# @mdhistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CCG2yx6li-U
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75984259-mdhistory-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/734a9f4f32.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-07-01T17:02:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

## Caption

Salons and barber shops are reopening, but during quarantine, home haircuts were the norm. Jesse Gardner from Towson was pleasantly surprised by his wife's clippers skills. "She watched a video about giving haircuts and joked that she should wear a black leather bodysuit like the stylist in the film. We laughed for the first time in days. She went to work on my head. When she finished, I had to admit it looked pretty good."

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Submit your own letter to our Collecting in Quarantine initiative at lettersfromthehomefront@mdhs.org.

Image: Group portrait. Unidentified man and young boys getting their haircut in barber shop, photograph by Paul S. Henderson, circa 1949, HEN.00.B2-266. Paul Henderson Photograph Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.

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