Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BUSINESS.) Partly Printed Lelia College diploma, accomplished in manuscript for Annie Ware, having completed the course work for teaching Mme. C. J. Walker's Method of Coloring Hair, 16x11 inches; slightly but evenly toned overall; framed. New York, 22 July 1920

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Lelia College was Lelia Walker's business, but her mother, Mme. C. J. Walker managed it off and on until her death in 1919. The name of the Secretary at the bottom of this diploma, Mae W. Robinson, is that of Fairy Mae Bryant, Madame Walker's adopted daughter. The signatures of Wilson and Robinson are apparently in the same hand.