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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0419
CATEGORY   Services, Personal
SUBCATEGORY   Barber shop
TITLE   Unidentified barber shop
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified barber shop located in Corpus Christi, Texas. Two barbers and a female manicurist stand in a room containing two Theo. A. Koch barber chairs, a sink, and a shoeshine chair. The barber at right is cutting a customer's hair using an electric razor. The wall behind the barbers is lined with a large mirror and a shelf holding haircare products and talc. The barbers' licenses hang from the mirror frame. Note the "Perfect Hair Dressing by Koken" sign hanging at right. The manicurist also appears in the negative of the Gladys Knight Beauty Shop (976:0021:0428).
SUBJECT   Barbers. (lcsh)
Barbershops. (lctgm)
Consumers. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Women. (lcsh)