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J. Marsh, hair cutter and perfumer : hair brushing by machinery / J. Marsh.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]
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Art de se coiffer soi-même : enseigné aux dames : suivi du manuel du coiffeur : précédé de préceptes sur l'entretien, la beauté et la conservation de la chevelure : avec des conseils aux messieurs sur les soins qu'ils doivent prendre pour être bien coiffés, et pour entretenir leur chevelure en bon état : des considérations sur les diverses maladies des cheveux, et sur les moyens d'y remédier : des réflexions sur les perruques, faux toupets, touffes, nattes, etc. : des recettes diverses, et des anecdotes sur tout ce qui a rapport à l'art de la coiffure / par P. Villaret.
Villaret, P.Date: 1828
Ephemera
H. Perry, perfumer, hair cutter & ornamental hair manufacturer : 12 & 13, Burlington Arcade / H. Perry.
Date: [between 1850 and 1879]
Ephemera
Hebe : free perm worth £30 / Hebe Hair & Beauty Salons.
Date: [1992]
Archives and manuscripts
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M0006211EB: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC
Date: 21 April 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/94
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Ephemera
Mansfield's "Capillaris" is just splendid : it gives one such an elegant head of hair / T. Hill Mansfield.
Date: [1882]
Ephemera
Wm. Cornish, ladies' and gentlemen's hair dresser, perfumer & ornamental hair manufacturer : 44, Edgcumbe Street, Stonehouse / William Cornish.
Date: [between 1800 and 1836]
Digital Images
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Hair brain sculpture
Jackie Brown
Ephemera
Hair : who needs it? : customer information / The Body Shop.
Date: 1990
Books
An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing and wigmaking / by James Stevens Cox.
James Stevens-CoxDate: 1984
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A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.
Reference: 31141i
Digital Images
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Hair brain sculpture
Jackie Brown
Books
Online
A looking-glasse for women, or, A spie for pride : shewing the unlawfulnesse of any outward adorning of any attire of haire, either in laying forth the haire, or in crisping of the haire, or in broidered haire in all women, but especially in godly women, declared fully by the Scripture. Also those Scriptures and carnall objections answered which are seemingly made for it.
T. H.Date: 1644
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Advice to the maidens of London : to forsake their fantastical top-knots; since they are become so common with Billings-gate women, and the wenches that cryes kitchin-stuff: together with the wanton misses of the town. To the tune of, Ye ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P.
Date: [1691?]
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Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
Reference: 35505i
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The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
Date: published as the Act directs June 9 1771Reference: 12167i
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An episode in The history of Pendennis by W.M. Thackeray: Harry Foker has his hair dressed and curled by Anatole, his valet. Etching after W.M. Thackeray.
William Makepeace ThackerayDate: 1800-1899Reference: 29760i
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Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute
Digital Images
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Hair brain sculpture
Jackie Brown
Ephemera
To the ladies. : new-invented hair cushions for ladies to dress their own hair upon, they are different, far superior, and more convenient than any other... / Edward Evans.
Date: [1777]
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A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677667i
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Hair brain sculpture
Jackie Brown
Ephemera
McCaskie hair-dresser : ladies braids & crape cushions made in the neatest manner / R. McCaskie.
Date: [between 1830 and 1879]
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A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Hablot Knight BrowneDate: 1892Reference: 30128i
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A little chat about the crown : a little chat about the crown, we overheard, and wrote it down; and now the Chat rehearse, in something like a measur'd verse : the chat ... / Professor Brown.
Brown (Professor)Date: [1863]

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J. Marsh, hair cutter and perfumer : hair brushing by machinery / J. Marsh.

H. Perry, perfumer, hair cutter & ornamental hair manufacturer : 12 & 13, Burlington Arcade / H. Perry.

Hebe : free perm worth £30 / Hebe Hair & Beauty Salons.

M0006211EB: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC

Mansfield's "Capillaris" is just splendid : it gives one such an elegant head of hair / T. Hill Mansfield.

Wm. Cornish, ladies' and gentlemen's hair dresser, perfumer & ornamental hair manufacturer : 44, Edgcumbe Street, Stonehouse / William Cornish.

Hair brain sculpture

Hair : who needs it? : customer information / The Body Shop.

An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing and wigmaking / by James Stevens Cox.

A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.

Hair brain sculpture

Advice to the maidens of London : to forsake their fantastical top-knots; since they are become so common with Billings-gate women, and the wenches that cryes kitchin-stuff: together with the wanton misses of the town. To the tune of, Ye ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P.

Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.

The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.

An episode in The history of Pendennis by W.M. Thackeray: Harry Foker has his hair dressed and curled by Anatole, his valet. Etching after W.M. Thackeray.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Hair brain sculpture

To the ladies. : new-invented hair cushions for ladies to dress their own hair upon, they are different, far superior, and more convenient than any other... / Edward Evans.

A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Hair brain sculpture

McCaskie hair-dresser : ladies braids & crape cushions made in the neatest manner / R. McCaskie.

A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

A little chat about the crown : a little chat about the crown, we overheard, and wrote it down; and now the Chat rehearse, in something like a measur'd verse : the chat ... / Professor Brown.