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National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm, 1903-1950

Title: National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm, 1903-1950

The records of the National Women's Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) span the lifetime of the organization from the first meeting in Boston in 1903 to the last bulletin of its official organ, LIFE AND LABOR, announcing the termination of the League's national charter in 1950. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, speeches, clippings, notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous other items. The NWTUL's administrative operations are well documented in the headquarters records. Its policies and activities are recorded in the minutes of the Executive Board meetings and in the correspondence. Most of the letters and memoranda are from the various national League secretaries, particularly Elisabeth Christman, who held the position from 1921 to 1950. There is, as well, correspondence from various members of both the national and local Leagues, especially from the New York, Boston, and Chicago branches. Many of the local League members also served as officers and/or Executive Board members of the national League and are represented in the headquarters records. Included in this group are Margaret Dreier Robins, Mary Morton Kehew, Jane Addams, Rose Schneiderman, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Melinda Scott, Agnes Nestor, and Mary E. Dreier. Interspersed with the materials documenting the activities of the League are financial statements enumerating sources of income and costs of operation. The subject files as well as the headquarters records offer a major source of information concerning the League's goal of organizing women wage workers into trade unions. There is considerable material on the early history of the League in the historical data file. Many of the files on individual members contain biographical information, and the file on the American Federation of Labor sheds light on the League's relationship to that organization. Here and in the headquarters records is correspondence with Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, Frank Duffy, and Florence C. Thorne. Both series (headquarters records and subject files) contain documentation of the League's efforts to improve women's working conditions through supporting strikes, particularly in the garment industry, through the use of a training school to develop leadership among women of the working class, and through lobbying for the enactment of protective labor legislation. Issues such as the eight-hour day, a minimum wage, and the establishment of sanitary work areas were the focus of the League's early days. However, its interests broadened in later years to include federal aid to education, civil rights, price control, and social security. Correspondents include Ethel M. Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Mary Anderson, Alice Henry, and Frances Perkins. The records of the NWTUL also contain proceedings for 10 of the 13 national conventions and mimeographed corrected copies of the proceedings of the three international congresses which the League sponsored.

ArchivalResource: 25 microfilm reels.

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Papers, 1918-1960 (inclusive)

Title: Papers, 1918-1960 (inclusive)

This collection consists mainly of correspondence with labor leaders and others on such topics as equal rights, protective legislation, organization of women workers, and Women's Bureau activities; also correspondence and printed material concerning right-wing accusations of Communist infiltration of women's organizations, and blacklisting of Anderson and others by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006049090203941/catalog View

National Women’s Trade Union League of America Records, 1903-1950

Title: National Women’s Trade Union League of America Records 1903-1950

Correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, and printed matter, including minutes of meetings, proceedings of national conventions and international congresses of working women, biographical material on the league's officers, and correspondence between local and national leagues.

ArchivalResource: 7,400 items; 28 containers plus 2 oversize; 11 linear feet; 25 microfilm reels

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Rose Schneiderman Photographs, 1909-1962

Title: Rose Schneiderman Photographs 1909-1962

From the time that she entered the garment trade in 1899, Rose Schneiderman worked through a variety of organizations to unionize women workers and to improve their working conditions. Schneiderman was a socialist, suffragist, labor organizer and women's rights activist who helped to organize the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and eulogized the garment workers who died in the 1911 Triangle Fire. A longtime member of the Women's Trade Union League, she was president of the national organization from 1927 to 1947. As a labor spokesperson, she served as secretary of the New York State Department of Labor, was the only woman member of the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and during World War II, she served on the Advisory Council of the Women's Recovery Administration and the Women's Interest Section of the War Department Bureau. The collection includes photographs that were separated from the Rose Schneiderman Papers (Tamiment 018). The bulk of the images are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 linear feet; (1 box)

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Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944. Lola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949.

Title: Lola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949.

The bulk of Lola Maverick Lloyd's papers document her life and activism during the years 1915 through her death in 1944, particularly her involvement in feminist, pacifist and world government causes.

ArchivalResource: 34.78 linear feet (87 boxes)

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Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.

Title: Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.

The bulk of the images in this collection are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated. Especially notable are: the young Schneiderman speaking at a suffrage rally; Schneiderman with a WTUL parade float, individual studio portraits of WTUL leaders, some with handwritten inscriptions; the First International Congress of Working Women; the staff of the Bryn Mawr Summer School of Women Workers; Eleanor Roosevelt with the WTUL leadership; an informal snapshot of Schneiderman with FDR and a series of 8 photoprints of WAACs training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, during World War II. In addition, the Collection includes one 8 1/2 x 11 color poster announcing a Schneiderman lecture (c. 1914) on the "Women's Question from the Industrial Point of View".

ArchivalResource: .33 linear feet.109 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/477242836 View

Coleman-Browne, Fred. Papers, including papers of his wife, Eileen Powell.

Title: Papers, including papers of his wife, Eileen Powell.

Contents include material relating to trades unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian Communist Party and material relating to women in the feminist movement including papers relating to Alice Henry.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225804059 View

Henry, Alice, 1857-1943. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript].

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, cuttings, leaflets, publications, photographs, mostly dating from 1932-1940. Manuscripts, articles and other papers on women's movement, American feminists, teaching of handicapped children, suffrage in Victoria, trade unionism, women workers, 1st International Recreation Congress, Los Angeles (1932), Playgrounds Association of Victoria (1936-1939), correspondence schools and Australian Inland Mission (1939-1940). Correspondents include E. D. Kelsall, Ivy Brookes, Bessie Rischbieth and T. C. Wollaston.

ArchivalResource: 25 cm.

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Papers of Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth) Dreier, 1797-1968 (inclusive), 1897-1968 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth) Dreier, 1797-1968 (inclusive), 1897-1968 (bulk)

Correspondence, day books, financial records, and photographs of Mary Dreier, social reformer, from Brooklyn, New York.

ArchivalResource: 11.26 linear feet ((27 file boxes) plus 2 folio folders, 1 folio+ folder,1 oversize folder, 33 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder, 1 folio+ photograph folder)

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Lola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949

Title: Lola Maverick Lloyd papers 1856-1949

Lola Maverick Lloyd was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains personal and professional materials documenting her life and participation in the Ford Peace Expedition of 1915-1916, and her 1937 co-founding of the Campaign for World Government.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet; 88 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6233 View

National Women's Trade Union League of America. Records, 1904-1950.

Title: National Women's Trade Union League of America. Records.

Correspondence, reports, bulletins, publications of local leagues, photos, and printed material illustrate the League's work training labor leaders, performing research on working conditions, and supporting strikes, as well as organizing local leagues. Included is material on working conditions in the garment and textile industry, protective legislation, equal rights for women, the 1910-1911 Chicago garment workers' strike, the 1930-1931 Danville, VA, textile workers' strike, and the Women's Trade Union Leagues of Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders

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Henry, Alice, 1857-1943. Papers of Alice Henry [manuscript].

Title: Papers of Alice Henry [manuscript]. 1873-1943.

Newspaper cuttings, typescript and manuscript articles, some letters, scrapbooks. Most of the material is concerned with women and trade unions and women's suffrage. The material divides roughly into two sections: 1. Biographical articles on people connected with trade unions and the labour movement and people in the literary and theatrical worlds. 2. Articles relating to Alice Henry or written by her, which appeared in newspapers and magazines.

ArchivalResource: 45 cm. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225820588 View

Papers of Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth) Dreier, 1797-1968 (inclusive), 1897-1968 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth) Dreier, 1797-1968 (inclusive), 1897-1968 (bulk)

Correspondence, day books, financial records, and photographs of Mary Dreier, social reformer, from Brooklyn, New York.

ArchivalResource: 11.26 linear feet ((27 file boxes) plus 2 folio folders, 1 folio+ folder,1 oversize folder, 33 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder, 1 folio+ photograph folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00136/catalog View