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Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Frankford Branch Records

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Call Number:
555, PC-83
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
22.5 linear feet (20 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Frankford Branch Records, Acc. 555, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1920-1975 (inclusive)
Creator:
Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.). Frankford Branch
Form:
Administrative records, Clippings, Correspondence, Financial records, Minutes (administrative records), Pamphlets, Photographs, Publications (documents), and Reports
Abstract:

The YWCA of Philadelphia, Frankford Branch, is a membership organization which served the lower Northeast section of Philadelphia from 1920 to 1994. The organization was one of numerous branches that has comprised the YWCA of Philadelphia since its beginnings in 1870. In 1994, facing financial collapse, the Frankford Branch was kept open by a community task force until a new agency called the New Frankford Community Y (NFCY) could open in its place. The NFCY was established in December 1994.

From the beginning, the YWCA was established to provide leadership training for women and girls throughout the United States. Established on November 7, 1920, the Frankford Branch of the YWCA of Philadelphia grew from a storeroom at 4330 Frankford Avenue to a brown stone mansion at 4704 Leiper Street. Expanding membership made it necessary for the Frankford YWCA to relocate three times before purchasing a temporary home at 4681-83 Griscom Street in July 1924. Although the Depression kept the Branch at that location for sixteen years, a cafeteria there continued to be successful, a residence housed eight young women, and club and educational activities were popular. In 1941, the Frankford YWCA purchased its permanent home on Leiper Street. Built in 1866, this brown stone known as the Bromley Estate was a spacious house with ample room and grounds for future development.

From 1941 to 1960, the Frankford Branch continued to offer leadership programs for women, serve community needs, and expand its facilities. Through 1945, its adult program centered on war services, participating in the YWCA of Philadelphia's training of 5,000 hostesses for USO dances and entertainment in local hospitals. A city-wide building campaign in 1950 made the construction of an outdoor play court and additional space for canteens possible. Club activity until the end of the 1950s was varied. Clubs for employed young women, homemakers, and couples aimed at enriching lives and increasing community responsibility. Most of the Branch's activities served area youth, with the Y-Teen clubs for girls and boys and summer camps for girls its core programs. The Frankford YWCA also became a center for community life, offering its facilities to a variety of organizations like the Girl Scouts and Settlement Music School.

From 1960 to 1975, the Frankford Branch continued to offer such multi-service programs and expanded its recreational facilities and its services to the community. By 1960, with a growing population in Northeast Philadelphia, the Branch developed an extension program in new high schools and community locations. With local interest in physical education growing, the Frankford YWCA began exploring the building of an indoor swimming pool. In 1964, it opened in a central location in the Northeast with a new YWCA of Philadelphia branch building at 2840 Holme Avenue. It was not until 1975 that the Frankford Branch built its own swimming pool. Also, during the late 1960s, the Branch became more actively involved in dealing with racial problems in the local community, publishing a paper in 1968 called the Northeast Liberator.

This collection contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, minutes, publications, clippings, and other materials documenting the history of the YWCA of Philadelphia, Frankford Branch from 1920 to 1975. The bulk of materials are from the 1940s and 1950s.

This collection is organized into 12 series:

Series 1: Administrative, 1921-1978
Series 2: Executive Director, 1926-1970
Series 3: Committees, 1920-1970
Series 4: Clubs, 1923-1969
Series 5: Buildings, 1940-1965
Series 6: Finance, 1939-1962
Series 7: Special Events, 1945-1960
Series 8: Conventions, 1922-1955
Series 9: Publications, 1922-1971
Series 10: Certificates, 1946
Series 11: Reference File, 1969-1973
Series 12: Photographs (PC-83), 1921-circa 1954, undated

Donated by Belle Harrison in 1981 and 1983.

Collection processed by Marcia Bassett, Helen Heinz, Wanda Newton, Lanzhen Tian, and Laurie Zierer in 1998. Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in June 2015. Finding aid updated to add boxes 19 and 20, PC-83, and to adjust linear footage in August, 2016 by Courtney Smerz, Collection Management Archivist.

The portion of the accession originally was transferred by Belle Henderson to the Urban Archives in 1981 as YWCA of Philadelphia--Metropolitan Branch and assigned the number 529. Materials relating to the Frankford Branch were removed from 529 and placed in 529A. In 1983, when Accession 555 was given by Belle Henderson to the Urban Archives from the Frankford Branch, groups 529A and 555 were merged and formally processed together. All photographs were removed from individual files and placed in the Urban Archives Photographic Collection (PC-83). Xeroxed copies of the photographs can be found in those folders.

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Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
Finding Aid Date
November 2023
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Frankford Branch Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series 1 includes annual meetings (1934-1956), annual reports (1920-1955), board of director minutes and accompanying materials (1925-1978), miscellaneous information on cafeterias (1921-1940), committee representatives (1922-1944), file guides (undated), minutes (1947-1950), personnel files (1939-1954), a personnel time study project (1963), residency services (1928-1932), Settlement Music School correspondence (1950-1961), Social Audit and Community Chest reports (1956-1957), staff minutes (1934-1957), and statistics (1936-1962).

Annual Meetings, 1934-1945.
Box 1 Folder 1
Annual Meetings, 1946-1949.
Box 1 Folder 2
Annual Meetings, 1950-1954.
Box 1 Folder 3
Annual Meetings, 1955-1956.
Box 1 Folder 4
Annual Meetings -City-wide, 1934-1944.
Box 1 Folder 5
Annual Reports, 1920-1938.
Box 1 Folder 6
Annual Reports, 1940-1942.
Box 1 Folder 7
Annual Reports, 1943-1949.
Box 1 Folder 8
Annual Reports, 1950-1953.
Box 1 Folder 9
Annual Reports, 1954-1955.
Box 1 Folder 10
Board of Director-Minutes, 1925-1926.
Box 1 Folder 11
Board of Director-Minutes, 1927-1929.
Box 1 Folder 12
Board of Director-Minutes, 1930-1932.
Box 1 Folder 13
Board of Director-Minutes, 1933-1936.
Box 1 Folder 14
Board of Director-Minutes, 1937-1938.
Box 1 Folder 15
Board of Director-Minutes, 1939-1942.
Box 1 Folder 16
Board of Director-Minutes, 1943-1947.
Box 1 Folder 17
Board of Director-Minutes, 1949-1950.
Box 1 Folder 18
Board of Director-Minutes, 1951-1953.
Box 1 Folder 19
Board of Director-Minutes, 1954-1955.
Box 1 Folder 20
Board of Director-Minutes, 1956-1957.
Box 1 Folder 21
Board of Director -Misc., 1975-1976.
Box 1 Folder 22
Board of Director -Reports, 1970-1978.
Box 1 Folder 23
Cafeteria, 1938-1940.
Box 2 Folder 1
Cafeteria, 1929, 1935-1940.
Box 2 Folder 2
Cafeteria, 1921-1930.
Box 2 Folder 3
Committee Representatives, 1922-1944.
Box 2 Folder 4
File Guides, undated.
Box 2 Folder 5
Minutes, 1947-1950.
Box 2 Folder 6
Personnel-Contracts, 1940-1949.
Box 2 Folder 7
Personnel-Correspondence, 1944-1948.
Box 2 Folder 8
Personnel-Correspondence, 1952-1954.
Box 2 Folder 9
Personnel -Evaluations, 1943-1947.
Box 2 Folder 10
Personnel-Policies & Union Agreements, 1939-1948.
Box 2 Folder 11
Personnel -Staff Records, 1942-1949.
Box 2 Folder 12
Personnel -Time Study, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 13
Personnel -Time Study, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 14
Personnel -Time Study, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 15
Personnel -Time Study, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 16
Personnel -Time Study, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 17
Personnel -Vacancy Forms, 1949-1952.
Box 2 Folder 18
Residency Services, 1928-1932.
Box 2 Folder 19
Settlement Music School Correspondence, 1950-1961.
Box 2 Folder 20
Social Audit and Community Chest Report, 1956-1957.
Box 2 Folder 21
Staff Minutes, 1934-1937.
Box 2 Folder 22
Staff Minutes, 1940-1945.
Box 2 Folder 23
Staff Minutes, 1946-1950.
Box 2 Folder 24
Staff Minutes, 1951-1957.
Box 2 Folder 25
Statistics, 1936-1940.
Box 3 Folder 1
Statistics, 1949.
Box 3 Folder 2
Statistics, 1949.
Box 3 Folder 3
Statistics, 1949.
Box 3 Folder 4
Statistics, 1949-1955.
Box 3 Folder 5
Statistics, 1949-1955.
Box 3 Folder 6
Statistics, 1950.
Box 3 Folder 7
Statistics, 1953.
Box 3 Folder 8
Statistics, 1954-1955.
Box 3 Folder 9
Statistics, 1955-1962.
Box 3 Folder 10
Statistics, 1958-1959.
Box 3 Folder 11

Scope and Contents

Series 2 contains the personal files of Frankford YWCA Executive Directors: Mary Emma Farmer (1931-1949), Marion Hamlen (1949-1958), and Margaret Van Hoesen (1959-1967). It also includes similar files for the president or chairperson of the Board of Management of the Frankford YWCA: Miss Elizabeth Brinton (1949-1957), Mrs. Cyril B. Keane (1958-1962), Mrs. Clarence Kester (1963), Mrs. William Robinson (1963-1965), and Mrs. Stanton Greller (1966-1967). Publications included in the series focus on working women (1926-1946), religious services (1941-1945), and teens and recreation (1945-1947).

Board Minutes, 1948.
Box 3 Folder 12
Civil Defense, 1942.
Box 3 Folder 13
Committees-Minutes & Yearly Reports, 1946-1947.
Box 3 Folder 14
Committee of Management, 1948-1949.
Box 3 Folder 15
Diary (Bound), 1943.
Box 3 Folder 16
Executive Committee -Minutes & Private Memos, 1962.
Box 3 Folder 17
Executive Reports, 1948-1952.
Box 3 Folder 18
Executive Reports, 1953-1955.
Box 3 Folder 19
Extension Program, 1945-1950.
Box 3 Folder 20
Financial Report, 1949-1950.
Box 3 Folder 21
Financial Report, 1971-1973.
Box 3 Folder 22
Fund Raising, 1962.
Box 3 Folder 23
Fund Raising, 1963.
Box 3 Folder 24
Fund Raising, 1974.
Box 3 Folder 25
Metropolitan Camp Committee, 1948-1949.
Box 3 Folder 26
Minutes, 1943.
Box 3 Folder 27
Minutes, 1946-1950.
Box 3 Folder 28
Margaret Van Hoesen, files, personal notes, reports, misc. building files, & notes from Wilma Stringfellow, city Metropolitan Executive Director, 1959-1970.
Box 4 Folder 1
Outline of functions of President & Executive Director, 1960.
Box 4 Folder 2
Northeast Community Calendar Committee, Miss Brinton & Miss Farmer, 1949.
Box 4 Folder 3
Overseas Fund, 1949.
Box 4 Folder 4
Executive Director, minutes collected by Miss Farmer, 1931-1957.
Box 4 Folder 5
Executive Director, minutes & notes collected by Margaret Van Hoesen, 1967.
Box 4 Folder 6
Planning, Miss Brinton, 1949.
Box 4 Folder 7
Program Planning, 1953.
Box 4 Folder 8
Program Planning, 1953.
Box 4 Folder 9
Program Planning, 1953.
Box 4 Folder 10
Public Affairs, 1948.
Box 4 Folder 11
Publications, Posters, & Flyers, 1939-1941.
Box 4 Folder 12
Publications, Posters, & Flyers -Women's Focus, 1926-1946.
Box 4 Folder 13
Committee Reports, Elizabeth Brinton notes from chairman, Board of Management, 1942.
Box 4 Folder 14
Committee Reports, Elizabeth Brinton notes from chairman, Board of Management, 1943.
Box 4 Folder 15
Committee Reports, Elizabeth Brinton notes from chairman, Board of Management, 1944.
Box 4 Folder 16
Committee Reports, Elizabeth Brinton notes from chairman, Board of Management, 1944-1945.
Box 4 Folder 17
Monthly Narrative Reports, notes by Mary Emma Farmer, 1945-1946.
Box 4 Folder 18
Monthly Narrative Reports, notes by Mary Emma Farmer, 1946.
Box 4 Folder 19
Monthly Narrative Reports, notes by Marion S. Hamlen, 1949-1951.
Box 4 Folder 20
Monthly Narrative Reports, notes by Marion S. Hamlen, 1952-1955.
Box 4 Folder 21
Round Table Reports & YMCA Monthly Meetings of Branch Executive Directors, 1948-1956.
Box 4 Folder 22
Statistical Reports, Wm. B. O'Hara at 4681 Griscom Street, 1925-1932.
Box 4 Folder 23
Statistical Reports, Education, & Recreation programs, 1945.
Box 4 Folder 24
Statistical Reports, Education, & Recreation programs, 1946-1947.
Box 4 Folder 25
Teen-Age Department, Statistics, & Narrative Reports, 1952-1953.
Box 4 Folder 26
Worship Services & Sample Programs, 1941-1945.
Box 4 Folder 27

Scope and Contents

Series 3 includes Adult Adversary Committee reports (1958); various agendas of the Association Executives Committee (1970-1973); reports of the Building Fund Committee (1976); Business and Industrial (also called Business and Professional) Committee minutes, reports, policies, and objectives (1939-1953); Committee of Management meetings and minutes (1920-1965); Consulting Committee records on joint operations (1933-1935); Defense Worker's Program reports (1942); documents of the East Frankford Recreation Project (1973); Education Department reports (1945); Executive Committee reports and minutes (1933-1947); Extension Committee minutes (1954-1958), Financial Committee minutes and expense reports (1921-1927, 1937-1939), map and reports of the Health and Welfare Committee; Industrial Committee minutes, reports, and scrapbook (1931-1946); Leadership Council agendas, correspondence, and minutes (1941-1946); Membership Committee membership lists, minutes, reports, services, and philosophy (1929-1960); and Metropolitan Committee meetings, programming, planning, publicity, and finance (1944-1961). Also contains national board statistical reports (1935-1956); national business professional surveys (1954); Programming Committee educational classes (1941), internal leadership (1953), newsletters and economics (1946), women's issues (1942-1944), and minutes and reports on local and international

Adult Adversary, 1958.
Box 5 Folder 1
Association of Associations -Executive Committee, undated.
Box 5 Folder 2
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Immediate release, 1971-1972.
Box 5 Folder 3
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Memberships, undated.
Box 5 Folder 4
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Minutes & Agenda, undated.
Box 5 Folder 5
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Minutes / Reports, 1970-1973.
Box 5 Folder 6
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Newsletters, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 7
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Student Lists, undated.
Box 5 Folder 8
Association of Associations -Executive Committee -Task Force on Pollution, undated.
Box 5 Folder 9
Building Fund Committee, 1976.
Box 5 Folder 10
Business & Industry Committee, 1945-1953.
Box 5 Folder 11
Business & Industry Committee, 1945-1953.
Box 5 Folder 12
Business & Industry Committee -Reports, undated.
Box 5 Folder 13
Business & Industry Committee -Yearly Reports, 1942-1943.
Box 5 Folder 14
Business & Professional Committee, undated.
Box 5 Folder 15
Business & Industry Committee -Policies & Objectives, 1939-1947.
Box 5 Folder 15
Business & Industry Committee -Reports, 1939-1942.
Box 5 Folder 16
Business & Industry Committee -Reports, 1943-1947.
Box 5 Folder 17
Business & Professional Committee-Minutes, 1942.
Box 5 Folder 18
Business & Professional Committee-Minutes, 1943-1946.
Box 5 Folder 19
Committee of Management, 1940.
Box 5 Folder 20
Committee of Management -Annual Meetings, 1957-1961.
Box 5 Folder 21
Committee of Management -Ballots & Application, 1923-1940.
Box 5 Folder 22
Committee of Management -Elections, 1944-1949.
Box 5 Folder 23
Committee of Management -Elections, 1920-1930.
Box 5 Folder 24
Committee of Management -Elections, 1931.
Box 5 Folder 25
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1920-1930.
Box 5 Folder 26
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1931.
Box 5 Folder 27
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1932.
Box 5 Folder 28
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1933.
Box 5 Folder 29
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1934.
Box 5 Folder 30
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1935.
Box 5 Folder 31
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1936.
Box 5 Folder 32
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1937.
Box 5 Folder 33
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1938.
Box 5 Folder 34
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1939.
Box 5 Folder 35
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1940.
Box 5 Folder 36
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1941.
Box 5 Folder 37
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1942.
Box 5 Folder 38
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1943.
Box 5 Folder 39
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1944.
Box 5 Folder 40
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1945.
Box 5 Folder 41
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1946.
Box 5 Folder 42
Committee of Management-Minutes, 1947.
Box 6 Folder 1
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1948.
Box 6 Folder 2
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1949.
Box 6 Folder 3
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1950.
Box 6 Folder 4
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1951.
Box 6 Folder 5
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1952.
Box 6 Folder 6
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1953.
Box 6 Folder 7
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1954.
Box 6 Folder 8
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1955.
Box 6 Folder 9
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1956.
Box 6 Folder 10
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1957.
Box 6 Folder 11
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1958.
Box 6 Folder 12
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1959.
Box 6 Folder 13
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1960.
Box 6 Folder 14
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1961.
Box 6 Folder 15
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1964.
Box 6 Folder 16
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1961-1966.
Box 6 Folder 17
Committee of Management -Minutes, 1962-1965.
Box 6 Folder 18
Consulting Committee Joint Operations, 1933-1935.
Box 6 Folder 19
Defense Worker's Program -Reports, 1942.
Box 6 Folder 20
East Frankford Recreation Project, 1973.
Box 6 Folder 21
Education-Reports, 1945.
Box 6 Folder 22
Executive Committee-Reports, 1934-1942.
Box 6 Folder 23
Executive Committee-Reports, 1933-1944.
Box 6 Folder 24
Executive Committee -Minutes, 1941-1943.
Box 6 Folder 25
Executive Committee -Minutes, 1945-1949.
Box 6 Folder 26
Executive Committee -Minutes, 1947-1957.
Box 6 Folder 27
Executive Committee-Reports, 1942-1949.
Box 6 Folder 28
Executive Committee, 1944.
Box 6 Folder 29
Extension Committee-Minutes, 1956-1957.
Box 6 Folder 30
Extension Committee, 1954-1958.
Box 6 Folder 31
Financial Committee-Minutes, 1921-1927.
Box 6 Folder 32
Financial Committee -Expense Reports, 1937-1938.
Box 6 Folder 33
Financial Committee -Minutes & Reports, 1938-1939.
Box 6 Folder 34
Health and Welfare-Map & Reports, undated.
Box 6 Folder 35
Industrial Committee-Minutes & Reports, 1931-1944.
Box 6 Folder 36
Industrial Committee-Minutes & Reports, 1942.
Box 6 Folder 37
Industrial Committee-Minutes & Reports, 1943-1946.
Box 6 Folder 38
Industrial Committee-Scrapbook, undated.
Box 6 Folder 39
Leadership Council, 1941-1946.
Box 6 Folder 40
Membership Committee " -Expired Adult Memberships, 1957-1960.
Box 7 Folder 1
Membership Committee -Membership Lists, 1953-1957.
Box 7 Folder 2
Membership Committee -Minutes (Bound Book), 1920-1931.
Box 7 Folder 3
Membership Committee -Minutes, 1929-1947.
Box 7 Folder 4
Membership Committee -Minutes (Bound Book), 1939-1944.
Box 7 Folder 5
Membership Committee -Minutes, 1939-1944.
Box 7 Folder 6
Membership Committee -Minutes, 1951-1960.
Box 7 Folder 7
Membership Committee -Minutes, 1958-1960.
Box 7 Folder 8
Membership Committee -Minutes -Philosophy, undated.
Box 7 Folder 9
Membership Committee -Minutes -Reports, 1944-1950.
Box 7 Folder 10
Membership Committee -Minutes -Services, 1952-1953.
Box 7 Folder 11
Metropolitan Committee-Annual Meetings, 1946-1956.
Box 7 Folder 12
Metropolitan Committee -Joint Program Planning Minutes, 1944-1956.
Box 7 Folder 13
Metropolitan Committee -Misc., 1948.
Box 7 Folder 14
Metropolitan Committee -Programs & Structures, 1944-1948.
Box 7 Folder 15
Metropolitan Committee -Public Affairs, 1950-1953.
Box 7 Folder 16
Metropolitan Committee -Publicity Minutes, 1944-1946.
Box 7 Folder 17
Metropolitan Committee -Finance Property Minutes, 1946-1953.
Box 7 Folder 18
Metropolitan Committee -Membership Committee Minutes, 1949-1950.
Box 7 Folder 19
Program Planning Units, 1959-1961.
Box 7 Folder 20
Program Planning Units, 1959-1961.
Box 7 Folder 21
Program Planning Units, 1959-1961.
Box 7 Folder 22
Metropolitan Committee -Staff Meetings, 1953-1955, 1958-1960.
Box 7 Folder 23
National-Statistical Reports, 1935-1956.
Box 8 Folder 1
National-Statistical Reports -Business Professional Surveys, 1954.
Box 8 Folder 2
Program Committee-Educational Classes, 1941.
Box 8 Folder 3
Program Committee -Internal Leadership, 1953.
Box 8 Folder 4
Program Committee -Newsletters & Economics, 1946.
Box 8 Folder 5
Program Committee -Women's Issues, 1946.
Box 8 Folder 6
Program Committee -Women's Day, 1942-1944.
Box 8 Folder 7
Program Committee -Minutes, 1959-1961.
Box 8 Folder 8
Program Committee -Reports, 1958-1961.
Box 8 Folder 9
Program Committee -Planning, 1950-1954.
Box 8 Folder 10
Program Committee -Narrative Reports, 1953-1954.
Box 8 Folder 11
Projects Committee-International, 1953.
Box 8 Folder 12
Projects Committee-International, 1946-1951.
Box 8 Folder 13
Recreation Committee-Leisure Time Report, 1953.
Box 8 Folder 14
Senior Activities Committee, 1950-1952.
Box 8 Folder 15
Steering Committee, 1953-1959.
Box 8 Folder 16
Steering Committee, 1955-1958.
Box 8 Folder 17
Steering Committee, 1956-1958.
Box 8 Folder 18
Teenage Committee-Reports, 1950-1954.
Box 8 Folder 19
Unity Place and Ad Hoc Committee, 1967-1968.
Box 8 Folder 20
Volunteer Leadership Committee-Minutes, 1950-1955, 1970.
Box 8 Folder 21

Scope and Contents

Series 4 includes a variety of clubs and the materials (e.g., agendas, ballots, correspondence, membership lists, minutes, publications, reports) that were part of the makeup of an individual club. Many of the clubs activities involved outside resources and interactions with non-members. Information pertaining to these are included in the form of news clippings, pamphlets, and correspondence.

The Bell, 1968.
Box 9 Folder 1
Business & Professional Women-Correspondence, 1944-1945.
Box 9 Folder 2
Business & Professional Women -Correspondence, 1946-1945.
Box 9 Folder 3
Business & Professional Women -Minutes, 1938-1943.
Box 9 Folder 4
Business & Professional Women -Minutes, 1943-1947.
Box 9 Folder 5
Business & Professional Women -Minutes, 1955-1956.
Box 9 Folder 6
Business & Professional Women -Minutes, 1956-1957.
Box 9 Folder 7
Business Girl's League-Correspondence, 1941.
Box 9 Folder 8
Business & Professional Women –Minutes, 1941-1948.
Box 9 Folder 9
Business & Professional Women –Minutes, 1941-1948.
Box 9 Folder 10
Camp Brookside, 1955-1957.
Box 9 Folder 11
Camp Lenimary, 1941.
Box 9 Folder 12
Community Council, 1940-1945.
Box 9 Folder 13
Council of Volunteers, 1954.
Box 9 Folder 14
Family Service, 1960-1970.
Box 9 Folder 15
Fels Group Dynamics, undated.
Box 9 Folder 16
Girl's Reserve, 1933-1945.
Box 9 Folder 17
Industrial & Booster's Financial Report, 1923-1939.
Box 9 Folder 18
Matron's Club-Minutes, 1949-1962.
Box 9 Folder 19
Matron's Club -Misc., 1962-1966.
Box 9 Folder 20
Mother's Club-Ledger, 1922.
Box 9 Folder 21
Mother's Club, 1928-1940.
Box 9 Folder 22
Mother's Club, 1940-1965.
Box 9 Folder 23
Mother's Club -Membership Lists, 1937-1941.
Box 9 Folder 24
Mother's Club -Minutes, 1933-1941.
Box 9 Folder 25
Mother's Club -Minutes, 1942-1949.
Box 9 Folder 26
Mother's Club -Minutes, 1949-1954.
Box 9 Folder 27
Mother's Club-Minutes, 1961-1967.
Box 10 Folder 1
Murphy Association-Correspondence, 1963-1964.
Box 10 Folder 2
National Association of Employed Officers, undated.
Box 10 Folder 3
National Association of Employed Officers, 1944.
Box 10 Folder 4
North City Congress, undated.
Box 10 Folder 5
Northeast Coordinating Council, 1940-1943.
Box 10 Folder 6
Northeast & United Services, 1951-1952.
Box 10 Folder 7
Northeast & United Services, 1952-1954.
Box 10 Folder 8
Northeast & United Services, 1954-1956.
Box 10 Folder 9
Northeast & United Services, 1954-1956.
Box 10 Folder 10
Northeast & United Services, 1955-1957.
Box 10 Folder 11
Northeast & United Services, 1955-1958.
Box 10 Folder 12
Other Organizations, 1941-1946.
Box 10 Folder 13
Other Organizations -Slavic Peoples, undated.
Box 10 Folder 14
Other Organizations -Women's Exchange, 1934.
Box 10 Folder 15
Senior High Program, 1952-1953.
Box 10 Folder 16
Teen-Age Department, undated.
Box 10 Folder 17
Teen-Age Department -Annual Reports, 1958-1960.
Box 10 Folder 18
Teen-Age Department -Reports, 1955-1956.
Box 10 Folder 18
Teen-Age Department -Reports, 1956-1958.
Box 10 Folder 19
Teen-Age Department -Script, undated.
Box 10 Folder 20
Teenettes -Minutes, 1958.
Box 10 Folder 21
USO-Discharged Men, 1944.
Box 10 Folder 22
Women's Auxiliary Corps, undated.
Box 10 Folder 23
Y-Teens-Ledger, 1968-1969.
Box 10 Folder 24
Y-Teens -Outdoor Pool, undated.
Box 10 Folder 25

Scope and Contents

Series 5 contains information on the Adelphia Association (1964), bids (undated), campaigns (1940-1950), a community survey (1949), development plan (undated), financial campaign (1945-1950), inventory (1945-1947), property remodeling (undated), reports (1945-1965), and residence property information from the 1940s.

Adelphia Association, 1964.
Box 11 Folder 1
Bids, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 2
Campaign, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 3
Campaign General, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 4
Campaign General -Proposal Relations, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 5
Campaign General -Survey, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 6
Campaign General -Workers, 1945-1950.
Box 11 Folder 7
Community Survey, 1949.
Box 11 Folder 8
Development Plan-Campaign, 1949.
Box 11 Folder 9
Development Plan -Opinion Poll, 1947.
Box 11 Folder 10
Financial Campaign, 1950.
Box 11 Folder 11
Financial Campaign -Donation Report & Appreciate Response, undated.
Box 11 Folder 12
Financial Campaign -Donation Record, undated.
Box 11 Folder 13
Financial Campaign -Working List Development, undated.
Box 11 Folder 14
Financial Campaign -Gift, undated.
Box 11 Folder 15
Financial Campaign -Special Fund, undated.
Box 11 Folder 16
Inventory, 1945-1947.
Box 11 Folder 17
Plan, undated.
Box 11 Folder 18
Program, undated.
Box 11 Folder 19
Property Remodeling, undated.
Box 11 Folder 20
Property Remodeling -Repairs & Renewals, undated.
Box 11 Folder 21
Report, 1945-1951.
Box 11 Folder 22
Report, 1964-1965.
Box 11 Folder 23
Report -Extension, 1961-1962.
Box 11 Folder 24
Report -Facilities, undated.
Box 11 Folder 25
Residence-Guests, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 26
Service-Room Registry, undated.
Box 11 Folder 27
Story, undated.
Box 11 Folder 28

Scope and Contents

Series 6 includes budget explanations (1945-1960), financial reports (1937-1963), a budget statement (undated), inventories of equipment (1928-1940), and treasurer reports (1958-1962).

Budget Explanation, 1945-1953.
Box 12 Folder 1
Budget Explanation, 1952-1957.
Box 12 Folder 2
Budget Explanation, 1957-1958.
Box 12 Folder 3
Budget Explanation, 1958-1959.
Box 12 Folder 4
Budget Explanation, 1959-1960.
Box 12 Folder 5
Budget Report, 1937-1959.
Box 12 Folder 6
Budget Report, 1960-1963.
Box 12 Folder 7
Budge Statement, undated.
Box 12 Folder 8
Budget Statement, undated.
Box 12 Folder 9
Fund Raising, undated.
Box 12 Folder 10
Fund Raising Campaign, undated.
Box 12 Folder 11
Fund Raising Master Lists, undated.
Box 12 Folder 12
Fund Raising Master Lists, undated.
Box 12 Folder 13
Inventory of Equipment, 1928-1940.
Box 12 Folder 14
Summary Report, 1939-1942.
Box 12 Folder 15
Summary Report, 1943-1944.
Box 12 Folder 16
Summary Report, 1945-1947.
Box 12 Folder 17
Summary Report, 1948-1949.
Box 12 Folder 18
Summary Report, 1950-1952.
Box 12 Folder 19
Summary Report, 1953-1955.
Box 12 Folder 20
Summary Report, 1956-1962.
Box 12 Folder 21
Treasurer's Report, 1958-1962.
Box 12 Folder 22

Scope and Contents

Series 7 contains records of activities during 1939 to 1960, including bazaars, a birthday party; camps; a class demonstration, community work, an electors assembly for program planning, a fall setting-up conference, officers training, open house, a program planning conference, and some festival celebrations. Worldwide fellowship reports are also part of the series.

Bazaar, 1953.
Box 13 Folder 1
Bazaar, 1954.
Box 13 Folder 2
Bazaar, 1955.
Box 13 Folder 3
Birthday Celebration, 1947.
Box 13 Folder 4
Camp Arcola, undated.
Box 13 Folder 5
Camp Brook Side, 1954.
Box 13 Folder 6
Class Demonstration, undated.
Box 13 Folder 7
Community work, 1960.
Box 13 Folder 8
Electors Assembly for Program Planning, undated.
Box 13 Folder 9
Fall Setting-up conference, 1939.
Box 13 Folder 10
Hanging of the Green, 1950-1960.
Box 13 Folder 11
Hat Sale Party, undated.
Box 13 Folder 12
JR Hi Officers Training, 1956-1958.
Box 13 Folder 13
Misc., undated.
Box 13 Folder 14
Open House, 1952-1954.
Box 13 Folder 15
Program Planning Conference, undated.
Box 13 Folder 16
Silent Auction, undated.
Box 13 Folder 17
Spring Festival, 1945-1946.
Box 13 Folder 18
Spring Festival & Hanging of the Greens, undated.
Box 13 Folder 19
World Fellowship Reports from Other Countries, 1948-1951.
Box 13 Folder 20

Scope and Contents

Series 8 includes various meeting materials (e.g. correspondence, workbooks, ballots, proceedings, reports, and follow-up newsletters) received by staff and members before, during, and after national and regional conferences from 1922 to 1955. There are also preparatory notes, internal memos, correspondence, and news clippings created by the Frankford Branch relating to these conferences.

National-Meeting Notes, 1934.
Box 14 Folder 1
National -Clippings, 1938.
Box 14 Folder 2
National -Meeting Materials, 1945-1946.
Box 14 Folder 3
National -Meeting Materials, 1946-1955.
Box 14 Folder 4
National -Meeting Materials, 1949-1952.
Box 14 Folder 5
Regional-Meeting Materials, 1948-1954.
Box 14 Folder 6
Publications, 1922-1955.
Box 14 Folder 7

Scope and Contents

Series 9 contains miscellaneous publications (brochures, flyers, programs, song sheets, newsletters, calendars, a family tree, and directories) created by the Frankford Branch, the YWCA of Philadelphia, and the national YWCA from 1922 to 1969. Also included in the series are press releases, news clippings, and scrapbooks from 1932 to 1971.

Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1922-1954.
Box 15 Folder 1
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1922-1954.
Box 15 Folder 2
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1943-1944.
Box 15 Folder 3
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1947-1951.
Box 15 Folder 4
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1947-1951.
Box 15 Folder 5
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1953-1967.
Box 15 Folder 6
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1953-1967.
Box 15 Folder 7
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1953-1967.
Box 15 Folder 8
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1953-1967.
Box 15 Folder 9
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1953-1967.
Box 15 Folder 10
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1954-1957.
Box 15 Folder 11
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1955.
Box 15 Folder 12
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1955.
Box 15 Folder 13
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1960-1962.
Box 15 Folder 14
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1961-1963.
Box 15 Folder 15
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1961-1963.
Box 15 Folder 16
Frankford-Miscellaneous, 1968-1969.
Box 15 Folder 17
YWCA of Philadelphia Miscellaneous, 1948-1960.
Box 15 Folder 18
YWCA of Philadelphia Miscellaneous, 1948-1960.
Box 15 Folder 19
YWCA of Philadelphia Miscellaneous, 1948-1960.
Box 15 Folder 20
National-Directories, 1940-1944.
Box 16 Folder 1
National-Directories, undated.
Box 16 Folder 2
National-USO Division, 1943-1946.
Box 16 Folder 3
National-USO Division, 1943-1946.
Box 16 Folder 4
National -Newsletters, 1951-1958.
Box 16 Folder 5
Press Releases, 1947-1949.
Box 16 Folder 6
Press Releases, 1947-1949.
Box 16 Folder 7
Press Releases, 1954-1961.
Box 16 Folder 8
Press Releases, 1954-1961.
Box 16 Folder 9
Press Releases, 1954-1961.
Box 16 Folder 10
Press Releases, 1954-1961.
Box 16 Folder 11
News Clippings, 1950-1951.
Box 16 Folder 12
News Clippings, 1952-1953.
Box 16 Folder 13
News Clippings, 1954-1955.
Box 16 Folder 14
News Clippings, 1956-1957.
Box 16 Folder 15
News Clippings, 1958-1961.
Box 16 Folder 16
News Clippings, 1961-1964.
Box 16 Folder 17
News Clippings, 1967-1971.
Box 16 Folder 18
Scrapbooks, 1932-1966.
Box 17
Scrapbooks, 1932-1966.
Box 19

Scope and Contents

Series 10 includes thirty-three awards for American Red Cross service during World War II and materials relating to distributing them to volunteers.

Certificates, 1946.
Box 17 Folder 1

Scope and Contents

Series 11 includes local news clippings and organizational pamphlets drawn from the period between 1969 and 1973. Of general interest are news clippings dealing with African American culture; racial conflict; youth recreation; crime; drugs; educational issues; community involvement at the Frankford and the Northeast YWCAs; welfare and job training; religious philosophy and neighborhood religious organizations; and political issues concerning Frankford and the Northeast. Pamphlets include information concerning education, library resources, safe workplace requirements, education, family planning, special education programs, and Northeast area community groups. A few minutes, reports, and agendas of community organizations and their joint planning meetings are also contained in this reference file (1970-1973), as are one group of community resource "needs" surveys from 1955. Anomalies in this series are one work study report from 1973 and a police surveillance project report from 1979.

Airports-Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 1
Association of Associations-Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 2
Association of Associations -Meetings, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 3
Black Culture-Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 4
Community Involvement-Clippings, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 5
Community Involvement, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 6
Community Involvement, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 7
Community Involvement, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 8
Business-Clippings, 1971-1972.
Box 18 Folder 9
Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations, 1967-1970.
Box 18 Folder 10
Crime Prevention-Clippings, 1972-1973.
Box 18 Folder 11
Daycare & Education, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 12
Drugs-Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 13
Drugs, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 14
Drugs, 1970-1972.
Box 18 Folder 15
Ecology-Clippings, 1971-1973.
Box 18 Folder 16
Ecology -Newsletter, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 17
Education-Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 18
Ethnic Affairs-Publications, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 19
Far Northeast & Association of Associations, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 20
Health-Clippings, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 21
Frankford Northeast, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 22
Health and Welfare Council, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 23
Health and Welfare Council -Board Minutes, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 24
Health and Welfare Council -Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 25
Health and Welfare Council -Misc. Programs, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 26
Health and Welfare Council -Family Pamphlets, 1969.
Box 18 Folder 27
Health and Welfare Council -Professional Advisory Council, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 28
Health and Welfare Council & Resource Council Referral, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 29
Health and Welfare Council & Re-organization, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 30
Health and Welfare Council, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 31
Resources and Personnel Surveys, 1955.
Box 18 Folder 32
Reports, 1970-1972.
Box 18 Folder 33
Staff Meetings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 34
Housing-Clippings, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 35
Housing -Census Report, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 36
Labor Market Letter, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 37
Letter template & Agenda formats, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 38
Library-Clippings, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 39
Mental Health-Clippings, 1969.
Box 18 Folder 40
Mental Health -Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 41
Northeast Association-Reports, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 42
Northeast Association -Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 43
Northeast Area-Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 44
Northeast Associations--Clippings & Census, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 45
Northeast Community Service Unit-Reports, 1971-1972.
Box 18 Folder 46
Northeast Community Service Unit-Reports, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 47
Northeast Area-Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 48
NAACP-Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 49
NAEO Convention, 1940.
Box 18 Folder 50
Northeast Area Health & Welfare Council, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 51
Northeast organizations-Minutes, 1955.
Box 18 Folder 52
Nuclear Plant Protest-Clippings, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 53
One Nation/One Family, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 54
Operation "Prevent" &"Recap", 1972.
Box 18 Folder 55
Operation "Prevent" Report, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 56
Pedagogical Library, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 57
Personnel-Misc. Publications, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 58
Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1960.
Box 18 Folder 59
Politics-Clippings, 1970-1971.
Box 18 Folder 60
Politics-Clippings with Crime Focus, 1970.
Box 18 Folder 61
Racial Conflict-Shooting, 1968.
Box 18 Folder 62
Recreation and Operation "Prevent", 1972.
Box 18 Folder 63
Recreation Task Force & Summer Camps, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 64
Recreation-Clippings, 1971-1972.
Box 18 Folder 65
Religions Against Pornography -Clippings, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 66
Religion-Clippings, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 67
Religion-Rev. Cameron Column "From My Window", 1972.
Box 18 Folder 68
Resources "Needs Study", 1955.
Box 18 Folder 69
Resources-Northeast Organizations, Youth Groups, Housing, etc., 1973.
Box 18 Folder 70
Special Education, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 71
Transportation-Clippings, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 72
Transportation-Clippings, 1971-1972.
Box 18 Folder 73
Welfare, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 74
Work Study-Penn Student, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 75
Urban League- Reports, 1972.
Box 18 Folder 76
YMCA & History of Holmesburg, undated.
Box 18 Folder 77
YMCA-Clippings, 1970-1973.
Box 18 Folder 78
Zoning-Clippings, 1971-1973.
Box 18 Folder 79

Scope and Contents

Series 12: Photographs (PC-83), includes photographs removed from throughout the collection during processing. Photographs were reportedly photocopied. The photocopies were left in context and the original photographs were removed to this series.

Photographs, 1921-circa 1954, undated.
Box 20 Folder 1

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