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Palace Beauty Shop

Date: 10 20 1933
Description: Hair stylists working on customers' hair at the Palace Beauty Shop, 531 State Street.
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Palace Beauty Shop

Date: 10 20 1933
Description: Advertisement for the Palace Beauty Shop, 531 State Street, with a view of beauty operators working with three customers, and the banner: "We make loveline...
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Duncan Beauty School

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Interior of the Duncan Academy of Hair and Beauty Culture School, located at 23 South Pinckney Street. Students are working with customers in hair styling ...
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Raquel Torres at Bastick Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres has her hair dressed by Rose Bastick at Bastick Beauty Shop, 18 E. Mifflin Street.
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Raquel Torres Visits Grace Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres gets a facial from Ida Osthoff, manager of Grace Beauty Shop 132 State Street, while Josephine Armbrecht, beauty operator, gives her ...
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Reri at Grace Beauty Shop

Date: 07 22 1932
Description: Ida Osthoff, manager of the Grace Beauty Shop, 130 State Street, does a manicure, and Pearl Holman gives a finger wave to Reri (Anne Chevalier). Chevalier ...
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Hair Style Show

Date: 01 25 1932
Description: Group portrait of six women sitting in chairs, modeling hair styles at the Cardinal Beauty Shop, 625 State Street.
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Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Beauty operators work on customers in booths while another woman waits in the Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe, 2039 Winnebago Street. Moved to 1917 Winnebago S...
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Facial Massage

Date: 08 13 1930
Description: A male beauty operator is giving a woman a facial massage in the Baron Brothers Department Store Beauty Shop/"Bobber" Shop.
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Betsy Johnson Getting Permanent Wave

Date: 03 17 1932
Description: Mrs. Betsy Johnson (84-years-old) getting a permanent wave in the Elite Beauty Shop, 27 East Main Street, from her granddaughter Pearl Holman.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 04 1949
Description: The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Ms. Clara Effinger, 842 Spaig...
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Beautician Working with Oakwood Resident

Date: 02 24 1953
Description: A resident of the Oakwood Lutheran Nursing Home is given a permanent by an apprentice in the Madison Vocational and Adult School cosmetology program.
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Beauty College

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Description: A hairdresser is standing behind a customer, who reacts to her new hairdo.
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair.
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair. In the background is a female stylist.
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair.
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair.
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Betty Meier, Hairdressing

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Colonists Play 'Find the Freight'; a Beauty Shop." Original caption reads: "At the right is Betty Meier, 18, of Dulu...

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