Freckle removal: a woman's face following a skin peel to remove her freckles; a few remain around the eye area. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.

  • Just, André.
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1937
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580533i
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Freckle removal: a woman's face following a skin peel to remove her freckles; a few remain around the eye area. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1937

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 18.3 x 13.1 cm

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Lettering: photograph verso bears photographer's stamp: "André Just, Budapest [...]"

Notes

With: newspaper article (The Daily Mirror, 1937) entitled "Skinning a girl to take away her freckles!" which reproduces the photographs
One of a series of three photographs which show the progress of the operation (see also 580530i, 580532i)

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Wellcome Collection 580533i

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