Barber's Tools
date: label: Date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: 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, <i>la zafra</i>, 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.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Instrumentos de Barbero
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0835.001
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0835.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barber tools, scissors
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 5.8 cm x 19.6 cm; 3/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 7 11/16 in