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| 1885 births | |
| butler, elizabeth beardsley | |
| 1911 deaths | |
| deaths by tuberculosis | |
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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. REFERENCES
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