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Bunkers Hill or America's head dress

Bunkers Hill or America's head dress

Print shows a half-length portrait of a woman, right profile, with exaggerated coiffure supporting three redoubts with infantry and artillery firing at close range, tents, an artillery train, and a sea battle i... More

Foochau woman - Public domain portrait print

Foochau woman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a Chinese woman from Foochau, full-length portrait, standing, facing right. Title from front of item. Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009) In al... More

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Freeman has been doing hair for about forty years. His clients include Farrah Fawcett, Halston, Debbie Harry, Olympia Dukakis, and Eartha Kitt. His salon is in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small town in the n... More

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia is from Norfolk Virginia, but she moved to New York at age 10. She is the owner of Khamit Kinks, a Brooklyn based salon. After doing hair for 20 years, Anu decided to focus on the administrative a... More

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-24

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait print

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows the head and shoulders of a young woman, facing right. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 43:6 (July 31, 19... More

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait painting

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait painting

Drawing shows the head and shoulders of a young woman, facing right. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 43:6 (July 31, 19... More

One little curl of auburn hair--Words and music by J.H. McNaughton / Clay, Cosack & Co.

One little curl of auburn hair--Words and music by J.H. McNaughton / C...

Sheet music cover showing young woman, seated, three-quarter length, facing left, with her head propped on her right hand, holding lock of hair. Copyright by William A. Pond & Co.

The Hopi maiden, Head and Shoulders Portrait

The Hopi maiden, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Hopi woman, left profile. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beatles press conference, Friday evening, Hotel Warwick, 6th Ave. & W. 54th St. / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson.

Beatles press conference, Friday evening, Hotel Warwick, 6th Ave. & W....

Photograph shows the backs of the Beatles' heads, focusing on their hair, as they are interviewed and photographed. NYWT&S staff photograph. Caption from newspaper: A bird's-eye view of four multi-million-doll... More

The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast.  New and becoming styles of head-dressing.

The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...

Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... 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

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-06

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor...

Shuly Amsel is the owner and operator of Shuly's Wigs. Her business started as a small operation out of her home. Today, Shuly's Wigs are highly sought after. She runs a retail and wholesale operation. Her clie... More

The weaker sex. II - Public domain  drawing

The weaker sex. II - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows four attractive young women observing a diminutive man through a magnifying glass; one woman is about to poke the man with a hat pin.

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 8 / Monsr. [Key] fecit.

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 8 / Monsr. [Key] fecit.

Print shows a dandy on a Philadelphia street accosting a woman wearing a large coat with a large hood covering her hairdo. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:238). Caption: "Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of... More

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More

Iku Kawashita, Steven Landry, Elizabeth Pierotti, Gretzel Stansbury, and Akiko Yoshihara interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-04

Iku Kawashita, Steven Landry, Elizabeth Pierotti, Gretzel Stansbury, a...

Ozuki Salon is a Japanese salon in Washington D.C. The interview was conducted as a group interview with the Ozuki's owners and staff, and then short individual interviews were recorded afterwards. Ozuki offers... More

The weaker sex. II - Public domain portrait drawing

The weaker sex. II - Public domain portrait drawing

Drawing shows four attractive young women observing a diminutive man through a magnifying glass; one woman is about to poke the man with a hat pin.

Louis the interpreter & matador de los Apaches Pasquial, Pimo [i.e., Pima] captain - fond of agriculture.

Louis the interpreter & matador de los Apaches Pasquial, Pimo [i.e., P...

Three-quarter length portraits. Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 123 (bottom) and 126 (top).

Edward S. Curtis - Tewa girls - Drawing. Public domain image.

Edward S. Curtis - Tewa girls - Drawing. Public domain image.

Two Tewa girls standing outside pueblo building. On verso: Tewa girls Moki (Hopi) girls on steps. Curtis no. 684. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ameri... More

[Gobuguoy, Walpi girl, half-length portrait, facing front, hair tied in swirls on sides of head, metal bead and bell choker, printed cotton dress, cotton shawl around shoulders]

[Gobuguoy, Walpi girl, half-length portrait, facing front, hair tied i...

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 700. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-24

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-24

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Pelletier has been a barber in the quaint small town of Georgetown, Massachusetts, for twenty-nine years. She discusses her preference to cut men's hair over working in a beauty salon. She's also discusses the ... More

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait print

A daughter of the south - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows the head and shoulders of a young woman, facing right. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 43:6 (July 31, 19... More

The jury disagrees - Public domain print

The jury disagrees - Public domain print

Drawing shows a fashionably dressed young woman walking past a group of six women and six men; the women all look upon her disapprovingly, while the expressions of the men show that they disagree with their wiv... More

Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 1776 / Matting(?) D(?) del., British Cartoon Print

Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 177...

Cartoon shows Sullivan's Island, portrayed as a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman who looks like William Pitt, right profile, with large hairdo meant to conceal fortifications, cannons, and several battle ... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 8 / Monsr. [Key] fecit.

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 8 / Monsr. [Key] fecit.

Print shows a dandy on a Philadelphia street accosting a woman wearing a large coat with a large hood covering her hairdo. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:238). Caption: "Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of... More

Oh heigh oh--Or a view of the back settlements

Oh heigh oh--Or a view of the back settlements

Rear view of woman with large, elaborate hairstyle. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Hair, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Sarat... More

Headdress, Canton woman - Public domain portrait print

Headdress, Canton woman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a Chinese woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding umbrella. Title from back of item. Caption written on front of item misidentifies image as " Coolie". Caption on back conti... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More

Edward S. Curtis - On the housetop--Hopi

Edward S. Curtis - On the housetop--Hopi

Photo shows women seated and standing on pueblo buildings. H87185 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from caption card and item. Curtis no. 1974-06. On verso: Hopi life. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Li... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Beautys lot - Public domain portrait engraving

Beautys lot - Public domain portrait engraving

Head-and-shoulders skeleton of a woman with a large, elaborate hairstyle. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Hair, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Sk... More

Edward S. Curtis - Hopi virgin, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Edward S. Curtis - Hopi virgin, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Hopi woman, facing front. Title transcribed from item. LC no. 7. Copyright by Edward Sheriff Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - A Tewa girl - Public domain portrait print

Edward S. Curtis - A Tewa girl - Public domain portrait print

A Tewa girl, half-length portrait, facing front, hair arranged in "squash blossom" fashion. H87181 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1970-06. Published in: The North American Indian... More

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

The interview took place at Jeff Hafler's dining room table. Hafler discusses his hair styling career, starting in Ohio, learning on Black hair and then building his own business in Los Angeles, where he develo... More

A hint for the horticultural society. Great show of "chignons." Medal awarded to the finest grown specimen

A hint for the horticultural society. Great show of "chignons." Medal ...

Cartoon showing a group of gentlemen, examining the hairstyles of participants in a chignon competition. Inscribed above image: Chignon unnaturelle pastrubfranes, chignon vulgaris, chignon dressairia, chignon c... More

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

This is one of the official coiffures created and approved by the Exhibit Committee of the Hairdressers Show and Convention ... / Joseph Capilgine.

This is one of the official coiffures created and approved by the Exhi...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of woman, facing left, modelling hairstyle for Convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, Oct. 14-18, 1934. J15618 U.S. Copyright Office.

All-American news. 1944-11, no. 2

All-American news. 1944-11, no. 2

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-24

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez is from Pakistan. He discusses being trained as an engineer and becoming a hairdresser in the United States. He talks about the difference of Indian hair compared to European hair and how Indian ... More

Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 1776 / Matting(?) D(?) del., British Cartoon Print

Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 177...

Cartoon shows Sullivan's Island, portrayed as a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman who looks like William Pitt, right profile, with large hairdo meant to conceal fortifications, cannons, and several battle ... More

Cynthia, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Cynthia, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of young woman, right profile, with upswept hair and ribbon. No copyright renewal.

Just to be conspicuous / Nels. Greene '14.

Just to be conspicuous / Nels. Greene '14.

Illustration shows a group of women colorfully dressed and with their hair in the latest fashions, and a couple who distinguishes themselves by their black and white clothing and conventional hairstyle. Captio... More

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail has a home salon in upstate New York. She has been doing hair for over fifty years. She has a bubbly personality and loves to talk. She is still working at almost seventy-years-old. Most of her clients are... More

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis was named "Best Colorist" by Philadelphia Magazine. Much of the interview addresses the techniques and issues of coloring all types of hair. He also talks about the importance of being a responsible... More

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Female curiosity - Public domain  engraving

Female curiosity - Public domain engraving

Cartoon showing a woman in her bedchamber with her maidservant; the woman, with her nightdress hiked up above her waist, braces herself against the bed with one knee while adjusting an enormous wig over her bar... More

The Englishman in Paris, British Cartoon Print

The Englishman in Paris, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an Englishman, only recently arrived, still wearing his hat, standing just inside the entrance of the home of a Frenchman at dinner time. He is eating the goose which he has taken off the serving pl... More

Rose Warrington plumbeotype from life, engraving, Library of Congress

Rose Warrington plumbeotype from life, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Rose Warrington, half-length portrait, seated, facing left with right hand on chin and holding a feather fan in her left hand on her lap, in elaborate oval portrait frame. Printed below portrait fr... More

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck has been doing hair for thirty-two years. She talks about how she started and the role her customers play in her life. She discusses her organizing and timing strategies for doing chemical treatment... More

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

The interview took place at Jeff Hafler's dining room table. Hafler discusses his hair styling career, starting in Ohio, learning on Black hair and then building his own business in Los Angeles, where he develo... More

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rina Monarca is a Sicilian woman who has been doing hair for about thirty-five years and works with a primarily Black clientele. In this interview, she discusses how to work with different hair textures; workin... More

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis was named "Best Colorist" by Philadelphia Magazine. Much of the interview addresses the techniques and issues of coloring all types of hair. He also talks about the importance of being a responsible... More

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Freeman has been doing hair for about forty years. His clients include Farrah Fawcett, Halston, Debbie Harry, Olympia Dukakis, and Eartha Kitt. His salon is in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small town in the n... More

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail has a home salon in upstate New York. She has been doing hair for over fifty years. She has a bubbly personality and loves to talk. She is still working at almost seventy-years-old. Most of her clients are... More

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-02

Steve Davis was named "Best Colorist" by Philadelphia Magazine. Much of the interview addresses the techniques and issues of coloring all types of hair. He also talks about the importance of being a responsible... More

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck has been doing hair for thirty-two years. She talks about how she started and the role her customers play in her life. She discusses her organizing and timing strategies for doing chemical treatment... More

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-06

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor...

Shuly Amsel is the owner and operator of Shuly's Wigs. Her business started as a small operation out of her home. Today, Shuly's Wigs are highly sought after. She runs a retail and wholesale operation. Her clie... More

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez is from Pakistan. He discusses being trained as an engineer and becoming a hairdresser in the United States. He talks about the difference of Indian hair compared to European hair and how Indian ... More

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck has been doing hair for thirty-two years. She talks about how she started and the role her customers play in her life. She discusses her organizing and timing strategies for doing chemical treatment... More

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Pelletier has been a barber in the quaint small town of Georgetown, Massachusetts, for twenty-nine years. She discusses her preference to cut men's hair over working in a beauty salon. She's also discusses the ... More

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail has a home salon in upstate New York. She has been doing hair for over fifty years. She has a bubbly personality and loves to talk. She is still working at almost seventy-years-old. Most of her clients are... More

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-06

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor...

Shuly Amsel is the owner and operator of Shuly's Wigs. Her business started as a small operation out of her home. Today, Shuly's Wigs are highly sought after. She runs a retail and wholesale operation. Her clie... 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

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Freeman has been doing hair for about forty years. His clients include Farrah Fawcett, Halston, Debbie Harry, Olympia Dukakis, and Eartha Kitt. His salon is in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small town in the n... More

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-05-28

Terri Shuck has been doing hair for thirty-two years. She talks about how she started and the role her customers play in her life. She discusses her organizing and timing strategies for doing chemical treatment... More

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

Jeff Hafler interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-07-26

The interview took place at Jeff Hafler's dining room table. Hafler discusses his hair styling career, starting in Ohio, learning on Black hair and then building his own business in Los Angeles, where he develo... More

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Freeman has been doing hair for about forty years. His clients include Farrah Fawcett, Halston, Debbie Harry, Olympia Dukakis, and Eartha Kitt. His salon is in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small town in the n... More

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Pelletier has been a barber in the quaint small town of Georgetown, Massachusetts, for twenty-nine years. She discusses her preference to cut men's hair over working in a beauty salon. She's also discusses the ... More

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia is from Norfolk Virginia, but she moved to New York at age 10. She is the owner of Khamit Kinks, a Brooklyn based salon. After doing hair for 20 years, Anu decided to focus on the administrative a... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail has a home salon in upstate New York. She has been doing hair for over fifty years. She has a bubbly personality and loves to talk. She is still working at almost seventy-years-old. Most of her clients are... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Lawrence Freeman interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-15

Freeman has been doing hair for about forty years. His clients include Farrah Fawcett, Halston, Debbie Harry, Olympia Dukakis, and Eartha Kitt. His salon is in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small town in the n... More

[Chinese women's hairstyles and faces; also shows sketch of a bound foot]

[Chinese women's hairstyles and faces; also shows sketch of a bound fo...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 62. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Karen Pelletier interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-21

Pelletier has been a barber in the quaint small town of Georgetown, Massachusetts, for twenty-nine years. She discusses her preference to cut men's hair over working in a beauty salon. She's also discusses the ... More

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia is from Norfolk Virginia, but she moved to New York at age 10. She is the owner of Khamit Kinks, a Brooklyn based salon. After doing hair for 20 years, Anu decided to focus on the administrative a... More

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Carl Bradley Legg interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-29

Brad Legg's home salon is located in the Appalachian hills of Rainelle, West Virginia. Brad talks about his family of coal miners; his history of styling hair; his regular customers and how he was able to build... More

Iku Kawashita, Steven Landry, Elizabeth Pierotti, Gretzel Stansbury, and Akiko Yoshihara interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-04

Iku Kawashita, Steven Landry, Elizabeth Pierotti, Gretzel Stansbury, a...

Ozuki Salon is a Japanese salon in Washington D.C. The interview was conducted as a group interview with the Ozuki's owners and staff, and then short individual interviews were recorded afterwards. Ozuki offers... More

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-24

Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...

Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-06

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor...

Shuly Amsel is the owner and operator of Shuly's Wigs. Her business started as a small operation out of her home. Today, Shuly's Wigs are highly sought after. She runs a retail and wholesale operation. Her clie... More

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07

Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rina Monarca is a Sicilian woman who has been doing hair for about thirty-five years and works with a primarily Black clientele. In this interview, she discusses how to work with different hair textures; workin... More

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-06

Shuly Amsel and Minky Wellinger interviews conducted by Candacy Taylor...

Shuly Amsel is the owner and operator of Shuly's Wigs. Her business started as a small operation out of her home. Today, Shuly's Wigs are highly sought after. She runs a retail and wholesale operation. Her clie... More

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-05

Anu Prestonia is from Norfolk Virginia, but she moved to New York at age 10. She is the owner of Khamit Kinks, a Brooklyn based salon. After doing hair for 20 years, Anu decided to focus on the administrative a... More

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail Bruno interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-13

Gail has a home salon in upstate New York. She has been doing hair for over fifty years. She has a bubbly personality and loves to talk. She is still working at almost seventy-years-old. Most of her clients are... More

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez is from Pakistan. He discusses being trained as an engineer and becoming a hairdresser in the United States. He talks about the difference of Indian hair compared to European hair and how Indian ... More

Golden gate shaving portrait H.M. Henderson, Prop

Golden gate shaving portrait H.M. Henderson, Prop

15312 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation ... More

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10

Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rosaria Monarca interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2013-01-20

Rina Monarca is a Sicilian woman who has been doing hair for about thirty-five years and works with a primarily Black clientele. In this interview, she discusses how to work with different hair textures; workin... More

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