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1981.072.001
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Electric Permanent wave machine, circa 1930
74" high by 28" across at base.
Original address on gift card:
David Lee Piper
1240 Panorama Ct SE
Salem, OR
Paperwork done 3/21/84.
Entered as loan, gifted in 1993.
Original Heritage Museum catalog 8-D-14
Came with the following letter:
HEAT PERMANENT WAVE MACHINE
In 1905, Charles Nessler invented a heavily wired machine that supplied electrical current to metal rods around which hair strands were wrapped. These hot rollers were kept from touching the scalp by a complex system of counterbalancing weights, suspended from an overhead chandelier, mounted on a stand. This particular machine, ca 1930, belonged to Dave & Cheryl Piper of Monmouth. Dave said the machine was seldom used because the State of Oregon required special certification to operate it.
The Piper family have been barbers in Oregon for four generations, beginning when Dave's great-grandfather John Albin who moved from Kansas (where he was a barber) in the early 1900's. Cheryl Piper currently owns Inspirations Hair Designs in Monmouth. Donated to the Independence Heritage Museum in 1981 by Dave and Cheryl Piper.
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Electric permanent wave machine
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