Guide to the Women's Employment Collection
Guide to the Women's Employment Collection
Collection number: D194X.1
Ella Strong Denison LibraryLibraries of The Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California
- Processed by:
- Special Collections Staff
- Date Completed:
- 2004
- Encoded by:
- Special Collections Staff
Scope and Content of Collection
- Series 1: Publications, circa 1897-1980
- Series 2: Ephemera, circa 1901-1950
- Series 3: Writings, no date
Series 1. circa 1897-1980 Ephemera
"General Suggestions for Household Employment", a leaflet, publisher unknown, Los Angeles undated
"Married Women and Work", flyer issued by the London Society for Women's Service 1923 January
Commander, Lydia Kingsmill. "Who Stole the Work?", leaflet printer unknown undated
"Recommended Standards for Employment of Women", leaflet issued by the U.S. Dept. of Labor and the Women's Bureau 1950
"Eight-Hour Law for Female Employees", a flyer issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California 1925 July
"Obey the New Ten Hour Law", a flyer issued by the Women's Trade Union League 1911?
Addition, Mrs. L.F. "The Purchasing Power of Woman and Her Relation to Organized Labor", a Department Leaflet (Labor) no. 179, printed by Ruby I. Gilbert undated
A leaflet advertising the book "American Labor Unions", by Helen Marot undated
"Standards Governing Employment of Women in Industry", a leaflet issued by the Woman in Industry Service, U. S. Department of Labor 1918 December 12
"Program of Labor Songs", a flyer issued by the members of the Hull-House Music School 1901 May 15
"The National Women's Trade Union League", a leaflet issued by the National Women's Trade Union League undated
"Summary of Organization Work", a leaflet issued by the National Women's Trade Union League 1917 June
"The National Women's Trade Union League of America", a leaflet issued by the National Women's Trade Union League of America 1919
Register for the Seventh Annual Convention Southern District City Club 1926 June 12-13
Register for the Eighth Annual Convention Southern District City Club 1927 June
"Vacation Time: Remember the Department Store Girls", a leaflet issued by the Consumers' League of the City of New York 1914
"Women in Home and Industry", a leaflet issued by the Labor Party of Illinois 1920
"Employment Agencies", a leaflet issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, State of California 1903 February 12
"School for Active Workers in the Labor Movement", a leaflet issued by the National Women's Trade Union League 1915
Marot, Helen. "Why It Is, What It Is, Who It Is, Where It Is", a leaflet issued by the National Women's Trade Union League of America (two copies) undated
"Womenfolk of the Building Trade Workers!", a flyer issued by the Women Workers' Organization 1927 January
"Application For Membership", National Women's Trade Union League of America undated
A program for the "Third Interstate Conference Called by the Women's Trade Union League", Missouri and Illinois 1916 October
Series 2. circa 1901-1950 Publications
Keen, Dora. "A Woman's Ascent of the Matterhorn", The Outlook 1910 May 28
Breckinridge, S.P. "Political Equality for Women and Women's Wages", American Academy of Political and Social Science undated
Kyle, Joanna Nicholls. "Women as Inventors", Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly undated
"Women and Work in England", The International Monthly (end of article missing) undated
Pearce, I.D. "Women and Sweated Industries", The Westminster Review 1907 December
Washington, Booker T. "The Man Furthest Down: The Women Who Work in Europe", The Outlook ( two copies) 1911 July 1
Johnson, Clifton. "Women Workers of France", Harper's Bazaar undated
Stanley, the Hon. Maude. "The First Working Girls' Club", The Outlook 1897 September 4
Stanley, the Hon. Maude. "Country Holidays for Working Girls", The Outlook 1899 October 7
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. "In Chains", publication unknown 1911
Berry, Olive Shippen. "Women Workers of Ireland", Harper's Bazaar (vol. XXXIII, no. 41) 1900 October 13
"Policewomen in Chicago", The Literary digest 1913 August 23
"Laws Governing the Employment of Women in New York State", pamphlet compiled by the Bureau of Women in Industry, New York State Industrial Commission 1920
Cutler, Martha. "Woman's Work in Decoration", Harper's Bazaar (vol. XXXIX, no. 67) undated
"A Woman in Wall Street", The Atlantic Monthly 1925 August
Miller, Joseph Dana. "Women as Architects", Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 1900? June
"Women and the Legal Profession", The American Review of Reviews undated
Young, Rose. "Your Daughter's Career if She Wants to be a Lawyer", publication unknown undated
Baury, Louis. "Women Who Conduct Great Businesses", The World Today 1909 September
Gage, Matilda Joslyn. "Woman as an Inventor", The North American Review (vol. CXXXVI, no. 318) undated
Comstock, Sarah. "Your Daughter's Career, If She Wants to be a Nurse", publication unknown undated
Astervart, Jane? "Women's Colleges and Their Women Executives", The Booklovers Magazine (vol.II, no. IV) 1903 October
Jones, Harriet B. "The Woman Physician", publication unknown (end of article missing) undated
Robert, Jeanne. "Woman and the Wage Question", The American Review of Reviews undated
Smith, Bertha H. "What Women Are Doing in the West", publication unknown undated
Clark, Sue Anislie and Edith Wyatt. "Working - Girls' Budgets", McClure's Magazine (vol. XXXV, no. 6) 1910 October
Clark, Sue Ainslie and Edith Wyatt. "Working - Girls' Budgets", publication unknown undated
Colton, Olive A. "They or We? A New Spirit in Industry", publication unknown undated
Simmons, Eleanor Booth. "The Women Behind the Books", The Woman Citizen 1925 June 27
Dodd, Alvin E. "Training Women to Earn -- A National Movement", Journal of Home Economics (vol. IX, no. 10) 1917 October
Stevenson, Bertha. "The Young Business Woman's Lunch", Good Housekeeping Magazine undated
Anderson, Mary. "The Growing Army of Women Workers", The New York Times Current History undated
"Six Million Business Women", publication unknown undated
"Women in Industry", Monthly Labor Review undated
"Lessons in Community and National Life", leaflet printed by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (community leaflet no. 23) 1918 May 1
Van Vorst, Bessie. "The Woman That Toils", Everybody's Magazine (vol. VIII, no. 1) 1903 January
Fallaws, Alice Katherine. "The Reduced Gentlewoman", Ainslee's Magazine (end of article missing) undated
Van Vorst, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst. "The Woman That Toils -- Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl", Everybody's Magazine (vol. VII, no. 3) 1902 September
"Woman's Work and Wages", publication unknown (end of article missing) undated
Moran, Francis J. Clay. "The Sweating System", The North American Review undated
Shuler, Marjorie. "An Organization of Business Women", The American Review of Reviews undated
"White Collar Immigrants Increase", News-Bulletin-National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (no. 33) 1929 September 16
"Mrs. H.R. Britton, Baseball Magnate", publication unknown 1912
Blake, Lillie Devereux and Van Buren Denslaw. "Are Women Fairly Paid?" publication unknown undated
Mall, Janice. "Upgrading Women's Jobs", Los Angeles Times 1980 January 13
Blackwell, Alice Stone. "Fatigue and Efficiency -- A Treatise on Labor by Josephine Goldmark", The Woman's Journal 1912 January 20
Kirkwood, Edith Brown. "The Business Woman's Lunch", Good Housekeeping Magazine undated
Pettengill, Lillian. "Toilers of the Home -- A College Woman's Experiences as a Domestic Servant", Everybody's Magazine undated
Harper, Ida Husted. "Women Ought to Work", The Independent undated
Mabee, Cora E. "Minimum Wages for Women in California", Journal of Applied Sociology undated
Wright, Carroll D. "Why Women are Paid Less than Men", publication unknown undated
Hard, William and Rehta Childe Dorr. "The Woman's Invasion", Everybody's Magazine undated
Swartz, Nelle. "Women Who Work", The Survey 1922 May 13
Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood", The Outlook (end of article missing) 1911 December 23
Howard, Randall R. "Ranching for Herself", Sunset, the Pacific Monthly undated
Hard, William. "The Woman of To-morrow", Everybody's Magazine 1910 August
MacLean, Annie Marion. "Four Months in a Model Factory", The Century Magazine undated
Hughes, Mrs. Lois Pierce. "Opportunities for Women in the Modern Hotel", Journal of Home Economics 1921 April
Clark, Sue Ainslie and Edith Wyatt. "Working-Girls' Budgets", publication unknown undated
Neale, Margaretta. "Keeping Women on the Payroll", publication unknown undated
Earle, Mary Tracy. "The Red Rose", The Lamp (vol. XXVI, no. 4) 1903 May
"The Story of Rose Fortune, A New York Working Girl", Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (vol. LVII, no. 2) 1903 December
Frowne, Sadie. "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl", The Independent undated
Stickney, Mary E. "Mining Women of Colorado", The Era undated
Rays, Mrs. Charles Kirkland. "Woman's Place in the Missionary Enterprise", The Missionary Review of the World 1925 June
Howard, George Elliot. "Changed Ideals and Status of the Family and the Public Activities of Women", The Annals of the American Academy (end of article missing) undated
Van Vorst, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst. "The Woman that Toils", Everybody's Magazine undated
Reynolds, Minnie J. "A Revival of Feminine Handicrafts", Everybody's Magazine undated
MacLean, Annie Marion. "The Sweat-Shop in Summer", The American Journal of Sociology (vol. IX, no. 3) 1903 November
Van Vorst, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst. "The Woman Who Toils", Everybody's Magazine undated
Maule, Mary K. "What is a Shop-Girl's Life?", publication unknown 1907 September
Smith, Bertha H. "The Policewoman", Good Housekeeping Magazine 1911 March
Bloomingdale, E.W. and Josephine Goldmark. "The Inner Working of a Department Store", The Outlook part I by Bloomingdale, part II by Goldmark 1915 June 2
Emerson, Anne. "Behind the Scenes in a Department Store", The Outlook 1915
Van Vorst, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst. "The Woman that Toils", Everybody's Magazine undated
"The Woman's Invasion", Everybody's Magazine (beginning and end of article missing) undated
Thomas, W.I. "Woman and the Occupations", The American Magazine 1900 September
West, Marian. "The First Woman Ambulance Surgeon", Everybody's Magazine (end of article missing) 1903 September
"A Far Cry From Woman's Place in the Home: Miss Hilda Johnson of Brooklyn, Employed as a Deep- Sea Diver …" a photograph from the New York Times 1924 November 23
Barry, John D. "Women as Judges", The Bulletin 1912 September 10
"Light Work for Ladies", The Woman Citizen 1917 June 9
"Farm Women", San Bernardino Sun 1927
"Paper Run By Women", publication unknown 1900
Eaton, Jeanette. "No Other Occupation", St. Louis Labor 1930 June 25
"The Only One of Her Kind", publication unknown 1928
"The Lady Blacksmith of New York", publication unknown 1938 January 30
Blitzstein, Madelin. "Women Who Handle 'Man-sized' Jobs", San Francisco Chronicle 1936 July 26
"Would Bar Women From Foundries", Berkeley Gazette 1912 February 15
Johnson, Violet Olive. "Taking Her Wham", The News 1929 October 31
Carr, Frederick W. "Women's Place in Labor Unions", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 May 9
"Women in Industry", New York Times A review of F.W. Tickner's "Women in English Economic History" 1923 August 12
"Organizing Working Women; Interview with Miss Mary Macarthur", The Christian Commonwealth 1914 March 18
"Mobilisation of Britain's Woman Power in the Industrial Effort", Bulletins from Britain (supplement no. 35) 1941 April 30
Wallerstein, Bertha. "The Working-Woman's Idea", The Nation undated
Swartz, Nelle. "A Call To Arms", The Woman Voter 1915 May
Woodward, Helen. "Do Women Get a Chance in Business?", Smart Set 1929 November
"Women in Industry", The Labor Clarion 1917 December 7
"Statistics of Occupations in this Country", Literary Digest 1914 October 10
"Efficiency Engineer", "Good Business", New York Call 1918 December 16
Wadlin, Horace G. "Why Women Earn Smaller Wages Than Men", The Club Worker 1903 January
"State Canning Industry Employs 20,000 Women", San Francisco? 1916 December 1
Shuler, Marjorie. "The Effects of Women in Business: Women Secretaries Serve Well Though Cloaked in Anonymity", The Christian Science Monitor 1931 November 16
"Uncle Sam As Woman's Boss", New York Times 1926 April 18
Malkiel, Theresa. "Woman's Industrial Advance", publication unknown 1923 July 22
"Women Who Lead the Way", New York paper? 1921 March
"Woman Works 12 Hours a Day; Week's Pay $3.40", Bulletin 1913
"Objects of Woman's Label League", San Francisco Star 1911
"Uncle Sam's Silly Prejudice", La Follette's 1911 October 7
Nelson, Caroline. "San Francisco's Workingwomen", Labor Clarion 1912 March 1
"Miss Ross Schneiderman, Leader of 20,000 Women", publication unknown 1913 February 23
"Women Toilers: Look into Their Lives Through Photographic Windows", The Delineator 1912 May
Todd, Lawrence. "Chains Pay $12 to Women", Federated Press? 1930 February 8
Stein, Hannah. "Economic Crash Helpful to Women--Dorothy Scarborough", Chronicle 1931 November 8
"Business for Women", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 March 8
"Not For 'Pin Money'", publication unknown 1938 March 19
"5th of U.S. Women Gainfully Employed", publication unknown 1937
Estcourt, Zilfa. "Y.W.C.A. Survey Reveals That Most Young Business Women Help to Support Their Families", San Francisco Chronicle 1938 March 20
"Survey Shows Women Work From Necessity", San Francisco News 1938 March 15
"Women Advance in Labor World, Survey Reveals", publication unknown 1933 May 8
Estcourt, Zilfa. "Here's Some Hope and Advice for Women Who Are 'Making a Job of Getting a Job'", San Francisco Chronicle 1939 June 4
Adams, Mildred. "The Swelling Tide of Working Women", The New York Times Magazine 1936 June 28
"Why Do Women Work?", San Francisco Chronicle 1938 May 22
"Wages for Women Show General Improvements", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 January 12
Miller, Grace. "Women Advised to Learn New Occupational Skills", The Christian Science Monitor 1952 June 23
Ripley, Josephine. "Working Wives Lead Women in Jobs", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 April 21
"Unequal Pay For Women", Suffragist 1918 July 27
"Girl Vagrants Roam Country; Haunt 'Jungles'", publication unknown 1933 August 4
"Two Society Women as Labor Leaders", publication unknown 1909
F.R.W. "To the Editor of 'The American'", The American? 1917 January 19
"No Lady Blacksmiths Wanted On This Job", Washington Star 1915 March 18
"Work-A- Day Women", The Common Cause 1914 April 9
"Fannie Hurst, Famous Authoress, Declares Women Need Awakening", Star Bulletin 1915 February 13
Hornaday, Mary. "Work, Women and Wages", The Christian Science Monitor 1936 June 13
"An Appeal to Women's Pride", Labor Clarion 1910 April 8
Ripley, Josephine. "Women's Business Role: Reason for Few Top Jobs", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 October 2
"Women's Union to End After 47 Years", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 May 27
McGough, Jennie. "Old-line Politics and the Working Girl", Labor Clarion 1914 March 13
Ruhl, Arthur. "Out of a Job- News of the Unemployed", Colliers 1908 May
"How Long a Day Should Women Work?", The Survey 1923 April 15
"The Tent City of Willimantic", Life and Labor Bulletin (vol. III, no. 10) 1925 September
Kelly, Mary. "Woman Told Self-Initiative Key to Getting Top Jobs", The Christian Science Monitor 1952 June 26
Hornaday, Mary. "Women Gain New Fields to Follow Mother Roles", The Christian Science Monitor 1950 July 6
"Chapter 258, sections 1-3: An act limiting the hours of labor of females …", California, publication unknown 1911 March 22
"A League of Working Women", The New Republic 1918 February 9
"Number of Working Wives Sets U.S. Record", The San Diego Union 1952 May 28
"World's News About Women", The Woman Citizen 1925 June 27
"Taking Care of the World's Women Munition-Makers", The Literary Digest 1917 January 27
D'Alviella, Helen Goblet. "Women of Belgium", The Woman's Press 1923 March
"Mothering the Munition-Maker", The New Republic 1917 October 6
"Women Who help Boss Us", The Literary Digest 1925 January 17
Hard, Clara Taylor. "Woman's Labor in Japan", The Woman's Press 1923 March
"Women Ask to be Protected from their Friends", The Literary Digest 1926 February 6
"Women in $6,000 to $30,000 Jobs", publication unknown 1919 July
Marsh, Helena. "Making Good in New York City", Good Housekeeping 1924 December
"Supervision of Women's War Work", The Survey 1917 June 30
Carpenter, Charles E. "The Most Remarkable Business Woman I Ever Knew", The American Magazine 1920 December
"The Labor Shortage", The New Republic 1917 October 20
Hewes, Amy. "Women as Munition Makers", The Survey 1917 January 6
Lion, Hortense M. "The Boycott on Wives", The Outlook 1923 December 12
Ross, Mary. "Working Women Who Get Hurt", The Survey 1924 December 15
Blatch, Harriot Stanton. "Do Women Want Protection?", The Nation (vol. 116, no. 3004) 1923 January 31
"Women's Wages", The Nation (vol. 108, no. 2799) 1919 February 22
Martin, John. "The Four Ages of Woman"- a series of five articles and rejoinders to an editorial, The Survey 1916 February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25, April 15
Summer, Allene M. "They Call Her The Poor Working Girl --- She Is!", The Ohio Woman Voter 1927 March
Dixon, Louise. "The Average Stenographer", Success 1913? September
Rollins, Mabel. "I Won't Work for a Woman!", Collier's The National Weekly 1924 November 29
Selden, Charles A. "The Most Powerful Lobby in Washington", The Ladies Home Journal 1922 April
Nixdorff, Natalie W. "The Training of a Professional Nurse", The Ladies Home Journal undated
Series 3. Writings no date
"The New Occupations for Women", a four page typescript undated