Anne St. Laurent oral history with Eloise A. Brière
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Oral history with former dressmaker Anne St. Laurent, who was born in Laval, Quebec and came to the United States with her family as a young woman, taking up work first at a tailor's shop in Chicopee Falls, Mass., and then for several years as a dressmaker at Dorothy Dodd in Holyoke, where she gradually picked up the English language with the help of her coworkers. Subsequently she took floristry, having taught herself how to arrange flowers, and was doing so as her profession at the time of recording.
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