Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Online Items Available
Index
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Katherine Philips Edson papers
Creator:
Edson, Katherine Philips
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0235
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(4 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1909-1934
Abstract: Katherine Philips (1870-1933) was a member of the Friday Morning Club in Los Angeles (1908-11), worked on the gubernatorial
campaign of Hiram Johnson, was appointed to the California Industrial Welfare Commission, became a member of the State Republican
Party (1916-20) and later, a member of the Republican National Committee (1920). The collection consists of correspondence,
pamphlets, clippings, and memorabilia concerning Katherine Philip Edson's involvement with women in industry, minimum wage
laws, women's suffrage, dairy laws, the Progressive and Republican parties, and the Conference on the Limitation of Armament.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Katherine Edson Mershon, 1945.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Katherine Philips Edson Papers (Collection 235). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
Processed by Grace Bertalot.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating
existing description of our materials that contains language
that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they
could be described more accurately, by filling out the form
located on our website:
Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special
Collections.
Biography
Katherine Philips was born in 1870; married Charles Farwell Edson and moved to Antelope Valley, California; moved to Los Angeles,
1899; member and later vice president (1908-11) of the Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, organizing campaigns for pure milk
examinations and women's suffrage; association with Progressive Party politics brought her to work on gubernatorial campaign
of Hiram Johnson; member, Progressive Party State Central Committee, 1912-16; appointed, California Industrial Welfare Commission,
helping to pass state minimum wage and hour laws, 1913; member, executive committee, State Republican Party, 1916-20; member,
Republican National Committee, 1920; appointed, American Advisory Board at the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments in
Washington, D.C., 1921; headed California Division of Industrial Welfare, 1927-31; died in 1933.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and memorabilia concerning Katherine Philip Edson's involvement
with women in industry, minimum wage laws, women's suffrage, dairy laws, the Progressive and Republican parties, and the Conference
on the Limitation of Armament. Includes correspondence from Hiram W. Johnson.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence.
- Papers.
- Photographs and drawings.
- Certificates of appointment.
- Scrapbooks.
Online Items Available
Index
Abbott, Grace
Acheson, Dean G.
Miscellaneous:
Box 6/folder 7.
Adams, Annette A.
Letters from:
Box 2/folder 13;
References:
Box 3/folder 3.
Adams, John T.
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 14;
Letters from:
Box 3/folder 4;
References:
Addams, Jane
References:
Box 2/folders 5,9.
Allen, James M.
References:
Box 3/folder 12 (Author of Bill).
American Federation of Labor and California Federation of Labor
Anderson, James A.
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 11;
Letters from:
Box 3/folder 3.
Anderson, Mary
Letters to:
Letters from:
References:
Andrews, John B.
Letters to:
Box 1/folders 10,12,17;
Letters from:
Box 3/folders 1,7,9;
References:
Box 1/folder 10;
Miscellaneous:
Box 8.
Angelotti, Frank M.
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 11;
Letters from:
Box 3/folder 3.
Anti-Vivisection
See--Vivisection.
Athearn, Fred G.
References:
Box 3/folders 13,14.
Australia
Box 3/folder 8.
Avery, Russ
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 2;
Letters from:
Box 1/folder 2;
References:
Box 1/folder 4.
Baker, Newton D.
Letters from:
Box 2/folder 12;
References:
Box 2/folder 11.
Baldwin, Louise G.
Letters to:
Box 3/folders 12-14;
Letters from:
Box 3/folders 11-14;
Miscellaneous:
Box 6/folder 6.
Bancroft, Mrs. Philip
References:
Box 1/folder 2.
Bell, George L.
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 6;
Letters from:
References:
Box 1/folder 6.
Bell, Theodore
References:
Benjamin, Raymond
Letters to:
Box 1/folders 8-10;
Letters from:
Box 2/folders 10,13,16;
References:
Box 1/folders 8,9.
Bertola, Dr. Mariana
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 16;
References:
Box 1/folder 16.
Better America Federation
Beveridge, Albert J.
Letters to:
Box 1/folder 11;
References:
Box 2/folder 13.
Bird, Anna Child (Mrs. Charles Sumner)
References:
Boland, F. Eldred
Letters from:
Box 3/folder 2.
Bonnheim, Albert
References:
Booth, Willis H.
References:
Miscellaneous:
Box 5/folder 4.
Borah, William E.
References:
Boulder Dam
See--Hoover Dam.
Boynton, Albert E.
Brainerd, Chauncey
Brandeis, Louis
Breed, Arthur H.
Briand, Aristide
Briggs, Dr. Arthur H.
Brooks, John G.
Broughton, Esto
Brown, Adelaide, M.D.
Bulla, Robert N.
Burdette, Clara B.
Bush, David F.
Butler, Nicolas Murray
Cabaniss, George H.
California. Immigration and Housing Commission
California. Industrial Accident Commission
California. Industrial Welfare Commission
California Civic League
Box 3/folder 2.
California Conference of Social Agencies
California Economic Research Council
Box 5/folder 9.
California Federation of Labor
See--American Federation of Labor
California Federation of Women's Clubs
Caminetti, Anthony
Box 1/folder 5.
Canning and Preserving--Laws and Legislation--California
Carnahan, Herschel L.
Carroll, Mollie Ray
Cartwright, George W.
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Chandler, Harry
Child Labor
China
Christman, Elisabeth
Cole, Olive C.
Commons, John R.
Commonwealth Club
Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-22
Coolidge, Calvin
Coolidge, Mary R.
Councils of Defense
Cox, James M.
Craig, Gavin W.
Crail, Joel S.
Creel, George
Crocker, William H.
Cullinan, Eustace
Curtis, Charles G.
Daniels, G.B.
Darrow, Clarence
Daugherty, Harry M.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Box 1/folders 14,19.
Davis, James J.
Dawes, Charles G.
Democratic Party
Dempster, Charles W.
Depression
Deutsch, Monroe
Devlin, Frank R.
Dewson, Mary W.
Dickson, Edward A.
Disarmament
De Young, Meichel H.
Dobyns, Fletcher
Dohrmann, A.B.C.
Dover, Elmer
Doyle, Marion Wade
Dreter, Mary E.
Duval, Walter H.
Earl, Edwin T.
Earl, Guy C.
Edson, Charles F.
Edson Family
Elections--California
Elections--U.S.
Electric Power Production
See--Water Resources Development.
Eliel, Harriet J.
Eliel, Paul
Ellis Mrs. Overton G.
Emigration and Immigration--U.S.
Employment of Women
See--Woman--Employment.
Equal Rights Amendment, Proposed
Eshleman, John M.
European War, 1914-1918
Filene, Edward A.
Fischer, Louis
Fisher, Irving
Flint, Frank P.
References:
Box 1/folder 13.
Foltz, Clara Shortridge
Foreign Loans
Box 3/folders 1,11.
Foreign Relations
See--U.S.--Foreign Relations.
France
Frankfurter, Felix
U.S. Federal Commission On Industrial Relations--1914-1917
Box 2/folders 5,6,8,10,12 (?).
Fredericks, John D.
French, Will J.
Freund, Ernst
Fries, Amos
Gainer, Helen
See--Helen Gainer Minimum Wage Case.
Gallagher, andrew J.
Garfield, James A.
Gavit, John
Germany
Gibson, Mary S.
Gompers, Samuel
Gooding, Frank R.
Green, William
Griffin, Frank
Guggenheim, Florence S. (Mrs. Daniel)
Guggenheim, Harry.
Haldeman, Harry M.
Hale, Marshal
Hamilton, Pop
Hard, William
Harding, Florence Kling
Harding, Warren G.
Harris, Morris B.
Harrison, Maurice E.
Harron, Marion J.
Haskins, L.A.
Hayes, Jay O.
Haynes, Dora (Mrs. John R.)
Haynes, John Randolph, M.D.
Hays, Ray W.
Hays, Will H.
Hearst, William Randolph
Helen Gainer Minimum Wage Case
Heney, Francis J.
Herrick, Elinor M.
Hichborn, Franklin
Hicks, Nettie Hayden
Hillman, Sidney
Holcombe, Arthur N.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, Lou Henry (Mrs. Herbert)
Hoover Dam
Hornblower, William B.
Hotchkiss, Willard E.
Hours of Labor
Howe, Louis Mchenry
Hudson, Manley O.
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hunter, Robert
Ickes, Harold L.
Ihlder, John
Immigration
See--Emigration and Immigration--U.S.
India
Box 3/folder 2.
Indians, Treatment of
Box 5/folder 8.
Industrial Welfare Commission
See--California. Industrial Welfare Commission.
Ingels, Russel R.
Insurance, Unemployment
International Courts
See--World Court.
Industrial Workers of the World
Irish, John P.
Italy
Box 3/folder 5.
Jackson, Grant
James, William P.
Japan
Japanese In California
Johnson, Ethel Mclean
Johnson, Hiram W.
Johnson, Hugh S.
Jones, Herbert C.
Kahn, Florence Prag (Mrs. Julius)
Kahn, Julius
Keesling, Francis V.
Keetch, Arthur
Kelley, Florence
Kellogg, Frederick W.
Kellor, Frances A.
Kenney, Elizabeth
Kent, William
Kerensky
Keynes, John Maynard
Kinney, Mabel E.
Knowland, Joseph R.
Knox, Philander C.
Koster, Frederick J.
Koverman, Ida R.
Labor and Labor Unions
La Follette, Robert
Lamar, Joseph R.
Langdon, William Henry
Laughlin, Gail
Laurie, Annie (Winifred S. Bonfils)
Lawler, Oscar
League For Women's Service
League of Nations
League of Women Voters
Letts, Arthur
Lewis, William Draper
Lippincott, Joseph B.
Lippman, Walter
Lissner, Meyer
Lloyd George, David
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr.
Louis, Henry W.
Lubin, Isador
Lubin, Dr. Simon J.
Luce, Edgar A.
Lyon, Charles
Mcadoo, William G.
Mcbride, Dr. James H.
Mccabe, Alexander
Mccarthy, P.H.
Mcclatchy, Charles K.
Mcclatchy, Valentine Stuart
Mccormick, (Joseph) Medili
Mccormick, Paul J.
Mccormick, Ruth (Mrs. Medill)
Macfarlane, Peter Clark
Mckenna, Joseph
Mclaughlin, John P.
Mcleod, George
Mcnab, John L.
Mcnabb, Samuel B.
Madsen, Martin C.
Mathewson, Walter G.
Merchants and Manufacturers Association
Merriam, Charles E.
Merritt, Ralph P.
Mexicans In California
Mexico
Minorities
See--Mexicans In California, Japanese In California, and Indians, Treatment of.
Minimum Wage
See--Wages--Minimum Wage.
Morehouse, Edward W.
Morgan, Anne
Morrison, Willis I.
Morrisson, Mary
Mulholland, William
Murasky, Frank J.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Myers, Louis W.
National Consumers League
National Municipal League
National Recovery Act
National Woman's Party
National Women's Trade Union League
New, Harry S.
Newspapers, California
Neylan, John Francis
Noel, Frances
Nolan, John I.
Obenauer, Marie L.
Older, Fremont
Opium Trade
Box 12.
Orr, Mrs. James W.
Otis, Harrison Gray
Owen, Robert L.
Pan-American Treaties
See--Treaties.
Pan-Pacific Women's Association
Park, Maud Wood
Paul, Alice
Peixotto, Jessica
Penrose, Boies
Perkins, Frances
Pershing, John J.
Phelan, James D.
Phipps, Lawrence C.
Pinchot, Amos
Pinchot, Cornelia B.
Pinchot, Gifford
Poindexter, Miles
Pomerene, Atlee
Porter, Stephen G.
Pound, Roscoe
Powell, Thomas Reed
Progressive Party
Prohibition
Railroad Commission, California
Box 1/folders 6,10.
Reed, John
Republican Party
Requa, Mark L.
Richardson, Friend W.
Robins, Margaret Drier
Robins, Raymond
Robinson, Henry M.
Roche, Theodore J.
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rodgers, William L.
Rolph, James, Jr.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Root, Elihu
Rowell, Chester H.
Ruef, Abe
Russia
Box 2/folder 14.
Ryan, John A.
Sandford, J.B.
Save The Redwoods League
Scharrenberg, Paul
Schlesinger, Ben F.
Seibold, Louis
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Severance, Caroline M.
Sherwin, Belle
Shortridge, Samuel M.
Simons, Grace C.
Sinclair, Upton
Slattery, Harry
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Walter George
Smoot, Reed
Social Health Insurance
Socialism
Soule, George Henry, Jr.
Southern Pacific Railroad
Box 1/folder 4,5.
Spreckels, John D.
Sproul, Robert G.
Squier, George O.
Stanfield, Robert N.
Stephens, William D.
Stimson, Marshall
Sullivan, Matt I.
Sutherland, George H.
Sutherland, Howard
Swing, Philip D.
Taft, William Howard
Tariff
Box 6/folder 6.
Taxation--California
Taxpayers' Association
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Box 1/folder 14.
Telfer, Robert
Treaties
Unemployment Compensation
See--Insurance, Unemployment.
U.S.--Foreign Relations
U.S. Supreme Court
Upton, Harriet Taylor
Vandegrift, Rolland A.
Van Renesselaer, Lolita
Vittum, Harriet E.
Vivisection; Medical Ideas
Von Der Nienberg, Bertha
Wadsworth Amendment, Proposed
Box 1/folders 7,14-16.
Wages--Minimum Wage
Wallace, Albert J.
Walsh, Frank P.
Water Resources Development
Webb, Ulysses S.
Weeks, John Wingate
Weinstock, Harris
West, George P.
West, T.C.
Wetmore, Maude
White, William Allen
Wilbur, Curtis D.
Wilcox, Delos F.
Will, Arthur P.
Willebrandt, Mabel W.
Williams, Helen K.
Wilson, J. Stitt
Wilson, William B.
Wilson, Woodrow
Winter, Alice A.
Woman-Employment
Woman--Suffrage
Woman's Party
See--National Woman's Party.
Women's Land Army
Wood, Leonard
Woodruff, Clinton R.
Woolwine, Thomas L.
Working Conditions
Works, John D.
Works, Lewis R.
World Court
World War,
Young, Clement C.
Young, Stark--Miscellaneous:
Box 10.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Disarmament.
California -- Politics and government -- 1850-1950.
Labor movement -- California.
Public welfare.
Minimum wage -- Law and legislation -- California.
Women -- Suffrage.
Dairy laws -- California.
Political parties -- United States.
Edson, Katherine Philips, 1870-1933--Archives.
Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945--Correspondence.
League of Women Voters of California