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Guide to the Records of H. Samson, Inc., 1859-1982
1859-1982
Metadata Details
- Title
- H. Samson, Inc. records 1859-1982
- Creator
- Subject
- H. Samson, Inc. (Funeral home), Funeral homes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The H. Samson, Inc. Records are housed in sixty one archival boxes and forty six wrapped ledgers identified as shelf and are arranged in four series. Series have been designated as Case Files, Financial Records and Office Files and Furguson Wood Funeral Home. The funeral case files and order books provide information about the daily activities of the funeral home including: funeral ceremony procedure and cost, cremations, body transfers, and embalming techniques., H. Samson, Inc. records, 1859-1982, MSS 0260, Library and Archives Division, Rauh Jewish Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Bernard E. Stocklein gift 1996 1996.0319 papers, Michael Rzasa givt 1997 1997.0169 papers, H. Samson, Inc. administered to the funerals, burials and cremation needs of Pittsburghers for over 135 years. Founded in 1859 by Hudson Samson,1840-1903, the company remained in family control into the 1990s. Samson was the inventor of the Samson Pump, a fluid- njecting device that negated the need for ice in the embalming process., Gift of Bernard E. Stocklein, Gift of Michael Rzasa., Processsed MSS 0260 2/1999 S. Doell
- Publisher
- Contributor
- H. Samson, Inc, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1859-1982
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS260, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/