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Styles By Billblack barber pole, Hampton Village, Missouri. Photo by John Margolies, 1991. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.04742

Shave and a Haircut: The Blog

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The barber pole is an internationally recognized symbol of the barbering trade. In my latest Flickr album, Shave and a Haircut, you will see a small selection of images of barber poles from the Prints and Photographs Division. The collections hold many more photos than I could use in the album.

This is the kind of barber pole that I remember from my youth:

Barber pole (manufactured by the Marvy Company), Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo by John Margolies, 1984. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01748