Cosmetics

Free Beauty Parlor Established
for Impoverished Women

• Click Magazine, 1938 •


Attached is the story of the Jacob A. Riis Settlement beauty clinic which was funded by a well-heeled New Yorker in order that the impoverished women from the down-trodden quarters of New York might come to know all the relaxation that comes with electrolysis and eyebrow-plucking (sadly, anal bleaching would not be offered for another seventy years).

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Free Beauty Parlor Established  for Impoverished Women

Free Beauty Parlor Established  for Impoverished Women

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