(WOMENS HISTORY BEAUTY) Poro School of Beauty Culture comme

Sale 2697 - Lot 393

Price Realized: $ 531

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Poro School of Beauty Culture commencement program / yearbook. 18, ]1] pages including printed wrappers. Quarto, 10 x 8 inches, minor soiling, extensive mount remnants on rear wrapper; graduation invitation laid down on inner wrapper, numerous annotations in green ink, a bit musty. [Chicago], January 1946

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Includes a history of Poro illustrated with a portrait of founder Annie Malone; portraits of 68 students with a pithy blurb for each; a commencement ceremony program; local Chicago advertisements; and a verse "Ode to Annie M. Malone" by James Mundy. Many of the student portraits are annotated with little manuscript notes such as "electric gal," "night class treasurer," or "New Orleans, has a baby voice."