Noontime factory Bible class at a Birmingham, Alabama, YWCA (ca. 1915).
Source: National Board, YWCA Archives.
YWCA Industrial Girls’ Club, Kalamazoo, Michigan “Rosenbaum’s Add-a-Link-52 Hustlers” (no date).
Source: National Board, YWCA Archives.
Industrial girl delegates at the Blue Ridge YWCA Conference (no date, probably 1920s).
Source: National Board, YWCA Archives.
An English class at the New York Women’s Trade Union League Headquarters (early 1920s).
Source: New York State Department of Labor Archives.
Directing Board of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers (June 1921). Left to right: Dr. Susan Kingsburry, Miss Ernestine Friedman, Mr. Henry Clay, Dean Hilda Smith, Miss Leila Houghteling.
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
The Machine Dance. Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers (1932).
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
The Robots. Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers (1932).
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
An ILGWU symposium on women in the labor movement (July 1925) at Unity House, Forest Park, Pennsylvania. Fannia Cohn is at the far right, seated on the platform steps.
Source: New York Public Library, Fannia Cohn Papers, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, Astor, Lenox and Tildeu Foundations.
Play entitled “Work and Wealth” produced by Hollace Ransdell. Southern Summer School (1929).
Source: Michael Studio, Asheville, N.C.
Students at the Southern Summer School for Women Workers perform “Mother Jones’ Tin-Pan Army” (1933).
Source: National Archives and Records Collection.
Summer School for Office Workers, Chicago (1940).
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
Unemployed young women get training in domestic arts in a WPA educational camp for household employees in Michigan (ca. 1934).
Source: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
FERA Educational Camps for Women, 1934 and 1935.
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
A performance about domestic workers at a WPA program in Illinois (mid 1930s).
Source: National Archives and Records Collection.
Hudson Shore study class, 1939.
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
Unemployed women at WPA Camp Eleanor Roosevelt perform a puppet show (1935).
Source: National Archives and Records Collection.
Palmers’ Lodge, South Carolina, a WPA educational camp for unemployed women (ca. 1935).
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
An educational trip to Washington, D.C. (1930s).
Source: Archives of New York State Department of Labor.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Bessie Hillman, and Hilda Smith at a graduation banquet of the Hudson Shore Labor School for Women Workers (early 1948).
Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
A workshop at the 1975 Michigan Summer School for Women Workers, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Source: Labor Studies Center, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan.
A trade union women’s studies class at Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, New York City (late 1970s).
Source: Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Public Employee Federation Summer Women’s Conference in Lake Placid, New York, 1982.
Source: Service Employees International Union.