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Dressing child in compartment

Dressing child in compartment

Photograph shows interior of sleeping car with a mother sitting on a bed combing a little girl's hair. Copyright 1905 by Geo. I. Nicholson. No. 5357-X.

Mage o naosu yūjo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Mage o naosu yūjo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows a courtesan (an oiran with a paper kerchief in her mouth) fixing her hair as she walks toward the left; probably part of a triptych. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nich... More

Billy's poll-tax; or, King's place all in an uproar!, British Cartoon Print

Billy's poll-tax; or, King's place all in an uproar!, British Cartoon ...

Print shows two bare-breasted women in a boudoir, one appears to have been fixing or powdering the hair of the other who sits before a mirror; a box of hair powder has fallen to the floor spilling its contents;... More

Puck Christmas 1908 / Gordon Grant., Puck magazine cover

Puck Christmas 1908 / Gordon Grant., Puck magazine cover

Illustration shows a young woman sitting at her dressing table, holding up a mirror to admire her hair, as a maid arranges plant sprigs in her hair.

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain  drawing

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain drawing

Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor applying makeup. Title and other descriptive information compi... More

Jane, you spread out her hair on it and cover it up with brown paper

Jane, you spread out her hair on it and cover it up with brown paper

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

"Miss America receives a permanent wave"

"Miss America receives a permanent wave"

Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926, seated, with hair attached to electric permanent wave equipment, with man standing beside her. J285659 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Quaker Photo Service, Phila., PA. N... More

[Young girl fixing her hair, no. 2] / Mary Cassatt.

[Young girl fixing her hair, no. 2] / Mary Cassatt.

Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Inscribed in pencil on bottom: Unique. The only proof taken, plate then destroyed. Printed by the artist. Charles L. Freer Collection. Breeskin, 100 American prints... More

Mage o naosu yūjo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Mage o naosu yūjo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows a courtesan (an oiran with a paper kerchief in her mouth) fixing her hair as she walks toward the left; probably part of a triptych. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nich... More

Myrtle Hazzard / S.S. Frizzell '68 ; drawn by Miss A.R. Sawyer ; lith. C.H. Crosby, Boston.

Myrtle Hazzard / S.S. Frizzell '68 ; drawn by Miss A.R. Sawyer ; lith....

Print shows a young woman, half-length, facing front, cutting her long hair with scissors. Caption continues: She lifted its heavy masses with one hand and severed it with a strong pair of scissors, with remor... More

[The other man spatted down his hair in the light of the little lamp]

[The other man spatted down his hair in the light of the little lamp]

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Left Behind" by Arthur Ruhl, Scribner's magazine, 38:295 (Sept. 1905).

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

Uniformed soldier "New China" cutting off pigtail "long ages of graft" from kneeling Manchu in traditional garb. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Publis... More

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

"A barber is dressing the hair of a woman seated in profile to the right ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Depa... More

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing woman, seated on huge hairdo of another woman, as she works on the hairdo. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Taking out the kinks / F.M. Howarth.

Taking out the kinks / F.M. Howarth.

Illustration shows a series of eight vignettes with an African American woman sitting on a chair, reading a hair-raising "ghost story"; as she gets deeper into the story she becomes frightened and her hair begi... More

Getting his hair banged - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Getting his hair banged - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Man being hit with broom by woman, as he cuts another woman's hair. D8488 U.S. Copyright Office. One of a series of images depicting a man harassing a woman as he cuts her hair. No. 2883-(b). Copyright by R.R. ... More

Getting her hair banged - Public domain dedication image

Getting her hair banged - Public domain dedication image

Man kissing woman as he cuts her hair. D8487 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2832-(a). Copyright by R.R. Whiting. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and cultu... More

Vacuum cleaner. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Vacuum cleaner. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Deb's Dictionary / Oliver Herford. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1931.

Ōkanaya uchi suminoto, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Ōkanaya uchi suminoto, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Suminoto of the Okana-ya, a courtesan, full-length, seated, facing left, with two apprentices combing her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Delilah Randall betrays the democratic Samson / Gillam.

Delilah Randall betrays the democratic Samson / Gillam.

Illustration shows Samuel J. "Delilah" Randall sitting in a chair labeled "Protection", holding scissors labeled "41 Democrats" in one hand and hair labeled "Tariff Reform Bill" in the other, his feet are resti... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Woman combing her hair in ladies' toilet room, tourist sleeper, in railroad car]

[Woman combing her hair in ladies' toilet room, tourist sleeper, in ra...

H60966 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by the George R. Lawrence Co. No. 5368 C. Copyright by George T. Nicholson.

Curl. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Curl. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Deb's Dictionary / Oliver Herford. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1931.

Goyu, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain  drawing

Goyu, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman, possibly a courtesan, arranging her hair in front of a mirror. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series:... More

Nenrei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Nenrei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman sitting by a trunk and a large lantern, putting hairpins in her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the s... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese tattooed "bettoes" (horse grooms), and men and women getting their hair done]

[Studio portraits of Japanese tattooed "bettoes" (horse grooms), and m...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

A barber's shop at Standing Rock, Dakota Territory--an Indian chief having his hair dressed / drawn by William A. Rogers.

A barber's shop at Standing Rock, Dakota Territory--an Indian chief ha...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1879 March 15, p. 205 (bottom). Public domain photograph of North Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph ... More

Outdoor hairdressing parlor. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Outdoor hairdressing parlor. Book illustration from Library of Congres...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Refugee child getting her hair washed at Camp Kalamaria, Salonica, where ARC feeds 11,000 After a public hair cutting, occasionally ordered by ARC nurse in the interests of cleanliness, everybody ostentatiously washes their hair to prevent similar treatment of them.

Refugee child getting her hair washed at Camp Kalamaria, Salonica, whe...

Filed in: Greece Refugees. No. RC-33861. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, and Nettie Oblinger, May 21, 1887
Hopi hair dresser, Arizona, Native American woman portrait

Hopi hair dresser, Arizona, Native American woman portrait

Kneeling Hopi woman combing and arranging hair of young girl. J135255 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Fred Harvey.

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

Uniformed soldier "New China" cutting off pigtail "long ages of graft" from kneeling Manchu in traditional garb. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Publis... More

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain  drawing

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain drawing

Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor applying makeup. Title and other descriptive information compi... More

[Preparing for the first battle], Kiyomasu Torii

[Preparing for the first battle], Kiyomasu Torii

Print shows a young woman arranging a warrior's hair prior to entering a battle. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to Thomas Family, April 12, 1874
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

Young soldier who has just been drafted into the U.S. Army, getting his head shaved by a barber at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina Warren Leffler

Young soldier who has just been drafted into the U.S. Army, getting hi...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 17420, frame 25. On photo instruct... More

New U.S. Army draft recruit getting his hair cut by a barber WKL

New U.S. Army draft recruit getting his hair cut by a barber WKL

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 17428, frame 25A. Contact sheet fo... More

"Miss America receives a permanent wave"

"Miss America receives a permanent wave"

Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926, seated, with hair attached to electric permanent wave equipment, with man standing beside her. J285659 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Quaker Photo Service, Phila., PA. N... More

Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to Thomas Family, April 12, 1874
Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to Thomas Family, April 12, 1874
The hairdresser making a call, Japan

The hairdresser making a call, Japan

H66612 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to Thomas Family, April 12, 1874
Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, and Nettie Oblinger, May 21, 1887
The Post's page of "if's" - Public domain dedication image

The Post's page of "if's" - Public domain dedication image

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

[The coiffure]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[The coiffure]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a woman sitting before a large mirror, putting up her hair.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, and Nettie Oblinger, May 21, 1887
Kamiyui, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Kamiyui, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman combing the hair of another woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fujin tewaza jūniko : Twelve f... More

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, and Nettie Oblinger, May 21, 1887