XXII. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL FILES, 1927-1988.

Central file kept by the state president. Document types include correspondence, programs, committee reports, speeches, questionnaires, menus, newspaper clippings, and publications.

Correspondence is primarily with state and national officers. Subjects include convention planning, appointments, elections, scholarship awards, legislation, fund-raising, publicity and public relations, maintaining membership levels, and routine administrative matters. As early as 1949 New Jersey was identified as having a low proportion of members. Of interest is correspondence concerning lobbying campaigns for the nomination of more women to government positions (1946), equal pay for equal work (1949-1951), the repeal of protective legislation, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Unusual items include a brochure (ca. 1935) advertising travel to the Atlantic City convention via airship, photographs of a hospital airplane and aircraft rescue boat for which the federation raised money during the Second World War, and a large paper bag designed as a tribute to state legislation chairman Emma McGall.

Includes one oversize broadside filed separately.