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Image Not Available for You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.
You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.
Image Not Available for You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.

You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.

Creator Emil Otto Hoppé (British, 1878 - 1972)
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 14.8 x 19.2 cm (5 13/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5670
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for You might think that this is a fruit stall, but you would be wrong. This stall is far more exciting -- it is a stall where you may buy all manner of healing roots.
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
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    Photograph
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for The grils can study or read for pleasure in the beautiful library….no noise is the rule here.
    The grils can study or read for pleasure in the beautiful library….no noise is the rule here.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for The girls can study or read for their pleasure in the beautiful library….no noise is the rule here.
    The girls can study or read for their pleasure in the beautiful library….no noise is the rule here.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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    1918
    Photograph
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