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MS 42
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Title: California Native Daughters Club collection
Dates: 1957-1980
Collection number: MS 42
Creator:
California Native Daughters Club
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
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.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the California Native Daughters Club Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum
& Library at Oakland.
California Native Daughters Club collection, MS 42, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library.
Oakland, California.
Processed by Supriya Wronkiewicz, December 2006. Updated by Mia Jaeggli, October 2013
Biography / Administrative History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Series I. Administrative Records Series II. Photographs Series III. Assorted Printed Materials
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
California Native Daughters Club
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
African Americans--California--History.
African Americans--California—East Bay--History.
African American women--Societies and clubs.
African American women—California—History.
Photographs.
Colored Women's Clubs Associations collection, MS 1, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library.
Oakland, California.