Walter Sammons

CTL-E-3992 · Person · other · 1920

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African-American inventor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who received U.S. patent #1,362,823 on December 21, 1920 for an improved comb that straightened hair.

Notes

RELP91 supporting entity for hot comb authored_by.

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Hot comb / pressing comb — authored by → this record

Sources

Face2Face Africa
tonyaJoy

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