Photograph of Bonnie Taylor-Williams and Selena Williams with their books

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A digital image of Selena Williams and her granddaughter Bonnie Taylor-Williams captured in the family business, Selena’s House of Beauty, a hair salon in Chicago, Illinois during an oral history interview. It is held as a TIFF file (.tif). Visible from the waist up and on yellow chairs, Bonnie sits on the left and Selena sits on the right. Bonnie wears a long-sleeved black shirt with two rings on each hand. Selena wears a yellow shirt under a dark, denim jacket that has rhinestones in the area below the collar. Black framed glasses hang from the front of her shirt. Both women hold publications they have written, Bonnie holds “With These Hands: A Country Girl Came to Town” and Selena holds “Hair Weaving Instruction textbook” she co-wrote with Natalie Haskell. In the background are orange salon hair dryer chairs.

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