Mirror Collection (page 6)

Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge
Houdinis great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives

Miss Myrtle Farquarson
Miss Myrtile Farquarson, elder daughter of Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. A. H. Farquarson by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1923

Girl Workers of London - The Waitress. 1898

The Bob hairstyle
Young girl looking at herself in a mirror and lamenting the state of her Bob. Date: circa 1925

Dressing room at New York Theatre 1905
Behind the scenes in the mens dressing room in New York Theatre. 1905

Adam Interior, 13 Devonshire Place, London. 1906

Mirror portrait trick
Man stood in the middle of two perpendicular mirrors as an example of a full length portrait. Date: circa 1890

Hand mirror, rattle, pintray, pin cushion, saving bank, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Decorative mirrors. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Costumes of a man and woman of the Tlingit nation, Alaska
Costumes of a man and woman of the Tlingit nation, Port des Francais (Lituya Bay), Northwest coast of America (Alaska). The man wears a fur robe and hat and holds a mirror

Two ladies dressing before a mirror in a parlor, 19th century. She says, The pink really suits you dear. She thinks, And makes you look 10 years older

Gentleman with cane and top hat interrupting a lady at her toilette. Hello, how nice to see you! (You beast!) Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Jean Gabriel

Patera in the British Museum. Shallow ceramic dish with dancing winged figure holding mirror and dish. Genius of Apollo with string of pearls around its thigh and calf

Two pretty maids helping to dress two old crones
La toilette: Two young women help older women with baby bonnets and false bosoms - while giving knowing looks to the viewer. Women of 19 and 20 are in open war with women of a certain age (30)

Titus hairstyles and cache-folie wigs
Two women at the hairdressers receiving the short haircut called the Titus (after the Roman emperor), while a stylist holds up a cache-folie wig

Visitors in Pelisses
Guests at a fashionable salon, all wearing extravagent fur-lined clothes, jackets, dresses and pelisses. By the early 19th century, fur lined and trimmed cloaks, coats and jackets were all the rage

Shop girls preparing for bed. Wearing turbans, shawls and lowcut cotton nightshifts, four shopgirls relax before bed. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Shop girls dressing in the morning. Four shop girls dressing, fixing their hair in front of mirror, adjusting their stockings, playing with a cat. These little workers show such ingenious coquetry

A woman is pampered by her staff
A woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly

Hairdresser on stilts pulling a womans hair to the ceiling
One must suffer for beauty. A hairdresser on stilts pulls a womans hair to the ceiling in the Chinese style. The hairstyle a la Chinoise is definitely a major makeover

A Parisian woman getting dressed in the Chinese style. Our artist has turned three magots (grotesque porcelain figures) into makeup artists eager to transform a beautiful Parisienne into a Chinese

Skeleton of Death adorning a Countess with a necklace of bones even as she is preoccupied with a new gown from her maid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of

Charlotte de Montmorenci, wife to Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, 1594-1650. She wears her hair tied up with ribbons, an upright lace collar, pearl necklaces, dress with embroidered corset

Woman of the court of King Henry IV of France, 1589-1610. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon, an upright lace collar, Spanish court dress with low cut bosom, slashed sleeves, corset

Lady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask

French fashions, and German bride and groom
Man and woman in French fashions from Paris A, and German bride C and groom D in wedding crowns of Nuremburg, late 16th century

Electrical equipment. Electrical mirror 1, electroscope 2, electrometer 3, 4, battery 5, condesator 6 and electrophorus 7

Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio

Ancient Peruvian utensils and tools, including Inca tomb A, B, pendant in gold and silver C, copper axe heads D, mirrors called Inca-rirpo E, F, G, stone axe H, pins I, L, M, clip K

Costumes of the Aleutian natives of Bristol Bay, Alaska
Costumes of the Aleutian natives of the Nushagak area, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Men and women in sealskin and fur clothes with boxes, mirror, beads. Dried fish on a beam

Brown skate or mirror ray, Raja miraletus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

MIrror seller, Qing Dynasty. The mirrors are made of highly polished copper. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Young lady of quality at a masked ball, demoiselle de qualite, France, 1586. She holds a mask in her right hand and a cantenance (muff) in her left. A mirror and fan hang from her belt

Venus with a mirror and Vulcan
Venus looking at herself in a mirror, and a virile young Vulcan seated on a stool with his arm over his head. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

La dame aux camellias
Illustration of a woman admiring herself in a mirror. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1890s

Victorian scrap, Barber shaving a soldier. 19th century

Room in Hotel Prinz Carl, Heidelberg, Germany, where the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra were betrothed in 1862. 1902

Anxious to Please - Le Desir De Plaire. 1743

The Bystander, Arming for the Fray by Barribal 1930
Front cover illustration for The Bystander by William Barribal featuring a woman with flame red hair using a hand mirror to apply lipstick. Date: 1930

Four women in early 19th century costume. Date: 1802-1804

Masai women of East Africa looking in a mirror
Masai (Msai) women of Southern Kenya or Northern Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. Seen here admiring their own reflections in a mirror. Date: 1922

Vain woman at a mirror on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1870s

Music cover, The Last Happy Hours Waltz
Music cover, Die Letzten Glucksstunden (The Last Happy Hours) Waltz, by Keler Bela. 19th century

Preparing for Queen Victorias Coronation in 1838. 1838

Romantic paper lace card in white, silver, blue and gold -- I Have No Shield But Thee Love. Date: circa 1890s

The Graphic Fashions and Womans Interest Number
Fabulous art deco cover of The Graphic Fashions and Womens Interest Number for 1928 with an illustration of a fashionable woman adjusting her hat in a mirror. 1928

Not Forgotten by Steer. 1888

Banking on Art by Kippa. 1930

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