a list of stores known to treat women workers well. Initially, the list was very short. The New York Consumer's League was adopted in many other cities as chapters opened across the country. The umbrella organization, the National Consumers League (NCL), became a powerful lobbying group. She died of cancer in 1905, at her home in New York City, and is buried with her husband at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain in Bryant Park, which is behind the New York Public Library Main Branch building, was dedicated in 1912. The fountain is reportedly New York City's first public memorial dedicated to a woman. Publications Public Relief and Private Charity (1884). Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation (1893). References Waugh, Joan. Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University Press, 1998). Henretta, James, ed. America's History volume 2 5th edition. Bedford St. Martins', 577. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. 8 Published by J.T. White, p. 142 (1898). Stewart, William Rhinelander The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell: Containing a Biographical Sketch of Her Life, Together with a Selection of Her Public Papers and Private Letters, Collected and Arranged for Publication pp 38, 48 (1911). External links Josephine Shaw Lowell & Anna Shaw Curtis at www.library.csi.cuny.edu Josephine Shaw Lowell at www.harvardsquarelibrary.org 1843 births 1905 deaths People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War Women in the American Civil War Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Progressive Era in the United States People from West Roxbury, Boston Deaths from cancer in New York (state)