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(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Archive of the White Plains Beauticians League and their founding president. Approximately 300 items (0.4 linear feet) in one box, including manuscripts, photographs, and printed ephemera; condition generally strong, a few items with moderate wear. White Plains, NY, 1930s-1983
Beatrice Terry (1908-1979) spent nearly her whole life in White Plains, NY, where she was proprietor of Bea's Beauty Salon. She was also a founder of the White Plains Beauticians League, which originated with members of the Poro Club in 1931 and came to include dealers in the products of Madame Walker and Apex as well. The group formed its own corporation in 1955, Beauti-Aide Inc., with 50 stockholding members. They purchased its own building in 1966 and operated it as a co-operative salon, the World of Beauti, with booths for 14 beauticians, a dining area and a social hall. A 1977 expansion was dubbed "Dream Explosion," and a mortgage-burning ceremony was held in 1983. The collection includes:
A thick folder of papers documenting the history of the League and Beauti-Aide, 1945-1983, including several typescript histories; programs and invitation; a program from the 1983 mortgage burning party.
A worn daily ledger for Bea's Beauty Salon, showing how each day's income was divided among the stylists and paid out for supplies. A few customers are named if the work was done on credit. 184 manuscript pages, lacking one leaf near end; disbound. Entries are kept very tidily from November 1936 to August 1937, followed by a gap and then more hastily compiled entries from May 1940 to March 1941.
A folder of other papers from Beatrice Terry's career, including two early business cards from Bea's Beauty Salon, four pages of manuscript business records from 1932-1934; and salon renovations from 1949, plus a folder of related newspaper clippings.
Nearly 200 photographs, many of them professionally shot 8 x 10 images of banquets and other social events circa the 1960s-1970s, also numerous snapshots of hairdressers at work circa 1930s-1960s.
