Even as many stylists see the new industry standards as significant, others worry that the change could take customers from existing Black-owned salons.
Black pioneer studio portraits
These images are likely the only known surviving historical record of these San Diegans and their time here. These studio portraits of the unnamed subjects were taken at Turner’s Elite Studio and Klimdt’s Chicago Art Gallery, both on Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego.
Portrait of unidentified woman in the 1890s.
(San Diego History Center)