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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Records, 1876-1970 [microform].

Title: Records, 1876-1970 [microform].

The records of the National Board of the YWCA on microfilm include correspondence, memoranda, reports, administrative records, program and conference materials, surveys, clippings, printed material. The Records Files Collection was the central depository for all records of the National Board deemed of historical importance by the organization. The collection consisted of records created by the various departments of the National Board, 1906-1962, and the two predecessor organizations of the National Board, 1876-1906. The records reflect activities connected with providing services to women and with issues for which the YWCA carried an advocacy role. The activities of the National Board during World War I and II are documented by material related to their War Work Council (1917-19), aid to troops overseas, American War Community Services (1943-47), and especially work with Japanese-American evacuees (1942-46). There is a large amount of material on programs on behalf of immigrants, including refugees and displaced persons, and International Institutes sponsored by the Board (1918-45). Interracial material includes work with Native Americans (1916-47) and African-Americans (1913-51). The latter is particularly important in documenting civil rights work, national conferences and organizations, and economic and educational opportunities. There records document programs on household employment (1911-46). The records contain historical and biographical information on YWCA leaders. Of particular interest are the archives of the Business and Professional Department (1930-52) and extensive records of the Industrial Department (1911-51). The Local Association records include reports of visitations of the National Board and Staff, reports and correspondence about the program of the Association, and information about its history and affiliation in the national organization. Some of the materials that were microfilmed were discarded after filming (specifically Series IV: Local Associations), others were preserved and are now housed with other unfilmed and more current records in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. The quality of the microfilm is mixed. Researchers may find documents that were not filmed in their entirety or are so dark as to be illegible or impossible to photocopy.

ArchivalResource: 383 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57415795 View

Scrapbooks, 1880-1967, 1914-1945 (bulk)

Title: Scrapbooks, 1880-1967, 1914-1945 (bulk)

Scrapbooks containing information about various Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) activities and departments, individuals associated with it, and its predecessor organizations. Topics include annual conventions, overseas work, rural work, World War I, Japanese relocation during World War II, United Service Organizations (USO) activities, buildings constructed by the YWCA between 1910 and 1914, students' work on campuses, and camping. Early journals are also included. Materials include photographs, news clippings, programs, placecards, invitations, and Bible reading folders.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155499844 View

Mitchell, Ruth Crawford, 1890-. Papers, 1916-1978, 1916-1917.

Title: Papers, 1916-1978, 1916-1917.

Papers (1916-1978, bulk 1916-1917) of Ruth Crawford Mitchell consist of a diary and a taped interview, in which she discusses her association with the YWCA and the International Institute movement. The diary details her training in New York under the direction of Edith Terry Bremer.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels and.1 tape cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62800212 View

Minutes and reports, 1884-1962.

Title: Minutes and reports, 1884-1962.

Minutes of the National Board, the Board of Trustees and Field, Territorial, and State Committees. Minutes of the National Board biannual and triannual meetings include reports of the president, secretary, treasurer, and committees of the Board, 1906-1962. These record all Board decisions and policies relating to the National Board programs. Some issues discussed at board meetings include affiliation and disaffiliation of Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA) from membership in the National Board, YWCA of the U.S.A., the budget of the National Board, and participation in different projects including the United War Work Campaign, 1917-1919, and United Service Organizations (USO). Board of Trustees minutes, 1907-1962, deal primarily with financial matters including the National Board budget, the acquisition and sale of property, financial statements and financial information about National Board budget, the acquisition and sale of property, financial statements and financial information about National Board projects such as the Latin American Project to train South American YWCA leaders in 1964. Minutes and reports of the Field, Territorial, and State Committees reflect the work of the volunteer members of the committees and of the YWCAs in the geographical areas that they served, recording the visits made and the conferences attended by committee members, and showing activities and programs of the different YWCAs.

ArchivalResource: 30 microfilm reels.

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YWCA National Board / United Service Organizations records, 1941-1975.

Title: YWCA National Board / United Service Organizations records, 1941-1975.

The records include organizational histories of the USO and the YWCA's participation in it, executive reports, board and committee minutes, surveys, studies, administrative and program files, surveys, studies, reports, correspondence, organizational directories, pamphlets, and manuals.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear ft.

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YWCA National Board / United Service Organizations records, 1941-1975

Title: YWCA National Board / United Service Organizations records 1941-1975

The United Service Organizations for National Defense Inc. (USO) was established in 1941 by the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States, the National Catholic Community Service, and the National Traveler's Aid Association to provide coordinated, expanded social services for military personnel and their families. These records document the YWCA's role as a part of that effort, beginning during World War II and continuing through the Korean War and Vietnam War eras. Material in the collection dates from 1941-1975; it covers two USO eras: World War II and the immediate postwar period, and the cold war period that included the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. The records include organizational histories of the USO and the YWCA's participation in it, executive reports, board and committee minutes, surveys, studies, administrative and program files, surveys, studies, reports, correspondence, organizational directories, pamphlets, and manuals.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear feet

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Ursula Griswold Bingham papers, 1882-1998

Title: Ursula Griswold Bingham papers, 1882-1998

The Ursula Griswold Bingham Papers, 1882-1998, chronicles a woman's life from her beginnings in New England society in 1908 through her death in California in 1998. Spanning almost the whole of the 20th Century, the papers include correspondence with family and friends, diaries, travel files covering trips to China and Japan in the turbulent 1930's, and files relating to her volunteer work with the Pacific School of Religion and the Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA).

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 6 boxes, 17 cartons, 1 oversize box, 3 volumes, 1 restricted box; Linear feet: 23.5

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Subject files, 1899-1970.

Title: Subject files, 1899-1970.

The subject files contain records on every major issue of Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) concern. Material includes agreements, articles, awards, bibliographies, biographical data, budgets, case studies, charters, constitutions, clippings, course curricula and catalogs, conference programs, reports and proceedings, convention proceedings, actions and credentials, correspondence, devotional materials and worship services, financial data, handbooks, histories of movements within the YWCA, music and songbooks, pamphlets, program description, public relations materials, reports, texts of speeches, standards, statistics, studies, and training materials.

ArchivalResource: 161 microfilm reels.

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Bingham, Ursula Griswold, 1908-1996. Ursula Griswold Bingham papers, 1882-1998.

Title: Ursula Griswold Bingham papers, 1882-1998.

Chronicles a woman's life from her beginnings in New England society in 1908 through her death in California in 1998. Spanning almost the whole of the 20th century, the papers include correspondence with family and friends, diaries, travel files covering trips to China and Japan in the turbulent 1930's, and files relating to her volunteer work with the Pacific School of Religion and the Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA).

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes, 17 cartons, 1 oversize box, 3 v. (23.5 linear ft.)

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William Pickens papers (Additions), 1909-1950.

Title: William Pickens papers (Additions), 1909-1950.

Collection primarily relates to Pickens' work as NAACP Field Secretary and Director of Branches, and contains a great deal of correspondence with NAACP officials. Of interest is material chronicling Pickens' and the NAACP's involvement in the Scottsboro Case in Alabama. Correspondents relating to the NAACP include James Weldon Johnson, Walter Francis White, Mary White Ovington, Arthur B. Spingarn, Joel E. Spingarn, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Other correspondence is between Pickens and friends, acquaintances, fellow scholars, and business associates. There is correspondence with many organizations with which Pickens was involved, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, League for Industrial Democracy, Socialist Party of America, National Council of the Young Men's and Women's Christian Association, American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, and the Council for Pan American Democracy. Correspondents include Claude A. Barnett and Percival L. Prattis of the Associated Negro Press, and other individuals in government, education, and church affairs, among them John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of New York. Writings are primarily composed of typescripts (manuscripts and editorials), speeches, and mimeographed Associated Negro Press columns and newspaper clippings of articles and editorials written by Pickens. Subjects dealt with in these different formats cover a wide range and serve to reveal Pickens' broad interests and intellectual scope.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 11 lin. ft.Copies: 25 microfilm reels.

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Ford, Harriet Bliss, 1876-1964. Papers, 1899-1953.

Title: Papers, 1899-1953.

Papers include correspondence, writings, printed material, speeches, reports, minutes, diaries, photographs and memorabilia represent Ford's work with Century Magazine (1899-1912), her editorial work and writings for the YWCA's Women's Press (1927-29), and political, civic, and intellectual activities during her residence in Northampton, Mass. (circa 1920's-50s). Writings include plays and pageants written and published for YWCA; articles and speeches on various causes including women's issues and peace; and an unpublished biography of her husband, George B. Ford. Correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt; Grace Coolidge; Elizabeth Cutter Morrow; William Allen Neilson; Ada Comstock Norstein; Abby Rockefeller; William Rose Bennet; Helena Gilder.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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Hastings, Jane Hope, 1902-. Papers, 1941-1997 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1941-1997 (inclusive).

This collection documents the personal and professional life of Jane Hope Hastings. The bulk consists of drafts and a published copy of her memoir, USO in Skagway, Alaska, 1943-1944; the drafts contain material not included in the published version. The remainder includes letters to her first husband Parkhurst Whitney, and Harold J. Barrett and his first wife Rose Barrett, who died in 1953 or 1954. Also included are a scrapbook, given to her at her retirement in 1955; a photograph album made by Hastings while she was stationed in Alaska; reports sent by Hastings to the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and her supervisor within the USO, and the feedback received from her supervisors; and two oral history interviews with Hastings conducted by Eva Moseley of the Schlesinger Library in 1995 and 1997.

ArchivalResource: .83 linear feet (2 file boxes), 1 folio box, 8 photograph folders, 2 audiotapes.

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Special collections, 1871-1970, 1906-1960 (bulk)

Title: Special collections, 1871-1970, 1906-1960 (bulk)

Papers of 45-50 individuals who were affiliated with the National Board in an official capacity, such as presidents, heads of departments, and consultants and/or executives in special fields. Some oral history tapes with interviews of staff members are included in the collection. Some of the individuals represented by material are Grace Hoadley Dodge, founder and president of the National Board, Elizabeth Russell Hendee who worked with immigrant women, Elizabeth Johns, a worker in the student movement of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Rhoda McCulloch, editor of Womans Press, and Kate Hillis Boyd who worked with the YWCA in France and Belgium during World War I. In addition, there are records for some units or departments of the National Board, such as the Industrial Women Department and the Business Women Department, both concerned with women in the United States. The International Institutes worked with immigrant women in this country. Other material reveals work of the National Board overseas, especially in China, and the YWCA's efforts to establish YWCA branches and to conduct social work.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 linear ft.

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William Pickens papers (Additions), 1909-1950

Title: William Pickens papers (Additions) 1909-1950

Collection primarily relates to Pickens' work as NAACP Field Secretary and Director of Branches, and contains a great deal of correspondence with NAACP officials. Of interest is material chronicling Pickens' and the NAACP's involvement in the Scottsboro Case in Alabama. Correspondents relating to the NAACP include James Weldon Johnson, Walter Francis White, Mary White Ovington, Arthur B. Spingarn, Joel E. Spingarn, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Other correspondence is between Pickens and friends, acquaintances, fellow scholars, and business associates. There is correspondence with many organizations with which Pickens was involved, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, League for Industrial Democracy, Socialist Party of America, National Council of the Young Men's and Women's Christian Association, American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, and the Council for Pan American Democracy. Correspondents include Claude A. Barnett and Percival L. Prattis of the Associated Negro Press, and other individuals in government, education, and church affairs, among them John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of New York. Writings are primarily composed of typescripts (manuscripts and editorials), speeches, and mimeographed Associated Negro Press columns and newspaper clippings of articles and editorials written by Pickens. Subjects dealt with in these different formats cover a wide range and serve to reveal Pickens' broad interests and intellectual scope.

ArchivalResource:

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Local association files, 1884-1970.

Title: Local association files, 1884-1970.

Collection contains records on every community Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) which was a member or was trying to become a member of the National Board between 1906 and 1960. Records contain correspondence and other information compiled for the national staff or the National Board's work with member associations. Each file has documents which pertain to the association's affiliation to the National Board, history and constitution, building, personnel and voluntary leadership, and finances. If the association had branches, there is a file containing material about the physical facilities and programs at each branch.

ArchivalResource: 87 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77968467 View

Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. [A collection of pamphlets issued by the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, in New York, N.Y.].

Title: [A collection of pamphlets issued by the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, in New York, N.Y.]. [1912-1913]

ArchivalResource: 10 pieces ; 13 cm.

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Papers, [ca. 1874-1914].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1874-1914].

Dodge's papers include a manuscript notebook, 1889-1902, labelled "Personal Work, Papers, and Addresses," containing notes on lectures she delivered about working girls' clubs; lists of topics for talks and lectures to be delivered at women's groups, Bible classes, girls' clubs, and other groups; copies of letters she wrote in her capacity as treasurer of Teachers College, 1890s; reports of the Committee on Holiday Houses, 1893-1896; accounts and attendance records of the Choral Union, 1893-1894, and miscellaneous notes. Also, four diaries, January 1899-January 1914, containing brief daily entries; a record book, 1874-1913, containing statistics on Dodge's correspondence and other office work, speaking engagements, writings, and other activities; three volumes relating to the three Ps Circle of the 38th Street Working Girls' Society, New York (the three Ps were purity, perseverance, and pleasantness), 1899-1915, containing printed cards, pictures, postcards, and leaflets containing advice, instructions, and inspirational messages for girls, and circular letters containing similar information by Grace Dodge; and a scrapbook "Book of Reminiscences," 1884-1909, presented to Dodge by her friends at Teachers College, containing photographs of Teachers College and surroundings, printed flyers and announcements relating to Teachers College events, and tributes to Dodge.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122308855 View

Photographs, 1890-1986, 1906-1986 (bulk)

Title: Photographs, 1890-1986, 1906-1986 (bulk)

Photographs document the National Board's history and activities. Subjects include camps and camping activities, children, occupational and personal improvement classes, employment training programs covering the Job Corps, 1967-1975, Summer Youth Demonstration Project of 1967, and food services. Also, health and medicine involving hospital and invalid care, portraits of Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) leaders and others involved in the National Board, program activities, recreation including physical education and sports, rural work, student work dealing with college campuses, teenagers belonging to the YWCA, and women at work. Foreign work photographs document the National Board's leadership role in helping women organize and develop their own associations. There were practical programs in many areas such as agricultural training, home care, health and nutrition, and literary classes in Africa, Belgium, China, France, India, Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia, and South America among others. Also, war work photographs of World Wars I and II document the National Board's involvement to aid women, families, and soldiers overseas and in the United States. The YWCA did refugee work and established war service centers and hostess houses, a War Brides program, and the United Service Organizations (USO), and aided Japanese American women during World War II.

ArchivalResource: ca. 35 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155499813 View

Ruth Crawford Mitchell Papers, 1916-1978

Title: Ruth Crawford Mitchell Papers, 1916-1978,

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels and; 1 tape cassette.

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Papers, 1954-1968.

Title: Papers, 1954-1968.

Typescript of Warne's book WISE BUYMANSHIP, a discussion manual prepared for the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association in 1959; correspondence concerning compensation from Consumers Union for her work on the book, 1968; and materials from a course she taught on home economics, 1954.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Posters, [ca. 1914]-1986.

Title: Posters, [ca. 1914]-1986.

Posters printed by the National Board. Many were designed for the annual Young Women's Christian Association Week and are used for campaign purposes. Other posters relate to World War I, special events, and health education; some were designed by the local associations.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155499836 View

National Board predecessors and formation of National Board, 1876-1961.

Title: National Board predecessors and formation of National Board, 1876-1961.

The collection contains primarily conference and convention proceedings of the International Board of Women's and Young Women's Christian Associations and of the American Committee of Young Women's Christian Associations prior to their merger in 1906. Proceedings of the conferences and conventions of the two individual organizations concern their work and organizational policies, procedures, and philosophy. Records also reflect the decisions leading up to and the motivation behind the union. Grace Hoadley Dodge, a New York philanthropist who had done much work in organizing programs for the welfare of women, was instrumental in bringing together the two organizations and became president of the newly merged National Board. Much of the correspondence is with Grace Dodge. Other important correspondents are Mrs. J.S. Griffith, Annie M. Reynolds, Mrs. Frank Thurston, Margaret MacKinlay, Harriet Taylor, Emma Hays, J. Ellen Foster, and Olivia Phelps Stokes. Other material in the collection contains National Board and YWCA of the U.S.A. legal documents, 1907-1961.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84462658 View

Pim, Eleanora Davis, 1918-. Papers 1962-1968.

Title: Papers 1962-1968.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46452508 View

Harriet Bliss Ford Papers MS 59., 1899-1953

Title: Harriet Bliss Ford Papers 1899-1953

Civic leader; editor; YWCA executive; Red Cross official; and Trustee, Smith College. The correspondence and subject files of the Ford Papers document her work with Century Magazine and her political and intellectual life during her residence in Northampton, Massachusetts. Included is material written and published by Ford for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and manuscripts of her speeches and writings. Notable correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt; Grace Coolidge; Elizabeth Cutter Morrow; William Allen Neilson; Ada Comstock Notestein; Abby Rockefeller; William Rose Bennet; Helena Gilder; and Eleanor Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes; (2 linear ft.)

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