Guide to the Catherine Wolfe Donohue Collection

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title: Catherine Wolfe Donohue Collection, Span Dates: 1936-1957, Bulk Dates: 1936-1939
Call number/identifier: Manuscript Series CXIII
Origination: Materials collected by the family of Catherine Wolfe Donohue.
Physical Description: 1 box, 0.4 linear feet
Languages: Collection is in English.

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Repository: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections , Evanston, IL 60208

Abstract: Catherine Wolfe Donohue, who contracted radium poisoning while an employee of the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois, was part of the class action suit against the company. Damages were awarded to the women in 1938 by the Illinois Industrial Commission. This collection consists of a scrapbook created by the Donohue family with newspaper clippings about the plight of the women and their efforts to get treatment and compensation, some family photographs, publications from Argonne National Laboratory, articles about the case, and a letter from Donohue's cousin, Mary Carroll Cassidy.