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A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.

Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.

Con Oram laces A.P. Holland (in drag) into a boned corset in a show for the Bow bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Two Russian valets are tightening ties around a young officer's waist as a third man brings a uniform for him to wear. Coloured etching, 1815.

A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.

A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.

Über die Wirkungen der Schnürbrüste.

The hand-book of millinery ... comprised in a series of lessons for the formation of bonnets, capotes, turbans, caps, bows, etc. : to which is appended a treatise on taste, and the blending of colors; also an essay on corset making / by Mrs. M. J. Howell.

The fully guaranteed Twilfit corset : exchange if unsatisfactory / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd..

Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.

F. & E. Hughes : impressed with gratitude for the encouragement they have experienced, since their commencement in business, beg to offer to the ladies of Bridgnorth and its neighbourhood, their sincere thanks.

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The hand-book of millinery ... comprised in a series of lessons for the formation of bonnets, capotes, turbans, caps, bows, etc. : to which is appended a treatise on taste, and the blending of colors; also an essay on corset making / by Mrs. M. J. Howell.

The fully guaranteed Twilfit corset : exchange if unsatisfactory / D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd..

Sarawak: three corsets worn by Sea Dayak and Land Dayak women. Photograph.

The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.

F. & E. Hughes : impressed with gratitude for the encouragement they have experienced, since their commencement in business, beg to offer to the ladies of Bridgnorth and its neighbourhood, their sincere thanks.