PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION: WOMEN'S COMMITTEE:

An Inventory of Its Correspondence and Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

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	Creator:	Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. Women's Division.
	Title:	Correspondence and Subject Files.
	Dates:	1916-1920 (bulk 1918).
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Correspondence, reports, minutes, form letters, publicity issuances, and other materials generated or received by the state Women's Division (more commonly known as the Woman's Committee) and its Minneapolis branch, relating primarily to such topics as Americanization, child welfare, liberty loans, food and clothing conservation, nurses and nursing, the Red Cross, social hygiene and social welfare, and women in industry.
	Quantity:	4.75 cubic feet (5 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Also includes Minneapolis and St. Paul volunteer enrollment cards and lists of ward workers; lists of local chairwomen; and material relating to contacts made with many other women's organizations and social service agencies and with the foreign language press.

The files appear to be those of Minnesota Woman's Committee chairwoman Alice Ames Winter and secretary Aimee Fisher.

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ARRANGEMENT

Arrangement is primarily alphabetical.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. Women's Division. Correspondence and Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: None

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001704095

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location
103.K.7.9B	Americanization, 1918. 4 folders.
		Appear to be responses to a questionnaire from the National Council, Minnesota Division. Included are Y.W.C.A., Young Women's Auxiliary, State Organization, 1917, Women's National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Woman's Peace Party, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Woman's Occupational Bureau, [Minnesota Woman] Suffrage Association, Nurses State Association, Needlework Guild, Minneapolis, National League for Woman's Service, Minnesota Woman's Home Missionary Union, Minnesota Garden Flower Society, Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, Library Commission, Fraternal Orders, Episcopal Women, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Revolution, Minnesota Society, Daughters of the Confederacy, Council of Jewish Women, Colonial Dames, and Collegiate Alumnae.


		[Volunteer Enrollment Cards?], Minneapolis.


Location
103.K.7.13B		Volunteer Enrollment Cards, Minneapolis. 1 packet.


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103.K.7.9B		Child Welfare Committee/Children's Year Committee. 2 folders.


		Child Welfare Survey Forms.


		Child Welfare Correspondence. 2 folders.


		Civil Service Forms and Notices. 2 folders.


		Civilian Relief Committee (Fatherless Children of France).


		Lists of City and County Chairmen.


		Community Councils.


		Committee on Public Information.


		Correspondence (except for chairmanship for counties), Women's Liberty Loan Campaign.


		Liberty Loan Correspondence.


Location
103.K.7.10F		Correspondence Relating to Nursing, Nurse Training, Nurses Reserve, Aitkin-Yellow Medicine Counties. 7 folders.


		Correspondence from County Chairmen: Liberty Loan.


		General Correspondence, 1916-1919 (bulk 1918). 3 folders.


		Dress Conservation.


		Retail Deliveries.


		Expenses and Accounts.


		State Fairs and County Fairs.


		Photographs, State and County Fair Booths. 11 items in 1 folder.


		A. Fisher. 3 folders.
			Correspondence of Aimee Fisher and Mrs. Thomas G. Winter [Alice Ames Winter], secretary and chairwoman, respectively, of the Minnesota Woman's Committee.


		Food Pledges: Captains, Precinct Helpers, General Correspondence.


		Food Conservation. 2 folders.


Location
103.K.7.11B		Legislative Committee.


		Form Letters.


		Junior Council Information.


		Letters from Washington, Chicago.


		Liberty Loan: War Savings Stamps and Miscellany.


		Liberty Loan Committee.


		Town Chairmen Lists.


		Letters Sent Out by Office.


		Mrs. McLaren: General Correspondence (Women's Liberty Loan Campaign).


		Minutes of Meetings of War Council (Women's Committee), 1917-1919. 3 folders.


		Lists of Organizations (Grocers, Schools, Workers, Teachers).


		Miscellaneous (Women's Committee).


		National Conference Report.
			Various reports of or presented to the National Conference of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense.


		Material for Foreign Language Press. 6 folders


		Notice of Chairmen Meetings Correspondence.


		Nurses and Nursing. 5 folders.


Location
103.K.7.12F		Hannah Patterson [National Woman's Committee].


		Patriotic Education.


		Information for Speakers (Bulletins).


		News Department (Publicity).


		Publicity.


		Peace Programs.


		Accredited War Organizations: Red Cross.


		Red Cross Literature and Letters.


		Rehabilitation.


		Registration.


		Reports of Committees.


		Reports and Minutes of Executive Committees: Minneapolis Office and related material. 2 folders.


		Resignations Correspondence.


		Safety Commission [Minnesota Commission of Public Safety].


		Council of National Defense: Anna Shaw, Chairwoman, Woman's Committee, National Council.


		State Conferences.


		Singing.


		State Councils of Defense.


		Slogans.


		Speakers Committee.


		State Letters.


		Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies.


		Social Agency Reports/Community Sings.


		Social Hygiene. 3 folders.


		Torch Bearers [play].


		Women in Industry Correspondence.


Location
103.K.7.13B		War Chest Correspondence and Form Letters, 1918.


		Lists of Workers/Wards.


		Lists of Ward Chairmen and Workers (Child Welfare), Minneapolis. 2 folders.


		Lists of Prospective Workers and Places of Activities.


		Reports of Women's Work/Ward Colonels.


		Correspondence and Lists of Workers.


		[Ward and Precinct Statistics].


		[Mrs. Winter's old letters?].


		[Women in Industry]. 3 folders.


		War Savings Stamps Reports.


		Woman's Committee: Personnel Lists.


		Women in Industry: Working Conditions for Women and Children Correspondence. 2 folders.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: American newspapers -- Foreign language press.; Americanization.; Child welfare -- Minnesota.; Food conservation -- Minnesota.; Nurses -- Minnesota.; Public health -- Minnesota.; Public welfare -- Minnesota.; Women -- Employment -- Minnesota.; Women in war.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Minnesota -- Finance.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Minnesota -- War Work -- Red Cross.; World War, 1914-1918 -- War Work -- Minnesota.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Minnesota.

Persons:: Fisher, Aimee.; Winter, Alice Ames, 1865-1944.

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PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION: WOMEN'S COMMITTEE:

OVERVIEW

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

ARRANGEMENT

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS