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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Letter from Dorothea McDowell to Mildred Owen, May 28, 1948

written by Dorothea McDowell, fl. 1947, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 337, Folder 8, 2pp.) (Northampton, MA) (28 May 1948) , 2 page(s)

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Letter from Dorothea McDowell to Miss Owen, December 27, 1947

written by Dorothea McDowell, fl. 1947, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 337, Folder 8, 2pp.) (Northampton, MA) (27 December 1947) , 2 page(s)

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Letter from Eldri Dieson to Margaret Forsythe, September 23,1949

written by Eldri Dieson, 1928-1986, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 336, Folder 3, 4pp.) (Northampton, MA) (23 September 1949) , 4 page(s)

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Letter from Emma R. Kaufman to Dear Friends, November 28, 1947

written by Emma R. Kaufman, 1881-1979, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 336, Folder 3, 4pp.) (Northampton, MA) (28 November 1947) , 4 page(s)

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Letter from M. Uchida to Miss Forsyth, May 3,1949

written by M. Uchida, fl. 1949, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 336, Folder 3, 1pp.) (Northampton, MA) , 1 page(s)

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Letter from Unknown Member of the WYWCA to Ruth Woodsmall, March 23, 1930

written by World's Young Women's Christian Association, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 325, Folder 1, 6pp.) (Northampton, MA) (23 March 1930) , 6 page(s)

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Linking up the Nations: A Sketch of the Work Directed by the Foreign Secretaries Financed by the National Board of the Young Women's Christi...

written by 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 320, Folder 8, 26pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board, 1916), 26 page(s)

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Making the World Safe for Women

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 14, 16pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Woman's Press, 1917), 15 page(s)

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New York Regional Conference for Women, Conference Agenda, 2 June 1980

written by Vivian L. Derryck, fl. 1980, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 318, Folder 3, 4pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1980) , 4 page(s)

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Overtaking the Centuries: Helps for Teaching

in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 8, 16pp.) (Northampton, MA) (New York, NY: Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. National Board, 1916), 16 page(s)

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