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Title: Edom and Susie Horton papers
Dates: 1940-1954
Collection number: MS 56
Creator:
Horton, Edom.
Creator:
Horton, Susie.
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(2 boxes)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Edom and Susie Horton papers consist of beauty school coursework, shipyard worker training materials, photographs, and
employment records. The beauty school coursework materials include Susie Horton’s class notes, exams, and textbook attending
the La Henri-Ana School of Beauty Culture in Monroe, Louisiana in 1941. The shipyard worker training materials include handwritten
notes on various types of joints, shipyard terminology, a job analysis sheet, locating your job on the boat, and a sheet on
payroll problems. The photograph series includes three photographs and two of Edom Horton's worker identification pins from
Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyards and Paraffine Companies, Inc.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Edom and Susie Horton Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at
Oakland.
Edom and Susie Horton papers, MS 56, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 09/07/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Edom and Susie Horton papers consist of beauty school coursework, shipyard worker training materials, photographs, and
employment records. The beauty school coursework materials include Susie Horton’s class notes, exams, and textbook attending
the La Henri-Ana School of Beauty Culture in Monroe, Louisiana in 1941. The shipyard worker training materials include handwritten
notes on various types of joints, shipyard terminology, a job analysis sheet, locating your job on the boat, and an information
sheet on common payroll problems. The photograph series includes three photographs and two of Edom Horton's worker identification
pins from Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyards and Paraffine Companies, Inc.
Series I. Beauty school coursework
Series II. Shipyard worker training material
Series III. Photographs
Series IV. Employment records
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Beauty, Personal--History.
Beauty, Personal--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Beauty culture--Study and teaching.
Beauty culture--United States--History.
Shipyards--California--History.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
La Henri-Ana School of Beauty Culture (Monroe, La.).