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Diego's Hair Salon. Diego's Hair Salon is a hairdressing shop located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.Founded in the 1960s by Italian American Diego D'Ambrosio, the salon has become a neighborhood institution frequented by politicians, religious leaders, diplomats, and Supreme Court Justices.
Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC) When dealing with the salons, historians have traditionally focused upon the role of women within them. [32] Works in the 19th and much of the 20th centuries often focused on the scandals and "petty intrigues" of the salons. [33]
Elizabeth Cardozo Barker was born in Washington, D.C., where she lived until she retired in 1970. [3] She was interviewed for the Black Women Oral History Project along with both of her sisters, Margaret Cardozo Holmes and Catherine Cardozo Lewis. In 1928, she founded, and the three of them later ran together, Cardozo Sisters Hairstylists.
The United States Capitol in the Southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. in July 1939. L'Enfant Plaza was part of the Southwest Washington, D.C. urban renewal project, one of the earliest urban renewal projects in the U.S., and the first such in Washington, D.C. [5] The rapid expansion of the population of Washington, D.C., during World War II led to the extensive construction of suburban ...
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Portrait bust with Roman hairstyle (late first century BC) She first became interested in ancient hairdressing styles in 2001, when she visited the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and saw some statues from the Greek and Roman collections that included busts that could be viewed in the round, from all directions.
Color-enhanced USGS satellite image of Washington, D.C., taken April 26, 2002. The "crosshairs" in the image mark the quadrant divisions of Washington, with the U.S. Capitol at the center of the dividing lines. To the west of the Capitol extends the National Mall, visible as a thin green band in the image. The Northwest quadrant is the largest ...
This retail mercantile business was founded in 1905, as Julius Garfinkle & Co. by Julius Garfinckel (1872–1936), originally employing 10 clerks. The store opened on October 2, 1905, at 1226 F St. NW in Washington, D.C. [3] By August 1924, the spelling of the store name was modified to Julius Garfinckel & Co. [4]