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Hairdressing

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Beauty culture
Beauty, Personal

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Images from the collections

Images about Hairdressing

71 images from works
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Works from the collections

174 works

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    Hair brain sculpture

    Jackie Brown
    • Digital Images
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    Hair brain sculpture

    Jackie Brown
    • Ephemera

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

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1939]
    • Ephemera

    Certificat d'enrégistrement des coëffuses de femmes : Extrait des registres du greffe / Communaute des Maîtres Perruquiers de Lyon.

    | Date: [between 1780 and 1799]
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

    Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute
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Related topics

Wigs
Hair colour
Structure
Ideas
Concept
Emotions
Thinking
Artwork
Skull
Mind

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