Container List
The Women's Movement
A: Woman Suffrage, 1909-1961.
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1911-n.d.
The Headquarter's Newsletter, May-July 1915.
The Woman's Journal, September 1911.
Leaflets and pamphlets.
National Woman's Party, ca. 1920
Miscellaneous printed material.
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Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, n.d.-ca. 1915
Copies of constitution and proposed legislation.
Copy of an editorial by Alice Stone Blackwell, 1915 .
Flyers.
The Convention of Women Voters. San Francisco, September 1915
Memoranda.
Copies of press releases.
Programs.
Reports.
Memorabilia.
California Equal Suffrage Association, 1909-n.d.
Programs. Miscellaneous circulars and flyers.
Political Equality League, Los Angeles, 1910-n.d.
Primarily flyers, pamphlets and circulars.
Wage Earner's Suffrage League. Los Angeles, ca. 1912
Newsletters and circular by Frances Noel.
Drafts of an article/speech (?) by Frances Noel.
Miscellaneous printed material.
Humane Legislation League, 1912-ca. 1920
Copies and drafts of newsletters, resolutions and an article/speech (?) by Frances Noel challenging the National Woman's Party.
Miscellaneous printed materials.
League of Women Voters, ca. 1930-1960
Newsletters.
Periodicals.
Pamphlets.
League of Women Voters, California, 1925-1961
Bulletins.
Proposal.
Program.
League of Women Voters. Los Angeles, 1919-1961
City planning proposal, ca. 1932.
Bulletins and proceedings, 1961 .
Miscellaneous printed material.
Clippings, ca. 1934-1954.
Carrie Chapman Catt, ca. 1924
Article, pamphlet and press release by Carrie Chapman Catt.
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Suffrage, ca. 1909-1958
Copies of labor organization resolutions and legislation, 1909-1911.
A pamphlet by Sylvia Pankhurst, 1911.
Miscellaneous printed material.
Periodicals, 1910-1916
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Clippings, 1911-1958.
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B: Birth Control, 1914-1934.
National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, ca. 1929-1934
Reports.
Pamphlets.
Miscellaneous printed material pertaining to law and legislation.
Note
Margaret Sanger, ca. 1916-1932
National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control Newsletter. 1929-1932, by Margaret Sanger.
Miscellaneous publication notices, n.d..
A receipt made out to Frances Noel, 1916.
The Birth Control Review, Edited by Margaret Sanger
February 1917 (vol.1 no. 1).
January 1917.
September 1930.
February, September and December 1931.
January-April, 1932.
Voluntary Parenthood League, ca. 1924-1925
Newsletters.
Miscellaneous printed material pertaining to laws and legislation.
American Birth Control League, ca. 1925-1926
Reports.
Programs.
Leaflets and pamphlets.
American Birth Control League. Los Angeles Chapter, ca. 1926-1928
Newsletters.
Miscellaneous financial and membership records.
Los Angeles Women's Health Center Association, ca. 1929-1932
Copies of articles of incorporation and bylaws.
Financial records.
Legal documents.
Membership records.
Mother's Clinic. Los Angeles, 1925-1927
Annual reports.
Copies of operational procedures.
A report entitled Pioneers of Mother's Clinic. With discussion of Margaret Sanger, 1927.
Miscellaneous pamphlets.
Birth Control, Eugenics and Marriage, ca. 1914-1934
Miscellaneous speeches/articles (?), including handwritten draft by Frances Noel, n.d.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals including an article by Frances Noel, ca. 1923-1926.
Clippings, ca. 1914-1934.
Labor Organizations, Conferences and Concerns
A: Labor Organizations and Conferences, 1909-1952.
Women's International Union Label League. California, 1909-1911
Drafts and copies of speeches and articles.
Resolutions.
Petitions.
Reports.
Clipping, in reference to a 1909 convention.
National Women's Trade Union League, 1910-1939
Proceedings, 1910-1914.
Proceedings, 1915-1916.
Issues of Life and Labor, 1914-1921.
National Women's Trade Union League Bulletin, 1919.
Clippings.
Pamphlets and flyers.
National Women's Trade Union League. Chicago, 1913-1916
Minutes.
Reports.
Resolutions.
Miscellaneous printed materials.
Clippings.
National Women's Trade Union League. Los Angeles, 1913-1917
Resolutions.
Copy of play burlesquing City Hall.
Proposal for a women's division in the Labor Bureau.
United States Department of Labor. Women's Bureau Bulletin, 1948.
Financial records and statements.
Correspondence.
Clipping and flyers.
Camp Aliso for Working Women in the San Dimas Canyon, 1915-1922
Correspondence and petitions of the Recreation League for Wage Earning Women (in reference to Camp Aliso). Los Angeles, 1916-1922.
Brochures, permit and a map.
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Insurance papers, 1915-1917.
Financial papers, including correspondence, bills of sale, reports, receipts, bank statements, 1915-1917.
Financial records, including bills, receipts, cancelled checks.
Financial notes, memoranda, expense lists.
American Federation of Labor, 1914-1915
Miscellaneous printed material.
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California State Federation of Labor, 1923-1927, 1949-1952
Reports.
Miscellaneous printed materials, 1923-1927.
Convention proceedings, 1949-1952.
Newsletter, 1949-1950.
Central Labor Council of Los Angeles, 1910, 1915-1930
Correspondence.
Resolutions.
Proceedings, 1915-1925.
Union Label Bulletin, July 1910.
Clippings, 1921-1930.
Statements in Reference to Frances Noel's Union Membership Eligibility, 1924
Typed draft and copy of Frances Noel's response to accusations by member of the Central Labor Council.
Copy of appeal to Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor from her union.
Los Angeles Women's Central Committee of Organized Labor, 1921-1924
Constitution.
Proceedings.
Proposal.
Correspondence.
Arbitration.
Miscellaneous financial documents.
Women's Conference, Los Angeles County, 1911
Statement of objectives.
Circular.
Conference of Trade Union Women of Southern California, 1921
Plans.
Programs.
Minutes, proceedings.
Organizational bylaws.
Resolutions.
Conference of Trade Union Women of Southern California, 1923
Copy of program.
Handwritten proceedings.
Clippings.
Women's Annex of the Los Angeles Labor Temple, 1922
Reports.
Correspondence.
Clippings.
Union Labor Temple Association, 1922-1925
Minutes.
Resolutions.
Financial records.
Correspondence.
B: Social Insurance and Immigration Concerns, 1913-1949.
Social Insurance Commission, ca. 1915-1916
Legal and financial documents.
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Clippings.
Findings of the commission.
Position papers. Typed and handwritten drafts by Frances Noel. n.d.
Social Insurance. Health, ca. 1916-1918
Copies and drafts of correspondence and position papers by various organizations.
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Position papers opposing social health insurance.
Miscellaneous printed materials.
Printed materials, mostly pamphlets, endorsing or explaining social health insurance and Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 26.
English Sickness Insurance Act. n.d.
Copies.
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Committee on Social Insurance, 1916-1917
Minutes.
Report by I.M. Rubinow.
Proposals.
Correspondence.
Old Age and Unemployment Insurance and Mother's Pension, 1913-1949
Miscellaneous printed materials on the general topics.
Clippings.
Public Employment Bureau. Los Angeles, 1918
Copy of annual report.
Statement on working conditions of women ranch hands.
Proposal.
Copies of legislation.
State Council of Defense of California, Women's Committee, 1917-1918
Resolutions.
Programs.
Social Welfare Committee. Municipal League of Los Angeles, 1916-1920
Proceedings.
Drafts of articles and speeches.
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Miscellaneous printed material.
Labor, Women, Political Concerns, Primrose D. Noel and the Labor Press
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A: National, State and Local Labor, 1910-1960.
Organized Labor, National, 1910-1937
Primarily pamphlets and leaflets.
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Industrial Commission, 1914
Newsprint text of Frances Noel's testimony on labor relations and conditions.
Organized labor. California, 1910-1938
Reports.
Legislation.
Miscellaneous printed materials.
Organized labor. Los Angeles, 1919-1923
Miscellaneous printed materials.
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Los Angeles Times Diaster, 1910
Photocopy of pamphlet by the accused, Matthew A. Schmidt (original in package listed at end of register).
Copy of labor endorsement on behalf of accused.
Newsprint text of investigations.
Labor. Men, ca. 1915-1960
Miscellaneous clippings, including articles by Upton Sinclair and Samuel Gompers.
Labor, 1913-1953
Miscellaneous clippings on various topics.
B: Women and Labor, and Women, 1908-1959.
Frances Noel, 1914-1941
Articles and clippings about Frances Noel and her activities, ca. 1915-1941.
Clippings of articles by Frances Noel, ca. 1914-1923.
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Typed manuscript and article pertaining to labor and the women's movement by Frances Noel, 1928.
Agnes Downing, ca. 1925-1930
Clippings about Agnes Downing.
Clippings of her news column on labor history.
Mother Jones, 1914-n.d.
Clippings by and about Mother Jones and her activities.
Women and Labor, 1908-1951
Clippings, including articles by and about active women such as Katherine P. Edson, 1914-1930.
Miscellaneous clippings, 1908-1951.
Women's Organizations, 1918-1949
Miscellaneous printed materials, 1923.
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Women, 1911-1959
Miscellaneous clippings pertaining to notable women, 1912-1950.
Miscellaneous printed material, 1911-1959.
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C: Political Concerns, 1913-1951.
Wilson Hughes Campaign, 1916
Primarily clippings in reference to campaign support by Los Angeles labor and women's movements.
Socialist Party, 1911-1924
Miscellaneous printed materials.
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La Follette-Wheeler campaign.
Women's movement views.
Socialism and Communism, 1913-1945
Clippings.
National Political Parties, 1916-1951
Miscellaneous printed materials.
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International Politics and Government, 1917-1951
Miscellaneous printed materials.
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Peace Efforts, 1920-1948
Miscellaneous printed material.
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Loyal Americans of German Descent, n.d.-ca. 1941
Flyers.
Membership documents, newsletters containing statements of objectives.
D: Primrose D. Noel and the Labor Press, 1899-1960.
Primrose D. Noel, 1914-1943
Copies of correspondence and news releases, 1914-n.d. .
Obituaries, 1943.
American Civil Liberties Union newsletters, 1960.
Primrose D. Noel's Labor Column, ca. 1918-1926
Columns clipped from Los Angeles labor newpapers.
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Note
Columns clipped from Los Angeles labor newspapers.
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United Progressive News, 1937
Various issues.
The Open Forum. Various Issues, 1916-1954
1926-1931.
1932-1954.
Various Labor News Publications, 1899-1916
Miscellaneous issues.
Municipal, Environmental and Miscellaneous Concerns
A: City Planning and Public Ownership, 1905-1957.
City Planning Commission. Los Angeles, 1913-ca. 1930
Pamphlets, flyers and copies of correspondence.
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Municipal League of Los Angeles, 1913-1930
Various issues of The Municipal League Bulletin, 1915-1930.
An article pertaining to activities, 1913.
Municipal Light and Power Defense League, 1921-1940
Copies of bylaws, constitution and membership documents, 1931-1933.
Miscellaneous printed material, 1921-1949.
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City Planning and Public Ownership, 1905-1937
Miscellaneous clippings.
Subcommittee of the City Planning Commission on Preservation and Beautification of Arroyo Seco, 1911-1929
Copies of correspondence, 1922-1923.
Photographs.
Resolutions.
Petitions.
Notes and miscellaneous printed materials, 1911-1929.
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Arroyo Seco, 1914-1923
Clippings.
Marmion Way Bus Stop Concern, n.d.-ca. 1957
Report before the Board of Public Utilities and Transportation.
Copies and drafts of petitions.
Maps.
Miscellaneous memoranda.
Clippings, ca. 1943-1956.
B: Conservation Concerns, 1943-1956.
Natural Resources, Primarily in California, ca. 1943-1956
Miscellaneous printed materials, including various issues of The Conservationist.
Pamphlets.
Copies of a news release.
Legal document.
Clippings.
C: Miscellaneous Concerns, 1913-1951.
Education, 1939-1951
Miscellaneous printed materials on various topics.
Miscellany, 1913-1951
Clippings, including obituaries of various men and women and articles on California and Los Angeles.
Correspondence and Personal Ephemera
A: Incoming Correspondence, 1907-1962.
To Amelia Noel (Primrose D. Noel's Mother)
From a South American cousin, 1907-1911.
To Frances Noel, in German
From Germany primarily, n.d.-1960,.
1909-1910.
1911.
1912.
1913.
1914.
January-June 1915.
July-December 1915.
January-March 1916.
April-November 1916.
1917.
January-June 1918.
July-November 1918.
1919-1920.
1921.
February-August 1922.
September-December 1922.
1923.
1924-1926.
1927.
1928.
1929.
1930-1934.
1935-1939.
1940-1949.
1950-1962.
Letter notebook, to Aunty (Frances Noel?) from Shirley Lim, 1955.
B: Outgoing Correspondence, 1909-1957.
1909-1910.
1911.
1912-1914.
1915.
1916.
1917.
1918.
1919.
1921.
1922.
1923-1924.
1927-1928.
1929-1942.
1948-1950.
1956-1957.
C: Personal Ephemera, n.d.-1952.
Commonplace Book, ca. 1900-191?).
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Miscellaneous personal ephemera, n.d.-1952.
Includes handwritten notes.
Manuscript fragments.
Copies of poems.
Memorabilia, n.d..
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D: Duplicate Materials.
Miscellaneous printed materials duplicating holdings in the collection.
Oversize Material
Southern California Labor Press, vol.4, no.5, December 16, 1927.
Pamphlet re Los Angeles Times Disaster of 1910 by David Caplan and May A. Schmidt, 1910.