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The tools of a colonial milliner where thimbles, neddles, irons, cloth, and thread.
Answer #2: No, Madam C. J. Walker did not manufacture or invent the straightening comb. The first widely distributed metal hair care implements were designed by a Frenchman named Marcel Grateau, who is said to have created the Marcel Wave in the 1870s when Madam Walker was still a child named Sarah Breedlove. Hot combs were sold in Bloomingdales and Sears catalogues in the 1890s. Over time, several different inventors developed different designs for hot combs and other hair care devices. They continue to develop electric irons to this day. Madam Walker sold straightening combs to her agents but she purchased them from at least two different suppliers. She did not make them herself. Answer #1: Yes she did. Walter Simmons patented an improved design in 1920; a year after the death of Mme Walker.
The Jewish people were forced to wear patches to identify them. They were also tattooed and marked with branding irons then segregated.