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Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations records

Collection — manuscript box: 10 - folder 1

Identifier: 1516

Scope and content

Records include a copy of a letter to members of cooperating college organizations, lists of members of the Board of Directors (1914) and committees, typescript reports of various committees, as well as a report concerning the work of the Bureau since its inception, and the Third Annual Report of the organization (1915).

Dates

1914-1915.

Creator

Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations was founded in 1911 by the Cornell Women's Club of New York and alumnae of various women's colleges. Its aims included finding positions outside the teaching field for college educated women and women with professional or technical training of experience; job placement for male and female social workers; giving vocational counseling; and performing research on vocational problems.