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A Rare Opportunity
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Grace Coolidge's hairstyle in 1927 was evident in the portrait painted by artist Juliette Thompson.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs

An enterprising hairdresser from Denver moved to Rapid City in 1927 to attend First Lady Grace Coolidge during her summer White House stay in the Black Hills.

When President Coolidge announced that he and his wife Grace would move the summer White House to the Black Hills in 1927, an enterprising hairdresser from Denver wrote to Mrs. Coolidge offering to attend to the First Lady’s hair. Mrs. Coolidge agreed. Once a week a car carried the hairdresser from Rapid City to the Game Lodge in Custer so that she could give the first lady a shampoo. (“Mrs. Coolidge Now Sponsors Shorn Tresses,” Washington Post, August 9, 1931, B3)