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Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

Knot in hair

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

Hair brain sculpture

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.

Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.

A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.

Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female

Buerger's amberol : hair dressing / Buerger Bros. Supply Co.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Human hair (Asian origin)

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Hairdressing

Images from the collections

Images about Hairdressing

Works from the collections

Hair brain sculpture

Hair brain sculpture

Buerger's amberol : hair dressing / Buerger Bros. Supply Co.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Human hair (Asian origin)

Hairdressing

Images from the collections

Images about Hairdressing

Works from the collections

Hair brain sculpture

Hair brain sculpture

Buerger's amberol : hair dressing / Buerger Bros. Supply Co.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Human hair (Asian origin)

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