Annual Delaware Antiques Show 2019

Likewise, photos of black beauticians in Estella’s Beauty Salon (fig. 3) in Wilmington, Delaware, and the white women printers in the upstate-New York James Order Office (fig. 4) reinforce the important role women played in building and maintaining successful commercial and trade establishments throughout American history. Fig. 3. Estella’s Beauty Salon, Henry Szymanski, photographer, 819 Poplar Street, Wilmington, Delaware, April 1939. Silver gelatin print. Szymanski Collection, Courtesy Delaware Historical Society 2003.15.123 Fig. 4. Women printers, New York, 1920–30. Silver gelatin print on pasteboard. Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library 97x103.2 — 129 —