Guide to the Agnes Osgood Papers
Finding Aid Authors: André Ausems and Lisa Leonardi.
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2007-12-14
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Guide to the Agnes Osgood Papers
1894/1977
Special Collections & University Archives
Overview of the Collection
Collection Title: Agnes Osgood Papers
Dates: 1894-1977
Identification: MS-0180
Creator:
Osgood, Agnes, 1890-
Physical Description: 1.67
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Biographical Information:
Born in 1890, Agnes Osgood was a community activist in Lemon Grove, San Diego. She primarily devoted her time to Project Concern,
a national non profit medical relief organization emphasizing preventative medical care, medical education, and public health
issues. While working for Project Concern, Osgood was responsible for creating 2500 quilts for South Vietnamese refugees and
American Soldiers. She also helped to organize Project Concern’s donations of food, clothing, and vaccination supplies to
South Vietnam. In addition to Project Concern, Osgood was also involved with Synanon, a Christian-based organization that
helped to rehabilitate drug addicts, convicts, and prostitutes. Osgood was involved with several other institutions over the
span of her career, including the American Red Cross, Lemon Grove Presbyterian Church, and the Department of Public Welfare.
Access Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Corporate Name:
Lemon Grove Congregational Church (Lemon Grove, Calif.) -- Registers
Genre/Form of Material:
Personal Papers
Publications
Geographic Name:
Lemon Grove (Calif.) -- History -- Sources
Personal Name:
Osgood, Agnes, b. 1890 -- Archives
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use:
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation:
Identification of item, folder title, box number,
Agnes Osgood Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
Scope and Contents
The
Agnes Osgood Collection documents her involvement as a community activist in the San Diego area, with a particular focus on the Lemon Grove community.
The collection is comprised of correspondence, employee business cards, newspaper clippings, Congregational church membership
documentation, and documentation detailing the history of Lemon Grove. Highlights of the collection include letters to Osgood
from Project Concern's South Vietnamese branch during the Vietnam War,
Synanon, a book by Guy Endore, scrapbooks pertaining to life in Lemon Grove, and personal records written by Osgood.
Detailed List of Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Synanon - correspondence
1965 - 67
Box 1, Folder 2
Synanon - donation forms
1964 - 67
Box 1, Folder 3
Synanon - employee business cards
Box 1, Folder 4
Synanon - miscellaneous publications
1960's
Box 1, Folder 5
Synanon - newspaper clippings
n.d., 1974
Box 1, Folder 6
The Allison Family History, photocopy
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 7
Early Families and Property Ownership
c. 1900 - 1940
Box 1, Folder 8
Human Interest: California Expo program; report copies of plat maps
1936
Box 1, Folder 9
Interview with Agnes Osgood by Dorothy Nottingham
1975
Box 1, Folder 10
Lemon Grove Congressional Church Membership
1894 - 1939
Box 1, Folder 11
Lemon Grove History, photocopy
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 12
Lemon Grove History, photocopies, publication materials
1895
Box 1, Folder 13
Lemon Grove History "The Home of the Lemon & the Orange & a Paradise for Man"
1915
Box 1, Folder 14
Lemon Grove - Index to a Great Register
1938
Box 1, Folder 15
Lemon Grove - School census Marshall's report
1893 - 1901
Box 1, Folder 17
Newspaper Clippings
1960's
Box 1, Folder 18
Old Globe Theater - correspondence to Osgood
1960's
Box 1, Folder 19
Project Concern - correspondence
1960's
Box 1, Folder 20
Project Concern - correspondence
1960's, 1970's
Box 1, Folder 21
Project Concern - information sheets, miscellanea
1960's, 1970's
Box 1, Folder 22
Project Concern - Vietnam letters to Osgood
1960's
Box 1, Folder 23
Project Concern - Vietnam letters to Velma Moore
1960's, 1970's
Box 1, Folder 24
"San Diego, the Birthplace of California" (booklet)
c.1915
Scope and Contents
Dinner & program of meeting of Board of Supervisors Association, May 1915. Annual member of "Kingdom of the Sun" magazine.
Box 1, Folder 25
"Balboa, San Diego's Park Beautiful" (booklet)
Scope and Contents
Commemorative 10th Anniversary Panama - California Exposition Autographed copy by Lillian Pray - Palmer.
Box 1, Folder 26
"The Kingdom of the Sun" (booklet)
1916
Scope and Contents
Annual Christmas member of "Kingdom of the Sun" magazine.
Box 1, Folder 27
"The Kingdom of the Sun" (booklet)
1917
Scope and Contents
Annual Christmas member of "Kingdom of the Sun" magazine.
Box 1, Folder 28
Osgood, Agnes - "Southeast San Diego: My Efforts There" (report)
April 26, 1967
Box 1, Folder 29
Condensation of minutes of Lemon Grove Country Club (report)
1965
Box 1, Folder 30
Osgood, Agnes - "My Personal Story f Work with Dr. Jim's Group" (report)
1962 - 1978
Box 2, Folder 1
Pamphlets (2) "Project Concern"
Box 2, Folder 2
Project Concern - Annual report
1966 - 67
Box 2, Folder 3
Project Concern - calendar
1968
Box 2, Folder 4
Project Concern - pictorial souvenir
1967
Box 2, Folder 5
Certificate - awarded to Dr. Jim's Work Group
Box 2, Folder 7
Scrap book I: Exposition 1936
Box 2, Folder 8
Scrap book II: Project Concern Miscellaneous
1969, 1960's, 1970's
