A large black silk bow was placed in his hair. When the wax figure of young George Washington was finished, his long chestnut hair was pulled back into a queue (we would call it a ponytail). She consulted portraits of Washington to make sure the shape of his hairline was right. Sue Day, an artist, used a needle-like tool to place one human hair at a time directly into the wax head. (Real people sell their hair to them.) The cost was about $300.00 for the hair used on the figure of Washington at 19. Once the experts knew Washington’s hair color, they ordered human hair from a “hair merchant” in London, England. Sometimes this color is described as “chestnut.” (Sometimes even strangers would ask Washington for a lock of his hair to keep as a token of their respect for him.)Ĭan you guess what color Washington’s hair was when he was 19 years old? His natural hair was reddish brown (it wasn’t really red, and it wasn’t really brown-it was in between). Why? Because in the 18th century it was common to keep small locks of hair that belonged to someone you loved or admired. Many locks of his hair still exist today. They looked at George Washington’s real hair. The experts didn’t have to guess what color his hair was. To make sure the wax figures would look like the real George Washington, the hair they used must be the right color. Their goal was to create three wax figures that show him at the ages of 19, 45 and 57 years old.
They gathered a group of experts to do a forensic study of George Washington. What did George Washington look like when he was a young man? The leadership of Mount Vernon, Washington’s home, decided to find out. He certainly wasn’t born with white hair and dentures! This image is so familiar we sometimes forget that Washington wasn’t always a 64-year-old man.
And it’s no wonder since 9 billion dollar bills are in circulation at all times. When you hear the name George Washington, what comes to mind? If you are like most people, you think about his image on the one dollar bill.
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