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Secretaries in the 1940s oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH SEC
Abstract

This oral history collection contains interviews with ten women, between 1992-1994, who worked as secretaries in the 1940s. Their places of work included the Social Security Administration, law firms, the National Art Gallery, high schools, and hospitals, among others. The narrators discuss work and life during World War II, as well as what it was like to be a woman working in male-dominated professions.

Dates: 1992 September 8- 1994 March 2

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  • Subject: World War, 1939-1945 X
  • Subject: Civil service X