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Hair

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

31.59 Female, Single, Over 65 yrs, Suspected psychiatric illness, July 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/30
Scope and Contents

"This old lady is queer, never says a word to anybody, often seen on the road picking up bits of stick. Used to be a dressmaker, now seems to have a private income. [Male informant] thinks this lady keeps herself to herself because she has no hair and wears a wig. She is very honest and proud - will not accept financial help although her means are very meagre - sits without a fire because others need it more etc."

Dates: Other: July 1945

Archaeological notes, sketches and story relating to Teampull An Tao Deas or Teampuil an t Sagairt, 12 July1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/82
Scope and Contents Archaeological notes, sketches and story relating to Teampull An Tao Deas or Teampuil an t Sagairt, [Teampull an Taobh Deas/Teampull an t-Sagairt Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris]. The first sketch shows a plan of the building with measurements, noting the height of the wall as 7 feet, the breadth 10 feet and the height of the door out 5 feet. Also noted re the dimensions of the altar. A second sketch is a copy plan, with a scaled attached to it. The measurements have not been written on this and...
Dates: 12 July1870

Black notebook containing notes on the literature on hair, n.d.

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/B20
Scope and Contents

Black notebook containing notes on the literature on hair. From the other end of the notebook: notes on the gorilla. This notebook was possibly part of the original sequence but the number label given by Cunningham is missing.

Dates: n.d.

Burmese Hairy Family, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/701
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Burmese family of three, mother, father and son, who have Hypertrichosis in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Hair density in the mouse mutant ragged (Ra), 1963

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/164
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1962 - 1964. Volume 3 of 19.

Dates: 1963

Internal medulla of hair revealed by scanning electron microscopy, May 1984

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/841
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1984. Volume 18 of 19.

Dates: May 1984

Letter (incomplete) to James Cossar Ewart from unknown author, 21 March 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/6
Scope and Contents The author thanks Ewart for sending him the hair samples of his zebras 'Romulus' and 'Matopo', and explaining that he has been much preoccupied by analysing the shell structure of ostrich eggs in the Masai country. He expounds his theories on what the markings and legstripes of zebras can reveal about which species they are. He analyses the colourings and markings of 'Matopo', 'Romulus' etc, and discusses the ramifications of telegony. The end of the letter, including the...
Dates: 21 March 1898

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from C.J Bond, 26 February 1906

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/3
Scope and Contents

The writer is anxious to obtain facts relating to the colour and character of the hair of certain animals and writes that he encloses a copy of a short letter to the editor of The Lancet (letter not present).

Underneath the text of the letter is the address of 'Professor Max Wilms, Lepsig [sic]', written in Ewart's hand.

Dates: 26 February 1906