Research Catalog

Title

The American barbershop : a closer look at a disappearing place / by Mic Hunter ; foreword by Norman Rosenberg.

Author

Hunter, Mic.

Publication

Mount Horeb, Wis. : Face to Face Books, 1996.

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Details

Description

xii, 176 p. : ill.; 22 x 28 cm.

Summary

• Welcome to a light-hearted, affectionate look at a classic American place: the neighborhood barbershop. Through entertaining photos text, author Mic Hunter explores this fondly-remembered world of familiar smells, strewn hair clippings, and good conversation - a place of being just a "regular guy." For over a decade, Hunter, a widely-published psychologist, has pursued a commitment to document the life of small, gradually-disappearing traditional barbershops around the.
• Country. The photos celebrate the wonders of ordinary places. The stories recall the soothing snip of scissors, the hum of the clippers, the idle talk and banter - all the pleasures of a visit to the neighborly barber.

Subject

• Barbershops > United States > History
• Barbershops > United States > History > Pictorial works
• Barbering > United States > History
• Barbering > United States > History > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. The search for the traditional shop -- ch. 2. The ways of the barbershop -- ch. 3. Through the eyes of a boy -- ch. 4. Of tonics and smells -- ch. 5. Barber chairs -- ch. 6. Barber poles -- ch. 7. My boyhood education continues -- ch. 8. Hair and hairstyles -- ch. 9. On beards and shaving -- ch. 10. A brief history of barbering -- ch. 11. Reasons for the decline in barbershops -- ch. 12. The future of barbershops -- ch. 13. The last day.

ISBN

1883953146 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96006018^

OCLC

• 34192185
• SCSB-11355604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library