Crimping Iron
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1950
label: used date
content: 1920-1970
name: label: described
content: Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hair crimping iron with two-part black wooden handle and wavy crimping end. The metal crimping implement is riveted onto a Y-shaped neck attached to a silver metal ferrule on the black painted wooden handle. Two bent metal plates fit together and come apart to crimp hair inserted between the two plates.
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: African American women
label: Subject
content: Women's History
label: Subject
content: Hair
label: Subject
content: Hairstyling
label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: Subject
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Occupations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0068.04
label: accession number
content: 1997.0068
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0068.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crimping Iron
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: 10 in x 2 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 5.715 cm