8/1/13/6Part of: Galton Papers- Pictures
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Heads and faces of twenty men facing one another in pairs. Coloured aquatint with etching.
Date: Feby. 1811Reference: 32850i