Strands of hair belonging to President George Washington were reportedly found during an inventory of Union College's Schaffer Library. Union College It was a hair-raising historical discovery. A ...

George Washington's Hair Found by Librarian in 200-Year-Old Book. ... Adding to the discovery: The strands are George Washington's real hair, not from the wig many think he wore.

And yet Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., says it has made an incredible and, experts believe, real find: a lock of George Washington's hair inside a "long-forgotten book." ...

A lock of George Washington's hair discovered in an old book at Union College's archives lays on a folded piece of paper at the college's Schenectady, N.Y. campus, Feb. 14, 2018.

In Washington’s time, the toughest soldiers in Europe, officers in the Prussian Army, fixed their hair this way. It was called a queue. British officers did it too.

Over 100 institutions in the U.S. claim samples of George Washington's hair. One is the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Hair keepsakes and jewelry once were common mementos and ...

A lock of George Washington’s mane has sold for a hair shy of $40,000. The Founding Father’s delicate strands fetched $39,921.60 in the Leland’s auction, which started at $1,000 and ended ...

A lock of hair from founding father George Washington is set to go up for auction next month and experts believe it could fetch a ... Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 ...

What stories do locks of George Washington's hair in archives and museums have to tell? And what do they say about the cult of Revolutionary War-era relics and patriotic memory? Author Keith ...

The description of the item is straight enough, handwritten with a flourish: “George Washington’s hair - cut from his head in the year 1799.” ...

As a result, Washington’s hair has been the subject of intense fascination, long coveted as a tangible, and once-living, piece of the man who, for many, embodied the United States’ origin story.