Additional records, 1912-1983 (inclusive), 1962-1982 (bulk).

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Additional records, 1912-1983 (inclusive), 1962-1982 (bulk).

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Collection includes minutes; financial records; mailings and publicity; board records; membership lists; reports; correspondence; scrapbooks, photographs and clippings; and event files, including the College Career Conference and award and fund-raising events, reflecting both the club's activities and the progress of women's careers in advertising.

13 linear ft. (13 cartons)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 7670068

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Advertising Women of New York

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The Advertising Women of New York, Inc., founded in 1912 by Christine and J. George Frederick as the League of Advertising Women of New York, was the first club for women in advertising in America and one of the first in the world. Organized as an answer to discriminating men's clubs, the League's objectives were the further education in advertising of its members, and the encouragement of greater involvement of women in advertising. From the 1930s on, the club gave classes and awarded scholarsh...

League of Advertising Women.

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Frederick, J. George (Justus George), 1882-

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Frederick, Christine, 1883-

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Home economist, lecturer, and author, Frederick campaigned for more efficiency in the kitchen. She set up and directed the Applecroft Home Experiment Station on Long Island, wrote on household management and the role of women as consumers, was an editor for Ladies Home Journal and The American Weekly, and in the 1950s became an interior decorator. She and her husband, J. George Frederick, had helped found the Advertising Women of New York in 1912. From the description of Papers, 1887...