Combing Collection

Man prepares his hair ready for his wedding day - Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1908

Gossip about Fairies 24
Fairies live on good terms with animals and birds - here, fairies are combing goats beards, something which goats themselves find it hard to do, having no hands (or combs)

T W Rust & Co. Combing Room in 1892 Date: 1892

Combing Room, T W Rust & Co in 1892 Date: 1892

Woman Combing Hair - Advertisement illustration of an attractive young lady in a negligee combing her hair at her mirror. Date: 1929

Men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels under the streets of London to unblock the sewers with a combing method. Date: 1881

Our amateur politicians by Edmund Blampied. Men chatting at a pub bar: Me? Vote for him? Oh dear, no! Besides, his Astrakhan hair and his cross-eyed views carry no blinkin conviction

Comic postcard, Elderly woman combing mans beard Date: 20th century

Little Mother by Peggy Earnshaw. 1937

Swahili women, Zanzibar island, Tanzania, East Africa
Two Swahili women of Zanzibar island, Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. One is helping the other with her hair. Date: 1922

Flushing the sewers 1860s
With the population expanding and dumping coursing blockages below the depths of London

Hairdressing in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1930s

Joshua Heilmann, German textile innovator
Joshua Heilmann, German innovator in textile manufacture. He invented the first machine for combing cotton, and helped to revolutionise the embroidery industry

Woman Combing Her Hair at Goyu by Hokusai
Woman Combing Her Hair at Goyu: 16 Cho to Akasaka, no. 39 from a series of Stations of the Tokaido by Katsushika Hokusai (17601849). Date: 1804

Glamorous American Lady in white dress combing her hair Date: circa 1920s

Wool-Comber
A wool comber teasing out a bundle of clean wool on a comb which can then be spun Date: 1827

Heilmann / Cotton Machine
Josua Heilmann, the German innovator is inspired by watching his wife combing their daughters hair to invent a combing machine for cotton. Date: 1796 - 1848

Lady Lilith by D G Rossetti (1828-1882), engraved by Theodor Knesing (1840-?). Date: 1884

Cobming Hair
Profile of a man combing his hair. Date: late 1960s

TERBORCH, Gerard (1617-1681). A mother combing the hair of her child. 1652 - 1653. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. NETHERLANDS. The Hague. Mauritshuis

Mermaid in the park

Sea Scout grooming a dog
A young Sea Scout grooming a dog during Bob-a-Job Week. 1949

Samuel Lister Statue
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER His statue in Lister Park, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. A prolific inventor of over 150 inventions, including a wool-combing machine. Date: 1815 - 1906

Combing Cotton 18th C
Various ways to comb cotton in France in the 18th century Date: Circa 1760

Djibouti, East Africa - Hairdressers
Djibouti, East Africa - Traditional methods of hairdressing. Date: circa 1910s

Mother searching for nits in boys hair
" Another Air Raid - Many Casulaties...!" A Mother searching for headlice in a boys hair with a large comb. The lad seems to be finding the whole experience singularly unpleasant

Patons & Baldwins - wool processing
A woman factory worker in blue uniform feeds light blue thread into a large piece of (possibly weaving?) machinery at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Manufacturing Wool Yarn
The Worlds largest (at the time) single line of worsted carding machines for opening scoured raw wool prior to combing at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Two thatchers at work
Two thatchers repair the thatch on the roofs of two traditional country cottages. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Looking for Nits and lice
A Russian woman searches a teenage boys head for lice (pediculis capitis) and nits (eggs or young lice)

Chemise & Nightgown 1919
WOLFHEAD UNDERGARMENTS: a lady in black stockings wears an Empire chemise with a lace yoke, her friend wears a nightdress, while the maid brings in a tiered under-skirt

Dog being Groomed
A dog being groomed by its owner

Wool / Early Processes
Early processes in the manufacture of wool: sheep shearing, washing, beating, combing

Folklore / Mer-People
A mermaid combing her hair

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