Documents include membership counts, wage benefits, compensation cost reports, legislative issues, IRS documents granting tax-exemption status, meeting minutes, memos regarding Sheila Velazco (7th NFFE president, 1st woman), news conference, loose papers and articles, research on historic women in unions, oral interview transcript (A. Orlofsky & James Davis), Jessie Dell research (employment letters, civil service with War Department, hand written letters), Robert E. Lowe, photographs from 1930 convention at Yellowstone, 1920s-2000s

File — Box: 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Records

From the Collection:

The records (circa 1910-circa 2007) consists of the papers and records of Abraham Orlofsky, secretary/treasurer and historian of the National Federation of Federal Employees for many years. Included in these records are: research, convention proceedings, resolutions, constitutions, bylaws, agreements, reports, charters, research materials, artifacts, photographs, audiovisual materials and files from the executive council. These materials pertain to the history of the union, many of its members, and the union's representation of federal civil service employees and provide documentation of the day-to-day activities of a national union. Also included is the official publication, Federal Employee.