Here's Hair from Turn of the Century
Raleigh, NC - 1880sEnglewood, NJ - 1890s
Newark, NJ - 1890s 
Rev. Mrs. J.H. Vigal - Buffalo, NY (no date)
New York, NY (no date)
Mug Shot of Bertha Farnsworth by New Orleans Police Dept. - December 31, 1908...Occupation: Wash Woman; Criminal Occupation: Suspicious PersonThese photos are from the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs & Prints Division - New York, NY.
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Ms. Raleigh appears to be wearing her natural hair, parted, & brushed down with little or very little grease.
Ms. Englewood has some sort of upward twists. It appears she used some sort of pomade to keep it pressed together.
Ms. Newark looks like she is sporting an afro or is the hair plaited in some sort of way?
The Rev. Mrs. Vigal has parted hair with some sort of upsweep on the sides that are pinned up.
Ms. New York has some puff going in in the front & the rest is brushed back.
& finally Ms. Farnworth has straightened hair. I wonder if she went to Madame CJ Walker's peeps or is that a wig (probably not, I don't think to many sisters wore wigs back in the early 1900s.
Posted by Karen Halliburton at 8/4/2012 10:44 PM 
Categories: Texture, black hair, Black woman, wig, natural hair, afro, hair pomade
Tags: vintage hair hair turn of century Schomberg black hair natural hair politics of black hair
Categories: Texture, black hair, Black woman, wig, natural hair, afro, hair pomade
Tags: vintage hair hair turn of century Schomberg black hair natural hair politics of black hair
love the second picture, her hair is very elegant.
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