Community Service Records, 1920-1931

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Summary

Title:
Community Service Records
Dates:
1920-1931
Creators:
San Diego Community Service.
Abstract:
This collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, and other administrative records of San Diego Community Service, a social service agency focused on recreational activities for children in the San Diego Community in the 1920s.
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet (1 box)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Community Service Records, MS 64, San Diego History Center Document Archives, San Diego, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, and other administrative records of San Diego Community Service, a social service agency focused on recreational activities for children in the San Diego Community in the 1920s. Additional administrative records include committee reports, financial documents, a list of the Board of Directors and the organization’s constitution. Correspondence includes letters between San Diego Community Service and the San Diego City Schools.

Biographical / historical:

San Diego Community Service was a social service agency devoted primarily to promoting, organizing, and operating recreational and cultural activities for children in the San Diego community. The Community Service group was involved with various associations and organizations throughout San Diego County that promoted activities for children within the community, including the San Diego City Schools. The group did many projects in conjunction with the San Diego City Schools to help promote recreational activities for children. They even employed a Drama Director, Alice Lee, to help promote drama and visual arts within the city school system

This group received most of its funding from the Community Chest, and a majority of the members of the organization held their positions on a voluntary basis.

Processing information:

Collection processed by Rosa Longacre on May 31, 2007

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged by material type.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Samantha Mills
Date Prepared:
March 28, 2017
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2017-03-29T08:47-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.

Preferred citation:

Community Service Records, MS 64, San Diego History Center Document Archives, San Diego, CA.

Location of this collection:
1649 El Prado, Suite 3
San Diego, CA 92101, US
Contact:
(619) 232-6203
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