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Junior Business and Professional Women's Club of San Diego scrapbook.
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Junior Business and Professional Women's Club of San Diego scrapbookCreator/Contributor:
Junior Business and Professional Women's Club of San Diego, creator, creator.Abstract:
Disbound pages from a professional business women's organization scrapbook with mounted photographs, ephemera, clippings,
announcements, and several issues of their newsletter, The Scratch Pad. Laid in issues of The Scratch Pad in the scrapbook
have been removed and housed separately.
Date:
1921 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJunior Business and Professional Women's Club of San Diego -- Archives
Young women -- California -- San Diego -- Societies and clubs
Businesswomen -- California -- San Diego -- Societies and clubs
Note:
Junior Business and Professional Women's Club of San Diego scrapbook, BANC MSS 2018/271, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
The Junior Business and Professional Woman's Club of San Diego (Junior BPWC) was founded and organized on April 1, 1921 by
Augusta L. Fraser and Reba Willis with the motto, "through education and recreation, to develop an normal happy womanhood
expressing itself in service to others." At the time, Fraser was president of the San Diego BPWC and Willis was the secretary
of the local YMCA. The club began with 18 members and had 39 by the end of its first year. Its purpose was to gather young
working women between the ages of 18 and 30 as a service organization.
In English.
Type:
Scrapbooks.Physical Description:
print
0.6 (1 1
Language:
English