Barber's Tools
Barber's Tools
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- Description
- This barber's kit included a pair of scissors, a manual clipper, straight razors, and a brush. Barbering has long been an independent, respectable way to earn a living. These tools belonged to an itinerant barber in Puerto Rico. In the 1930s and 1940s, la zafra, the sugar harvest, brought younger men, women, and families from the rural highlands and the urban coastal regions together. Itinerant barbers followed the sugar harvest, earning a significant part of their income.
- Description (Spanish)
- Este instrumental de barbero está compuesto por un par de tijeras, un clíper manual, navajas y un cepillo. El oficio de barbero ha constituido por largo tiempo un medio independiente y respetable de ganarse la vida. Este equipo perteneció a un barbero itinerante de Puerto Rico. Durante las décadas de 1930 y 1940 muchos jóvenes y familias de las áreas rurales descendían a las regiones urbanas costeras para trabajar en la zafra. Los barberos seguían a la zafra, lo cual les aseguraba gran parte de sus ingresos.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- barber tools, scissors
- Date made
- early 20th century
- Place Made
- Puerto Rico
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.4 cm x 5.8 cm x 19.6 cm; 3/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 7 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1997.0097.0835.001
- accession number
- 1997.0097
- catalog number
- 1997.0097.0835.001
- Credit Line
- Gift of Teodoro Vidal
- subject
- Puerto Rico
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- Cultural and Community Life: Ethnic
- Cultures & Communities
- Work
- Vidal
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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