Skin Collection (page 4)

Abdisha Desso, Swedish clergyman and missionary of the EFS, active in Ethiopia. Date: circa 1920s

Huntley Wright and Gracie Leigh in The Cingalee, or Sunny Ceylon, a musical play about tea planters in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which opened at Dalys Theatre, London, in 1904. circa 1904

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

Page of fashion adverts - October 1927
Page of four fashion adverts for womens clothing, for Autumn, from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, October 1927

Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens pyjamas 1927
Womens day and evening bags for xmas gifts. 1927

A Roman Standard-Bearer
A Roman Soldier carrying a standard, the Roman equivilent of a flag, bearing the Roman symbol of the eagle. The symbols beneath show the regiment fighting in the battle. Date: Circa 55BC

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

A variety of Advertisements from 1889. Date: 1886

Gila Monster and Gecko Date: 1950

People at Beach Date: 1929

Beautiful fantasy girl admiring the blossom Date: circa 1900s

Surgeon preparing new skin in graft surgery
Surgeon and two nurses in operating theatre, preparing new skin for graft surgery. Date: 1946

Skin-graft surgery preparation
Theatre nursing staff prepare the patient for a skin-graft operation. Date: 1946

Allergy testing
State Enrolled Nurse Anna Glendinning prepares a skin patch test to determine causes of allergies. Date: circa 1980

Costume of Madame Raquet, merveilleuse in the martyr style.. Costume of Madame Raquet, merveilleuse in the martyr style. She wears a round English hat in beaver skin

Advert for Eczema soap 1905
F. S. Cleaverss patent Eczema soap. Date: 1905

Advert for Beethams Larola skin care 1905
For complexion, helping protect skin from frost, cold and wind. Date: 1905

ANCIENT GALLIC RIDER
A chief of ancient Gaul, mounted on a horse with an animal skin as saddle, and without stirrups. Date: 1st century

GAME / TIGER HUNTING 1901
Three children hunt a tiger - one of their friends wearing a tigers skin (no doubt borrowed from the fireplace!) Date: 1901

FALL / BASENJI / EATING
A row of four young Basenjis, eating from plates. Their wrinkled skin around their foreheads is very noticeable as they bend forward. Date: 1940

Anatomy, inner arm dissection post-mortem
Superficial view of the arm on the inner side, with the parts undisturbed. Date: 1867

DO YOU LIKE BUTTER ?
It is popularly believed that you can tell if someone likes butter by holding a buttercup beneath their chin : if they do, the buttercup will reflect yellow : due to shiny skin ? Date: circa 1900

LEATHER / UNHAIRING SKIN
Two leather workers unhairing skins

Unhairing a goatskin at a leather factory, south London 1842
Workman unhairing a goatskin (removing the hairs with the edge of a knife) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Staking tawed leather at a leather factory, south London
Workman staking tawed leather (stretching, smoothing and softening) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Drawing goatskins at a leather factory, south London
Two men drawing goatskins at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. The process involves repeatedly soaking the skins in a solution of lime and water over a number of weeks

Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south London
Man operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

FARNESE HERCULES
Depicted with his club and the skin of Nemean the Lion

Native American costume: Blackfoot Medicine Man by Catlin
Native American medicine man from the Blackfoot tribe. Date: 1830

Turkey - Studio portrait of a Furriers Wife
Turkey - Studio portrait of a Jewish Furriers Wife who is wearing a remarkable long string of beads. Date: circa 1920

Woman sits astride Polar bear rug and dreams of her beloved
A French Woman sits astride a Polar bear rug and dreams of her beloved, as the smoke rings take on his visage set within a loving heart. Date: circa 1920s

Eruptive Fevers - Plate 6 - Measles, Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Vesicle of Vaccination (with slight surrounding rose rash), Typhus at an early stage

Collins, Jose
Jose Collins (23 May 1887 6 December 1958) was an English actress and singer. Her most famous role was the lead in the musical the Maid of the Mountains in which she played the title role of Teresa

Advert for Beethams Glycerine Cucumber skin product 1889
Apply a little daily Beethams Glycerine Cucumber, to the skin, keeping it soft, cool and refreshed during the hottest weathers. 1889

Aged Sami Fortuneteller - Norway
Aged Sami (Saami) Fortuneteller - Norway. Date: circa 1910s

African women and girl in native dress
Two African women and a girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with their skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

African woman in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

Fearsome Warrior of the South African Ndebele Tribe, one of the Nguni tribes - he is wearing a remarkable headdress. Date: circa 1910s

Young South African Boy suffering from Vitiligo
Young South African Boy from Pretoria suffering from Vitiligo - titled here at the Leopard Skin Kaffir Child - A Freak of Nature. Date: circa 1905

Queen Marie of Romania (1875 - 1938), the consort of King Ferdinand I of Romania. Daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and therefore a granddaughter of Queen Victoria

St Bartholomew Flayed (1562) by Marco d Agrate (c. 1504 A?i
St Bartholomew Flayed (1562), transept of the Cathedral of Milan. Renaissance. Statue was made by italian sculptor, Marco d Agrate (c. 1504 A?i? c. 1574)

Dionysus fighting with the Indians. Mosaic. Palazzo Massimo
Pavement mosaic depicting Dionysus fighting with the Indians. 4th century. From Villa Rufinella. Roman National Museum. Palazzo Massimo. Rome. Italy

Roman Art. Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ( Hope Dionysos ). Marble. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period. 27 B.C.-68 A.C. Roman copy of Greek original

Harem Girl / Woof
Scantily clad harem girl, in a headdress & harem pants, sits demurely on a leopard skin rug while she admires her jewellery. Date: 1950s

Advert for Beethams Larola skin care 1904
Beethams Larola skin product for womens skin and complexion from the effects of sun, wind, frost and hard water, available from chemist stores. Date: 1904

People by the harbour, Mevagissey, Cornwall -- a bare-chested man seems to be upstaging the female model in a rather alarming way! Date: circa 1980s

Moloo Brothers & Co, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa
The general store of Moloo Brothers & Co, stamp dealers and money changers, goldsmiths, jewellers, tailors and outfitters, Acacia Avenue, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika

Khoisan woman in hat, animal skin, necklace, and bracelets, and carries a bow and arrows.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

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