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M0006211: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC
Date: 21 April 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/93Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006211EB: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC
Date: 21 April 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/94Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29745i- Books
Interweave : a zine about black girls and braids / by Jean M. Hodges.
Hodges, Jean M.Date: [2020]- Books
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Information for the hairdressers in Edinburgh; against the incorporation of barbers.
Dalrymple, Hew, Sir, 1712-1790.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The natural production of hair, or its Growth and Decay, being a great and correct Assistance to its duration, Likewise to strengthen, and Lengthen the Hair, The Remedies, ways, and means, as follows: By Alexander Stewart, hair-dresser, And Author of the Art of Hair-Dressing,
Stewart, Alexander, Hairdresser.Date: 1795- Books
A treatise on the hair ... Also a description of the most fashionable methods of dressing ladies' and gentlemens hair, both natural and artificial. With an essay on dress in general. Address'd to the ladies of Great-Britain / [David Ritchie].
Ritchie, David, hairdresser.Date: 1770- Pictures
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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.
Montaut, H. de (Henri de), approximately 1825-1890.Date: 1851Reference: 31374i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005697: A group of women from Tsimalotos, Madagascar showing styles of hair-dressing
Date: 23 September 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/47/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
Date: 14 September 1808Reference: 29734i- Pictures
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A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.
Reference: 31141i- Digital Images
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Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
John Thomson- Ephemera
Permanto Products. Ltd. : wholesale & export only : Marcol House, 289/293, Regent Street, London, W.1 : statement.
Permanto Products.Date: [1936?]- Digital Images
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Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
John Thomson- Ephemera
The hair-dresser / Hodges & Co.
Date: [between 1810 and 1819?]- Digital Images
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Human hair (Asian origin)
Lauren Holden- Digital Images
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Strand of human hair from a white Caucasian, AFM
Dr. Wei-Feng Xue- Pictures
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A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26322i- Pictures
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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.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29760i- Books
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Plocacosmos: or the whole art of hair dressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair; also Ample and wholesome Rules to preserve the Hair. The Hair completely analyzed, as to its Growth, Nature, Colour, &c. and all and every Article used in the Hair, on the Head, Face, &c. as, False Hair, Perfumery, Cosmetics, &c. clearly analyzed and examined; with a History of the Hair and Head Dress, from the earliest Ages to the present Time, particularly as they have appeared upon the English Stage for these last Two Hundred Years; with Strictures on the present Performers belonging to each Theatre. The Plan of this Work requiring it, there are also complete Rules for the Management of Children and Education of Youth; and excellent Rules for the Preservation of the Health and Happiness of Age; being a Guide through the Seven Ages of Man: The whole interspersed with Moral Thoughts, being necessary for all Families. By James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.
Stewart, James.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A looking-glasse for women, or, A spie for pride : shewing the unlawfulnesse of any outward adorning of any attire of haire, either in laying forth the haire, or in crisping of the haire, or in broidered haire in all women, but especially in godly women declared fully by the scripture : also those scriptures and carnall objections answered which are seemingly made for it.
T. HDate: 1644- Digital Images
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Split end of a human hair
Liz Hirst, Medical Research Council- Books
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Specification of Joseph German : shampooing apparatus.
German, Joseph.Date: 1862- Pictures
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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.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 671405i- Ephemera
Perfume ephemera. Box 1.