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Civil service

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Works on public sector employment as a counter-cyclical policy measure intended to provide jobs for the unemployed as well as to provide economic assistance to distressed areas and state and local government are entered under Public service employment.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Reverend Charles W. Baldwin letter book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0043
Abstract

This collection contains letters from Reverend Baldwin (1840-1938) to various people; mostly in connection with his duties as presiding Elder of the Western District of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (office held 1897-1903); also as President of the Board of Trustees of Anne Arundel Academy, and in other public service functions.

Dates: 1900 - 1903

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