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Puck magazine cover - The American Samson / J.S. Pughe.

Puck magazine cover - The American Samson / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as Delilah with a broken pair of shears, one side labeled "Senate" and the other labeled "House"; behind, reclining on a bed is "Samson", a long-haired old man labeled "The... More

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Babbitt Housing Area, Post Office-Barber Shop, U.S. Highway 95, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, Babbitt Housing Area, Post Office-Ba...

Survey number: HABS NV-23-C Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Kenton County, KY

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Ken...

Significance: Historically related to adjacent Italianate building because of association with Boro Brothers, an Italian family who operated a confectionary and saloon. Upper story exhibits decorative Italiana... More

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Kenton County, KY

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Ken...

Significance: Historically related to adjacent Italianate building because of association with Boro Brothers, an Italian family who operated a confectionary and saloon. Upper story exhibits decorative Italiana... More

Samarkandskii bazar i ego tipy. Tsyrul'nik [sic] (serterash)

Samarkandskii bazar i ego tipy. Tsyrul'nik [sic] (serterash)

"Serterash translated from Persian as "barber." Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 145.

Soldiers' barber shop in Japanese camp

Soldiers' barber shop in Japanese camp

Verso has commentary about life in the Japanese military camps during the Russo-Japanese War. No. 145. Copyright by T. W. Ingersoll, 1905. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, ...

Significance: Constructed as a Pool Hall (#12); Cafe (#14); and Welfare Clinic (#16) in a predominantly black commercial area. Survey number: HABS NC-330

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, ...

Significance: Constructed as a Pool Hall (#12); Cafe (#14); and Welfare Clinic (#16) in a predominantly black commercial area. Survey number: HABS NC-330

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

In "barbers' row." There are forty of these crude, improvised barber's chairs in a row along the quay in the Piraeus, the sea port of Athens This victim is being shaved. Is [i.e. when] his hair were being cut the wind would blow his shorn locks down the quay.

In "barbers' row." There are forty of these crude, improvised barber's...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-8724. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

[Model 2, "Pippy" Tony, and boy in kitchen, Theodore Thibodeau getting haircut]

[Model 2, "Pippy" Tony, and boy in kitchen, Theodore Thibodeau getting...

Image content features: MODEL Theodore Thibodeau; Pippy, Anthony, & James (Chug) Costanza? & ?; COSTUME sailor suits; PEOPLE boys, men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1... More

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Significance: Constructed as a barber shop with residence above, later used as a novelty store and undertaking establishment. Survey number: HABS NC-331 Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

12-16 Eagle Street (Commercial Building), Asheville, Buncombe County, ...

Significance: Constructed as a Pool Hall (#12); Cafe (#14); and Welfare Clinic (#16) in a predominantly black commercial area. Survey number: HABS NC-330

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Significance: Constructed as a barber shop with residence above, later used as a novelty store and undertaking establishment. Survey number: HABS NC-331 Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Initial Construction

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...

Significance: 517 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875 by plumber Ed. J. Hannan, is an example of 19th century vernacular buildings that combined residential and commercial use. Although the facade of t... More

Esto si que es leer - A black and white drawing of a man sitting in a chair

Esto si que es leer - A black and white drawing of a man sitting in a ...

Old blind man getting haircut, while another servant removes his shoe. Illus. in: Los caprichos, 1799, pl. 29.

Constantinople. Turkey. Street barbers

Constantinople. Turkey. Street barbers

Filed in: Turkey General. No. RC-6902. On mount: Turkey. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

City Barber Shop, 200 Block of Clinton Street, Hickman, Fulton County, KY

City Barber Shop, 200 Block of Clinton Street, Hickman, Fulton County,...

Significance: Victorian commerical building built on main street of Hickman commercial district. Survey number: HABS KY-283 Building/structure dates: ca. 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: c... More

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Kenton County, KY

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Ken...

Significance: Historically related to adjacent Italianate building because of association with Boro Brothers, an Italian family who operated a confectionary and saloon. Upper story exhibits decorative Italiana... More

[Sketch showing a street scene in front of a tea house, with a barber at right, two pigs asleep in the street, and men entering the tea house on the left; includes Chinese language characters on sign advertising teas]

[Sketch showing a street scene in front of a tea house, with a barber ...

Dated 1850 and signed (illegible) in lower left corner. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 241. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Portrait photo of Melochnaia torgovlia. Tsirul'nia (serterashi)

Portrait photo of Melochnaia torgovlia. Tsirul'nia (serterashi)

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 119. "Serterashi" translated fromt Persian as "barber."

City Barber Shop, 200 Block of Clinton Street, Hickman, Fulton County, KY

City Barber Shop, 200 Block of Clinton Street, Hickman, Fulton County,...

Significance: Victorian commerical building built on main street of Hickman commercial district. Survey number: HABS KY-283 Building/structure dates: ca. 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: c... More

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Photograph of a staged scene showing a barber cutting a boys hair. Card number: "No. 454." Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 40. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collectio... More

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Significance: Constructed as a barber shop with residence above, later used as a novelty store and undertaking establishment. Survey number: HABS NC-331 Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Sunday at "the Ranch" Vintage postcard

Sunday at "the Ranch" Vintage postcard

Five cowboys outdoors, with two of them getting haircuts. H116238 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrights by T. McQuillan.

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Mining life in California--Chinese miners

Mining life in California--Chinese miners

Chinese gold miners eating and attending to their hair among tents in camp. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, no. 40 (1857 Oct. 3), p. 632.

A section of "barber's row" Enterprising refugees among the hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Armenians who fled from Asia Minor to Greece have set up stools, boxes, chairs and everything that can be sat on in a long row on the quay in Piraeus, the seaport of Athens, and shave and cut the hair of customers.

A section of "barber's row" Enterprising refugees among the hundreds o...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-33863. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Kenton County, KY

Boro Brothers Building, Office, 116 East Second Street, Covington, Ken...

Significance: Historically related to adjacent Italianate building because of association with Boro Brothers, an Italian family who operated a confectionary and saloon. Upper story exhibits decorative Italiana... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Photograph of a staged scene showing a barber shaving a customer. Card number: "No. 456." Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 39. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection... More

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Hutchinson Building, 18 Eagle Street, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

Significance: Constructed as a barber shop with residence above, later used as a novelty store and undertaking establishment. Survey number: HABS NC-331 Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Initial Construction

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Kairo, coiffeurs Arabes dans la rue

Kairo, coiffeurs Arabes dans la rue

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Egypt. Cairo. Arab Hairdressers in the Street". Print no. "2184. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2... More

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Plymouth Place, 1560-1572 Broadway, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: This is a large three story corner commercial building, designed with Colonial Revival Style details in 1898 by prominent Denver architects Marean and Norton. The construction of the building at ... More

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench reading as two get a haircut and shave

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench readin...

Date based on years noted on sign at upper right. Illegible notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO

Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...

Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction

The barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The barber shop - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Photograph of a staged scene showing a barber cutting a boys hair. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 41. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and ot... More

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench reading as two get a haircut and shave

Unidentified German soldiers, some in uniform, seated in trench readin...

Date based on years noted on sign at upper right. Illegible notation on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074)

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...

Significance: 517 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875 by plumber Ed. J. Hannan, is an example of 19th century vernacular buildings that combined residential and commercial use. Although the facade of t... More

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

517 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...

Significance: 517 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875 by plumber Ed. J. Hannan, is an example of 19th century vernacular buildings that combined residential and commercial use. Although the facade of t... More