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Title: Monterey Peninsula Community Center scrapbooks
Dates: 1934-1967
Collection Number: ARC 574
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 scrapbooks (27 cm.; 28 cm.; 30 cm); 2 folders; 2 flat storage boxes (27 x 31 cm. and 32 x 39 cm)
Repository:
Monterey Public Library
Monterey, California 93940
Abstract: The Monterey Peninsula Community Center was founded by Dr. Martin McAulay in 1925-26, with the support of the Monterey Kiwanis
Club and private donations. The Community Center was established to provide child care for working mothers and supply "supplementary
meals ... for underprivilileged children." The Community Center Auxiliary was organized in 1937 during the Depression. The
Center, started on Cannery Row, moved several times, including the Presidio of Monterey and Laine Street in New Monterey,
until the construction of a Community Center and Nursery School building on Archer Street in 1946. In its first few decades,
the Center was one of the few organizations to provide social and health services to the children of cannery workers and impoverished
families.
Language of Material: English
By appointment only; Contact Local History Librarian or designated staff.
Reproduction by Local History Librarian or designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of material.
[Identification of item]. Monterey Peninsula Community Center scrapbooks. Collection Number: ARC 574. Monterey Public Library
Donated by J Gragg-Sargeant Family, 2009
Scope and Content of Collection
Scrapbooks contain newspaper articles, lists, memoranda. reports, and photographs. Box 1: Scrapbook 1. created by Julia Gragg
Breinig, an early board member and director of the Community Center, contains articles describing the Center's history, clippings,
and photographs from 1934 to 1947 documenting the early years of the Community Center services and activities and the construction
of a dedicated building; Box 2: Scrapbook 2: ("Community Center"). includes both clippings and photographs from 1937 to 1950;
Scrapbook 3 documents the Community Center Auxiliary Board's activities from 1966 to 1967 with clippings.