Bob Wilkinson, Barber of the Southern Hotel · WRSTL PLACE

Item sets: African American Photos and Prints at the Missouri Historical Society; People of St. Louis; St. Louis Topic: Black-Owned Businesses

Title: Bob Wilkinson, Barber of the Southern Hotel
Description: Portrait of Bob Wilkinson, barber of the Southern Hotel. Robert J. Wilkinson owned a popular barbershop in the Planters' House Hotel and was named in the 1858 pamphlet The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis to be one of the forty-three free blacks in St. Louis who, "move in a certain circle; who by means of wealth, education, or natural ability, form a peculiar class- the elite of the colored people."
Creator: Thomas M. Easterly
Subject: Barbershops; Daguerreotype; African Americans; Bob Wilkinson; Planters' House Hotel; St. Louis History
Medium: Daguerreotype
Format: Photograph
Date: 1860; No Known Copyright
Source: Missouri Historical Society, Photos and Prints Department
Identifier: P0250-17222