DeVere School of Beauty Culture (Eleanora A. DeVere's hair dressing parlor / DeVere Beauty Shoppe)
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-00140
- Name
- DeVere School of Beauty Culture
- Name Variations
- Eleanora A. DeVere's hair dressing parlor
- DeVere Beauty Shoppe
- Type
- Business
- Activity
- beauty shop / hair care
- beauty culture school
- Year Established
- 1919
- Description
- Eleanora A. DeVere studied hair dressing under the personal direction of Mme. C. J. Walker. She established a hairdressing parlor at 2509 St. Antoine St. around 1919. She employed one assistant initially. By 1924, she had 6 hairdressers working at the parlor. She developed her business into a beauty culture school. She also supplied Mme. C. J. Walker beauty products to beauticians throughout Michigan.
- Affiliates
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DeVere, Eleanora A.
Role: Owner and/or OperatorGreen, Susie
Role: Other Affiliate (advertises her services at DeVere's address)Jackson, Inez
Role: Other Affiliate (advertises her services at DeVere's address)Pyles, Mary L. (Miss)
Role: Other Affiliate (advertises her services at DeVere's address) - Book Pages
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This business or an affiliated person appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xiii, 65, 66, 67.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xiii (Eleanora A. DeVere Hair Culturalist)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 8 (DeVere School of Beauty Culture)
- 1935 BTWTA Directory, 13 (Devere's)
- Title
- DeVere School of Beauty Culture (Eleanora A. DeVere's hair dressing parlor / DeVere Beauty Shoppe)
- Resource class
- Organization