YWCA of the U.S.A. Records . Record Group 06. Program: Series VII. War Work and Defense Services 1870-2002
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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.
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Records of the YWCA's programs and activities among blacks began in 1907. From the description of Records, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007201 The YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula opened in 1948 as a recreation center for business women. It expanded to provide recreational and social services for women that met the organization's mission of "empowering women and eliminating racism." The organization was based in Palo Alto until its closing in 2003. ...
Cotton, Bessie Boies, 1880-1959
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YWCA overseas official. Boies began work with the National YWCA in 1910. In 1917, Russian women invited the YWCA to help working women organize themselves for their new role in society. Boies helped set up the first association in Petrograd, then Moscow and other cities. Political upheavals of 1918 led to the evacuation of Americans from Bolshevik-controlled Russia and Boies made her way to northern Russia where she set up box-car canteens for U.S. troops. While in Russia she met Thomas Cotton a...
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...
