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Ear piercing

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  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • A man is piercing a girl's ear for an earring. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.

    | Date: 1987
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.

    Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841. | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 35565i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man is piercing a girl's ear for an earring. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.

    Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845. | Date: 1824 | Reference: 35569i
    • Ephemera

    AIDS ephemera : Awareness & education. Box 2.

    • Ephemera

    Shaving, tattoos and piercings ephemera. Box 1.

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