| Title: |
Edith Holton
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Women's History: Professionals and Entrepreneurs (Early Twentieth Century)
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| Description: |
Edith Holton played an active and key role in the family-run mortuary in Long Beach from the time she was a young adult. Her mother had been informally trained in embalming by the man who Holton claims discovered the process while he was a boarder in the family home. The family moved to Long Beach from Indiana following her graduation from high school, where they established the first full-scale mortuary there in 1907. Holton drove the original ambulance in town and was often called to the oil fields to transport the injured.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Holton, Edith
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker occupation: |
Ambulance driver; Undertaker
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Indiana; Long Beach, CA; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Ambulance service; Burial; California; Embalming; Indiana; Long Beach, CA; North America; Oil fields--Long Beach (Calif.); Oral history; Undertakers and undertaking; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035356-38922
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