Hairdresser Collection

Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012), British hairdresser, renowned for created the sharp, geometric wedge cuts during the 1960s. Date: 1966

Man prepares his hair ready for his wedding day - Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1908

Dressing Fante Ladys hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast, Africa
Dressing a Fanti (Fante) Ladys hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast, West Africa (modern Ghana). Date: circa 1910s

Jalan Kesawan, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
Jalan Kesawan (street) in Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Date: circa 1920s

Gwendoline Dyer hair salon, offering permanent waving. Date: circa 1920s

China - A Chinese Barber, preparing a long pigtail
China - A Chinese Barber, preparing a traditional long pigtail Date: circa 1910s

Electric Permanent Waving Machine 1928
A permanent electric waving machine, medusa, Serpents, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Barber shop, Scunthorpe
A traditional gents barber trims a customer while another one waits his turn in a barbers shop, Scunthorope, Lincolnshire. First published in The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Barber Shop early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

La Coupe Au Roi De Thule
A comical illustration showing a scene in which a king sits in a barber's chair holding his sceptre in one hand, the hairdresser is styling what little hair he has left

Emile Advertisement
An advertisement for Emile, a leading ladies hairdresser salon in London, the image portrays the transformation of an attractive young woman, having had the Ultima treatment. Date: circa 1922

Advert for Emile Coiffure hairdressing. A Mayfair hairdresser which you could book appointments for in the private salon. Date: 1925

Advert for Emile, offering an expert Court coiffure service, including the attachment of veils and feathers. Date: 1932

At the Barber - hirsute monkeys popping in for a trim... Date: 1905

Nyankhre false door stela. Egypt
Nyankhre false door stela. 2450 BC. Limestone's small false door from the mastaba of the hairdresser's superintendent of the Palace Niankhre

A French barber puts his male client's hair into curling papers Date: 1840

Comic postcard, Sale of wrong product - customer and barber Date: 20th century

c. 1880s Japan - barbers at work
c.1880s Japan - barbers at work

High Street, Hastings, Sussex, showing the Hastings and East Sussex Building Society, a chemist s, a hairdresser s, and a cafe boasting French Coffee. Date: circa 1930s

Town centre of Dieppe, France
The town centre of Dieppe, Normandy, France, with pedestrians and cyclists, and the Cafe des Tribunaux in the background. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Man at the barbers Date: 20th century

Fox hunting gentleman riding out with boys on ponies
Fox hunting gentleman Mr. Jug Boyston riding out with boys on ponies, 19th century. The Jug and his juvenile field. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith

Young Indian woman with gazelle, 18th century
Young bare-breasted Indian woman in transparent dress and veil pulling down branches toward a young gazelle. Giovanetta indiana. From an Indian miniature

Campanile of St Michel Church, Paris, France. Date: 1900s

Advert, C Bond & Son, Hair designers and Hairdressers
Advert, C Bond & Son, Artistic Hair Designers and Court Hairdressers, New Bond Street, London. 1897

Titus hairstyles and cache-folie wigs
Two women at the hairdressers receiving the short haircut called the Titus (after the Roman emperor), while a stylist holds up a cache-folie wig

A woman is pampered by her staff
A woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly

Hairdresser on stilts pulling a womans hair to the ceiling
One must suffer for beauty. A hairdresser on stilts pulls a womans hair to the ceiling in the Chinese style. The hairstyle a la Chinoise is definitely a major makeover

Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio

Golborne Road, North Kensington, SW London, with shop premises including Olsons grocers and Golborne haircutters. Date: circa 1905

Humours of West Indian Life, At the Barber s. 1892

Anxious to Please - Le Desir De Plaire. 1743

Swahili women, Zanzibar island, Tanzania, East Africa
Two Swahili women of Zanzibar island, Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. One is helping the other with her hair. Date: 1922

Venetian hairdresser at work. early 17th century

At the hairdressers - People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1960s

Fleet Street - 1930s
A rich gentleman crosses Fleet Street outside Prince Henrys Room, one of the few timber- framed buildings (dating from the 1600s) still in existence in London Date: 1930s

TOILET / HAIR / HAIRDRESSERS
The up-to-date hairdresser employs high technology to groom her clients Date: 1923

A barber prepares a client for a shave in Kowloon, Hong Kong
A barber prepares a client for a shave in the Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong Date: 1984

A barber squats in the street in Chandni Chouk, Old Delhi, and cuts the hair of a male customer. The barber uses a cut-thoat razor to trim beind the mans ears. Date: 1990

Hairdressing in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1930s

H P Truefitt Ltd, hairdressers, Old Bond Street, London W
Interior, Ladies Saloon, H P Truefitt Ltd, hairdressers, 13 and 14 Old Bond Street, London W. circa 1910

Woman sitting at a mirror while her hairdresser combs her hair.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide, John Browne, Bath, 1807

Trainee Hairdresser
A male hairdresser learning to cut hair on a very realistic mannequin. Date: early 1930s

Vegetable hair stylist, London -- grass and flowers. Date: 1960s

Barber Shop Montmartre
Scene inside Maison Lespes, a gentlemens hairdressers at 21 Boulevard Montmartre, Paris. Date: 1909

Vidal Sassoon - British hairdresser
Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012), British hairdresser, businessman and philanthropist, is credited with creating the wedge bob. Date: 1966

Male Hairdresser
A male hairdresser cutting a young womans hair. Date: early 1930s

Ian Botham, cricketer, at end of charity walk
Ian Botham, cricketer, relaxing after completing a walk from John o Groats to Lands End in November 1985, which raised 750, 000 for charity

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