Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

HairstylesReset filters
48 results
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • Hairstyles through history. 5, Etruria, shepherd.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Benin: a woman and child with braided hairstyles. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Hairstyles through history. 6, Rome, Patrician lady, 1st century A.D.
  • Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.
  • An Englishman is startled when he sees his reflection in the mirror and finds his Chinese barber has given him a queue. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • Hairstyles through history. 8, Mediaeval, knight and lady.
  • Hairstyles through history. 7, Arabia, Caliph, 9th century.
  • Hairstyles through history. 3, Persia king.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • Hairstyles through history. 4, Greece, ladies of a Cretan court.
  • Hairstyles through history. 4, Greece, ladies of a Cretan court.
  • Hairstyles through history. 10, 17th Century, cavalier.
  • South Africa: a Pondo man attends to the hairstyle of a fellow man. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.