Hairy Collection

Daphne du Maurier in Fowey
Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989), English writer and novelist, author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, pictured looking rather dashing while smoking a pipe

Charles Darwin with a lookalike ape
Charles Darwin holding up a hand mirror to an ape, showing how alike the pair of them are

Heteropoda venatoria, huntsman spider
This a large brown spider with a flattened body structure and a leg span of between 7 and 12 cm. These spiders hunt at night, and mainly prey upon cockroaches

Tarantula spider - face (Trochosa singoriensis). South Tuva, Russia

Pan & Psyche
Pan is consulted by Psyche concerning her relationship with Cupid

Comic postcard, Enormous man with woman in the sea Date: 20th century

Veet advertisement, 1926
Advertisement for Veet hair removal cream from 1926 - don t let disfiguring growths of superfluous hair destroy your charm and daintiness any longer

Stephan Bibrowski (1890 - 1932), know as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Lionel traveled to the United States and started appearing with the Barnum and Bailey Circus

Hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker and red-bellied
Hairy woodpecker, Dryobates villosus, male 1, downy woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens, male 2 and female 3, and red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, male 4

The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1897
Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902), a " freak" and part of the " Greatest Show on Earth". The accompanying article describes her as " in every respect the best of the "

The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1898
Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902) also known as " the Bearded Lady" toured with the showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. 1898

Julia Pastrana (1834 - 1860), from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Julia Pastrana from Mexico, hairy woman
Julia Pastrana, from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban, The Tempest, Shakespeare
Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban in The Tempest by William Shakespeare Date: 1904

Shaggy dog's head - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Comic postcard, Man falls out of bed onto chamber pot Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with twins - I winked, she winked - this is the result. At Morecambe. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stone Age attractions Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stone Age attractions Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stone Age Lyons Cafe Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Piccadilly Circus in the Stone Age Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Drunken Stone Age man with prehistoric animals Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Three Stone Age men - A quiet game of Nap. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Four pairs of legs paddling in the sea. Why don t you come and mingle your tooties [tootsies] with ours? Date: 20th century

Orchard oriole, Icterus spurius, males 1, 2, and female 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania

Fossils of extinct sea snails. Proto maraschinii, Turritella, Potamides fragilis, Nerina tuberculosa. Proto del Maraschiini, Proto turritella, Potamide fragile, Nerina turbercolosa

Epatolmis caesarea and Penthophera morio moths. Phalaena luctifera, Phalaena morio. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in

Barbara Urslerin, bearded girl from Germany Barbara Urslerin
Barbara Urslerin (1629 - 1668+), a bearded woman from Germany. 1668

The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones
Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902) also known as " the Bearded Lady" toured with the showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction

Dorothy Comingore (right) and Susan Hayward (middle) wearing Dolly Tree creations in The Hairy Ape (1943) Date: 1943

Susan Hayward and John Loder in The Hairy Ape (1943)
Susan Hayward wearing Dolly Tree creation in The Hairy Ape (1943) with John Loder on the left Date: 1943

The stars of The Hairy Ape (1943)
Dorothy Comingore and Susan Hayward (middle left and right) wearing Dolly Tree creation in The Hairy Ape (1943) with John Loder (left) and William Bendix (right) Date: 1943

International Vegetarian Congress in Berlin, 1932
Delegates at the International Vegetarian Congress in Berlin, 1932, whose tonsorial abundance leads The Sphere magazine to ask, " Does Vegetarianism increase the growth of hair?" Date: 1932

Hairy tetratheca, Tetratheca hirsuta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Hairy sandwasp, Podalonia hirsuta (Ammophila hirsuta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Hairy violet, Viola hirta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Great hairy willow-herb, Epilobium hirsutum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Large hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus. Dasypus octocinctus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Tyroff after an illustration by H.D

Hairy long-eared bat, Nycteris hispida. Vespertilio hispidus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel

Wintergreen, periwinkle and dogs bane species
Umbellated wintergreen, Pyrola umbellata, herbaceous periwinkle, hairy gonolobus, Gonolobus hirsutus, broad-leaved amsonia, Amsonia latifolia, and tutsan-leaved dog s-bane, Apocynum androsaemifolium

Everlasting pea and vetch species
Lord Ansons pea, Lathyrus magellanicus, large-flowered everlasting pea, Lathyrus grandiflorus, blue-flowered platystylis, Platystylis cyanea, hairy bitter vetch, Orobus hirsutus

Marianthus, pronaya and tetratheca species
Blue spotted marianthus, Marianthus caerulea-punctatus, elegant pronaya, Pronaya elegans, hairy tetratheca, Tetratheca hirsuta, and whorled-leaved tetratheca, Tetratheca verticillata

Moonrat, Echinosorex gymnura. Raffles moonrat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Hairy garlic, Allium subhirsutum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Exotic hornets, wasps and bees
Oriental hornet, Vespa orientalis 1, scarab hunter wasp, Campsomeris quadrimaculata 2, hairy footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes 3, steel-blue wasp, Chalybion caeruleum 4, preying mantis

Big hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus
Big hairy armadillo or large hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus (Hairy armadillo, or fourth tatou of d Azara). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffiths The

Silky triggerplant (Hairy stylewort, Stylidium pilosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

Hairy goodia, Goodia lotifolia var. pubescens (Goodia pubescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine

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