Box 8

Scope and Contents This series is comprised of approximately 150 questions submitted on whole and half sheets of paper during the Labor Standards for Women and Children in Industry conference that Mead Smith Karras spoke at in Osaka on August 14th and 15th 1947. The questions were submitted by the conference attendees: Japanese women unionists, women leaders, and representatives of a variety of women’s organizations. They posed questions concerning a variety of topics: gender equality of the...

Scope and Contents This series contains graphic materials given to or collected by Mead Smith Karras, as well as labor related publications that she worked on. It contains prints from the series “Japanese Vocation in Pictures” by artist Sanzo Wada (Vol I, No. 1-10, 15-24, and undated) with descriptions in Japanese and English; three kamishibai, or “paper theater stories”, in Japanese; a collection of prints by various artists titled “Touring Kyoto and Vicinity”; labor related posters including one...