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(AVIATION.) LOLA JACKSON, ET AL.
First Negro Flight Squadron.
Press
photograph 8 x 10 inches, with attached press blurb.
Roosevelt Field, New York, 1935
[400/600]
Fine image of the first all Negro Flight Squadron, featuring Lola Jackson “who expects to form an
all-Negro group of women fliers for work as nurses. Also prominent in the image are Leonard Yates,
Archie Smith, Charles Ware, Thomas Mills and other pioneer Negro aviators.
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(BEAUTY)
Large collection of beauty products for the hair.
Consisting of 2
degrees from the Madame Walker School of Beauty, signed by Mae Walker; 30 original tins
from Madame Bettis, Lucky Heart, Mme. Walker, Overton, High Brown, E.F. Young, Snow
White, Valmor, Evergloss, Hi-Beaute, etc. * 2 curling irons, and a straightening hot comb * 73 labels,
one poster, various pieces of ephemera and a number of contemporary magazine advertise-
ments for hair products.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, circa 1920’s to 1950’s
[2,500/3,500]
An exceptional and representative collection of material relating to the care of black hair. Following in
the footsteps of Madame C. J. Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone and her Poro College of Beauty; it
was clear that fortunes could be made from hair and general beauty products for African Americans.
Everything from brilliantine to straightening chemicals brought millions of dollars yearly. The thirty
tins in this collection are only a fraction of the products that were specifically made for the African
American market.
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