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Image 11445
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Image 11022
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Image 11023
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A Karnak Beggar
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Image 11025
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Image 11018
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Image 11014
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Image 11012
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Image 11006
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Fashionable lady 1920's
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Another picture that rises simultaneously before the eyes of the masses as representing those queens in America, to whom more ready homage is paid than was ever accorded to a coronet or crown, is our Frances Cleveland. Ours, because the “Common People” claim her, as only an ordinary, sweet, lovely, modest American woman.
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Image 10164
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1804
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1801
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1802
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Image 10129
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Image 9123
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Image 8845
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Image 7863
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Image 7862
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A seated man reading a book
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From the painting by R.W. MacBeth, A.R.A.
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Among the earliest innovations after the Restoration to which the Japanese people took kindly was the clipping of their queues. In the old days men had little queues on the top of their heads. For this purpose they shaved the crown and gathering the hair around, tied it at the top with a piece of paper string; then, they bent the queue and bringing it down forward over the forehead, fastened it with the ends of the same string so that the queue was tied tightly to the first knot. The end of the queue was cut straight. Fashion often changed in the making of the queue, though its general form remained unaltered. The bend, for instance, between the two knots might vary in size and shape, and the queue itself in length and thickness, its girth being regulated by the extent of the tonsure at the crown. Or the hair might be full or tight at the sides and the back. The front was usually shaved. In short, there was a wide scope for taste in the dressing of the queue.
These queues were untied and remade every second or third day, and the head was shaved at the same time. Hair-dressing was therefore a troublesome business, especially as one had generally to get assistance for it. Consequently, when the cropping of the hair came into vogue, people eagerly adopted it as it saved them time and expense. At first they cut the hair long, letting it half hide the ears and come down to the neck behind; but it became shorter by degrees until now the fashion is to crop it to about a quarter of an inch, presenting a head which is appropriately known as “chestnut-bur.”
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Image 6899
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Image 6877
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Image 6863
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Image 6826
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Lady standing in black dress
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Image 6821
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Image 6820
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Harriet Martineau
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Headdress of the Lady on the Right.—Hair in bandeaux à la Niobe; torsade of pearls. Moire dress, low body, with progressive revers opening over a modestie of embroidered muslin edged with lace; short open sleeves à la Watteau; undersleeves of embroidered muslin; half-long gloves; bracelets of pearls, or more often worn different, according to choice.
The other Figure (Lady seated).—Cap of tulle trimmed with lace and ribbon. Low body, with revers open to waist; loose bell-shaped sleeves, edged with a bouillonne; two skirts trimmed with the same; modestie of embroidered muslin, edged with point de Venise; black velvet bracelets, half-long gloves, and Venetian fan.
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Seated couple watching a group of people
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Young lady bursting into tears at some bad news
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Young lady sitting thoughtfully in an arbor in the garden holding a book
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Three men talking
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Man looking up from his reading and smiling
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Two gentlemen talking
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Couple sitting on the grass in a park
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Young lady writing
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Lady Reading the Bible
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A family sitting around reading
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Man and woman sitting cozily in front of a fire.
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Man (reading a newspaper) looks unconvinced as his wife explains the need of a new hat
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Man and woman sitting at the table talking
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Young Lady writing
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Young lady talking to man with monocle on a sofa
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Girls sitting on a bench at school reading
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Domestic scene
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Man with cane
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Man filling up his glass
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Two men sitting in the garden chatting
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