Salon Shop Sign
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1970
label: used date
content: 1920-1970
name: label: described
content: Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
label: maker
content: American Art Works
notes: label: Description
content: Metal sign with orange ground, black border, and black lettering with white outlines that reads: "AUTHORIZED AGENT Mme. C. J. Walker's SYSTEM AND PREPARATIONS"
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).
label: Description
content: Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker (1867–1919), known professionally as Madam C. J. Walker, was born to parents who were once enslaved. She started life as a farm laborer and laundress, but became a pioneer of the modern African American hair care and cosmetics industry. Seeking to remedy her own hair loss, she invented a system of hair and scalp hygiene and treatment. She incorporated her company in 1911, and it grew into a successful international business that made her a millionaire. An innovator, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist, Walker once advised, "Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come . . . get up and make them!"
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio
label: used
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: used
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
label: Subject
content: Blacks
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0068.12
label: accession number
content: 1997.0068
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0068.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sign, Shop
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 17 in; 25.4 cm x 43.18 cm