{"id":16965,"date":"2012-02-13T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2012-02-13T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T01:01:38","slug":"fashionable-folks-hairstyles-1840%e2%80%931900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16965","title":{"rendered":"Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840\u20131900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=545\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16990\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px;\" title=\"Fashionable Folks cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mt01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>Maureen A. Taylor is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11218\" target=\"_blank\">The Photo Detective<\/a>. She is an internationally recognized expert on the intersection of those three passions: history, photography and genealogy. She has written multiple books on the subject of capturing and protecting photographs. Taylor has also written books and articles on the subject of dating old photographs. Here are some of her books we have already reviewed on this site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"..\/?p=16839\">More Dating Old Photographs 1840\u20131929<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16244\" target=\"_blank\">Preserving Your Family Photographs<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"..\/?p=14652\">Capturing Memories<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=545\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840\u20131900<\/em><\/a>, by Taylor,\u00a0 is just another is a great line of useful books for the family historian. According to Taylor, your ancestor\u2019s hair, \u201cwhether straight or curled, clean-shaven or fringed, oiled or bewigged,\u201d can tell you a lot about that person. By reading the clues of clothing and hairstyles in photographs, you can learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>when the photo was taken<\/li>\n<li>how old individuals were at the time<\/li>\n<li>how wealthy they were<\/li>\n<li>even, about their personalities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short or long, curled or coiffed, topknots, buns, braids, sideburn, and burnsides will all tell stories about the subjects of a photograph. Taylor walks the reader through the 19th century, decade by decade, from 1840 on, with photographic examples and descriptions for hairstyles; along with, additional information which can be used in comparing the photographs to your own collection.<\/p>\n<p>The book is also filled with notable quotes from each time period, providing further insight into the fashions of the day. Take these two examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cFrom London to Paris we are given to understand that ladies have taken to a new way of dressing their hair by not dressing it at all. That is to say, instead of the puffing, \u2018banging\u2019 and tousling it has had for years, it is now parted plainly, combed smoothly and confined by a single coil.\u201d The Daily Critic (Washington, D. C.), July 24, 1878.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe mustache may truly be called nature\u2019s respirator.\u201d The Health Reformer, 1870.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Table of Contents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1840\u2013Early 1850s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1850\u20131860<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1860\u20131870<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1870\u20131880<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1880\u20131890<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1890-1900<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=545\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840\u20131900<\/em><\/a> is available from Family Root Publishing; Item #: MT51, Price: $19.55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen A. Taylor is known as The Photo Detective. She is an internationally recognized expert on the intersection of those three passions: history, photography and genealogy. She has written multiple books on the subject of capturing and protecting photographs. Taylor <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16965\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840\u20131900<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,329,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-genealogy-research","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}