Boston Young Women's Christian Association records [electronic resource]. 1871-1968.

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Boston Young Women's Christian Association records [electronic resource]. 1871-1968.

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The records of the Boston Young Women's Christian Association constitutes 5 linear inches. The collection includes annual reports and two publications. For the annual reports from 1871-1912, the year on the cover represents the date the report was written, not the year that the data inside represents. The reports were presented in March for the preceding year. Starting in 1952, the reports no longer state the annual report number, they only give the year. The amount of information in the reports gradually decreases over the years. A 1997 information packet sent from the Boston YWCA is located in the control file.

1 boxes (5 linear in.)

Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A (Boston, Mass.)

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The Boston Young Women's Christian Association (BYWCA) was founded in 1866; it was one of the first, and the prototype, for all subsequent YWCAs in the United States. It is also one of the oldest extant voluntary agencies in Boston. In 1858, Mrs. Lucretia Boyd, a city missionary, first voiced concern for the moral and physical welfare of young women and girls coming from the country to work in Boston. In 1866 a group of women led by the civic reformer Pauline Durant, wif...