Guide to the California Native Daughters Club Collection
Supriya Wronkiewicz
African American Museum & Library at Oakland
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African American Museum & Library at Oakland. All rights reserved.
Guide to the California Native Daughters Club Collection
Collection number: MS 42
African American Museum & Library at Oakland
Oakland, California
- Processed by:
- Supriya Wronkiewicz
- Date Completed:
- December 2006
- Encoded by:
- Mia Jaeggli
© 2013 African American Museum & Library at Oakland. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: California Native Daughters Club collection
Dates: 1957-1980
Collection number: MS 42
Creator:
California Native Daughters Club
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Abstract: The California Native Daughters Club Collection consists of correspondence, records, printed materials, founding documents,
and artifacts related to club activities and member activities. It also contains documents specific to individual members.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Access Restrictions
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish from the California Native Daughters Club Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum
& Library at Oakland.
Preferred Citation
California Native Daughters Club collection, MS 42, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library.
Oakland, California.
Processing Information
Processed by Supriya Wronkiewicz, December 2006. Updated by Mia Jaeggli, October 2013
Biography / Administrative History
The California Native Daughters Club was founded in Berkeley, California in the late 1950s. Founders included Bertha Allen,
the club's first president, and Ruth Lasartemay, who also served as president later. The club joined the National Association
of Colored Women's Clubs in 1959. The club was actively involved in multiple local activities such as California Negro History
Week.
Scope and Content of Collection
The California Native Daughters Club Collection consists of correspondence, records, printed materials, founding documents,
and artifacts related to club activities and member activities. The collection includes correspondence to and from the club
and membership information for the women who were in the club and the club's relationship to outside organizations. There
are also materials honoring members who passed on. There are a small number of photographs, two of which are of members and
two copies of a photograph of a display put together by the club for California Negro History Week.
Arrangement
Series I. Administrative Records Series II. Photographs Series III. Assorted Printed Materials
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
California Native Daughters Club
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
African Americans--California--History.
African Americans--California—East Bay--History.
African American women--Societies and clubs.
African American women—California—History.
Photographs.
Other Finding Aids
Colored Women's Clubs Associations collection, MS 1, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library.
Oakland, California.
Administrative records
Physical Description: 7 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes constitutional by-laws and founding history for the California Native Daughters Club and the National Association
of Colored Girls, as well as correspondence for club events, memberships, newsletters and meeting notes.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Founding history and constitutional by-laws
Box 1:1
Constitution and by-laws, California Native Daughters Club and the National Association of Colored Girls
circa 1957
Box 1:1
Golden Nuggets constitution and bylaws
circa 1957
Box 1:1
"Origin of the colored girls clubs"
undated
Box 1:2
Invitations for club events
1957-1963
Box 1:3
Letters and cards regarding club activities, membership outreach, membership inquiries and donations
1947-1965
Assorted printed material
Box 1:4
Draft of club newsletter
1959
Box 1:5
California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs program
1962-07-29
Box 1:5
1962-1963 California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. fifty-seventh annual state convention program
1963-07-25
Box 1:6
California Native Daughters Club yearbook
circa 1950s
Box 1:6
California Native Daughters Club list of officers
undated
Box 1:7
California Native Daughters Club's tribute to Mrs. Maggie Marshall
circa 1959
Box 1:7
California Native Daughters Club's California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. membership certificates
1958-1964
Box 1:7
"A tribute to Harriet Sloan Sparks"
undated
Photographs
Physical Description: 4 photographs
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes two portraits of club members and duplicate photographs of the club exhibit board for the California Negro History
Week.
Arrangement
Arranged by photograph identification number.
Box 1:8
Mrs. Willie Washington [001]
circa 1950s
Box 1:8
Capwell's Department Store California Negro History Week exhibit [002/003]
circa 1960s
Box 1:8
Capwell's Department Store National Negro History Week exhibit [004]
1966-02-12
Assorted printed material
Physical Description: 2 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes newspaper clippings on the lives of a number of club members as well as an inscribed book.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Box 1:9
Newspaper clippings
1957-1969
Box 1:10
Skelding, Susie B. Birthday Flowers: Designs of Pansies and Roses; Violets; Eglantine; and Forget-Me-Nots and Four-Leaved
Clover. Poems by Prominent Authors. White, Stokes, & Allen, New York, 1884. Inscribed “From: Vernon S. McDonald, Sonora, California.
Used by the Sugg family of Sonora. To Ruth H. Lasartemay, November, 1980.”
1980
