California Native Daughters Club collection, 1957-1980

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Summary

Creators:
California Native Daughters Club
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.
Extent:
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

California Native Daughters Club collection, MS 42, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

Processed by Supriya Wronkiewicz, December 2006. Updated by Mia Jaeggli, October 2013

Arrangement:

Series I. Administrative Records Series II. Photographs Series III. Assorted Printed Materials

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.

Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.

Terms of access:

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.

Location of this collection:
659 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612, US
Contact:
(510) 637-0198
aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org
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