Sujet

Plastic brush with box from Mae's Millinery Shop, 1941-1994. Creator: Gold Tone.

Légende

Plastic brush (a) with translucent orange plastic handle and white plastic teeth. The back of the brush is covered with gold metal with a decorative metal and rhinestone floral detail at the top and a mirror below it. Original paper packaging (b) is gold and black with black text on two long sides that reads "A / Gold Tone / PRODUCT" and black text on the two short openings that reads "BIJOU / COMB & BRUSH / 1922". Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_316

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,8Mo (1,0Mo) / 37,4cm x 31,4cm / 4415 x 3708 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black fashion shopping shop shops country museum color dress location century plastic African American African-American 1940s afro-american hairbrush Forties United States of America Nineties Colour 20th century heritage American America USA 1990s decade object united states Reeves cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art boxes (containers) Mae's Millinery Shop Mae Reeves Mae hairbrushes Gold Tone