Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cornelia Shrauger Day papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0328
Abstract
Educated in journalism and law. Washington, Iowa, resident active in YWCA, Planned Parenthood and UNICEF.
Dates:
1890-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0262
Abstract
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
YWCA of Greater Des Moines records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0167
Abstract
The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.
Dates:
1885-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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- African American women 2
- African American women -- Iowa 2
- Cultural artifacts 2
- Des Moines (Iowa) 2
- Diaries 2
- Drawings (visual works) 2
- Personal papers 2
- Women -- Societies and clubs 2
- 2001-2010 1
- Administrative records 1
- Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
- Camps 1
- Child care 1
- Child labor 1
- Children 1
- Christian women 1
- Civic improvement 1
- Clubs 1
- College students 1
- Community activists 1
- Community life 1
- Correspondence 1
- Educators 1
- Financial records 1
- Health 1
- Health education of women 1
- Housing 1
- Labor laws and legislation 1
- Low-income mothers 1
- Oral histories 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Physical education and training 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Race relations 1
- Racism 1
- Recreation 1
- Sex instruction 1
- Social service 1
- Social work with African Americans 1
- Social work with women 1
- Social work with youth 1
- Social workers 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Sports for girls 1
- Sports for women 1
- Suffrage 1
- Teenage girls 1
- Vocational education 1
- Volunteers 1
- Voyages and travels 1
- Washington (Iowa) 1
- Women -- 19th century 1
- Women in Christianity 1
- Women in charitable work 1
- Women in church work 1
- Women in community organization 1
- Young Women's Christian associations 1
- Young adults 1 + ∧ less
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