Dryer Collection

Toilet / Hair / Hairdressers
Women sitting under hair dryers at the hairdressers

The Rolls Rapide Twin Tub washing machine - look what you get! A bargain at 39 guineas! Date: 1961

Teaching hair dressing
Hairdressing was taught as London girls school as a useful skill to learn. Traditional methods are seen here, so it the use of a hair dryer. Date: 1925

Woman Having her Hair Dried 1928
A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

At the hairdressers - People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1960s

Page of adverts from The Illustrated London News, 1912
Page of advertisements from The Illustrated London News, dated November 1912.Carters reading chair, Calverts tooth powder and Sanitas disinfectant are promoted, as well a Blo, an electric hair dryer

Advert for Magnet household items 1929
Magnet, a wide variety of electrical gifts for Christmas. 1929

Advertisement, Amazon 37 Drying Tumbler, manufactured by James Armstrong & Co Ltd, London. 1957

Soho, London - window display, salon hairdryers
Soho, London - window display, suppliers of salon hairdryers. 1973

Italy. Rome. Trastevere district
Italy. Rome. Buildings at the Trastevere district

Birthday card, Between Us Gals Hope You re All Set. (2 of 2) mid-20th century

Advert for Petit Sechoir hair dryer 1910
Petit Sechoir a main - an electric hair dryer not so very different from those we use a hundred years later 1910

Trade card, Keystone Wringer, Best in the World, manufactured by F F Adams & Co, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Manure dryers, Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1890s

Tatler front cover - Life in the lunch hour
Front cover of The Tatler in 1960 featuring a young woman under the dryer in a hairdressing salon, Simon of Knightsbridge, where they guaranteed a hairdo in under an hour

Dog being washed

Scout washing on camp
A Scout in camp washing himself before morning inspection. The boys themselves have built the washstand cum clothes dryer for the material available on the campsite

An Immense Cloth Finishing Dryer
A factory worker uses an immense cloth finishing dryer, in a promotional photograph for Dalglish. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Hair-drying device, 1928
A helmet used to dry and set hair, on display at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition at White City, 1928

Hair Dryer / Swan 1939
An electric hair dryer

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