Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ancient Faces

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Now that's a head full of curls! Natural? Rag curls? Tongs?

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Maria Grazia Giovannelli

Secondo me,sono capelli naturali ben curati. Anche allora usavano espedienti per avere bei capelli lucidi e abboccolati magari con l'uso del ferro o altro mezzo.

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Ticia Barnes

They look shaped to me. It's the largeness at the bottom of the curl.

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Monika Vikingstad Midttveit

Yeah I have had similar natural curls, but not as "curled" all the way through. My aunt use to have natural curls too but they had smaller "loops". These ones looks "made"/shaped.

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Desiree Hanson

Definitely shaped. Very smooth, natural is more rough looking, I have so I know. Either is so beautiful

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Paula Fultz Shank

Interesting, now I'm going to have to Google how they would use the tongs...I can't even imagine how hard that would be

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Lynsey Boswell

Is this the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox?

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Lynsey Boswell

Where have they gone to-the little girls
With natural manners and natural curls;
Who love their dollies and like their toys,
And talk of something besides the boys?

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AncientFaces

Lynsey Boswell The owner didn't say - just a family friend.

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Lynsey Boswell

AncientFaces It looks like her, and she was born in Wisconsin.

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Pat Rowland Carothers

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Evan Smith

Lynsey Boswell definitely natural curls. Mine were the same once!

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Federica Giovannini

Lynsey Boswell what’s funny, she wrote about “natural curls” too!

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Lynsey Boswell

Evan Smith Yes I remember them well X 🙂

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Joan Pasquarelli

Rag ,My mom did our hair with clean old socks

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Ree Young

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Probably, she has naturally curly hair since there are waves very close to the scalp. You wouldn't put heated tongs that close to the skin. I pity her if she had to sleep with rag strips tied that tightly and close to the scalp! T

Those large curls were no doubt created by using rags or tongs to get the big, fat curls.

They were called sausage curls or bologna curls and were popular for women through a lot of the 1800s. Later, in the 1920's and 1930's, you mostly saw those curls on little girls (think Shirley Temple)...curled more tightly than this lady's, but the same style.

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Linda Woody

Curlers and a hair piece. Not uncommon in the 1870s and 1880s to have a wiglet put on the top or back of your natural hair to enhance the effect.

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Julie Friesen

Curlers

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Marilynn Marlow

My guess is a combination of natural and helped....pretty curls

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Moira Harvey

Rag ringlets, but the hair would have to have a natural curl for to hold like that straight hair they would fall out

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Brenda T. Davis

My grandmother used to use rags on my pin straight hair. I always had ringlets

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Caroline StClair

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Beautiful Rag Curls!

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Linda Collins

Rags. I used to set mine that way.

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Susan W. Milam

My grandmother curled my mother’s hair with bamboo sticks. How, I haven’t a clue. But she did have beautiful candy curls as a child.

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Tiina Agur

Rag curls!

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Jeri Paola Di Cosenza

Rag Curls...

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Becky Kelly

Love these old pictures.

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