Ethel Polk Papers
Collection — Container: Small Processed Collections: O-R, Box 12, Folder: 5
Identifier: LP001488
Scope and Content
The Ethel Polk Collection consists of issue of the UAW WPA-Welfare Department Bulletin for 1938-39, minutes of a WPA stewards meeting and a copy of the WPA-Welfare Department program.
Dates
- 1938 - 1939
Creator
- Polk, Ethel (Person)
Language of Materials
Material entirely in English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Use
Refer to the Walter P. Reuther Library
Rules for Use of Archival Materials.
History
Ethel Polk was born in New York City and moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1935. She worked as a secretary in the office of the UAW WPA-Welfare Department from 1938 until 1941. Throughout this period she was a contact person between unemployed workers and the Detroit Welfare Department. After leaving the UAW in 1942, she worked for the Michigan AFL-CIO office in Lansing.
Extent
.25 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
Ethel Polk worked as a secretary for the United Auto Workers - Works Progress Administration, Welfare Department in Detroit. Her papers consist of department records from her tenure there.
Arrangement
Arranged in 1 folder.
Acquisition
The papers of Ethel Polk were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs by Professor James Lorence in August of 1991 and opened for research in November of 2004.
Processing History
Processed and finding aid written by Walter P. Reuther Library in November, 2004.
Creator
- Polk, Ethel (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Ethel Polk Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Walter P. Reuther Library.
- Date
- 2004-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Walter P. Reuther Library Repository
Contact:
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Detroit MI 48202 USA