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A 1905 graduate of Barnard College , she also took courses at the New York School Of Philanthropy before securing employment as a researcher of wage earners, both female and child, in Jersey City, New Jersey , Pittsburgh , and Baltimore . Beginning in 1907 she worked for Paul Kellogg 's Pittsburgh Survey, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation . Her resulting 1909 book, ''Women and the Trades'', was the first large survey of wage-earning women in America and the first of the six volumes of the Survey.

Butler died of Tuberculosis at age 26 in Saranac Lake, New York .

Her final book, ''Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores: Baltimore, 1909'', was posthumously published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912.


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  • "Elizabeth Beardsley Butler" by Maurine W. Greenwald in ''American National Biography''. New York: Oxford University Press , 2004.