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Miss Mary Barnes and the Hat

Date: 01 09 1963
Description: Mary Barnes, wearing a mink stole and pearls, modeling her outrageous hat. It is wired to light 10 street lights that are arranged around the brim.
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Girls with Braids

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Description: A line of girls, all with their hair in braids, stand with their backs to the camera.
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Woman Wearing Hat and Veil

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of woman wearing a large hat with veil.
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Coonskin Haircut

Date: 1955
Description: Composite photograph of a boy and his barber. The front view shows the boy holding a coonskin cap popularized at the time by the Davy Crockett television p...
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Woman Wearing Easter Hat

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a smiling woman wearing a large hat decorated with artificial Easter bunnies, a live duck, and artificial Easter basket grass.
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Moss-haired Girl

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Description: Woman coiffed as a "moss-haired girl" or a "Circassian beauty." A literary tradition exists for the Circassian beauties, but in the United States they achi...

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