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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0427
CATEGORY   Services, Personal
SUBCATEGORY   Beauty shop
TITLE   Eugene Permanent Wave Shop
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of the Eugene Permanent Wave Shop located in the Plaza Apartments at 820 North Chaparral in Corpus Christi, Texas. Three women in white dresses stand at the back of a room furnished with a couch, two upholstered chairs with hair dryers behind them, a foot stool, and a small table. A customer sits under a hairdryer in one the chairs. Two women, possibly the manicurist and another customer, sit on either side of the small table. This shop was owned by Stella Stinson. Note the framed licenses and poster of Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging on the walls and the wooden radio at left.
SUBJECT   Beauty operators. (lcsh)
Beauty shops. (lcsh)
Consumers. (lctgm)
Group portraits. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Women. (lcsh)