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Original late-1960s to early-1970s personal and federal employment archive connected primarily to Martha B. Robinson, an Occupational Health Nurse employed by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Washington, D.C., and Rockville, Maryland area.
A particularly interesting portion of the archive documents Robinson’s attempt to appeal the classification of her federal nursing position. Her correspondence explains that she returned to government service in 1967 after approximately 15 years as a hospital staff nurse and believed her Occupational Health Nurse position should have been classified at a higher grade. The group includes typed appeal letters, handwritten drafts and notes, Civil Service Commission correspondence, position descriptions and related employment material.
Also represented are the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Division of Federal Employee Health, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, United States Civil Service Commission and American Federation of Government Employees.
The archive includes a substantial assortment of original material such as:
• Federal nursing position descriptions
• Civil Service classification appeal correspondence
• Typed and handwritten appeal drafts
• Performance appraisal paperwork
• Payroll and earnings statements
• Applications for annual and sick leave
• Payroll, retirement and employee-benefit memoranda
• AFGE labor and classification correspondence
• Combined Federal Campaign material
• Internal government forms and notes
• Original signatures, envelopes and handwritten calculations
• Washington, D.C., personal correspondence
• Character-reference correspondence involving a Metropolitan Police Department officer
This is not an archive connected to a famous individual. Its appeal is as a surviving record of an African American woman’s federal nursing career, Civil Service employment, workplace classification dispute and everyday government administration during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The complete group shown in the photographs is included and will be kept together as one archive. Exact document count has not been taken.
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