American Women for International Understanding records, circa 1965-2007

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Summary

Abstract:
Records from American Women for International Understanding (AWIU), including administrative records, photographs, and artifacts.
Extent:
51 Linear Feet (12 cartons, 34 document boxes, 5 flat boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], American Women for International Understanding records, Mss 227. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the records from American Women for International Understanding (AWIU). Included are administrative documents, meeting minutes, scrapbooks, and correspondence, and primarily focuses on the reports of delegations.

Biographical / historical:

American Women for International Understanding (AWIU) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a network of women throughout the world in order to foster understanding and good will among nations. It was founded by Bernice Behrens (1910-1995) in 1968. Some precursor files also are included in the collection.

Members seek to acquire knowledge through study, travel, and symposia designed to develop international understanding and to foster personal and organizational relationships among women throughout the world.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], American Women for International Understanding records, Mss 227. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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