Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work [correspondence and ephemera]

Files

VMHC_Mss1 K2588 a 117-123 letter 12 Aug 1882 from Munford to Dear Madam [Keezle] rsz.jpg
VMHC_Mss1 K2588 a 117-123 Members Ticket no143 recto rsz.jpg
VMHC_Mss1 K2588 a 117-123 Members Ticket no143 verso rsz.jpg
VMHC_Mss1 M3855 c 4024 card your subscription exp rsz.jpg
VMHC_Mss1 K2588 a 117-123 slip These cards constitute a receipt rsz.jpg

Title

Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work [correspondence and ephemera]

Description

This correspondence and ephemera pertain to the Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement started in Philadelphia in 1832.

Exchanges were popular places for women in hardship to sell goods on consignment without working publicly, a social taboo at the time. Some Exchanges still operate, and while the Richmond Exchange closed in 1955, it launched several female-owned businesses including Sally Bell’s Kitchen, still in business. Its founders—Elizabeth Lee Milton and Sarah Cabell Jones—met through the Richmond Woman’s Exchange.

Source

Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 K2588 a 117-123 and Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 M3855 c 4024, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society

Date

1880s

Contributor

Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society

Rights

NO COPYRIGHT – UNITED STATES

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Acknowledgement of the Virginia Historical Society as a source is requested.

Notes

Learn more:

Sander, K. W. (1998). The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900Urbana: University of Illinois 

Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.

Federation of Woman's Exchanges 

Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Citation

“Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work [correspondence and ephemera],” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed December 2, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/546.