Combs Collection

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

C17 Wig Maker / Woodcut
A wigmaker combs the hairs of his latest creation : naturally he wears a wig himself

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)

Toothbrushes (Adverts)
Toothbrushes and Combs

Archaeological dig at Glastonbury
Archaeological finds for a dig in Glastonbury summerset. Seen are the Timber Foundation and Palisading at the Glastonbury Lake Village, a ladder found, a reaping-hook and some weaving combs

During the Verbenas festival in Madrid, there is a competition for the best shawls & hair combs. The name of the winner becomes famous throughout Spain. Date: 1930s

Street comb seller 1864
Poor woman selling combs in the streets of London. Date: 1864

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1886
Selection of womens finest jewellery in diamonds and pearl designs. Date: 1896

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

Young woman in nylon nightie
A young woman in a nylon nightie sits at her bedroom dressing table and combs her hair. Date: late 1970s

London Trade Card - John Brailsford, Cutler, St Martins Court, Leicester Fields. 18th century

New Zealand Maori Ornaments and Decorations. They are an ear ornament, real or imitation teeth, grotesque figures (tiki), earrings, a tail feather, a shell, wooden combs, a fly catcher

Womens hairstyles 1864
Selection of the latest styles of arranging the hair as adopted in Paris, and as practised by the leading Parisian hair-dressers

Advert Le Nenuphar, hair accessories 1909
Photographs of Edwardian women wearing their hair more softer and fuller with accessories for evening wear, a small disc shape hair combs to be placed on one side inspired by nature. 1909

Advert for Noirat, hair and beauty 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, showing women with increased visual width at the back of the head using wavy wigs, also wearing discrete headbands with feather and combs. 1912

Advert for Noirat, hairpieces 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, wavy hairpieces for women with elegant ornamented bands and hair combs. 1912

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1896
Christmas gift for women including diamond flexiable bracelet, novelty brooches, pearl pendant, buckles and hair combs. 1896

Advert for Streeter, diamond accessories 1894
A selection of diamond accessories including tuquoise and diamond, pearl and diamond decorative hair combs, fine tuquoise and diamond tiara

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

Combs. 12th-13th centuries. Bone and horn
Combs in animal bone and horn. 12th-13th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Bone combs from Jutland. 5000-4500 BC
Bone combs from Ertebolle, Mejlgard and Brabrand in Jutland. 5000-4500 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

MADRID BARBER 4 / 5 1987
Part of the tiled fascia of a Madrid barber shop: the barber combs a clients hair. Date: 1987

Trade catalogue of hair accessories 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of hair combs and slides for womens hair. Date: 1911

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

Womens hairstyles 1886
The latest coiffures for women. 1886

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1904
A selection of highest quality jewellery. Date: 1904

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths accessories 1914
Hair combs, brooches and black velvet neckslide all with designs using pearls and diamonds. 1914

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1912
Selection of decorative elegant diamond jewellery. 1912

Spanish Woman
A Spanish woman in traditional costume, her hair ornately tied up with combs and bejewelled pins. Date: 1930s

Making a Doll 1930S
A woman doll maker combs the hair of a doll with bobbed hair in the style of film star Louise Brooks. Date: early 1930s

CALDERON, Mar�(17th century). Spanish actress
CALDERON, Maric (17th century). Spanish actress. Painting

The Princess Royals dressing case, a wedding gift to the bride from the Duchess of Kent, on the occasion of Victoria(Vicky)s marriage to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858

Advertisement for Auguste Bonaz hair combs
Advertisement for Auguste Bonaz decorative hair combs, worn here on short bobbed hair. 1924

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

LIGEA
Ligea combs her hair on a rock

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

Japnese Lady Washing
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

Bex Combs for Men
A suave young man advertises Bex Combs for Men " for good grooming"

Comb Maker 1827
A comb maker cutting the teeth of a comb; on his left is a bench with finished combs and on the ground are the horns from which he makes them

The Childrens Band
Six children, some young, some VERY young, prepare to give us a sextet for drums, horns and combs-and-paper

Racial / Japan / Lady 19C
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

The Snow Queen
The witch combs Gerdas hair in the Snow Queen

Girls Night In
A girl combs her long blonde hair at her dressing table and confides in her best friend during a girls night in

Spinning Wool 1930S
Two old dames using combs and and a traditional spinning wheel to spin wool which will be used on a hand loom, Sandwich, Kent, England

Goose Girl Combs Hair
The Goose Girl combs her long blond hair

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