Skip to main content

Folder 7

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Newspaper clippings, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1983

 File — Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1946, 1954, 1957, 1983