South Mall Turkish Baths in Cork:
inside the shampooing room

The shampooing room
< Original photo copied through glassed frame courtesy of Michelle McCarthy

This image, dating from the opening of the baths, shows the shampooer and bather with, one may surmise, the managing director, Alf Jacobs, putting in a proprietorial appearance for the photographer. A needle shower is on the extreme right of the picture.

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Michelle McCarthy, proprietor of Jacobs on the Mall, for permission to copy her historic photo

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