Yorktown Community Organization (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Yorktown Community Organization was established in 1962 to serve a small section within North Philadelphia adjacent to the Temple University Campus. The community is bounded by Girard Avenue, Broad Street, Columbia Avenue and Eleventh Street. The Yorktown area represents one of the successful, privately developed urban renewal communities in Philadelphia.

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

The collection, arranged into one alphabetical series, describes the residential nature of the neighborhood, and the programs and activities of the association.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION

Deposited by the Yorktown Community Organization through Lillian Green, President, 14 May 1987.


INVENTORY

Box 1

1966
1967
1968
1969-1971
1972
1973-1974
1975
1977-1979
1980
1981-1982
1983
1985-1987
[No date]
Financial Reports
Membership Records
Minutes
Executive Meetings
General Meetings
Miscellaneous
Newspaper Clippings

Box 2

Photographs
Plans
Fence Plan, 1967
Project Green Tree, 1966
Public Notices
Real Estate
Miscellaneous Documents
Plans [stored in Map Case 10]
Rules, Policies