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•Child labor -- Law and legislation -- Ohio (2)
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•Consumers League of Ohio (2)
•Consumers' leagues -- Ohio (2)
•Labor -- Ohio (2)
•Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio (2)
•Pressure groups -- Ohio (2)
•Wages -- Ohio (2)
•Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio (2)
•Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio (2)
•Work environment -- Ohio (2)
•Working class women -- Ohio (2)
•Working class women -- Ohio. (2)
•Children -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. (1)
•Consumer movements -- Ohio (1)
•Consumer movements -- Ohio. (1)
•Consumers League of Ohio. (1)
•Consumers' leagues -- Ohio. (1)
•Depressions -- 1929. (1)
•Diaries. (1)
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•Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. (1)
•Labor -- Ohio. (1)
•Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio. (1)
•Pressure groups -- Ohio. (1)
•Wages -- Ohio. (1)
•Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. (1)
•Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Diaries. (1)
•Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. (1)
•Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. (1)
•Work environment -- Ohio. (1)
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1Title:  Laura Barrett papers     
 Creator:  Barrett, Laura 
 Dates:  1930-1945 
 Abstract:  Laura Barrett lived at 1314 West 115th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression and World War II. She worked as a cook and house mother for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house at Western Reserve University during the school year in the early 1930s and then worked as a cook and housekeeper at Rose-Mary Center in Euclid, Ohio, later in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection consists of thirteen diaries and one financial ledger book. 
 Call #:  MS 5282 
 Extent:  0.40 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Working class women -- Ohio. | Depressions -- 1929. | Diaries. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Diaries. | Housekeeping.
 
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2Title:  Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Consumers League of Ohio 
 Dates:  1899-1995 
 Abstract:  The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in 1900 as part of a social justice movement of the late nineteenth century which resulted in the formation of many consumer leagues. The Consumer's League of Ohio, founded only one year after the National Consumers League, began in April 1900. Bell Sherwin (daughter of one of the men who founded the Sherwin-Williams company) helped set the Ohio league in motion and served as the first president of the organization. The Consumers League of Ohio was initially run out of the Goodrich House and dedicated its efforts to the improvement of working conditions for women and children employed in factories and retail establishments. See finding aid for complete historical note. The collection consists of administrative documents, board lists, bulletins, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and publications. 
 Call #:  MS 4933 
 Extent:  4.20 linear feet (5 containers) 
 Subjects:  Consumers League of Ohio | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio | Consumer protection -- Ohio | Pressure groups -- Ohio | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio | Labor -- Ohio | Working class women -- Ohio | Work environment -- Ohio | Wages -- Ohio | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio | Child labor -- Law and legislation -- Ohio
 
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3Title:  Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series III     
 Creator:  Consumers League of Ohio 
 Dates:  1925-1994 
 Abstract:  The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in 1900 as part of a social justice movement of the late nineteenth century which resulted in the formation of many consumer leagues. The Consumer's League of Ohio, founded only one year after the National Consumers League, began in April 1900. Bell Sherwin (daughter of one of the men who founded the Sherwin-Williams company) helped set the Ohio league in motion and served as the first president of the organization. The Consumers League of Ohio was initially run out of the Goodrich House and dedicated its efforts to the improvement of working conditions for women and children employed in factories and retail establishments. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, brochures, by-laws, charts, constitutions, correspondence, court documents, financial information, flyers, forms, journal articles, legislation, lists, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, programs, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, speeches, statements, and testimony. 
 Call #:  MS 5129 
 Extent:  22.00 linear feet (22 containers) 
 Subjects:  Consumers League of Ohio | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio | Consumer movements -- Ohio | Consumer protection -- Ohio | Pressure groups -- Ohio | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio | Labor -- Ohio | Working class women -- Ohio | Work environment -- Ohio | Wages -- Ohio | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio | Child labor -- Law and legislation -- Ohio
 
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4Title:  Consumers League of Ohio Records     
 Creator:  Consumers League of Ohio 
 Dates:  1900-1977 
 Abstract:  The Consumers League of Ohio is a political action organization concerned with the welfare of the laboring class. It lobbies for legislation in their interests. It was founded in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio as a women's group to insure female laborers decent wages, hours and working conditions. Men were admitted in 1921. The collection consists of correspondence, newsletters, reports, speeches, legislative bills and acts, financial and membership records, articles, clippings, and printed material. 
 Call #:  MS 3546 
 Extent:  32.90 linear feet (30 containers and 69 reels of microfilm) 
 Subjects:  Consumers League of Ohio. | Pressure groups -- Ohio. | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio. | Labor -- Ohio. | Working class women -- Ohio. | Work environment -- Ohio. | Wages -- Ohio. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio. | Consumer movements -- Ohio. | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Children -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio.
 
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