Scope and arrangement
The Bettie Esther Parham collection contains information about the company she founded, the National Beauty Supply Company. The products of its subsidiaries are represented via advertisements and price lists. There are a few scattered letters regarding business expansion in the United States and Nigeria, as well as a list of equipment needed for the company's branching out to Nigeria and a "Plan for the Development of Esther Parham Products in the United States and Africa," 1977. Financial and personal documents, and the pamphlet "How to Get Money through Positive Thinking" by Parham complete the collection.