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Phoenixville Chapter No. 713 of the American Association of Retired Persons scrapbooks and photograph albums
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Held at: Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area [Contact Us]204 Church St., Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 19460
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is a national organization that promotes the well-being of older persons through advocacy, education, and service. It was established in 1958 by Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, based on an earlier organization also initiated by Dr. Andrus (in 1947), the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA).
Chapter No. 713 of the American Association of Retired Persons was established in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1969. The local branch was organized by Reverend Morris W. Derr, D.D., past president of an AARP chapter in Kentucky. Open to all men and women 55 years of age or older, membership benefits initially included automobile and life insurance plans, a drug service and a travel service, as well as subscriptions to a bimonthly magazine and news sheet. The Phoenixville chapter of the AARP is still active as of 2013, offering monthly meetings with lunch and entertainment or an informative speaker.
Bibliography:
Stocz, Robert G. "American Assoc. of Retired Persons to Meet." December 5, 1969. Press release found in collection.
This collection consists of seven scrapbooks and three photograph albums from Phoenixville Chapter No. 713 of the American Association of Retired Persons. The scrapbooks include newsletters, clippings about the AARP, ephemera, and some administrative records such as membership lists, correspondence, and meeting minutes.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area directly for more information.
Organization
- American Association of Retired Persons. Phoenixville Chapter No. 713
- American Association of Retired Persons
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Place
- Publisher
- Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
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