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  • 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

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9912179213606533 

    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.
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    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:
    1. Correspondence.
    2. Papers.
    3. Photographs and drawings.
    4. Certificates of appointment.
    5. Scrapbooks.

    Online Items Available

    Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online: Katherine Philips Edson Papers (4 items) .

    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