American Boys Center Hair Parts: The 20th Century-The 1900s


Figure 1.-- This is an cabinet card portrait sonw with an oval forma.. It is undated, bur the mount suggests the 1900s, perhaps anout 1905. The mount was a little larger than the standard 19th century card 5 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches. The boy is Gustas Harris. He has slicked down hair and a razor sreaight center part. Notice the memorial pin of a man on his lapel. The studio was A.P. Webb & Co. in Youngstown, Ohio.

We notice quite a few boys with center parts in the early-20th century. A good many are undated, but we know from the mount styles or the fact that they were done as postcards that they date to the early-20th century. The center part for boys seems most common un the 1900s. The photographic record suggests yhat this was the decade in which the center part for boys was the most popular. The unidebntified boy who looks to be about 3-years ols here in 1908 is a good example (figure 1). Another good example is an unidentified Chicago boy in 1907. He looks to be about 10-11 years old. We are still working on the precise chronology. We are not sure how common this was in other countries, but we see many American boys at the time with center parts. It was not the most common style, but we do see quite a number of images in the photogrphic record. We see older boys with center parts around the turn-of-the 20th century. Here we note this as a teenage more than a younger boy style. The early-20th century was one of these periods. The age range seems to be about 10-18 years of age, but we are also working on the ages to be more precise about this. And we have found younger examples like the boy on the previous page.here.









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