Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.), Southwest-Belmont Branch Records

 

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Collection contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, and photographs related to the YWCA Southwest-Belmont Branch.

ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT

The records are organized into six series:

• Series I: Committee and Department Files
• Series II: Staff Papers
• Series III: Correspondence
• Series IV: City, Regional and National YWCA Files
• Series V: Community and Civic Activities
• Series VI: Membership and Finances
• Series VII: Photographs

 

INVENTORY

Series I: Committee and Department Files

Box 1

1 Constitution, By-Laws and Directory
1a Constitution and By-Laws, Undated
1b Founders'-Day Memorial, 1977
2-11 Committee of Management Minutes, 1923-1945

Box 2

12-24 Committee of Management Minutes, 1946-1964

Box 3

25 Committee of Management Minutes, 1965-1967
26-27 Belmont Center Committee of Management Minutes, 1929-1934
28 Adult Committee, 1958-1959
29-31 Business and Professional Department, 1929-1937, 1947-1949
32 Camp Committee, 1941-1942
33 Employment Committee, 1951-1953
34-37 Health Education Department, 1929-1940

Box 4

38-40 Health Education Department, 1941-1946, 1958-1959
41 Industrial Committee, 1920-1922
42-43 Industrial Department, 1935-1939
44-48 Junior Activities Department, 1934-1942
49-52 Membership Committee, 1935-1947

Box 5

53-59 Membership Committee, 1948-1965
60-72 Nominating Committee, 1932-1959

Box 6

73-75 Program Planning Committee, 1953, 1957, 1960-1962
76-79 Public Affairs Committee, 1936-1947
80-82 Publicity Committee, 1935-1947
83-87 Senior Activities Department, 1939-1942, 1947-1953

Box 7

88-89 Staff Agenda Committee, 1937, 1940-1942
90 Volunteer Leadership Committee, 1946-1947
91-95 World Fellowship Committee, 1935-1937, 1948-1950, 1958-1966
96-97 Y-Teen Department, 1948, 1958-1959
98 Young Adult Department, 1952-1955

Box 8

99-111 Committee Lists, 1938-1963
112 Committee Mailing Lists, 1947-1950
113 Committee Responsibilities, 1941
114-115 Annual Reports, 1924-1935

Box 9

116-133 Annual Reports, 1936-1952

Box 10

134-138 Annual Reports, 1954, 1959-1960, 1965, 1967
139-140 Annual Reports - Dinner Tickets, 1947, 1950-1951
141 Branch Committee Reports, 1943
142-143 Department Reports, 1924-1928, 1938
144-150 Executive Director's Reports, 1940, 1946-1948

Box 11

151-154 Executive Director's Reports, 1950-1953, 1958
155-163 General Secretary's Reports, 1927-1949

Box 12

164 Medical Reports, Undated
165-166 Miscellaneous Reports, 1926-1930, 1941-1942
167-175 Narrative Reports, 1923-1925, 1933-1934, 1940- 1944, 1948-1952
176 Procedure Reports, 1939
177 Program Plan Reports, 1947-1948

Box 13

178 Publicity Reports, Undated
179 Setting-Up Report, 1940-1941
180-181 Southwest YWCA Reports, 1924-1928, 1939
182-196 Statistical Reports, 1924-1930, 1937-1946

Box 14

197-206 Statistical Reports, 1947-1954

Box 15

207-212 Statistical Reports, 1954-1957

Box 16

213 Statistical Reports, 1958
214 Summary of Policy's Reports, 1946-1963

Series II: Staff Papers

1-7 Correspondence and Memos, 1937-1944

Box 17

8-14 Correspondence and Memos, 1944-1949

Box 18

15-20 Correspondence and Memos, 1950-1959
21-22 Accident Reports, 1934-1946
23 Activities Schedules, 1947-1948
24 Activities Staff, 1938-1941
25 Administration, 1959
26-27 Administrative Staff Minutes, 1944-1951

Box 19

28 Branch Programs, 1942-1950
29 Branch Questionnaires, 1943-1945
30-32 Building Use, 1951-1955
33 Clerical Salary Study, 1948
34 Committee Agendas, 1935
35 Day Camp Personnel, 1958
36 Electors, 1947
37-38 Employee Evaluation Forms, 1935-1945
39-42 Employee Information, 1934-1947
43 Field Work Supervisors, 1940-1941

Box 20

44 Group Work Seminar, 1935
45-48 Group Work Students, 1938-1941
49 Housewarming Plan, 1949-1950
50 Information Desk
51-52 Job Analyses, 1938-1943
53 Job Applicants, 1934-1935
54-57 Job Descriptions, 1946-1957
58 Job Evaluations, 1958-1959

Box 21

59 Junior Employment Service, 1939-1941
60 Medical Examinations, 1948
61 Monthly Work Sheets, 1942-1943
62-64 N.A.E.O., 1936-1940
65 N.A.P.W., 1949-1950
66 Personnel Classification Study, 1943-1946
67-68 Personnel Collective Bargaining, 1938-1950
69-75 Personnel Committee, 1935-1950

Box 22

76-78 Personnel Policies, 1935-1945, 1951
79 Personnel Records, 1947
80 Professional Staff Minutes, 1945-1947
81 Program-Evaluation, 1958-1959
82-87 Residence Reports, 1936-1951
88 Residence Study, 1937-1945
89 Salaries and Solicitation Practices, 1951-1959

Box 23

90 Senior Activities Applicants, 1946-1947
91 Senior Activities - Mrs. Ryan, 1945-1947
92 Senior Activities Staff Memos, 1952
93-94 Sick Leave, 1941-1944, 1948
95-98 Staff Applications, 1943-1945, 1949-1951, 1958- 1959
99 Staff Emphasis, 1950-1951
100-101 Staff Guides, 1964-1967
102 Staff Manuals, Undated
103-107 Staff Meeting Minutes, 1935-1945

Box 24

108-112 Staff Meeting Minutes, 1945-1953
113 Staff Policies, 1950-1951
114 Staff Projects, 1948-1949
115-117 Staff Reports, 1929-1950
118 Staff Research Reports, 1957-1962
119 Staff Training Visit, 1941

Box 25

120-121 Student-in-Training, 1946-1947
122 Suggested Rules of Procedure, 1936
123 Summary of Staff Reports, 1957-1959
124-127 Summer Schedules, 1947-1953
128 Teen Director Applicants, 1949
129 Teen Position Applicants, 1952
130 Vacancy Registration Forms, 1949
131-132 Volunteers, 1939-1940, 1949-1951
133 Y-Teen Committee Volunteers, 1950

Series III: Correspondence

Box 26

1-13 General Correspondence, 1929-1937

Box 27

14-23 General Correspondence, 1937-1942

Box 28

24-32 General Correspondence, 1942-1944

Box 29

33-44 General Correspondence, 1944-1946

Box 30

45-54 General Correspondence, 1946-1949

Box 31

55-63 General Correspondence, 1949-1951

Box 32

64-69 General Correspondence, 1951-1960
70-72 Arter, Rhetta M., Correspondence, 1942-1941
73-74 Clark, Effie, Correspondence, 1944

Series IV: City, Regional and National YMCA Files

A. City YWCA Files

Box 33

1 Constitution, 1952
2 By-Laws, 1946, 1951
3-8 City Board of Directors' Minutes, 1943-1951, 1958-1960
9-10 Annual Meeting, 1945-1946, 1957-1959
11-12 Administrative and Professional Staff, 1950-1951, 1958-1959
13-14 Business Professional and Industrial Committee, 1943-1952

Box 34

15 Census
16 Employed Personnel Committee, 1958-1959
17-17g Finance Property Committee, 1942-1960

Box 35

18-19 Health Education Committee, 1938, 1949
20 Industrial Committee, 1941-1944
21-22 Joint Planning Committee, 1942-1952
23-24 Membership Committee, 1938-1950, 1958-1959
25 Metropolitan Planning Committee, 1937
26 Metropolitan Survey, 1949
27-28 Newsletters, 1947-1950
29-32 Program Planning Committee, 1937-1938, 1945-1947, 1951, 1958-1959

Box 36

33 Program Study, 1959
34-35 Public Affairs Committee, 1945-1949, 1958-1959
36-39 Publicity Committee, 1939-1951
40 Services Committee, 1958-1960
41 Staff Meeting, 1934-1935 42 Teenager Program Committee, 1948-1950 43 Young Adult Committee, 1950-1952

B. Regional and National Files

44 Big City Conference, 1948
45-46 Business and Professional Club, 1933-1944
47-49 Girl Reserve Committee, 1927-1933

Box 37

50-54 Girl Reserve Committee, 1933-1944
55 Girl Reserve Conferences, 1941-1942
56 Girl Reserve Publicity, 1939-1942
57-61 Industrial Assembly, 1936-1949
62 Industrial Conference, 1947
63-64 Industrial Council, 1941-1943

Box 38

65-66 Industrial Program, 1937-1938
67-69 Industrial Study, 1937
70 Institute on Volunteer Training, 1957
71 Meeting of Big Cities, 1942
72-80 National Board Correspondence, 1937-1951

Box 39

81 National Board Correspondence, 1958-1959
82-88 National Conventions, 1930-1938, 1946, 1949, 1958
89 National Employed Women's Council, 1951-1953
90 National Program Study, 1951
91-93 National YWCA Week, 1950, 1957
94 Nation-wide Observances, 1936-1938
95 Program Packet, 1946

Box 40

96-103 Regional Conferences, 1931-1957
104 Stay-at-Home Convention, 1945
105-107 World Fellowship Week, 1947, 1950-1951, 1957

Series V: Community and Civic Activities

Box 41

1-2 Adult Education, 1944-1949
3 Advisor's Club Minutes, 1935
4-6 Annual Dinner, 1949-1950
7 Applicant Preparation Workshop, 1948-1949
8 Aristocratic Debs, 1940-1941
9 Armstrong Association, 1945-1946
10-11 Badminton League, 1939-1943
12 Better Business Bureau, 1943
13 Birth Control, 1941
14-15 Building Fund Drive, 1950
16-17 Camp Arcola, 1941, 1945-1946
18 Child Labor, 1933-1940

Box 42

19 Children's Program, 1942
20 Christmas Program, 1949-1950
21 Churches, 1943
22-24 Citizen's Council on City Planning, 1948-1951
25 City-wide Interracial Committee, 1943-1944
26 Civil Defense, 1950-1952
27 Club Assembly, 1958
28 Club Lists, 1949-1952
29 Club Work, 1940-1941
30 Colored Locomotive Firemen, 1941
31 Commission on Law and Social Action, 1945-1949
32 Committee of One Hundred, 1958
33 Committee on Race Relations, 1934-1935
34 Community Campaigns, 1951-1952
35 Community Chest, 1948-1953

Box 42-A

35a-b Community Chest, 1946-1950
35c-e Community Contributions, 1947-1960

Box 43

36 Community Crusade, 1943-1944
37 Community Group Lists, Undated
38-39 Community Organizations, 1945-1951
40-42 Community Program Material, 1935-1941, 1950-1952
43-44 Conscription, 1939-1942
45 Consumers' Federation, 1942
46 Cooperating Council of Agencies Serving Negro Youth, 1941-1942
47 Council for International Visitors, 1958
48-49 Council of Social Agencies, 1938-1940
50 Crime Prevention, 1948-1949
51 Crime Wave Committee, 1946
52 Current Material, 1950-1953

Box 44

53-55 Defense Workers' Recreation, 1940-1944
56 Dramatics, 1934-1942
57 Duo-Decs Club, 1941-1942
58 Education, 1936, 1941
59-61 Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1945-1949
62-63 Fall Opening, 1949-1951
64-65 Family Society of Philadelphia, 1935-1938
66 Federal Council of Churches, 1936-1937
67 Federal Works Agency, 1942
68-70 Fellowship Commission, 1949-1951

Box 45

71-77 "Flashes" (Newsletter), 1943-1955
78 Foreign Affairs, 1945-1949
79 General Program Material, 1950-1951
80 Group Work Agency, 1939

Box 46

81-88 Health and Welfare Council, 1948-1959
89 Health Education Program, 1947-1950
90-91 Health Program, 1941-1942

Box 47

92 Health-a-Nality Fair, 1941
93 Hospital and Camp Volunteer Corps, 1946-1947
94 Household Employees, 1945-1946
95-97 Housing, 1937, 1942, 1955-1957
98 Hudson Shore Labor School, 1943-1944
99 Industrial Boosters' Club, 1942
100-101 Industrial League, 1948-1952
102 Industrial Recreation Committee, 1941
103-104 Interclub Council, 1941-1942, 1950-1951
105 Interracial Education Committee, 1933-1936
106-107 Interracial News Service, 1936-1941
108 Invitations, 1950-1951
109-110 Juvenile Delinquency, 1944, 1955-1957
111 King of the Kitchen, 1951

Box 48

112 Labor Education Association, 1943
113 Las Parodes Club, 1940-1941
114 Legislation, 1937
115 Local Education Programs, 1940-1941
116 Lynching, 1934
117 Miscellaneous Community Work, 1930-1940
118-120 N.A.A.C.P., 1936, 1948-1950
121 National Baptist Convention, 1950
122 National Defense, 1941
123-125 National Negro Congress, 1937-1939
126-129 National Youth Administration, 1935-1942

Box 49

130 Negro Defense Workers, 1940-1942
131 Negro Health Week, 1938
132 Negro History, 1934
133 Negro in Industry, 1928-1935
134 Negro Organizations, Undated
135 Negro Research Unit, 1937-1941
136 Negro Schools, 1933
137 Negro Women in Industry, 1940
138 Neighborhood Planning, 1947-1950
139-141 News Releases, 1944-1947, 1955-1957
142 Organized Labor, 1930-1941
143 Other Organizations, 1957-1959
144 Pacemakers Club, 1936, 1942
145 Pennsylvania Conference on Social Welfare, 1934
146 Pennsylvania State Negro Council, 1949

Box 50

147-156 Philadelphia Club Women, 1949-1958

Box 51

157-160 Philadelphia Housing Association, 1944-1951
161 Philadelphia Housing Authority, 1937-1939
162 Philadelphia Resources, 1940-1945
163-165 Philadelphia Service Organizations, 1948-1951
166 Philadelphia Youth Council, 1939
167 Program Units, 1948-1949
168 Progressive Club, 1942
169 Public Affairs, 1930-1938

Box 52

170-174 Public Affairs, 1930-1942

Box 53

175-181 Public Affairs, 1939-1952

Box 54

182 Public Affairs, 1955-1956
183 Public Education and Child Labor Association, 1943-1944
184-188 Publicity, 1933-1948

Box 55

189-190 Publicity, 1942-1950
191 Puerto Rican Community, 1956-1957
192 Recreation, 1937-1942
193 Recreation Tournaments, 1940-1942
194 Red Cross Resolutions, 1942
195 Rededication, 1950
196-197 Rittenhouse Community Council, 1951, 1957-1959
198 School Programs, 1957
199 Scottsboro Defense Committee, 1938
200-204 Senior Activities, 1935-1937, 1947-1959
205 60th Anniversary, Girl Reserves, 1941

Box 56

206-207 Social Legislation, 1922-1940
208 Social Workers' Tea, 1939
209 Society for Crippled Children, 1946
210 Society of Friends, 1945
211-212 South Philadelphia Clean Block Committee, 1958- 1959
213 Special Events Calendar, 1959-1960
214 Special Programs, 1940-1942
215-217 Summer Day Camp, 1954-1959
218-220 Teen-Age Program, 1944-1951

Box 57

221-228 U.S.O., 1941-1953
229-230 United Campaign, 1937-1938, 1942

Box 58

231 United War Chest, 1942-1943
232 Wage and Hour Legislation, 1938-1940
232A War Protest, 1938-1941
233 War Production Material, 1941-1942
234 Wharton Settlement, 1942
235 White House Conference of Children and Youth, 1950-1951
236 Women Defense Workers, 1941-1943
237-240 Women's Christian Alliance, 1949-1955
241 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1945
242 Women's Wage and Hour Information, 1936-1938
243 Worker Education, 1936-1941
244 World Fellowship Campaign, 1937

Box 59

245 Y-ites Club, 1934-1937
246-248 Y.M.C.A., 1947-1951
249 Young Adult Activities, 1952-1960
250 Young People and Citizenship, 1953
251 Zoe-Lympia Club, 1941-1942

Series VI: Membership and Finances

A. Membership

1-3 Breakdown of Membership, 1946-1947, 1953-1954
4 Dropped Membership File, 1956
5 Life Members, 1956
6 Membership Associates, 1947

Box 60

7-19 Membership Campaign, 1926-1947

Box 61

20-28 Membership Campaign, 1948-1958

Box 62

29-34 Membership Campaign, 1958-1960
35 Membership Lists, 1946
36 Membership of Other Organizations, Undated

Box 63

37-40 Membership Reports, 1942-1944, 1948, 1951-1955
41-43 Registration Cards, 1940-1943

B. Finances

44 Auditor's Division Sheets, 1957
45 Auditor's Total Sheets, 1957

Box 64

46-54 Budget, 1935-1953
55 Budget Deficit Study, 1947
56 Budget Summaries, 1943-1948
57 Expense Sheets, 1958-1959
58-61 Financial Memos, 1943, 1948-1951
62 Financial Statements, 1924-1925

Box 65

63-64 Health Education Budget, 1936-1942
65-71 Program Budget Reports, 1940-1954

Box 66

72 Program Budget Reports, 1955-1960
73 Retirement Fund, 1932
74 Senior Activities Department Budgets, 1946-1950
75 Withholding Tax, 1945-1947

Series VII: Photographs