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This exhibit honors the women of Toledo with their contributions, sacrifice, and philanthropy to Toledo's society, culture, industry, and schools. The collections come from other Toledo's Attic collections (labor, schools) as well as other important Toledo and national collections. This exhibit will be available throughout March.
The Great Depression of the 1930's had thrown America into flux. The American family did not escape unscathed as jobs became scarce. With the continual drop in family incomes, which in turn led to a drop in the birth and marriage rates, the battle over the place of women in the household and her place in the work force raged.
Toledo's Attic Essay
Toledo working women banded together in the early twentieth century for support and camaraderie. Our Club Girls Magazine stood for the "social and commercial education of young wage-earning women." Experience life for young working women through its pages. This exhibit is drawn from four issues of Our Girls Club Magazine, published in 1913 and 1914. The magazines are held in the Canaday Center of the University of Toledo's Carlson Library. No other known issues exist. If you have any copies of Our Girl's Club in your attic, please let us know!
Josina Lott and the Lott School
Essay by Mary Koslovsky and Cathy Seitz Whitaker (2004-05)
Josina Jones Lott believed that every child, regardless of physical or mental limitations, had ability and could learn. Lott Day School began in her apartment in September of 1938. Mrs. Lott had seen children turned away from the public school because parents were told that there was no place for them in the classroom. She was determined to educate every child in the basics of “…the alphabet, reading and simple arithmetic.”
Read the chronologies and other historical accounts of the Lott School
Related Quick Links Canaday Center Rare Book Collection on Woman (University of Toledo Libraries) Canaday Center Manuscript Collection on Women UT LIbrary Collection on Women Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women Collection on Women in Images in Time (Toledo Public Library) National Women's History Project Women's History Month (Library of Congress) Women's History Month (History.com) National Archives Celebrates Women’s History Month in March National Archives - Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) AFSCME - Women's Labor History Links Women's Labor History Timeline: 1765 - Present Day Women's International Center - Women's History in America Women In Military Service For America Memorial Women's History Collections at THE LIZ LIBRARY: Women's Military History
