Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Children’s Home Society Scrapbook Collection
- Dates:
- 1953-2006
- Creators:
- Children’s Home Society of California Humpty Dumpty Auxiliary
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 3 scrapbooks
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
-
Children’s Home Society Scrapbook Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Background
- Scope and content:
-
One scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about the organization’s founding and its activities from 1953 to 1959; one scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about the group’s activities from 1956 to 1978; and one includes newsletters, photographs of the group’s events, and travel postcards from its members, all ranging from 1990 to 2006.
- Biographical / historical:
-
The collection was donated by the Walnut Creek Historical Society, which had received the material from Jeffrey Allendorph of Discovery Bay in 2015.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Charity, children's
scrapbook
newspaper clippings - Places:
- Pleasant Hill
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1953-2006
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
-
Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
-
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
- Preferred citation:
-
Children’s Home Society Scrapbook Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
-
724 Escobar StreetMartinez, CA 94553, US
- Contact:
- 9252291042