Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
Not all Albany County history falls into a specific category; a wide assortment of additional topics are covered on these pages.
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The crowning glory of Victorian womanhood; Or was long hair a huge time-waster instead?
Until the decade from 1910 to 1920, it was unthinkable that American women would wear their hair cut short. Nor was it at all proper for women to go out in public without wearing a hat. Styles in millinery accommodated whatever the hair styles dictated.