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Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1912-11-29
Death Date
- 1994-07-17
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1927
- Organization: Madame Polly's (Firm)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: John Barker (Department store)
- Organization: Fulham Hospital
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1935
- Organization: Mary Taylor (Firm)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Brompton Hospital
Birth Place
- Fulham (London, England)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Esther Bruce, 2012:p. 7 (b. 1912 in Fulham, London; d. 1994, in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital) p. 13, etc. (dressmaker at Madame Polly's after she left school in 1927; after a year she went to work as a dressmaker for John Barker, a department store in Kensington and in 1935 for Miss Mary Taylor in Chelsea; during the war she worked as a cleaner at Fulham Hospital and Brompton Hospital)
- found: Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bruce, Esther; autobiographer/memoirist, seamstress; born 29 November 1912 in Fulham England; after leaving school, she worked as a seamstress, and made dresses for the popular African-American stage star Elisabeth Welch (1930s) her life was documented in Aunt Esther's Story (1991), published by Hammersmith and Fulham's Ethnic Communities Oral History Project, co-authored with her nephew Stephen Bourn; died 17 July 1994 in London, England
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Change Notes
- 2013-02-11: new
- 2015-04-01: revised
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