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Making beaver hats, 1835. Artist: Anon
Making beaver hats, 1835. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount of beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used. Here workers are felting the body of the hats in a kettle. The felted material was placed on a wooden block and formed into a hat. The nap of the material was then raised by brushing. Mercury was used in the kettle and the hatters inhaled vapourised mercury in the steam. As a result many of them suffered from the uncontrollable shaking typical of mercury poisoning which attacked the central nervous system. The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland exhibited these symptoms. From The Saturday Magazine. (London, 10 January 1835).
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AR926443
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Public
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4768px × 3663px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Anon
anonymous
B&W
B/W
beaver hat
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
clothes
concept
country
Disease
Dress
England
English
Furniture
Hat
hatmaker
hatter
Health
industrial disease
Industry
Kettle
Labor
Laborer
LOCATION
Male
Man
Manufacturing
Medicine
Men
MERCURY
mercury poisoning
Metal
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
occupational disease
Oxford Science Archive
People
Print Collector1
Science
Table
TRADE
Woodcut
WORKERS
WORKING