Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 Zincographed at the ORDNANCE SURVEY

Zincographed at the ORDNANCE SURVEY OFFICE SOUTHAMPTON

leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India

A print from The Syrian Desert: Caravans

Also showing a man

the eldest and third sons of King George V of the United Kingdom

Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 Zincographed at the ORDNANCE SURVEYFemale headdresses, 15th century, (1910). The frontlet was composed of a piece of rigid wire netting covered with black material which passed over the head and allowed a small loop to appear on the forehead this was designed to ease the strain on the hair caused by wearing the steeple headdress at an angle 45 degrees from the perpendicular. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).