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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World Fellowship Ahoy!: The International Cruise of the Trusty Tub "Goodwill" of the Salvation Army

in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 3, 1p.) (Northampton, MA) (1927) (originally published 1927, first release 1927), 1 page(s)

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You Still Will Have To Wake Some Day -- And Think: A Conversation on the United States and the International Situation

written by Margaret Hiller, 1891-, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 9, 16pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1940) , 16 page(s)

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The Young Women's Christian Association in South America

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 337, Folder 4, 24pp.) (Northampton, MA) (Buenos Aires, Federal District (Argentina): Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. Continental Committee, 1924), 24 page(s)

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YWCAs Around the World, 1963

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America. International Division, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 11, 1p.) (Northampton, MA) (1963) , 1 page(s)

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YWCAs Around the World, 1968

written by Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, in YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 320, Folder 11, 1p.) (Northampton, MA) (1968) (New York, NY), 1 page(s)

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