Administrators of the first examination given by the Alabama Board of Cosmetology, standing at the Speaker's desk in the House chamber of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

The plaque hanging behind them reads, "In this hall the ordinance of Secession which withdrew Alabama from the Union of Sovereign States, was passed Jan. 11, 1861. To commemorate this fact this tablet is erected by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery, Nov. 7, 1911."