Mathilda M. Klaiss papers, 1929-1935.

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Mathilda M. Klaiss papers, 1929-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45818711

The collection contains correspondence, Christmas greeting cards, scrapbook pages; and YWCA programs, conference papers, clippings, and a photo of Mathilda Klaiss. Correspondents include Crystal Bird Fauset, Florence Kelley, Margaret E. (Maggie) Kuhn, and Frances Williams. The scrapbook pages contain YWCA programs, cards, and clippings; information about the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom peace caravan, 1936; and pressed flowers. Included are YWCA programs, 1929-1935; YWCA publications by Elsie D. Harper and others; the YWCA of Germantown's mimeographed Y's crier, 1934-1935 (with one interracial issue); two issues of the YWCA national magazine; programs and clippings from the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the Harrisburg (Pa.) YWCA (African-American women), 1934-1937. The YWCA conference papers contains reports on the Kiski Conference, 1931, at the Kiskiminetas Springs School, Saltsburg, Pa. and the Business and Professional Girls Conference, Camp Summit Lake, Central Valley, N.Y., June 11-18, 1932 (invitation letters, essays, programs, songs, daily log of activities, opening and closing addresses, sample letterhead and envelope, bulletins, and findings) for which Klaiss was a primary organizer.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7559044

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Fauset, Crystal Bird, 1893-1965

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Crystal Bird Fauset (June 27, 1893 – March 27, 1965) was a civil rights activist, social worker, race relations specialist, and the first female African American state legislator elected in the United States, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Maryland and raised in Boston, Fauset started her professional career as a public school teacher in Boston. She would then go onto work for the Young Women's Christian Association, and then with the American Friends Service Committee. In 1935,...

Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932

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Florence Kelley (A.B., Cornell, 1882) was born in Philadelphia. In 1884 she married Lazare Wischnewetzky; they had three children. In 1891 Kelley divorced him, reclaimed her maiden name, and became a resident of Chicago's Hull-House. In 1892 the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics hired her to investigate the "sweating" system in the garment industry and the federal commissioner of labor asked her to participate in a survey of city slums. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld later...

Harper, Elsie D.

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Young Women's Christian Association of Germantown.

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Williams, Frances Leigh

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Frances Leigh Williams (1909-1978) was born in Richmond on March 20, 1909, the daughter of Francis Deane and Mary Mason Williams. She was a cousin of the Virginia novelist Ellen Glasgow. After graduation from St. Timothy's in 1926, she attended Smith College for a year. On leaving college, she accepted a position with the Richmond News Leader as a reporter and columnist. In 1935, she left the News Leader to become a research assistant for Douglas Southall Freeman. She worked with him on the biog...

Harrisburg Young Women's Christian Association. Phyllis Wheatley Branch.

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Kuhn, Maggie

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Klaiss, Mathilda M.

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Mathilda M. Klaiss of Germantown, Pa. was active in YWCA work since 1923. A portion of her papers reflect her interest in integrating the YWCA. From the description of Mathilda M. Klaiss papers, 1929-1935. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 45818711 ...