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Peerless Hair Dressing Advertising Broadside
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 28 May 2021
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 28 May 2021
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Peerless Beauty Supplies. |
| Title: | Peerless Hair Dressing Advertising Broadside |
| Dates: | 1930s |
| Quantity: | 1 item |
| Abstract: | Advertising broadside, featuring 20 smaller images of Black women's hairstyles |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Peerless Beauty Supplies was located in Richmond, Virginia. Peerless Hair Dressing was a product targeted at Black women. Its purpose was to smooth and relax the hair, replacing the natural look of Black hair with something closer to typical Caucasian hair. Such products reflect the cultural and media pressure on Black men and (especially) women to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards.
The Peerless Hair Dressing Advertising Broadside is a large point-of-sale poster for Peerless Beauty Supplies in Richmond, Virginia, combining black-and-white photographs with dark blue printing. A banner across the top, dark blue with white lettering, reads "Peerless Hair Dressing on sale here" and a dark blue rectangle in the center gives the name and address of the company, noting that it offers "Everything for The Beauty Salon." Below the banner and surrounding the center block are 20 small oval or rectangular head shots of Black women showing different hair styles; a small notation reads: Photos by "The Browns".
Single item.
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Corporate Bodies
Peerless Beauty Supplies.
Subjects
African American women.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
Hair -- Social aspects.
Places
Richmond (Va.)
Genres and Forms
Advertisements.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Peerless Hair Dressing Advertising Broadside,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2021
Printed material
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