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Corsets

Images

  • A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.
  • Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.
  • Con Oram laces A.P. Holland (in drag) into a boned corset in a show for the Bow bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.
  • Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The hand-book of millinery ... comprised in a series of lessons for the formation of bonnets, capotes, turbans, caps, bows, etc. : to which is appended a treatise on taste, and the blending of colors; also an essay on corset making / by Mrs. M. J. Howell.

    Howell, M. J. (Mary J.) | Date: 1847
    • Ephemera

    The fully guaranteed Twilfit corset : exchange if unsatisfactory / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd..

    | Date: 1912
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

    | Reference: 31643i
    • Books
    • Online

    The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.

    | Date: 1900
    • Ephemera

    F. & E. Hughes : impressed with gratitude for the encouragement they have experienced, since their commencement in business, beg to offer to the ladies of Bridgnorth and its neighbourhood, their sincere thanks.

    | Date: 1820
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