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YWCA of Oakland

Physical Description: 7 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, two letters, event programs and invitations, and assorted publications of the YWCA of Oakland. A majority of the items relate to activities at the Linden and Market St. branches of the YWCA of Oakland.

Arrangement

Arranged by format.
Box 1:1

Constitution 1937-01-27

Box 1:1

By-laws 1932-06-21

Box 1:1

Proposed amendments to bylaws of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland 1939-01-16

Box 1:2

Business and Professional Committee agendas 1939-1940

 

Programs

Box 1:3

Girl reserves "around the world" 1924

Box 1:3

Hobby show sponsored by the Girl Reserve Committee Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. 1941-11-09

Box 1:3

Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland Linden Branch annual meeting program 1938

Box 1:3

Invitation to annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland Central Branch annual meeting 1937-01-15

Box 1:3

Song book girl reserve mother-daughter banquet 1939-05-11

Box 1:3

Candle lighting ceremony of the Linden Center Y.W.C.A. 1956-11-25

Box 1:3

Annual candle lighting service for recognition of members of Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. 1943-12-19

Box 1:3

Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. girl reserve mother-daughter banquet 1939-05-11

Box 1:3

Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. program 1932-09-25

Box 1:3

Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the Y.W.C.A. brochure 1939

Box 1:3

"Every girl," a pageant interpreting the girl reserves movement 1925-06-11

Box 1:3

Tenth annual Easter Breakfast given by the Linden Club of Business Girls 1937

Box 1:3

Candle lighting service for the recognition of members Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. undated

Box 1:3

Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland training course for Christian Club leadership 1922-10-09

Box 1:3

Annual candle-lighting service for recognition of Y.W.C.A. members 1942-12-13

Box 1:3

Annual meeting program of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland, California 1940-02-19

Box 1:3

Inter-club Christmas dinner ceremonial Girl Reserves of the Oakland Y.W.C.A. 1938-12-09

Box 1:3

Sixty sixth annual meeting Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland 1943

Box 1:3

Linden Street Y.W.C.A. interest groups, clubs, classes 1938-1958

 

Invitations

Box 1:4

Centennial Committee invitation to Founder's Day Tea 1977-10-05

Box 1:4

Girl Reserves Committee meeting invitation undated

Box 1:4

Invitation to the mother's and daughter's banquet at the Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. undated

Box 1:4

Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. open house nite undated

Box 1:4

Easter Breakfast sponsored by the Linden Club of the Business and Professional Girl Department of the Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. 1930-04-20

Box 1:4

Eighth annual sponsored by the Linden Club of Business Girls Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. 1935-04-21

Box 1:4

Tenth annual Easter Breakfast given by the Linden Club of Business Girls Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. 1937-03-28

Box 1:4

Invitation to Y.W.C.A. hobby show 1941-11-05

Box 1:4

Invitation to sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland 1946-02-12

Box 1:4

Invitation to exhibition of art of presenting the works of Richard W. Dempsey at the Y.W.C.A. 1940-01-27

Box 1:4

Oakland Y.W.C.A. invitation to open house at newly redecorated West Oakland Center 1946-10-24

Box 1:5

Correspondence 1924, 1939

 

Publications

Box 1:2

Negro women and the association idea / Isobel C. Lawson 1934

Box 1:6

The architectural mode of life / Ernestine Bryant 1934

Box 1:6

A review of the year 1931, Y.W.C.A. Oakland, California [reproduction] 1931

Box 1:6

Open house and annual meeting program and report 1930

Box 1:6

The spectator: journal of the Linden St. branch Y.W.C.A. [reproduction] 1931

Box 1:6

Y’s Spectator 1943

Box 1:6

Y.W.C.A. news September 1977

Box 1:6

Y.W.C.A. yearbook 1931-01-20

Box 1:7

Newspaper clippings 1924, 1965-1973

 

Assorted publications

Physical Description: 1 folder

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes a March 1960 edition of the YWCA's newsletter The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter, and a pamphlet Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America.
Box 1:8

The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter, vol. 1, no. 1 March 1960

Box 1:8

Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America 1949