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Brown plastic hair comb from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A brown plastic hair comb with a faux tortoise shell finish from Mae's Millinery Shop. The slightly curved comb has fifteen (15) closed forked teeth, with a sixteenth missing from one end.

Catalog date
1941-1994
Recorded places
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Black Enterprise; Business; Fashion; Hair; Millinery; Women

Sources & collection details

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20

Catalog reference: 2010.6.54.7

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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