Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cardozo Barker : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Cosmetologist

Scope and Contents

Origins of family's beauty business, Atlantic City, 1920s; family genealogy; St. Francis de Sales Convent School, Virginia; cosmetology: training, hair styling and products for Black people, influence of Emma Warrick, apprentice system, rehabilitation work; member, Board of Cosmetology, Washington, D.C. 1961-1976

Subjects

• Barker, Elizabeth, 1900-1981.
• Beauty culture.
• Beauty operators--Interviews.
• Greenlee, Marcia M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College