© Getty Images

1918 -

A man receives a haircut and shave from a barber wearing a mask during the 1918 flu pandemic. This is a scene familiar to millions as the world deals with the latest global health scare.

© Getty Images 

1920 -

The plush interior of Mayfair Barber Shop—in its time one of the most luxurious barber shops in America—was located in a remodeled theater in New York City.

© Getty Images 

1930 -

No, not a Spanish conquistador's helmet. This is what cutting edge hairdryer design looked like in the 1930s.

© Getty Images 

1964 -

Legendary English fashion designer Mary Quant having her hair cut and styled by equally famous hairdresser Vidal Sassoon in his trademark bob cut style at his London salon.

© Getty Images 

1933 -

A barbershop in China, around 1933. Doesn't the guy sitting on the left look like he's checking emails on a smart phone?

© Getty Images 

1990 -

A child gets a close shave at a Harlem barbershop while his dad, reflected in a mirror, looks on.

© Getty Images 

1890 -

Members of the Commonweal of Christ await their turn at an outdoor barbershop. Also known as Coxey's Army, this was a group of unemployed men who were organized by reformer Jacob S. "General" Coxey to protest the high unemployment rate in the United States during the 1890s.

© Getty Images 

1936 -

A young boy getting a haircut at a community barbershop at a migrant camp in Kern County, California. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange, who was documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration.

© Getty Images 

1930 -

An enterprising young beauty specialist is pictured trimming a customer's hair in a suburb of London. The sign reads: "Stop Me! Roadside Beauty Service."

© Getty Images 

1955 -

A young lad sits astride a hobbyhorse barber's chair while he gets a trim.

© Getty Images 

1932 -

A quartet of ladies take advantage of a manicure service while their hair is styled in rollers.

© Getty Images 

1880 -

A typical barbershop of the 1880s. Facilities were sparse and basic. But at least the dog has a chair to sit on!

© Getty Images 

1900 -

A barber plying his trade in the streets of Samarkand, now in modern day Uzbekistan but until 1924 part of the Russian Empire.

© Getty Images 

1944 -

A barber shaves the head of a woman accused of being a Nazi collaborator surrounded by armed members of the Free French Resistance. Women suspected of enemy association were often publicly humiliated in this manner. 

© Getty Images 

1955 -

A barbershop becomes a stage for a fashion shoot as a young woman models leggings and a silver checked wrap, accessorized with a brooch, gloves, and scarlet hat.

© Getty Images 

1957 -

A member of the Swiss Guard takes time off for a haircut at the Vatican barbershop.

© Getty Images 

1995 -

A young woman having her hair cut and styled into a finger-wave design at a hairdressing salon in Dalston, East London.

© Getty Images 

c. 1930s -

A mobile shave and haircut service is offered using bike and sidecar in this ingenious marketing ploy.

© Getty Images 

1986 -

A hairdresser busy cutting a client's hair in a makeshift barbershop located in a courtyard in Old Havana, Cuba.

© Getty Images 

1942 -

Business is so brisk here that customers have elected to have their hair trimmed outside the salon before getting it cut properly inside.

© Getty Images 

1908 -

A street barber at Bhamo in what was then Burma. Bhamo is 104 km (65 mi) miles west of the border with the Chinese province of Yunnan.

© Getty Images 

1950 -

A simple roadside hairdressing salon located near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The barber has used a box to raise the height of the chair for his young client.

© Getty Images 

1968 -

Carrie White, known as the "First Lady of Hairdressing" and who has cut and styled the hair of numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Sandra Bullock, and Brad Pitt, pictured early on in her career putting rollers in a client's hair at her salon in Los Angeles.

© Getty Images 

Mid-1960s -

German actress Dagmar Hank with her personal hairdresser and assistants in a mock hair-cutting session in Munich, Germany.

© Getty Images 

1935 -

The stylish hairdressers' room of the Hotel Cobianchi, located at the Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy.

© Getty Images 

1868 -

A client grips his knee as a barber tugs a little too hard on his hair.

© Getty Images 

1922 -

An upscale barbershop in the United States. The customer could expect waiter-served tea and cake, and the services of a manicurist.

© Getty Images 

1988 -

Cutting hair on a Kabul, Afghanistan sidewalk. In May 1988, the withdrawal began of an estimated 115,000 Soviet troops who had entered Afghanistan in December 1979 to prop up a faltering Communist regime.

© Getty Images 

1976 -

A model getting the hair on the side of her head put into little curlers by a male hairstylist after being cut.

See also: Dramatic celebrity hair transformations.

© Getty Images