undated
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
GUSN-362368
This image taken by an unidentified photographer c. 1960s depicts a woman standing in the doorway of Rena's Beauty Salon on Blue Hill Ave in Roxbury, Mass. The identity of the woman is unknown.
This building is no longer extant. The Haynes Early Childhood Center is now located on the site.
beauty shops
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.015
Library & Archives Purchase
c. 1960s
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-K-3
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
Rena's Beauty Salon was owned and operated by Rena Blige (nee Singleton), 1917-1997. Blige migrated north from coastal South Carolina alongside her husband and daughter in the late 1940s. From the 1950s to the 1970s, she operated a beauty salon under varying names including Rena's Beauty Salon, Rena's Beauty Shop, Rena's Beauty Village, and more. All of these shops were on and around Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, Mass. Rena's Beauty Salon was located at 265A Blue Hill Ave from 1958 to the late 1960s.
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