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Beauty

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  • Dr. Mackenzie's Arsenical Soap.
  • [Undated handbill advertising an exhibition of the dwarf, Princesse Maria, accompanied by La Belle Vénitienne at the Salon des Deux Extrêmes at Champ-de-Foire. ].
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Catalogue

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    Ugly : giving us back our beauty standards / Anita Bhagwandas.

    Bhagwandas, Anita | Date: [2023]
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    The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

    Polhemus, Ted. | Date: 2000
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    Ladies' diary and housekeeper : 1917 Contains a mass of useful information to all housekeepers, a diary, a system of household accounts whereby the entire expenditure of the household may be kept under control, and an insurance against accidents for 1,000 pounds / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd.

    D.H. Evans & Co. Ltd. | Date: [1916]
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    Ladies' diary and housekeeper : 1913 Contains a mass of useful information to all housekeepers, a diary, a system of household accounts whereby the entire expenditure of the household may be kept under control, and an insurance against accidents for 1,000 pounds / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd.

    D.H. Evans & Co. Ltd. | Date: [1912]
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    Ladies' diary and housekeeper : 1915 Contains a mass of useful information to all housekeepers, a diary, a system of household accounts whereby the entire expenditure of the household may be kept under control, and an insurance against accidents for 1,000 pounds with 2 pounds per week sickness allowance (for details see coupon) / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd.

    D.H. Evans & Co. Ltd. | Date: [1914]
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