| Abstract: | The Cleveland Business and Professional Women's Club was founded in 1919 under the authority of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Since its beginning it has placed an emphasis on education as the basis for professional women's progress in Cleveland, Ohio. It supports laws affecting women's wages and advancement opportunities, vocational training of women, scholarship funds, and public education on national women's issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, financial reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, membership records, newsletters, national and state convention programs, histories of local and state federations, clippings, and printed materials. | |