Straightening Comb
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1970
label: used date
content: 1920-1970
name: label: described
content: Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hair straightening comb. Heavy metal fine-tooth comb with metal neck and pink wooden handle.
label: Description
content: Marjorie Joyner, an African American hair stylist, inventor, and protégé of Madame C. J. Walker, used this crimping iron in her beauty salon in Chicago, Illinois from the 1920s to the 1970s. Joyner represented Madame C. J. Walker hair care products, serving as national supervisor of Walker Beauty Schools. In 1945, Joyner became one of the cofounders of the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association-making it possible for thousands of individuals to launch careers in the beauty business. She received a patent for her permanent-wave machine on November 27, 1928 (See U.S. Patent 1,693,515A).
place: label: used
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: Subject
content: African American
label: Subject
content: African American women
label: Subject
content: Women's History
label: Subject
content: Hair
label: Subject
content: Hairstyling
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Occupations
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Marjorie Joyner and Barbara J. Powell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0068.10
label: accession number
content: 1997.0068
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0068.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Straightening Comb
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 1 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 4.445 cm