"Mrs. Collins" worked as a paper silhouette cutter in the city of Bath, England in the 1800s. This silhouette portrait is p...

      Étienne de Silhouette (July 8, 1709 – 1767) was a French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.       Sometimes said to be...

Johann Kaspar Lavater's silhouette machine. The German scientist, Johann Kaspar Lavater, (1741-1801) developed a "scientific&...

This ad ran in the "El Paso Herald" in El Paso, Texas, Friday, December 1, 1916.       Baron Scotford - late of 129 Regent S...