Series I: Correspondence. (Reel 7099/113: Frames 1-914)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains the majority of Rose Schneiderman's correspondence including letters, telegrams, and postcards. In some instances, a carbon copy of Schneiderman's reply is also included. These materials have been microfilmed and are available on Reel 1. Some of Schneiderman's correspondence is located elsewhere in the collection: some letters are in Series II: Special Topics and are available on Reel 2, and Schneiderman's correspondence with Pauline Newman is in Series V: Pauline Newman Letters and is not available on microfilm.
Subseries A: Correspondence 1909-1914 (Reel 7099/113: Frames 1-366)
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Personal rather than official in nature, it includes some forty letters touching upon the affairs of the Women's Trade Union League, from such correspondents as Alice Bean, Josephine Casey, Mary Dreier, Stella Franklin, Alice Henry, Helen Marot, Agnes Nestor, and Leonora O'Reilly. Schneiderman's participation in the suffrage movement finds reflection in scattered letters from Alva E. Belmont, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Inez Milholland, Anna Howard Shaw, and Harriet Taylor Upton. Upton's letter of July 17, 1912, and one from M. A. Sherwood, July 15, testify warmly to Schneiderman's effectiveness in the Ohio suffrage campaign of that year. A few letters, especially those of Joseph E. Cohen, touch upon socialist matters. Other correspondents include the labor leaders John Dyche and Hugh Frayne and Florence Simms of the YWCA.
Correspondence, 1909-1910, inclusive
Correspondence, 1911, inclusive
Correspondence, 1912, inclusive
Correspondence, 1913-1914, inclusive
Subseries B: Correspondence 1915-1964. (Reel 7099/113: Frames 367-785)
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence in the second group, 1915-1964, is more diffuse and has more of the character of personal memorabilia. With three exceptions, each year is represented by no more than half a dozen items; some years are skipped altogether. The exceptions are large clusters of letters and telegrams sent on three occasions: in 1937, at the time of Schneiderman's appointment as New York State Secretary of Labor; in 1943, in observance of the twenty fifth anniversary of her presidency of the New York Women's Trade Union League; and in 1949, when she retired from that post. Corrpspondents in this portion of the reel include Margaret Dreier Robins (see esoecially June 24, 1922, June 14, 1943, and Schneiderman's reply of July 7, 1943), Mary Dreier, Leonora O'Reilly, Elisabeth Christman (including several letters in 1950 describing the closing down of the National WTUL headquarters), Frances Perkins, the English labor leader Margaret Bondfield, Franklin D. Roosevelt (several letters during his governorship), and Eleanor Roosevelt. On trade union affairs, Schneiderman in a letter of Feb. 6, 1916 to Benjamin Schlesinger submits her resignation as an ILGWU organizer. (See also her letter to Abe Baroff, Dec 1, 1916, on Reel 2, frames 262-263.) A letter from Max Zaritsky, June 7, 1934, announces her election to the general executive board of her own union, the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers. Several letters in 1938-1939 concern the National Women's Committee for a Leon Blum Colony in Palestine, of which Schneiderman was chair.
Correspondence, 1915-1917, inclusive
Correspondence, 1918-1922, inclusive
Correspondence, 1924, 1926, inclusive
Correspondence, 1929-1932, inclusive
Correspondence, 1933-1936, inclusive
Correspondence, 1937, inclusive
Correspondence, 1938-1941, inclusive
Correspondence, 1943-1947, inclusive
Correspondence, 1949-1950, inclusive
Correspondence, 1951, 1956-1957, 1960, inclusive
Subseries C: Correspondence, Undated. (Reel 7099/113: Frames 786-914)
Scope and Contents note
The undated letters are arranged in a rough chronological sequence as suggested by the content. Included area few letters from WTUL figures, including Mary Dreier, Mabel Gillespie, and Melinda Scott. (Undated items for a particular year are included with the correspondence for that year, either before or after the dated items.)
