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Women's Resources --Women and Employment--


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Manuscripts

MSS 92 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 54     1908-1914
Columbus, Ohio labor union records consisting of minutes, correspondence and convention proceedings. Topics include building trades, women's suffrage and an Ohio Constitutional Amendment election 1912.
MSS 252 Ohio AFL-CIO       1922-1977
Records documenting conventions, the executive board, the secretary-treasurer, the comptroller, the legislative representative, community services, education and research and public relations.
MSS 347 Frank Augustus Seiberling      1885-1960
Founder and president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and the Seiberling Rubber Company, of Akron. Business and personal correspondence, financial records, legal documents, corporate and association records.
MSS 389 Kenyon Hayden Rector      1893-1934
Columbus architect (woman). Correspondence, notes and publications chronicling her career as an architect (OSU Women's Dorm) and her work at Franklin Co. Jail, Ohio Penitentiary, County Home, Juvenile Detention Center.
MSS 506 Columbus Business and Professional Women’s Club 1920-1972
Records include minutes, financial records, club constitution and history, newspaper clippings, plus project files from Women Responsible for Accident Prevention (WRAP) and records of Youthpower Conferences.
MSS 515 Women’s Association of Commerce    1912-1963
Minutes, financial reports, notebooks, membership papers and constitutions of the women's service club founded in Columbus in 1912 by H. Anna Quinby to promote business women.
MSS 567 Ruth V. See        1958-1977
Newspaper clippings and printed material collected by See while she worked as a secretary for AFL-CIO; subjects include the merger of the AFL and CIO, workman's compensation and union elections.
MSS 590 Typographical Union, International Mailers Local 103 1938-1970
Union chartered in Columbus in 1938. Material includes correspondence, contracts and agreements, printed materials, minutes and grievances.
MSS 773 Ohio Newspaper Women’s Association    1926-1977
Non-profit professional association founded in 1902. Includes minutes, convention programs, correspondence, and writing competition guides, which document the association's efforts to encourage thought and action among newspaperwomen and to elevate standards through education and interchange.
MSS 783 Ohio Federation of Business & Professional Woman’s Club     1920-1988
Founded in 1920 to promote the interests of business and professional women in science and industry. Records include meeting minutes of the board of directors, executive committee, and conventions, along with related material, which documents the federation's position on education, health, and political issues.
MSS 919 Metropolitan Women’s Center     1979-1985
Correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, publications, and other organizational records of the center founded in 1980 to provide special opportunities for those who wanted to fully develop their professional and personal potential.
MSS 1139 Zonta International District 5   1983-1994
Meeting minutes, correspondence, conference files, membership and financial records, newsletters and related materials of the Zonta International District 5.
MSS 1144 Insurance Women of Columbus, Ohio  1942-1947
Minute books of the Insurance Women of Columbus, Ohio.
VFM 1368 Mrs. C. L. Bearsdlee Papers  May 29, 1869
Letter, May 29, 1869, from Mrs. C. L. Bearsdlee, Adrian, O., to B. D. Underhill [Adrian, O.?], threatening to sue for back wages. Written on a letterhead of Jerome Murray & Co., agents for the Howe Improved Sewing Machine, Toledo, Ohio.
VOL 335 Diary of Hanna A. Davis     1851 - 1853
Diary of Hanna A. Davis (1839-1858) who most likely worked as a house girl in New Garden, Ohio.

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State Archives

SA 80 Division of Industrial Relations. Division of Women, Minors, and Minimum Wage, Record of criminal court cases   1947-1961
Court dockets and correspondence.
SA 81 Division of Industrial Relations. Division of Women, Minors, and Minimum Wage, Attorney General's opinions   1947-1971
Opinions concerning the employment of women and minors, as well as minimum wage laws.
SA 113 Division of Industrial Relations. Division of Women, Minors, and Minimum Wage        1946-1973
Record of Violations.
SA 799 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Women’s Service Division, Information Files       1964-1986
Reports, newspaper clippings, certificates, correspondence, etc. Topics include the Equal Rights Amendment and the International Women's Year of 1975.
SA 1254 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Women’s Service Division, Women’s Recognition Day      1978-1982
Videos of Women's Recognition Day Ceremonies.
SA 1869 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame      1978-1995
Nominations, applications, news releases, correspondence, inductees' files, awards ceremony invitations, programs, photographs, and negatives.
SA 2945 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Women’s Service Division, T 78 Women’s Employment Issues    ca. 1975-1980
Slides "Women employment issues"
SA 4376 Department of Administrative Services, Equal Employment Opportunity Taskforce Composition    1992-1994
Lists statistics on the racial makeup of employees of various state agencies, including breakdown of various job categories by race. Also lists employees separated from agency by suspension, resignation, retirement, layoff, or death.

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Audiovisuals

SC 752 Ohio Newspaper Women's Association   1919 - 1973
Photographs of members of the ONWA, including a group portrait taken in 1919 at Dayton, and individual portraits of Alice VanSickle, Edna Button, Eleanor Bailey Johnson, Ruth Neely France, Ethel Bolleyn Myers, Pauline Smith, and Eleanor Clarage.
SC 1197 Pottery Factories      ca. 1890 - 1950
Interior and exterior images of pottery factories including a woman stamping dinnerware with a companies mark, groups of women finishing dinnerware and group portraits of male and female employees outside the factory.
SC 1273 Telephone Exchanges and Operators   1905 - [19--]
Photographic reproduction of an illustration of women working at a telephone exchange in the 1880's from "The Growth of Industrial Art," page 56, by Benjamin Butterworth, two photographs of women working as switchboard operators. The women in one photograph are identified on the back as employees of the Central Union Telephone Company in Canton, Ohio.
P 141 Cleveland Public Library      ca. 1900
Social conditions, transportation, canal pictures, near Cleveland, Ohio.
P 251 Jeffery Manufacturing Company Collection ca. 1890-1970s
Photographs documenting the employees, products and history of the Jeffery Manufacturing Company based in Columbus, Ohio.
P 264 Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (unprocessed)            ca. 1950-1960  
Union activities, including strikes.
P 325 Ewing Brothers   1880-1912
Family scenes, farm views, and southern Ohio.
V 31 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame          1978-1981
Video recordings of Women’s Recognition Day.
V-VFM 48 Ohio Typographical Auxiliaries Conference    1941
Film of conference of Women’s Typographical Auxiliaries at Commodore Perry Hotel, Toledo, Ohio.

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Published Materials

070.62 Oh3 The Cleveland Woman’s Press Club by Ohio Women’s Press Association. 1896
305.569 D734s Strength Enough by Robert E. Dorksen. 1980.
325.26 G129n Negro Women Employed in Domestic Service in Columbus, Ohio by Alexander D. Gaither. 1938.
331.133 B461w Women’s Work, Men’s Work: Occupational Segregation by Sex in Nineteenth Century Cincinnati, Ohio by Nancy E. Bertaux. 1988.
331.4 H245c The Consumers’ League of Ohio: Women and Reform, 1909-1937 by Dennis I. Harrison. 1975.
331.4 Oh3 Ohio Woman by Ohio Bureau of Employment Services.
331.4 T575t Final Report of Findings, Vocational Survey, Girl’s and Women’s Occupation, Toledo, Ohio by Elton O. Bartlow. 1938.
331.4 W892 Wage-earning Girls in Cincinnati
What Girls Live On, and How: A Study of the Expenditures of a Sample Group of Girls Employed in Cincinnati in 1929 Women Workers in Factories
331.405 H216 Hard Hatted Women by Hard Hatted Women of Cleveland. 1981.
331.40973 B874 Industrial Accidents to Women in New Jersey, Ohio, and Wisconsin by Kathleen B. Jennison Lowrie. 1927.
331.48783 En25r Rosie the Rubber Worker by Kathleen L. Endres. 2000.
367.05 B855o Buckeye Businewsette by the Ohio Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.
367.05 Oh3o The Ohio Business Woman by the Ohio Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.
370.113 P277o Occupational Training for Mature Women by Janice B. Patterson. 1974.
Ohio Docs OGV Report on Women in State Government. Ohio. Governor's

88/55. 21-24.1 977-978 Task Force on Women in State Government. 1979.

PA Box 392 1 Labor Laws Affecting Women, A Capsule Summary. Ohio, 1970.
PA Box 612 1 The Ohio Women Entrepreneurs Directory / Sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, 1983.
PA Box 612 2 The Ohio Women Entrepreneurs Directory / Sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, 1984.
PA Box 687 10 ONWA (Ohio Newspaper Women's Association) Constitution and bylaws, 1988.
PA Box 484 3 Gallant Women of 1977 : Migrant Farm Workers. 1977.
PA Box 630, 17 The Case for the Woman Worker / Toledo Consumers' League.

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