Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs Collected or Commissioned by Bernice Baer, Liaison Officer, for Use in Publications

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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs Collected or Commissioned by Bernice Baer, Liaison Officer, for Use in Publications

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs Collected or Commissioned by Bernice Baer, Liaison Officer, for Use in Publications

1975-1978

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1067656

This series consists of photographs that were either collected or commissioned by Bernice Baer, Liaison Officer, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year for use in the commission's publications and reports. The photographs are of commission members and women in the workforce. The commissioners were asked to submit photographs of themselves. They, in turn, sent in family snapshots or formal portraits, many of which are included in this series. Among the commissioners pictured are Clare Booth Luce, Velma Murphy Hill, Jill Ruckelshaus, Alan Alda, Annie Dodge Wauneka, and Senators Charles Percy and Birch Bayh. The photographs of women workers were obtained from a variety of sources. For example, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company provided several pictures of women helping to construct the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in Alaska. The New England Bell Telephone Company supplied three photographs showing linewomen at work and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company submitted an image of an employee working with telephone equipment. Additional images were obtained from The White House, the United Nations Photo Library and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The United Nations photographs are mostly of women working in healthcare in foreign countries. The Library of Congress pictures include images of Eleanor Roosevelt, Claire Booth Luce, Margaret Mead, and Mary McLeod Bethune. The White House provided an image of President Gerald R. Ford watching as Associate Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell swore in Anne Armstrong as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's on February 19, 1976. The National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year also commissioned photographs from Wide World Photo, Incorporated of three women in the workforce - Mary Heath, Ida Cabral, and Priscilla Salazar. The pictures of Mary Heath show her working on her farm in Cody, Nebraska, the images of Priscilla Salazar show her at work in her bookstore in Denver, Colorado, and Ida Cabral, a garment worker from Fall River, Massachusetts, was photographed at the Beacon Garment Company. Some of the photographers whose images are in this series are Arlene Alda, Fabian Bachrach, Marianne Beel, Dennis Brack, Judy Lawne, Steve McCutcheon, Roger Smith, Arthur Tress and Joe Weiss.

3 linear inches

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