A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop, barbing salon or the barber's. Barbershops have
A barber shaping his customer's beard in Ahvaz, Iran, c. 2022
A traditional Hausa barber (Wanzami)
Boiotian Greek painted terracotta figure dating between c. 500 and c. 475 BCE, showing a barber cutting a man's hair, currently in the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
Barber on the Hofämterspiel card game, 15th century
The barber surgeon was one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom con
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…locations of open debates, voicing public concerns, and engaging citizens in discussions about contemporary issues. In previous times, barbers (known as barber surgeons) also performed surgery and dentistry. With the development of safety razors and the decreasing prevalence of beards in Anglophonic cultures, most…
Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work.
Bloodletting set of a barber surgeon, beginning of 19th century, Märkisches Museum Berlin
Master John Banister's Anatomical Tables, with Figures. The paintings comprise a portrait of Banister delivering a visceral lecture at the Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London. c. 1580
Barbers advertised their profession with a pole, a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. This pole belonged to Carl Schulz, father of the famous cartoonist.