Dressing a Fanti (Fante) Lady's hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast (modern day Ghana), 1910s

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Artist Hilda Quick hard at work in this self portrait from . Chosen for for showing more hair than face.

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May Bowley, children's illustrator & writer also happened to have an incredible head of hair. Pictured here as a young woman c.1885

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A taster of some of our artwork The early green hairy Engraved by S. Watts after an original by Augusta Withers. The Pomological Magazine, 1828.

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This Black and White Colobus monkey has some amazing hair!

(From a plate in our 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London' by Joseph Smit)

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Some magnificent (and famous) face foliage found among the Lushington Collection photo albums, 1850s-1870s (SHC ref 7854/4/47/3/3) https://t.co/7M9IS7xCDf

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This is Wilhelmina, a young badger who fell down a cattle grid, lost her mother and was adopted by Dick's brother Tony. She became part of the family and loved playing with their many dogs. c. 1953.

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That feeling when you leave the hairdressers and you know it's not what you asked for by John Roberts in collections

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Yet another 'Leaving off Powder, - or - A Frugal Family saving the Guinea' https://t.co/indJMmhP9Z [JG/2/16]

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Fidel Castro surrounded by children wearing fake-beards on a visit to New York, 1959

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Edward Steer of West keeper of a diary and owner of a magnificent moustache! https://t.co/GXfLI03vnM

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There are many options within our Eadweard Muybridge collection, including the man himself!

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'Dr Leopold Kann, Arctic explorer, in his winter quarters, Ellesmere Land' is our pick for day!

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