Christine Moore Howell and her sister, Bessie with two men in front of Christine Vanity Parlor.

Title: Christine Moore Howell and her sister, Bessie with two men in front of Christine Vanity Parlor.
Description: Christine Moore Howell (1899–1972) and her sister Bessie Moore (1897–1922) were prominent Princeton residents. They appear in an undated photograph with two unidentified men on the stoop of Howell's business, Christine Vanity Parlor, on Spring Street in Princeton borough. The building owned by their father, William Moore (b. 1867) who, according to the 1910 U.S. Census, owned a retail clothing business.

Bessie, 25, a nurse , died of pneumonia in October 1922 at Douglas Hospital in Philadelphia. Just six months earlier, she had been granted a divorce from a brief six-month marriage to a Mr. Simerson that had taken place two years prior (Atlantic City Gazette-Review 1922).
Rights: This work is believed to be in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States. For more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
Creator: Unknown
Format: Image
Spatial Coverage: Princeton, NJ
Contributor: Historical Society of Princeton
Extent: 1 image
Identifier: MS 899
Date Created: (c. 1920-1929)
Subject: African American men; African American women; Photographs; Beauty shops; Hairdressing; Sisters

Media: Christine Moore Howell; her sister, Bessie; and two men in front of Christine Vanity Parlor