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

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

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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.

ca. 35 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6877743

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board

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The International Board of Women's and Young Women's Christian Associations and the American Committee of Young Women's Christian Associations merged to form the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of the U.S.A. in 1906. From the description of National Board predecessors and formation of National Board, 1876-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84462658 Women's advocacy and social service organization. In the mid-nineteenth century women's or...

Jobs Corps (U.S.)

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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...