BARBERS & HAIRDRESSERS of the past

barbers in 1300s Europe were also city gate-keepers because they could recognize diseases

       

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Andrea Mantegna, 1400s ... Samson and Delilah

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hair-cutting scissors were considered doctor's tools,  although number 8 is just silly

 
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these 1600s barber tools each had some purpose

 
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human hair was in demand commercially in 1875 for wigs,  belts,  necklaces and rings
 
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human  "Hair Chains"  from an 1885 catalog ... this seems odd to us now

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silver dollars set into the barbershop marble floor in 1889

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a Charles Keene illustration       see full size

   
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a mustache curler, 1898?

    
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the "Saratoga"  hairstyle ... the hair is parted from front to back 

     

1900 hair styles:  "The Curly 1/2 Shingle"

  

1900

 
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Adolf Reinheimer

 
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1903 ... barbers and hairstylists sold extra products       see full size

 
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1903  "Quinine Shampoo Liquor"

 
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1903 "Military" cosmetic for men

 
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  a 1907 German barber shop in the new Secession design style
 
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a child's chair from a 1916 barber supply catalog

 

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a hydraulic barber chair for children,  1918?       see full size

 

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another hydraulic barber chair for children       see full size

 

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a 1919 salon hair-dryer likely had an asbestos lining inside,  as this

was common practice until the 1960s or 1970s       see full size
 
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a 1919 barber's Violet Ray for the scalp       see full size
 
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1919 barber neck bibs       see full size

  
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a Rea Irvin illustration for The New Yorker,  1937

    
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a 1941 barber's lather mixer       see full size

     
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a 1941 hair salon dryer       see full size

  
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a 1942 hair dryer with an ashtray ... many workplaces had ashtrays

until at least the early 1980s

 

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a 1960s women's hair salon would be an
experience in itself,  and that's something you could
say about the whole decade ... if we add to that the
tedium of everyday life,  we get the general ambiance 

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from a 1960 hairdressing salon supply catalog,
  a metal space divider with screens & starbursts

 

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a 1960 metal and glass space divider between us and the past