Barber Gallery

The Coiffing, from The Savoy No. 3, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

The Coiffing, from The Savoy No. 3, 1896. Woman with her hairdresser. Note diagonal line rising from the footstool to the crown on the Virgin Mary's head. Illustration for Beardsley's poem "The Ballad of the Barber", a carefully wrought and chilling little fable concerning a thirteen year old princess and a Sweeney Todd-like coiffeur who slits her throat with the jagged glass of a broken bottle of cologne, and then creeps away "on pointed feet"'. Published in "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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"A close shave" - 317th Supply Train, Belleville, Meuse, Oct

African-American soldiers serving in France during the First World War. One soldier is shaving another soldier's head. One soldier is seated with his right leg crossed over his left leg. His hands are resting on his thigh and he has a cigarette in his mouth. His hat is hanging on a wooden post to his right. The other soldier stands behind. His hands are raised and he is holding the razor blade in this right hand. He is wearing his uniform and hat and is pursing his lips. The Signal Corps USA logo is in the bottom left corner of photograph

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Shaving The Head - Acts xxi 24, c1924. Creators: James Clark, Henry A Harper

Shaving The Head - Acts xxi 24, c1924. Acts 21:24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved'. From "The Pictorial New Testament", by James Clark, R.I., and H.A. Harper. [Scripture Gift Mission and Naval and Military Bible Society, London]

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