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Vision of beauty : the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker / Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Nneka Bennett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection HD9970.5.C672 W3547 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lasky, Kathryn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919--Juvenile literature.
- Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919.
- African American women executives--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Cosmetics industry--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Businesspeople.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Women--Biography.
- Cosmetics industry--History.
- African American women executives.
- Cosmetics industry.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [48] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2000].
- Summary:
- A biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.
- Notes:
- "First edition 2000"
- "This book was typeset in Columbus."
- "The illustrations were done in pencil and watercolor."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "Reinforced Trade Edition".
- ISBN:
- 0763602531
- 9780763602536
- 0763618349
- 9780763618346
- 9781435208766
- 1435208765
- OCLC:
- 40939975
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