Monterey Peninsula Community Center scrapbooks

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2023

Descriptive Summary

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

Access

By appointment only; Contact Local History Librarian or designated staff.

Publication Rights

Reproduction by Local History Librarian or designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of material.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Monterey Peninsula Community Center scrapbooks. Collection Number: ARC 574. Monterey Public Library

Acquisition Information

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.