'Richard's shop soon became the fashion' Finish:Stretched with women at the gate

with women at the gate bringing their babies to be given up

'Ishtar in Hades'

Zoological studies of three snakes from the south-western United States of America and Mexico

Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)

'Richard's shop soon became the fashion' Finish:Stretched with women at the gate'Richard's shop soon became the fashion', 1750s, (1905). Richard Arkwright's barber shop undercut all the others. Arkwright, the Englishman credited with the invention of the water frame, worked as a barber until he was 28. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd, (London and Edinburgh, 1905). The book gave a very biased and pro British view of history.