Skin Collection (page 3)

Woman in house gown of coral-print silk over a linen petticoat. Aquarium with coral and goldfish. Robe d interieur en soie brochee, ouverte sur un dessous de linon

Nina Vanna in a white evening gown by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

Advert, Dubarrys Creme Shalimar Hand Cream Advert
Advert, Dubarrys Creme Shalimar Hand Cream. 1936

Hat shop in Tiflils (Tibilisi), Georgia, 1903
A hat shop, selling traditional fur and skin hats in Tiflis, modern day Tibilisi, capital city of Georgia. Date: 1903

Sailing of the Hudsons Bay Company ships from Gravesend
Article and engraving from The Illustrated London News reporting on the Hudsons Bay Company. Date: 1845

Phoenicians trading with Early Britons, exchanging richly coloured cloths for animal skins and furs. Date: BCE

Silver Street Boys School fancy dress group
Silver Street Boys School advanced class fancy dress group, most of them with blacked-up faces and hands. Their names are: Harold Blanchard, Philip Wilson, Arthur Thorne, Ernest Trafford

Village Industries - pottery and parchment making
Page from The Sphere reporting on pottery making in Dorset and the making of parchment in Havant, Hampshire which had specialised in parchment for over 1000 years. 1928

Le Vaillants camp on the banks of the Orange River in the Richtersveld. A giraffe skin is undergoing taxidermy on a frame. From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa

Sami people or Lapplanders in a tent made of sail and stakes. Seats made of soft reindeer skins and woollen covers. Illustration from Leopold von Buchs Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813

Statue of a Bacchante in animal skin and garlands. In the Vatican Palace. Copperplate engraving from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabilis Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820

Crimson-crested woodpecker, Campephilus melanoleucos (Buff-crested woodpecker, Picus melanoleucus). Based on a skin in the Leverian Museum

Red-tailed boa skin, skeleton and spine, Boa constrictor. (Le peau d un Serpent de Ceilan, une piece en grand, le squelette, epine exterieure)

Currier shaving animal hides with a knife to make leather for shoes, boots, saddles, bookbindings, etc. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts

Metamorphosis of a silkworm, from young caterpillar, shedding skin, spinning silk cocoon, chrysalis stage, and emergence as moth

Depiction of Hercules fourth labour. Hercules in lion skin brings the Erymanthian boar and shows it to a terrified Eurystheus, who cowers in a storage jar or pithos

Oil leather fulling stocks at leather factory, south London
Oil leather fulling stocks (with heavy wooden hammers, used for producing wash leather or chamois leather) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Indigenous people of Brazil, South America. Date: 1842

Advert, Guerlain Lait de Beaute, Beauty Lotion, the milky way to beauty. 1936

Advert, Dubarry Nuglandin Skin Cream
Advert for Dubarry Nuglandin Skin Cream. 1936

Carole Lombard, American actress. Date: 1934

Advertising Showcard, A & F Pears, Violet Powder, entirely pure and safe for use upon the tenderest skin

Scrap, Peoples of the World - New Zealand Maori. 19th century

Scrap, Peoples of the World - Mestizo (mixed race Native American and Spanish). 19th century

London health club 1926
A group of Hippodrome women from Mercenary Mary enjoying a sun bath, opened in Albemarle Street, London Date: 1926

Advert for Gamages lizard skin accessories 1909
Woman wearing lizard skin hat lined charmois and muff. Date: 1909

Tribeswoman with headdress, French Congo, Central Africa
Tribeswoman with elaborate headdress, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Tribesmen with instruments, Cameroon, Central West Africa
Three tribesmen with their musical instruments, Cameroon, Central West Africa (at the time a French colony). Date: 1922

Bantu craftsman of Douala, Cameroon, Central West Africa
Bantu craftsman of Douala (Duala) making wooden carvings, Cameroon, Central West Africa (at the time a French colony). Date: 1922

Tribesman in ornate cap, Cameroon, Central West Africa
Tribesman wearing an ornate cap and patterned costume, Fumban (Foumban), Cameroon, Central West Africa (at the time a French colony). Date: 1922

Tribesman with his spear, Cameroon, Central West Africa
Tribesman with his spear and an elaborate hairstyle, Bana, Cameroon, Central West Africa (at the time a French colony). Date: 1922

Tribesman playing tattoo, French Congo, Central Africa
Tribesman playing a tattoo on a percussion instrument to welcome a guest, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Tribesman with his spear, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Bisharin tribesman of the Nubian Desert, near Aswan, Egypt
Bisharin tribesman of the Nubian Desert, living at an encampment near Assuan (Aswan), Egypt. He is holding a large sword. Date: 1922

King Basu Fondong, Cameroon, Central Africa
King Basu Fondong (Fondom) of Cameroon, Central Africa, seated on his throne. Date: 1922

Fondong warrior, Cameroon, Central Africa
Fondong (Fondom) warrior, Cameroon, Central Africa, with elaborate scarring on his arm, produced by cutting the flesh and putting stitches into the wounds

Pygmy hunters of the Welle, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Six pygmy hunters of the Welle district, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Shown standing in a row, aiming their poison arrows. Date: 1922

Trumpeter of the Mangbetu, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Trumpeter of the Mangbettu (Mangbetu) court, holding his carved horn modelled from an ivory tusk, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Tribal chief, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
A tribal chief of the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. His beard is several feet long, but is generally kept plaited and coiled tightly under his chin. Date: 1922

Four Mangbettu people, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Four people of the Mangbettus (Mangbetu) tribe, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Showing decorative body scars, ivory hairpins, a nose plug

King Manziga Avungura, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
King Manziga Avungura of the Zande (Azande) tribe (son of Ugwa), Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. 1922

King Akondo, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
King Akondo of the Mangbettu (Mangbetu) tribe in royal dancing costume, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Spearman and battle axeman, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Spearman and battle axeman in magic warpaint, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Arab woman. 19th century

Arab man. 19th century

Fragments of Zeppelin, 1916
Three fragments obtained from a recently-destroyed Zeppelin. No 1. outer covering of Zeppelin (a doped fabric, i.e. a woven material treated with waterproofing solution). No 2

My Mothers Bible -- man kneeling in prayer, And I seek to do His will. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Hot Mineral Spring of Bath 1897
Highly efficacious for gout, rheumatism and skin affections. Latest appliances and methods of treatment Roman Ramains & Historic Houses Date: 1897

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