YWCA of the U.S.A. Records

Description: Social service, women's advocacy, civic improvement, community service, and educational and intercultural exchange organization. The bulk of the materials date from 1906 to 1970 and focus on the administration of the National Association, its programs and publications, and its relations with its member YWCAs all over the country. Major topics include: employed women, particularly those in industry, interracial relations in the U.S., religion, work with immigrant women, development of girls, and of a youth movement, health and sex education for women, international relations, international work, philanthropy, housing, women in rural America, effective administration of organizations, group work, social work, women's war work, citizenship training, leadership training, and college women. This collection is organized into ten record groups.

Dates Covered: 1860 -- 2002

Institutional Donor: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America

Holding Institution: Smith College

Archive: Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive

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The Aftermath: A Playlet for the Week of Prayer, Following the World's Conference, 1914

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Committee, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 2, 12pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1914) (New York, NY, first release 1914), 12 page(s)

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America Within the World's Y.W.C.A

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 9, 17pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Women's Press, 1936), 17 page(s)

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Association Life the World Around

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 8, 33pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board, 1914), 33 page(s)

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Changing Leadership: A Report From American Mission Stations Regarding the Place of Women in National Chruches

in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 331, Folder 1, 70pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1926); edited by Katherine E. Vaughn, fl. 1930 , 70 page(s)

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Current List of Countries Which Host YWCA National Associations

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Committee, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 6, 2pp.) (Northampton, MA) (11 March 1998) , 2 page(s)

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Dialogue on the 1980 UN World Conference on Women, Third World Perspective, Washington, D.C., 13-14 September 1979

written by United States. National Commission for UNESCO, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 318, Folder 1, 19pp.) (Northampton, MA) (October 1979) , 19 page(s)

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A Few Brief Observations After Three Days at the Japan Y.W.C.A.

written by Mildred Roe, fl. 1947, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 336, Folder 3, 3pp.) (Northampton, MA) (12 January 1947) , 3 page(s)

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Following Up on the Mid-Decade Women's Conference: A Cooperative Program of Community Outreach

written by Sara-Alyce P. Wright, 1918-1994, Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 318, Folder 4, 19pp.) (Northampton, MA) (14 April 1980) , 19 page(s)

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Foreign Department, 1912

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board. Foreign Department, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 7, 28pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board, 1912), 28 page(s)

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Foreign Division Statistics: Number of American Secretaries Abroad

in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 13, 5pp.) (Northampton, MA) (15 July 1924) , 5 page(s)

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