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The girl with no name

When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

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  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Envelope ro return donations to the British Red Cross Society accompanying a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [Envelope ro return donations to the British Red Cross Society accompanying a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • [British Red Cross Society envelope containing a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangaladesh and an envelope to return it in (EPH464:156) from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [British Red Cross Society envelope containing a form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangaladesh and an envelope to return it in (EPH464:156) from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive].
  • [Form letter asking for donations (EPH464:157, EPH464:158) to help work in disaster relief in China, Myanmar and Bangladesh from Sir Nicholas Young, the Chief Executive of the British Red Cross Society].
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
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