Reducing Collection

New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure
The New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson

Comic postcard, Woman on the phone - reducing diet Date: 20th century

Cone reducing machines in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Advert for the Vaco Reducing Cup, which promises to take off flesh just where you want to lose it, by loosening the congestion of fat which then vanishes

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Watch Unemployment dwindle
Buy British and watch unemployment dwindle. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Edwardian society womens beauty treatments 1906
Edwardian ladies believed that it was their duty as a woman to look beautiful. Showing a variety of photographs of society women enduring treatment to help repair from seasons ravages. 1

Advert for Vigors exercise horse at home 1895
Exercise on this saddle, three speeds trot, canter or gallop and claims to help with; creates appetite, cures dyspepsia, quickens the circulation, stimulates the liver, relieves hysteria, insomnia

The Peak of Perfection, British Electricity 1948
The Peak of Perfection. The Switch Family Robinson. Advert for British Electricity in 1948 suggesting ways people can reduce their electricity usage, including turning off the electric fire

Reducing the Gas Bill
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a Scottish man blowing into his gas supply in an attempt to reduce bills watched by his son in a tartan kilt

QUININE
Quinine (Cinchona): an invaluable medicine in tropical countries; excellent at reducing fevers and used to control malaria

Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. Davis
Floating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot. A whale-hunting factory and its catcher vessels at work in the Antarctic

Regain That Boyish Figure
Advertisement from The Sketch for Rosenbaum Rubber Reducing Garments. Their range of corsets and bodices " disperses superfluous flesh naturally". 1928

A Wire-Drawer
A wire drawer reducing rods and threads of wire to smaller sizes for use in manufacture Date: 1827

Helena Rubinstein light treatment for wrinkles, 1917
The blue light treatment at Madame Helena Rubinstein s, to transform the woman with lined and tired eyes, as it feeds the skin and overcomes wrinkles. Date: 1917

Advert for Veco reducing cup for weight loss 1926
New 3 minute treatment takes off fat- just where you want to loss it! Amazing new discovery takes off flesh just where you want to loss it. No dieting - no pills - no discomforts

Putting on a corset - with assistance
A lady requires some assistance in the tightening of the laces of her corset. The rather caustic caption reads: " Reducing the Surplus" !! Date: circa 1905

An advertisement for Clarks slimming bath salts
An advertisement featuring Clarks bath salts, which are advertised as thinning. The picture shows a young woman, having emerged from her bath, draped in a towel and wearing slippers

Elisha at Samaria 2
When King Ben-hadad of Syria besieges Samaria, reducing the populace to cannibalism, Elisha predicts that all will be well, and behold, all is well

Elisha at Samaria
King Ben-hadad of Syria besieges Samaria, reducing the populace to cannibalism; but Elisha scares the besiegers away in panic with the noise of a great host

Guns and Butter
Reducing the war industry means building up the World Trade

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