![]() ![]() It was particularly a triumph for Strutwear's nearly 900 female operatives, who were initially excluded from the union's member drive. Thousands of industrial workers from across all trades, skill levels, and genders joined the eight-month-long standoff, which marked a turning point in Minneapolis's labor movement. Strutwear Knitting Company Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota Parker, a free African American man living across the river in Ohio, helped Celia Brooks, her husband, and baby escape bondage and cross the river to freedom. Noted Underground Railroad “conductor” John P. The documentation, prepared by a Girl Scout, highlights the role the house played in the escape of three enslaved people owned by the Sroufe family. Sroufe House, Dover, Kentucky (women who write history) It reflects the vision of Agnes Richards, R.N., and represents a small but significant movement that sought to improve the conditions of mentally ill women in the early twentieth century. It was one of the first of its type in the nation. One of the best extant examples of an early twentieth century woman-owned, women-serving private sanitarium in the State. Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District, Glendale, California Photograph courtesy of the California State Historic Preservation Office Photograph courtesy of California State Historic Preservation Office Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District, Glendale, California, ref# 16000355 Flower Tech was the only high school in Chicago run by a female superintendent, principal, and all-female faculty that catered to an entirely female student body. The school, is located in the residential Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ![]() Lucy Flower Technical High School for Girls (Flower Tech), constructed in 1927, is significant as the only all-girl public school and the only female vocational school in Chicago's history. Lucy Flower Technical High School for Girls, Chicago, Illinois Saint Joseph’s Home for Working Girls is a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century boarding house for working women. Joseph’s Home, which is known as Abby’s House, is used as a temporary shelter and affordable housing for women. Joseph’s Home) was built to provide temporary housing for women in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Saint Joseph’s Home for Working Girls (St. Saint Joseph's Home for Working Girls, Worcester, Massachusetts As one of the first and longest tenured women-owned and women-operated women’s centers in the U.S., TWB represented a significant, high-profile model for the establishment and operation of similar facilities nationwide. The Women’s Building (TWB) in San Francisco’s Mission District represents a powerful physical embodiment of the values and achievements of second wave feminism during the mid to late twentieth century, and the movement’s efforts to secure social justice and gender equality for women and other minorities (LGBTQ/racial/ethnic). Women's Building, San Francisco, California Photograph courtesy of California State Historic Preservation Office Past Highlights: Women's Building, San Francisco, California, ref# 100002359 It is noteworthy that the grain program was headed up by women because it was rare for women to be publicly in charge of anything in those years, or to have control of resources. Grain collection and storage would be administered by local Relief Society chapters throughout Mormon settlements. It is also significant because of its ownership and use by the women of the Ephraim chapters (wards) of the LDS Relief Society, particularly related to the historic grain storage program. It is one of only nine granaries remaining that were used by the Relief Society associated with the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The Ephraim Relief Society Granary, constructed c.1872-1875 (and rehabilitated in 1991), in Ephraim, Utah, is a vernacular classical-style stone granary building located along the east side of Main Street in the rural town of Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah. After the war they were able to hire architects Isabel Roberts and Ida Annah Ryan, who had just opened the first female architectural firm in the city of Orlando and one of the first in the state, known as Ryan and Roberts.Įphraim Relief Society Granary, Ephraim, Utah Between 19, the club focused primarily on relief efforts and war-related charitable causes, including Near East Relief and Red Cross work. ![]() The Women's Club had planned for the library but but World War I forced them to delay. Cloud, Florida, joined together by a small one-story hyphen. Cloud Auditorium are two buildings located near downtown St. The Veterans Memorial Library and the Woman’s Club of St. Veterans Memorial Library and Woman's Club of St. Photograph courtesy of Florida State Historic Preservation Office Featured Historic Properties for Women's History Month: ![]()
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