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Hair preparations

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Images from the collections

Images about Hair preparations

11 images from works
  • Rossetter's hair restorer / M.E. Irlande, Grenada Lodge, Stockwell Park Road, Brixton.
  • Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers ... : Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer will restore gray or faded hair to its original color as in youth ... / R.P. Hall & Co.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London. There are others about the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator (hair restorer) and J. D. Carr and Co.'s nutritious and health giving biscuits].
  • Edwards' "Harlene" for the hair : the great hair dressing / [Edwards' "Harlene" Co.]
  • Un producto de calidad divina : Shampoo 91.
  • Parker's Tonic : the great health and strength  restorer : cures coughs, consumption, asthma by rejuvenating the blood / Hiscox & Co.
  • The actor Bruno Kastner holding a tube of Bubisan brilliantine for the hair. Colour lithograph after Leonhard Fries.
  • Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
  • Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers ... : Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer will restore gray or faded hair to its original color as in youth ... / R.P. Hall & Co.
  • A woman holding a bottle of Bubisan hair lotion. Colour lithograph after Leonhard Fries, ca. 1930.
  • Parker's Tonic : the great health and strength  restorer : cures coughs, consumption, asthma by rejuvenating the blood / Hiscox & Co.

Works from the collections

211 works

    • Ephemera

    This is new VO5 : stand by for launching... / Alberto.

    | Date: 1971
    • Ephemera

    'Harlene hair drill' : the secret of beautiful hair / Edwards' Harlene Co.

    | Date: [1912?]
    • Ephemera

    Sir Erasmus Wilson's hair lotion : prepared from the formula of the celebrated specialist.

    | Date: [between 1880 and 1899]
    • Ephemera

    An opportunity for all to try the famous "Koko." - see page 4 : Koko for the hair / Koko.

    | Date: [1912?]
    • Ephemera

    Rose hair oil.

    | Date: [between 1870 and 1899]
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Related topics

Hair growth stimulants
Shampoos
Alopecia
Women
Beauty
Hair
Hairdressing
Cosmetics
Hygiene
Wigs

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