Reginald Hawkins interviewed by Beverly Firth for the Australia 1938 oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2465909
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hawkins, Reginald, 1917-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1984 Apr. 13
- 1 cassette.
- Series:
- Australia 1938 oral history project ; ORAL TRC 2404 Int. no. 1004
- Summary:
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Hawkins speaks of his father's background as an undertaker; his father making coffin for John Curtin; father's work and setting up own undertaking business; paupers' funerals during the Depression; establishing funeral businesses; working in his father's business; local opinion of father; description of a 1930s funeral; cremation, hearses, coffins in 1938; procedures for undertakers after a death; bereaved; reactions to death, experiences as an undertaker; graves; dress worn; undertakers' picnic.
- Notes:
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- Original sound recording not held.
- Transcript from a recording for the Australia 1938 Oral History Project and used as research for the book Australians 1938 from the series Australians, a historical library.
- Recorded by the Australia 1938 Oral History Project as research for the book Australians 1938 from the series Australians, a historical library.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 9 leaves)
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This belongs to the Australia 1938 oral history project.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1984
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