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Abdullah frères
Street Barbers, Istanbul
1870 (ca)
Albumen print
Private collection of Engin Ozendes
LL/103245
On shady street corners or beneath a spreading plane tree itinerant barbers plied their trade, mainly in the commercial quarters of the city. As well as making swift and skilled work of trimming beards, many of them extracted teeth and performed circumcisions, and some were even famous for preparing headache cures.
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