Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs and Graphic Materials Considered for Use as Illustrations in the Report quot;...To Form a More Perfect Union ...Justice for American Womenquot;

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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs and Graphic Materials Considered for Use as Illustrations in the Report quot;...To Form a More Perfect Union ...Justice for American Womenquot;

1975-1976

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This series consists of camera ready layouts of photographs of the members of the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and images relating to women's history and women in the workforce, and a few graphics. Most, but not all, of the items were used as illustrations in the commission's final report, "...To Form a More Perfect Union...Justice for American Women". The commission members represented in this series in formal and informal portraits are Jill Ruckelshaus, Presiding Officer (pictured with her five children), Alan Alda, Ethel D. Allen, Ambassador Anne L. Armstrong, Margaret Long Arnold, Elizabeth Athanasakos, Barbara R. Bergmann, Patricia T. Carbine, Weston Christopherson, Judge Mary Stallings Coleman, Audrey Rowe Colom, Helen K. Copley, Richard Cornuelle, Governor Winfield C. Dunn of Tennessee, Casey Eike, Paula Gibson, Gilda Bojorquez Gjurich, Governor Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut, Professor Hanna Holborn Gray, Katherine Hepburn, Lenore Hershey, Velma Murphy Hill, Patricia Hutar, Rita Zimmer Johnston, Ellen Groves Kirby, Dorothy Vale Kissinger, Ambassador Clare Booth Luce, Wilson Crawford Mercer, Ersa H. Posten, Sister Joel Read, Betty L. Smith, Mary Louise Smith, Annie Dodge Wauneka, Gerridee Wheeler, U.S. Senators Birch Bayh and Charles Percy; and U.S. Representatives Bella S. Abzug, Margaret M. Heckler, and Martha W. Griffiths. In addition to portraits of the commission members, there are images of commission members at meetings and conferences, working women, labor milestones, leaders of the 19th century movements for women's suffrage and rights, female sports figures, United Nations representative Edith Sampson, Abigail Adams, Betty Ford, and President Gerald R. Ford. There are also several photographs, which were provided by the United Nations, of women in third-world countries. The three graphic illustrations are of the International Women's Year (IWY) logo, an organizational chart of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, and Mrs. Ruckelshaus' signature. The photographers credited in the records are Arlene Alda, Fabian Bachrach; Marianne Beel, Valentine, Nebraska; Helen Anrod Jones, Washington, DC; Marcia Kay Keegan, New York, New York; Betty Medsger, New York, New York; Steve McCutcheon; Marcia K. Keegan; Paul Oxley, San Diego, California; White House photographer David Kennerly; and Rey Scott, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Corporate photography sources include Ankers Capitol Photographers, Washington, DC; Communications Photography - John E. Kimpel, New Berlin, Wisconsin; Day Walters Photographic Illustration, Washington, DC; Arnold C. de Mille Papers and Photographic Collection, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Korday Commercial Division, Framingham, Massachusetts; "Teen Times"; Wide World Photo, Incorporated; Washington, DC; United Nations, New York, New York; and United Press International, New York, New York. The series also contains a copy of the published report, which is labeled as the "Master Files Copy".

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