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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A highly decorated barber shop interior, possibly Wellman's, with three barbers and three customers. Two men are about to get shaves. A glass display case,... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The interior of a barbershop with customers in chairs and barbers at work. Numerous mirrors, pictures, and lamps are hanging from the walls and ceiling. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in chairs at an American Transporation Company barber shop while barbers clip and comb their hair. |
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| Description: | Interior of barbershop. Two barbers stand by barber chairs, and one younger man sits on shoe shine stand on the right. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View of a barber in the West Village taking a nap on the fully reclined shop chair, seen through the shop's front window from the street. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a barber shop with barber chairs with men seated on the right side and empty chairs for waiting customers on the left. |
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| Description: | Three barbers standing proudly next to empty barber chairs at Herman's Hotel. |
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| Description: | Rube Guyett and George Mandle with banjos in the Guyett Barber Shop. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View looking down unpaved Main Street, with wagons and carts parked near the curb on the left near a building with a sign for a "Garage." Pedestrians are a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street scene looking east from the corner of the Reeder's Hotel. Men stand near horses and wagons on the left near a sidewalk and storefronts. A small dog ... |
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| Description: | Interior of a barbershop. Two barbers are shaving two men. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two barbers: Elmer Lee (left) and William Goold (right), stand beside their barber's chairs while an unknown male patron sits in one of the chairs. Reflect... |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of a barbershop. Two barbers are standing next to two men, each sitting in a barber's chair. Framed prints and mirrors decorate the walls... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Man posed standing in a barber shop. His barbershop tools and equipment are behind him on a shelf under the two mirrors, in a cabinet on the left, and on t... |
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| Description: | A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis... |
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| Description: | A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis... |
| Date: | 04 1954 |
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| Description: | A barber is shaving a man in Moon's Barber Shop. The man sitting in the chair getting the shave is wearing hip waders. A large mirror is on the wall in the... |
| Date: | 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Barber shaving the head of a man in Moon's Barber Shop. The man getting shaved is holding a cigarette and is wearing hip waders rolled down over his knees.... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on... |
| Date: | 09 08 2014 |
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| Description: | The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair. |
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