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- Inglam Gem Ergo Hair Dryer, circa 2001 -
- circa 2001
- Collections - Artifact
Inglam Gem Ergo Hair Dryer, circa 2001
- A.C. Gilbert Company Hair Dryer with Stand, circa 1950 -
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
A.C. Gilbert Company Hair Dryer with Stand, circa 1950
- Hair Comb, 1820-1840 -
- 1820-1840
- Collections - Artifact
Hair Comb, 1820-1840
- Standing Hair Dryer, circa 1960 - Velma Truant (1928-2021) began her hairstyling career at the Detroit Hudson's department store salon in the late 1940s. When she left Hudson's in 1963 to care for her young daughter, Truant acquired this hair dryer and a matching chair and set up a salon in the basement of her Allen Park, Michigan, home. She served clients there until the early 1980s.
- circa 1960
- Collections - Artifact
Standing Hair Dryer, circa 1960
Velma Truant (1928-2021) began her hairstyling career at the Detroit Hudson's department store salon in the late 1940s. When she left Hudson's in 1963 to care for her young daughter, Truant acquired this hair dryer and a matching chair and set up a salon in the basement of her Allen Park, Michigan, home. She served clients there until the early 1980s.
- Hair Comb, 1890-1910 -
- 1890-1910
- Collections - Artifact
Hair Comb, 1890-1910
- Polar Cub Electric Hair Dryer, circa 1925 -
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
Polar Cub Electric Hair Dryer, circa 1925
- "Sheer" Hair Remover Packaging, 1928-1935 - In the 1910s and 1920s, as new women's fashions revealed more of the legs and underarms, body hair removal rose in popularity. Commercial depilatory creams were advertised for the first time in 1915. Some of these creams contained harmful chemicals; Sheer Pharmacal Corporation manufactured Sheer depilatory cream, which included Mercurochrome, a now-banned antiseptic made with mercury.
- 1928-1935
- Collections - Artifact
"Sheer" Hair Remover Packaging, 1928-1935
In the 1910s and 1920s, as new women's fashions revealed more of the legs and underarms, body hair removal rose in popularity. Commercial depilatory creams were advertised for the first time in 1915. Some of these creams contained harmful chemicals; Sheer Pharmacal Corporation manufactured Sheer depilatory cream, which included Mercurochrome, a now-banned antiseptic made with mercury.
- Kenmore Hair Dryer, 1952-1955 -
- 1952-1955
- Collections - Artifact
Kenmore Hair Dryer, 1952-1955
- Travel Hair Dryer with Case, 1960-1970 -
- 1960-1970
- Collections - Artifact
Travel Hair Dryer with Case, 1960-1970
- Product Label for Mo-Jo Brand Lodestone in Van-Van Brand Oil, 1926-1946 - Valmor Product Company, founded in the mid-1920s, sold beauty products to Black Americans. The company's product packaging was designed by Charles Dawson, a successful Black commercial artist whose illustrations of attractive modern Black Americans contributed to a burgeoning culture of positive Black identity. But the company's legacy is complicated--many of its products pushed a white assimilatory ideal, promising effects like skin lightening.
- 1926-1946
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Mo-Jo Brand Lodestone in Van-Van Brand Oil, 1926-1946
Valmor Product Company, founded in the mid-1920s, sold beauty products to Black Americans. The company's product packaging was designed by Charles Dawson, a successful Black commercial artist whose illustrations of attractive modern Black Americans contributed to a burgeoning culture of positive Black identity. But the company's legacy is complicated--many of its products pushed a white assimilatory ideal, promising effects like skin lightening.