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Glenn L. Martin oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH GLM
Abstract

The Glenn L. Martin oral history collection contains interviews with four women who worked for the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company during World War II. Interviewed between 1995-1996, the narrators discuss how they came to live in Baltimore, their housing communities and jobs in the plant, and the overall effect of World War II on the home front.

Dates: 1995 August 9 -1996 April 4

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

Treva Walkling collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2979
Abstract

This collection consists of the diaries, photographs, correspondence, financial records, address books, and ephemera belonging to Treva Walkling (1909-1997), a Baltimore career woman.

Dates: 1893-1998

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