Guide to the Young Women's Christian Association Collection
Sean Heyliger
African American Museum and Library at Oakland
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Oakland, California 94612
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Guide to the Young Women's Christian Association Collection
African American Museum & Library at Oakland
Oakland, California
- Processed by:
- Sean Heyliger
- Date Completed:
- 01/08/2014
- Encoded by:
- Sean Heyliger
© 2013 African American Museum & Library at Oakland. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Young Women's Christian Association collection
Dates: 1919-1977
Creator:
East Bay Negro Historical Society.
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Abstract: The Young Women's Christian Association Collection consists of correspondence, event invitations and programs, meeting minutes,
constitution and by-laws, and publications of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland collected by the East Bay
Negro Historical Society. The collection is organized into two series: YWCA of Oakland and Assorted national YWCA publications.
The bulk of the YWCA of Oakland series is administrative records of the Linden St. and Market St. branches of the YWCA of
Oakland, the two black branches of the YWCA in Oakland, California. The administrative records include the Linden St. branch
constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, and programs and invitation to events held at the Linden St. branch. Publications
include a transcript of a 1934 speech delivered by Ernestine Bryant, “The architectural mode of life” and YWCA of Oakland
reports and newsletters. The assorted national YWCA publications series includes a March 1960 edition of the
The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter newsletter and a 1949 YWCA pamphlet,
Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Access Restrictions
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish from the Young Women's Christian Association Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum
& Library at Oakland.
Preferred Citation
Young Women's Christian Association collection , African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland,
California.
Processing Information
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 01/08/2014.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Young Women's Christian Association Collection consists of correspondence, event invitations and programs, meeting minutes,
constitution and by-laws, and publications of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland collected by the East Bay
Negro Historical Society. The collection is organized into two series: YWCA of Oakland and Assorted national YWCA publications.
The bulk of the YWCA of Oakland series is administrative records of the Linden St. and Market St. branches of the YWCA of
Oakland, the two black branches of the YWCA in Oakland, California. The administrative records include the Linden St. branch
constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, and programs and invitation to events held at the Linden St. branch. Publications
include a transcript of a 1934 speech delivered by Ernestine Bryant, “The architectural mode of life” and YWCA of Oakland
reports and newsletters. The assorted national YWCA publications series includes a March 1960 edition of the
The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter newsletter and a 1949 YWCA pamphlet,
Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America.
Arrangement
Series I. YWCA of Oakland
Series II. Assorted publications
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History.
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.--History.
African American women--California--History.
African American women--Societies and clubs.
YWCA of Oakland
Physical Description: 7 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, two letters, event programs and invitations, and assorted publications
of the YWCA of Oakland. A majority of the items relate to activities at the Linden and Market St. branches of the YWCA of
Oakland.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Box 1:1
Proposed amendments to bylaws of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland
1939-01-16
Box 1:2
Business and Professional Committee agendas
1939-1940
Box 1:3
Girl reserves "around the world"
1924
Box 1:3
Hobby show sponsored by the Girl Reserve Committee Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
1941-11-09
Box 1:3
Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland Linden Branch annual meeting program
1938
Box 1:3
Invitation to annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland Central Branch annual meeting
1937-01-15
Box 1:3
Song book girl reserve mother-daughter banquet
1939-05-11
Box 1:3
Candle lighting ceremony of the Linden Center Y.W.C.A.
1956-11-25
Box 1:3
Annual candle lighting service for recognition of members of Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
1943-12-19
Box 1:3
Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. girl reserve mother-daughter banquet
1939-05-11
Box 1:3
Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. program
1932-09-25
Box 1:3
Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the Y.W.C.A. brochure
1939
Box 1:3
"Every girl," a pageant interpreting the girl reserves movement
1925-06-11
Box 1:3
Tenth annual Easter Breakfast given by the Linden Club of Business Girls
1937
Box 1:3
Candle lighting service for the recognition of members Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
undated
Box 1:3
Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland training course for Christian Club leadership
1922-10-09
Box 1:3
Annual candle-lighting service for recognition of Y.W.C.A. members
1942-12-13
Box 1:3
Annual meeting program of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland, California
1940-02-19
Box 1:3
Inter-club Christmas dinner ceremonial Girl Reserves of the Oakland Y.W.C.A.
1938-12-09
Box 1:3
Sixty sixth annual meeting Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland
1943
Box 1:3
Linden Street Y.W.C.A. interest groups, clubs, classes
1938-1958
Box 1:4
Centennial Committee invitation to Founder's Day Tea
1977-10-05
Box 1:4
Girl Reserves Committee meeting invitation
undated
Box 1:4
Invitation to the mother's and daughter's banquet at the Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
undated
Box 1:4
Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. open house nite
undated
Box 1:4
Easter Breakfast sponsored by the Linden Club of the Business and Professional Girl Department of the Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
1930-04-20
Box 1:4
Eighth annual sponsored by the Linden Club of Business Girls Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
1935-04-21
Box 1:4
Tenth annual Easter Breakfast given by the Linden Club of Business Girls Linden Branch Y.W.C.A.
1937-03-28
Box 1:4
Invitation to Y.W.C.A. hobby show
1941-11-05
Box 1:4
Invitation to sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association of Oakland
1946-02-12
Box 1:4
Invitation to exhibition of art of presenting the works of Richard W. Dempsey at the Y.W.C.A.
1940-01-27
Box 1:4
Oakland Y.W.C.A. invitation to open house at newly redecorated West Oakland Center
1946-10-24
Box 1:5
Correspondence
1924, 1939
Box 1:2
Negro women and the association idea / Isobel C. Lawson
1934
Box 1:6
The architectural mode of life / Ernestine Bryant
1934
Box 1:6
A review of the year 1931, Y.W.C.A. Oakland, California [reproduction]
1931
Box 1:6
Open house and annual meeting program and report
1930
Box 1:6
The spectator: journal of the Linden St. branch Y.W.C.A. [reproduction]
1931
Box 1:6
Y.W.C.A. news
September 1977
Box 1:6
Y.W.C.A. yearbook
1931-01-20
Box 1:7
Newspaper clippings
1924, 1965-1973
Assorted publications
Physical Description: 1 folder
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes a March 1960 edition of the YWCA's newsletter
The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter, and a pamphlet
Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America.
Box 1:8
The Phyllis Wheatley Reporter, vol. 1, no. 1
March 1960
Box 1:8
Interracial policies of the Young Women’s Christian Associations of the United States of America
1949
