Photograph of Bonnie Taylor-Williams and Selena Williams with their books
date: label: Date
content: September 14, 2019
name: label: Photograph by
content: Trudy Hutcherson, American
label: Subject of
content: Bonnie Taylor-Williams, American, born 1959
label: Subject of
content: Selena Williams, American, 1925 - 2024
label: Subject of
content: Selena's House of Beauty, American, founded 1956
notes: label: Description
content: A digital image of Selena Williams and her granddaughter Bonnie Taylor-Williams captured in the family business, Selena’s House of Beauty, a hair salon in Chicago, Illinois during an oral history interview. It is held as a TIFF file (.tif). Visible from the waist up and on yellow chairs, Bonnie sits on the left and Selena sits on the right. Bonnie wears a long-sleeved black shirt with two rings on each hand. Selena wears a yellow shirt under a dark, denim jacket that has rhinestones in the area below the collar. Black framed glasses hang from the front of her shirt. Both women hold publications they have written, Bonnie holds “With These Hands: A Country Girl Came to Town” and Selena holds “Hair Weaving Instruction textbook” she co-wrote with Natalie Haskell. In the background are orange salon hair dryer chairs.
place: label: Place captured
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Beauty salons (Beauty shops)
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Photography
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.4.3
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 3271 pixels × 5082 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 95 MB