Marjorie Stewart Joyner's beauty salon

CTL-E-1368 · Business · other · Opened 1916; closing date unknown

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Independent beauty salon opened in Chicago in 1916 by 20-year-old Marjorie Stewart Joyner, the first Black graduate of Chicago's A.B. Molar Beauty School. A canonical example of the lost ordinary firm: its existence is attested by strong biographical sources but no street address or surviving business records were found.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-043; source research type(s): business.

Sources

Lemelson-MIT Center; Happi (cosmetics industry journal)
Negative finding of this worker
National Inventors Hall of Fame; Lemelson Center; Stanford Tech. L. Rev. 25:2 (2022)

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Inside a dress shop on 47th Street, Chicago's Black business corridor, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

A men's furnishings counter on 47th Street, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Shoppers at a ten-cent store counter, South Side, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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