Columbia Park Boys' Club records, 1898-1979.

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Columbia Park Boys' Club records, 1898-1979.

1898-1979

Business correspondence (1922-1967); diaries (1909-1911) of club members Fred Trachsler and Harrington McGowan, documenting club tours of the South Pacific and Australia, the United States and Mexico, and the Eastern United States; two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; and club ephemera, including publications, brochures, alumni material, programs, flyers, and pamphlets. Includes some periodicals, and a small amount of personal correspondence of Peixotto, who served as director until his death in 1925.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6683009

California historical society

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Columbia Park Boys' Club (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Founded 1894 in Mission District of San Francisco, Calif. by Sidney S. Peixotto, the club offered recreational programs in the arts and athletics for boys aged 7-18. Early features of the club included a marching band and vaudeville show, which went on several national and international tours, and a summer camp that modeled political democracy....

Trachsler, Fred

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Peixotto, Sidney S., 1866-1925

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McGowan, Harrington

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