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Priscilla A. Golding Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-021
Abstract
This collection contains meeting minutes; notes; reports; articles; correspondence; memorandums; and other material belonging to Priscilla Golding, an advocate for women in highway construction. Golding was an active member of Northeast Women in Transportation (NEWIT), which was created to help women and minorities gain access funds from the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 for training, support services, and employment in the transportation industry. For...
Dates:
1994-2000; circa 1990s
Brigid O'Farrell Tradeswomen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-035
Abstract
This collection documents the academic and professional career of Brigid O’Farrell, an activist and independent scholar within the women’s labor rights movement. The material briefly includes her time as a student in graduate school, as a researcher for the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, and as an active member in various tradeswomen and women's rights organizations, such as Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the National Council of Women’s Organization, and more, as an...
Dates:
1976-2022; undated
Ronnie Sandler Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-014
Abstract
This collection documents the work of Ronnie Sandler, an activist in the tradeswomen’s movement. Much of Sandler’s work focused on expanding women’s access to fields where they had not traditionally been employed, such as building trades and transportation. The bulk of the collection focuses on Sandler’s efforts to organize with tradeswomen’s organizations to access funds from the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991, in order to train women for nontraditional...
Dates:
1942-2016; undated; Majority of material found within 1990-1998
Tradeswomen Archive Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-036
Abstract
This collection contains articles; clippings; magazines; newsletters; t-shirts; stickers; pins; tote bags; conference programs; photographs; flyers; and other material donated by women who worked in trades' professions (tradeswomen) such as: electricians, ironworkers, carpenters, and other trades. Also included is material related to tradeswomen involvement in labor unions, and the nontraditional women's occupation movement. For digitized material related to all tradeswomen archives...
Dates:
1971-2023; undated; Majority of material found within 1990-2020
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- Golding, Priscilla 2
- Northeast Women in Transportation (NEWIT) 2
- United States. Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act of 1991 2
- Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc. 2
- Andrews, Thomas H. (Thomas Hiram), 1953- 1
- Boston Tradeswomen's Network 1
- Brown, Hattie 1
- Butler, Linda Lyons 1
- Dassler, Lee 1
- Equal Rights Advocates 1
- Frank, Sandra 1
- Gilbert, Jane 1
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1
- Leahy, Patrick 1
- Maine. Department of Transportation 1
- McCormick, Dale 1
- Mitchell, George J. (George John), 1933- 1
- Morella, Constance A., 1931- 1
- Ms. Foundation for Women (U.S.) 1
- National Tradeswomen’s Network 1
- New Hampshire. Department of Transportation 1
- Northern New England Tradeswomen, Inc. 1
- O'Farrell, Brigid 1
- Perkins, Janet 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Sanders, Bernard 1
- Sandler, Ronnie 1
- Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust 1
- Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association 1
- Takagi, Tani 1
- Tradeswomen of Philadelphia/Women in Non-traditional Work, Inc. (TOP/WIN) 1
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry 1
- United States. Department of Labor 1
- United States. Federal Highway Administration 1
- WOMEN Unlimited, Inc. 1
- Wisconsin. Department of Transportation 1
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