YWCA of the U.S.A. Records. Record Group 6. Program: Series VII. War Work and Defense Services
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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.
The YWCA of the U.S.A. donated a portion of its records to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1964 and the remainder in 2002 and 2003.
Scope and Content YWCA Land Service Poster, 1918 Forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records--Record Group 6. Program. NOTE: For the most part, the Microfilmed Records and the Original Format Records do not duplicate each other and both should be consulted. This description covers materials in both formats. See the Contents List for a folder-level inventory of the Original Format Records. See the Microfilmed Records Reel Lists for a detailed inventory of the microfilm. This Series is divided into three Subseries: A. WORLD WAR I B. WORLD WAR II C. DEFENSE SERVICES SUBSERIES A. WORLD WAR I Historical Note When the U.S. entered World War I, the YWCA joined the "Committee of Eleven" organizations that banded together as the United War Work Campaign, Inc., to raise and distribute funds to aid war relief efforts at home and abroad. (Though the group originally included eleven organizations, that number eventually settled at seven, including the American Library Association, YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic War Council, Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board, Salvation Army, and War Camp Community Service.) As the only women's organization in the Campaign, the YWCA's charge was to meet the special needs of women and girls affected by the war. The YWCA raised money, recruited war workers, expanded its existing work in places which already had YWCAs and constructed new facilities in other places, such as camps and bases where soldiers were mobilized and centers where young women were mobilized for agricultural, industrial, and government work. The War Work Council established Industrial War Service Centers or "blue triangle" houses in the U.S. and Foyers des Allees in France where women working in war industries could meet, get good food, relax, entertain guests and participate in wholesome recreation. It also built Hostess Houses where servicemen could visit with their wives, mothers, and friends. Work in these centers continued through the period of active conflict, and the following influenza epidemic and demobilization. Due to the perceived inappropriateness of white women providing recreational services for Black servicemen and industrial women, the YWCA established separate "colored" Industrial Service Centers and Hostess Houses. The was "made evident the deplorable lack of facilities for recreation and amusement" of African-American women and girls who were entering industry in large numbers. In response, the National Association facilitated a substantial expansion of the number of "Colored" Associations and Branches in cities. This dramatic increase of staff and program for African-Americans, was directed from the national office by Eva Bowles and the War Work Council's Colored Work Committee. A national staff which had consisted of two Black secretaries in 1917, grew to thirteen in 1919. At the local level, the number of "Colored" Branches increased from sixteen to forty-nine and secretaries from nine to ninety-nine. World War I precipitated a significant increase in both the size and complexity of the national program of "Work with Foreign-Born Women." The war changed American attitudes toward its immigrant population, suddenly making "every foreign home a place of dread and fear and suspicion." (Edith Terry Bremer, Report to War Work Council, 17 October 1917) Noting that the effects of the war were even more severe for foreign-born women, what had been essentially a northeastern U.S. operation, was nationalized. Multi-lingual secretaries were hired for Port Work, meeting immigrant women at points of intake on the east and west coasts. Staff of a new International Information and Service Bureau translated all kinds of technical materials and wrote speeches and information sheets in a variety of languages "upon all matters for which they are needing help." Other secretaries did Emergency Field work to help speed the opening of new International Institutes for young women of all nationalities. A Bureau was established to help in locating refugee relatives in Europe and the YWCA provided "home service" for the families of enlisted men. To facilitate all this new work and reconstruction work in Europe, the YWCA established training programs for foreign community workers and reconstruction volunteers. Other War Work Council Committees coordinated programs to find housing for women workers who had left home to work at camps and in industry, for women agricultural workers, and for matching volunteer workers with jobs. The Committee on Organization and Extension of Regular Work analyzed where special war work could connected with the regular city work. Staff specialists in topics such as Recreation and Pageantry and Drama, helped Community Associations develop classes and activities for relaxation during uncertain times. The YWCA's Bureau of Social Morality, formed in 1913, was a corps of women medical doctors trained to give sex education lectures. Concerned in particular about young women in the communities adjacent to army camps, the YWCA recruited and trained many more speakers who delivered over 2,000 lectures in 1917-18. During reconstruction, the YWCA enlarged the Bureau's mission to include lectures on general health topics, such as nutrition and hygiene, and rechristened it the Bureau of Social Education. The U.S. YWCA did similar work overseas during the war in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, the Near East, Poland, Romania, and Russia. War workers established centers "to help keep women fit for their work" by providing opportunities for rest, relaxation, and a good meal at a reasonable price. A special group of "Polish Gray Samaritans" served as nurses' aides for Polish soldiers fighting in France. Once the war was over the focus of the work shifted to reconstruction and aid for refugees. The "Polish Grays" concentrated their efforts in Poland. After the Armistice, the Continuation Committee (1919-22) and the Post-Continuation Committee (1921-22) kept much of the work begun by the War Work Council going using War Fund money. The rapid expansion of the War Work significantly changed the YWCA. It experienced what was described as fifteen years' growth in two. Many new Community Associations and Branches were formed and the existing emphasis of the work in many Associations changed, particularly in response to the influx of Industrial Club members. With the new members came increased expectations of "democratic control of Association policies and program." At the national level, the rapid increase put a huge emphasis on recruitment and training of staff, greatly increased the use of publications to "interpret" the Association, and dramatically broadened its program, both in size and scope. Sustaining such an organization proved impossible once the war was over. Scope and Content Records related to the World War I era work include minutes, reports, and other records of the War Work Council and its many committees; files on the Hostess House program and on individual Hostess Houses; publications; texts of lectures given at a training course for volunteer workers in September 1917; organization files; and various small collections of correspondence, memorabilia, and scrapbooks donated to the National Board Archives by war workers. The War Work had such a major impact on the work of YWCA that the records are central to understanding the growth and development of the organization. The wide-ranging effects can be seen in the kinds of work the Association did, its techniques, processes, policies, and even its size. Microfilmed Records, 1917-23 [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] The Microfilmed Records are much more extensive than those that survive in original format. Unfortunately, reel 152 of the microfilm (Woman's Movement in Labor - World War I, A- Hostess Houses, Fort Benjamin, Indiana) was lost prior to transfer to the Sophia Smith Collection and most of the records on that reel were discarded after filming. World War I records can be found on the microfilm under: Minutes and Reports World War ISubject Files World War I Original Format Records, 1917-39, n.d., 6.5 linear feet [see Original Format Records folder list] The Minutes and Reports and a small selection of Subject File records were not discarded after microfilming and can be examined in original format. Other materials are only available on the microfilm. Correspondence, memorabilia, and scrapbooks donated to the YWCA Archives by war workers are only available in original format. They are filed in the Miscellaneous section at the end of the Subseries. The Original Format Records are arranged as follows: The Original Format Records are arranged as follows: War Work Council General and HistoryWWC and Executive Committee minutesCommission to FranceCommitteesConferencePublicationsTraining CourseOrganizationsMiscellaneousOversize Related Materials Minutes and reports of all other departments and the National Board contain additional information about the War Work. In other Series in this Record Group Extensive coverage of the World War I work is in The AssociationMonthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine in SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS. In other Record Groups Records about the sale of properties acquired for War Work can be found in RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE in SERIES III. BUILDINGS AND PROPERTIES. The World War I work was documented extensively in photographs. These can be found in RECORD GROUP 9. PHOTOGRAPHS. Some information about World War I properties, Centers, and Hostess Houses can be found in the Local Associations Files on the Microfilm. See RECORD GROUP 8. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS, SERIES IV. In Personal Papers Personal Papers of Kate Hillis Boyd Papers, Carolyn Adelia Boynton, Bessie Boies Cotton, Elizabeth Dickerson, Clara Taylor, and Ruth Woodsmall. SUBSERIES B. WORLD WAR II Historical Note As had been the case in World War I, the YWCA joined with other organizations to raise money and coordinate "civilian war service projects." Six agencies, the Child Welfare League, Family Welfare Association, National Institute of Immigrant Welfare, National Organization of Public Health Nursing, National Urban League, and YWCA, formed American War-Community Services, Inc. (AW-CS). to provide services to workers in war industries and to civilians left behind. AW-CS presented a combined appeal to War Chests and took responsibility for disbursing funding to member agencies for approved war service projects. After the war, the AW-CS agencies formed a new organization with similar aims called "United Community Defense Services." [see Subseries C. Defense Services] The YWCA also joined the YMCA, National Catholic Community Service, Salvation Army, National Traveler's Aid Association, and Jewish Welfare Board to form the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO), "to serve those affected by the war." The type of work done by the YWCA was similar to its work during World War I, including rest and relaxation centers and services for women workers, servicemen, and war wives. The National Association also worked with its membership to "mobilize woman power for community service" and raised funds for its World Emergency and War Victims Fund to aid war relief overseas. When the U.S. Government ordered the evacuation of all Japanese-Americans from coastal areas, the YWCA monitored the situation closely, looking for opportunities to help the hundreds of its members who were affected by the relocations. After years of working on "social integration" in Japanese-American communities, it was "accepted as a matter of course that the YWCA would go wherever they went." After initial resistance on the part of the government to having private social agencies operating in the relocation centers, the National Association worked with its interned Japanese-American staff and members to establish YWCAs in the relocation centers. Here the YWCA set up counseling, recreation, group activities, educational opportunities, and service work for the young women interned there. In addition to direct assistance in the Relocation Centers, the YWCA worked to sway public opinion, and pressure the government to provide decent care and protection of people and their property. It also advocated for hearing boards which would allow Japanese-Americans to establish loyalty thereby creating a mechanism for release from internment and for citizens' rights legislation. After the war, the National Association provided "factual and interpretive" information to Community Associations to urge them to assist in Japanese-American resettlement. Scope and Content This Subseries contains general historical materials (including a 1945 dissertation, "The Nisei in Denver, Colorado: A Study of Personality Adjustment and Disorganization" by Dorothy Takechi, a YWCA staff member who worked in the Granada Relocation Center); committee records, clippings, correspondence, minutes and reports, subject and organization files. The Japanese Evacuee Project records include illuminating reports by Japanese-American YWCA staff and members, visitation reports by other YWCA staff, and such things as literary magazines, newsletters, and conference reports produced by Relocation Center internees. Records of the YWCA's USO activities are described in Subseries C below because the YWCA's affiliation with the USO continued for many years after the war. Microfilmed Records, 1942-48, n.d. [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] The Microfilmed Records are more extensive than those that survive in original format. They include minutes, reports, publications, organizations files, and subject files. They can be found on the microfilm under: Minutes and Reports World War II Subject Files National DefenseWar Work-World War II Original Format Records, 1937-48, n.d., 4 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder List] The Minutes and Reports and a substantial selection of Subject File records (primarily records of the Japanese Evacuee Project) were not discarded after microfilming, other materials are only available on the microfilm. Related Materials In other Subseries in this Series World War II USO records are described in the Subseries C. Defense Services below, because the YWCA's affiliation with USO continued for many years after the war. In other Series in this Record Group The AssociationMonthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine in SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS of RECORD GROUP 6 is an excellent source for most topics. In other Record Groups Because it was the "representative and executive" committee of the National Association, the National Board's minutes should also be consulted. See RECORD GROUP 2. SUBSERIES C. DEFENSE SERVICES After World War II, the YWCA continued its activities "on behalf of men and women of the Armed Forces and their families, and workers in defense industries." A fundraising brochure titled "National Defense and the YWCA" cites the outbreak of war in Korea in the summer of 1950 as the point at which "it became evident…that the U.S. would for many years be forced to maintain a large army." The YWCA's part in this effort consisted of continued participation in the USO, involvement in the successor organization to American War-Community Services, the United Community Defense Services (UCDS), and the United Defense Fund. The National Association established a Defense Services Department in 1950 to coordinate these efforts. UCDS, was formed in the fall of 1950 to "assist in the development of essential health and welfare services to people in communities which are unable to cope adequately with defense-created needs." The YWCA was one of fifteen participating agencies working to help new residents in rapidly growing cities and towns adjacent to defense industries. The aim was to fill gaps in services for a relatively brief period until the cities and towns were able to do so. Formed during World War II, United Service Organizations, Inc., (USO), was a cooperative national program of morale, recreation, and religious work for men in the armed forces and for men and women in defense industries. It was an effort to "provide such activities, facilities, and leadership as will recreate in the community near the camp or industrial center the best of normal life and influence that prevails in the communities from which the men come." It was also a united campaign to raise funds for financing the program. By the late 1950s, UCDS had disbanded and the YWCA's Defense Services Department became the USO Division. By the mid 1970s, the USO's founding agencies began to express concern that the "central structure [of the USO] had grown at the expense of agency participation" and that they no longer had meaningful involvement in the organization. When the USO cut all funding to defray the costs of participation as of January 1, 1977, most of the member agencies, including the YWCA, voted to withdraw from the organization. Administrative History1950-54Defense Services Department in Community Division1955-57Defense Services Department1958-71USO Division1972-74?YWCA/USOt Scope and Content This Subseries contains general historical materials, minutes, reports, publications, and conference files. The reports tend to have useful source materials attached as exhibits. The bulk of the records relate to USO work, 1940-77. Microfilmed Records, 1942-70 [see Microfilmed Records Reel List] The Microfilm has early records of USO activities in the Subject Files under War Work, World War II and a few later items under U.S.O. Original Format Records, 1937-77, n.d., 4.5 linear feet [see Original Format Records Folder List] The Original Format Records contain a small amount of general information about UCDS and some general historical information on the YWCA's overall Defense Services activities, but are primarily records of YWCA participation in USO. Related Materials Elsewhere in the Record Group Records related to advocacy to end race discrimination in the armed forces and forced relocation and resettlement of Japanese-Americans are in SERIES III. PUBLIC ADVOCACY. The AssociationMonthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine in SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS is an excellent source for most topics. In other Record Groups There are additional USO files in the Organizations files in SERIES I of RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINSTRATIVE OFFICE. Photographs of Defense Services work are in RECORD GROUP 9. PHOTOGRAPHS Because it was the "representative and executive" committee of the National Association, the National Board's minutes should also be consulted. See RECORD GROUP 2. In Personal Papers The Sophia Smith Collection holds personal papers of a number of YWCA women who worked closely with the USO, these include: Polly Feustal, Virginia Heim George, Ina Ruth Hillis Lackey, and Elisabeth Luce Moore. In other repositories Additional Records of the YWCA's USO work are in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota.
The records are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions. Access to audiovisual materials may first require production of research copies.
The YWCA of the USA retains copyright ownership of the records, but has authorized the Sophia Smith Collection to grant permission to publish reproductions or quotations from the records on its behalf. Copyright to materials authored by persons other than YWCA staff may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights for permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use."
Additional Formats A copy of the microfilmed records of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records is available to borrow from the William Allan Neilson Library at Smith College via Interlibrary Loan. To request the microfilm from our library you will need to submit the following information to your library's Interlibrary Loan department: Author: Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National BoardTitle: Records, 1876-1970 [microform]WorldCat Accession Number: OCLC 57415795Notes: "Call # 689" and reel number(s) you want to borrow Full descriptions and reel lists of the microfilm are available online.
This Record group forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records
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Women and war--United States--History
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World War, 1914-1918--War work--France--Sources
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Young Women's Christian Association
World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
World War, 1939-1945--War work
Cotton, Bessie Boies, 1880-1959
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United Service Organizations (U.S.)
United States--Armed Forces--Women--History--Sources
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SERIES VII. WAR WORK AND DEFENSE SERVICES
This is the Contents List for the Original Format Records only. The reel lists for the Microfilmed Records are in a separate file. See Scope and Content note for more description.
Subseries A. World War I
War Work Council
General and History, 1918, 1932-39, n.d.
Minutes, May 1917-Oct 1919
Executive Committee: minutes, May 1917-Oct 1919
Commission to survey YWCA work in France, 1918
Committees
Bureau of Social Education: leaflets series, circa 1919
Colored Work
General, 1918-22, n.d.
Reports
General, 1917-20, n.d.
Josephine Pinyon, 1917-18, n.d.
The Work of Colored Women compiled by Jane Olcott, [1919]
Construction and Equipment: minutes, 1917-18
Continuation and Post-Continuation: minutes, 1919-22
Finance
Minutes, 1917-19
Report: Financial Statement, 1918-19
Hostess House
General, 1918-19, n.d.
Minutes
Report of the Hostess House Committee, 1919
[Emergency] Housing
General by location, 1919-21
Jul-Dec 1921
Report: "Suggestions for Housing Women War Workers made to the Secretary of War by the Housing Committee of the YWCA," Jan 1918
Industrial
Industrial War Service Centers/Clubs, 1918-23, n.d.
Publications
General
An Industrial Notebook, 1919
Reports, 1917-20, n.d.
Research Section, 1919
Junior War Work Council: minutes, 1917-18
Land Service: minutes and reports, 1918
Organization and Extension of Regular Work
Minutes, Nov 1917-20
Reports by City/Town, 1919-21
Overseas Committee and Overseas Subcommittee on Appointments
General: Emergency Services: A Statement of the Services Rendered by the Overseas Committee of the American YWCA in Ten Countries During and Following World War I, ca. 1940
Minutes, Dec 1918-20
Final report, 1917-20
General, 1918-20
Belgium, 1919
Czecho-Slovakia, 1919-20
France
"Summer Camps of the YWCA in France," 1919
Italy, 1919-20
Near East (Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon), 1919-20
Poland, 1919-20
Romania, 1919-20
Russia
Miscellaneous, 1917-20
Archangel, 1918-19
Representative in Scandinavia, 1919-20
Siberian Unit, 1919-20
Pageantry and Drama, 1919
Publicity Committee: broadsides, n.d.
Social Morality Committee
Minutes and reports, 1918-19, n.d.
[Final] Report, Jun 1917-Jul 1919
Pamphlets and brochures, 1917-18, n.d.
Uniforms Committee, n.d.
Volunteer Workers Bureau
General, 1918, n.d.
Conference, Jun 1919
Minutes and reports, Dec 1917-May 1919
Work for Foreign-Born Women
Minutes, 1917-20
Summary, 1917, 1919-20
Secretary
Miscellaneous, 1919
Bird, Ethel, 1918-19
Bradley, Ernestine C., 1919
Bremer, Edith Terry, 1917-19
Clark, Elizabeth W., 1919
Crawford, Ruth, 1918
Griel, Cecile, L., 1918-19
Daykin, Anne B., 1918-19
Hannah, Margaret, 1917-19
Klotz, Justine, 1918-19
Lowenstein, Alice Lili, 1919
Rodakiewicz, Erla, 1919
[Stanoyevich], Beatrice Stevenson, 1918-19
Vaughn, Villa Curran (Mrs. T.H.), 1918-19
Walkinshaw, Ruth, 1919
Research and Information Section
"American Press Information," Jan-Jul 1919
"Snap-shots of Some Folk With Whom We Neighbor" by Ruth Walkinshaw, 1918
Polish Gray Samaritans Training School (aka Training School for Old Country Service)
General, 1918-19
Minutes, 1918-19
Reports, 1918-19, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1918-20
Press releases, 1918-20
Report, 1919
Student evaluations and correspondence, 1919-33
Conference, 6-7 Jun 1917
General, 1917-19
War Work Bulletin, Aug 1917-Sep 1919
Blue Triangle News, Oct 1919-1920
Y.W.C.A .Bulletin (published in France by YWCA of the USA), 1918-19
Training Course, 6-15 Sep 1917
Anderson, Esther(?), "Our Work With Other Girls"
Baker, Oren C., "Travelers' Aid Society"
Bowles, Eva D., "The Colored Girl in This Country"
Bremer, Edith Terry, "Immigration and Foreign Community Work" and "Our Work Among Foreign Women"
Brown, Anna, "Our Social Morality Work"
Conde, Bertha "Personal Work with Girls" and "Our Work in Student Centers"
Cratty, Mabel, "The Genius of the Young Women's Christian Association"
Davis, Helen, "The National War Work Council"
Davis, Katharine
Gogin, Gertrude, "The National Service Commission"
Haynes, Rowland, "Recreation Work"
Holmquist, Louise, "The County Association"
Miner, Maude, "Probation Work"
Schaefer, Vera, "The Relationship of our Community Work with the Hostess House"
Simms, Florence, "The Girl in Industry"
Speer, (Mrs. Robert E.), "The Spiritual Significance Underlying Our Work"
Thomas, Helen, "Educational Work of the Association"
Williamson, Margaret, "Planning With Our Workers to Meet the Problem of Employment"
Organizations
Committee of Eleven, United War Work Campaign, Inc.
Articles of Incorporation and By laws, 1918
Minutes, 1918-19, 1921
General War-Time Commission of the Churches, Federal Council of Churches
General, n.d.
Industrial Commission [to Europe], spring 1919
General, 1919
Background information, 1918-19, n.d.
Notes and drafts, 1919
Publications, Womans Press
The Challenge of the Present Crisis by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1917
Madame France by R. Louise Fitch, 1919
Mobilizing Woman Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch, 1918
Miscellaneous
Hutchinson, Margaret: correspondence to family from United War Work Campaign in New Mexico, fall 1918
James, Genevieve
Manuscript chapter re supervising Hostess Houses in southeastern U.S., n.d.
Scrapbook (disassembled 1988), 1917-19
Ogden, Helen: typescript letters to family from Russia, 1917-18
Sehon, Clarette
Biographical and general
Correspondence to family from France, Mar 1919-Jun 1920
Tunnell, Winifred: miscellaneous memorabilia and clippings from work in France, 1918, n.d.
Miscellaneous memorabilia
OVERSIZE
Ellington Field (Texas) Hostess House scrapbook, 1917-18
War Work Council, Committee on Work for Foreign-Born Women, Polish Gray Samaritan Training School
Logbook
Scrapbook
subseries
Subseries B. World War II
General and History
General, 1939-54, n.d.
Alien registration and legislation, 1940-45, n.d.
Bibliography "Origins of the European War," Oct 1939
Conference: "The Role of Women in the War Effort," 24 Sep 1942
Proceedings
Index to actions taken related to National Defense in the minutes of the National Board and Executive Committee, Jan 1937-Dec 1952
General, 1942, n.d.
Program materials, 1942-45
Women Behind the Lines: YWCA Program with War Production Workers, 1940-47 by Brooks Spivey Creedy, TWP, 1949
Reconstruction
General, 1948, n.d.
Round-the-World YWCA Reconstruction Fund, 1946-48, n.d.
Study of Women's Dormitories, 1944
Europe YWCA Emergency Committee (1940)/YWCA World Emergency Fund Committee (1941-42)/World Emergency and War Victims Fund Committee (1943-46)/World Emergency Fund Committee (1947-49)
Minutes, 1941-49
Financial, 1943-45
on Refugees
General, 1938-50
Bulletin, 1938-39
Minutes, 1941-45
Publications, 1940-43
Questionnaire to YWCA Industrial Club members, 1940-41
Reference materials, 1938-41, n.d.
Refugees in the U.S., 1945
Final Report, Committee on Refugees, circa 1945
Secretary reports, 1938-40
Postwar Reconstruction Leadership Counselling Group, 1942-43
on Women Workers, 1942
YWCA Volunteers in Civilian Defense, 1942-43
American War-Community Services, Inc.
General, 1943-46, n.d.
Board of Directors, 1943-47
Institute, Jan 1945
YWCA
General, 1943-47
War-Community Service Committee, 1943-46
Staff meetings, 1943-44
Annual , 1943-46
Final, 1943-46
Local, 1943-46
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Miscellaneous, 1942-44
Japanese Evacuee Project
Clippings scrapbooks (photocopies), 1942-45
Scrapbooks 2 and 3: Denver, Colorado, press clippings
Scrapbook 4: metropolitan New York press
Scrapbook 5: California press
Scrapbook 6: magazine articles
Dissertation: "The Nisei in Denver, Colorado: A Study of Personality Adjustment and Disorganization" by Dorothy Kuniko Takechi, Fisk University, 1945
Paper: "Behind Barbed Wire: The YWCA in the Japanese Internment Camps, 1942-46" by Rebecca Dobkins, UMass History 389, 1982
Summary Report by Esther Briesemeister, 1942-46
Committees (multi-organization in which YWCA participated)
Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans/Committee on Administration of Japanese Work, 1942-46
Protestant Church Commission for Japanese Service, 1942-45
YMCA-YWCA Coordinating Committee on Services to Persons of Japanese Ancestry, 1944-45
Japanese American Citizens League, Special Emergency National Conference: minutes and supplement, Nov 1942
Local Associations
Miscellaneous, 1943-44
Miscellaneous, 1941-45
Los Angeles, 1942-46
Colorado: Denver, 1942-47
Minnesota, 1944
New Jersey, 1944
Ohio, 1944
Oregon, 1942
Washington, 1942-46
Student relocation, 1942-46
U.S. Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, Japanese Relocation Centers
Nov 1943-46, n.d.
Abstracts, ca. 1942
Community Analysis Notes, 1944-45
Community Analysis Reports
Quarterly Reports, 1942
YWCA Cooperation
General, 1942-46
Gila River (Rivers, AZ)
Poston (Poston, AZ)
Arkansas
Jerome (Denson, AR)
Rohwer (McGeehee, AR)
Manzanar (Manzanar, CA)
Tule Lake (Newell, CA)
Colorado: Granada (Amache, CO)
Idaho: Minidoka (Hunt, ID)
Texas: Crystal City (Crystal City, TX)
Utah: Central Utah (Topaz, UT)
Wyoming: Heart Mountain (Heart Mountain, WY)
Japanese Evacuee Project: clippings scrapbooks numbers 2-6, originals
Duplicate photocopies of scrapbooks 2 and 3
Subseries C. Defense Services
Miscellaneous, 1937, 1952
"History of the Defense Services, National Board YWCA" by Mary Sims, 1950-57
Vol. I-II
Vol. III-V
"A Study of the Organized Junior Hostess Programs in the Defense Services Department of the YWCA and the Armed Services Department of the YMCA" by Mildred Luli Bair, 1956 George Williams College M.S. thesis
United Service Organizations (USO)
General, 1940-74 , n.d.
Constitution and By-laws, 1941
Anniversaries
Guest book, 1966, 1971
"Preliminary Material for the History of USO, Part II, Feb 10, 1941 to Pearl Harbor" by Julia M.H. Carson, 1945
"USO in Skagway, Alaska, 1943-44" by Jane Hope Hastings, 1993
Manual: "Community Conducted Operations," May 1943
Reports, 1941-53, n.d.
Articles (unpublished) re USO by Genevieve James, 1941
"History of the Participation of the YWCA in the USO [to June 1944]" by Emma P. Hirth
Commendation, 1945-46
Conferences
War Production Workers, Nov 1944 (training conferences for YWCA staff in war production areas)
Notebook of records, 1944-45
Reports from local associations collected for conference planning, 1944
Solicitation letter and summaries of reports
Reports from local associations, by state
A-Missouri
Nebraska-Z
Interracial: Negro World War II Workers, USO, 1941-45
Local USO Clubs, 1951-62, n.d.
General pamphlets, 1951-53, n.d.
Democracy series pamphlets, 1943-45, n.d.
Counseling
Health and Recreation
Post-war
Program materials
Public Relations
Religion, 1943-53, n.d.
Teen Age, 1942-43, n.d.
Volunteers
Miscellaneous newsletters
Information Sheet, 1941-47
Program Letters, n.d.
The Round-up
Bound copies
Sep 1951-Mar 1955
Unbound copies, 1952-61
Compilation of Staff Reports on Rough Notes on Program Learnings in Constituency Groupings in the YWCA During the War Period, 1946
"Digest of Information on Wartime Employment of Women" by Nora Piore, Mar 1943
Executive Report-USO Division, 1941-47
Vol. XVI: Exhibit/Appendix J
Religious Material, YWCA and War Production Work, Housing
War Production Workers Program report by Florence Anderson
Play Contest, 1943-44
Vol. XVII
Exhibit/Appendix K: Service to Negroes
Exhibit/Appendix L: Training
Exhibit/Appendix M: Budgets
"A Nation at Work in Wartime: a report of the wartime program of the USO Division of National Board YWCA in war production areas," n.d.
Services to Campuses by the U.S.O. Division of the National Board of the YWCA, 1941-46
"Seven Case Studies of USO-YMCA-YWCA Joint Operations" by Margaret Williamson and Roy Sorenson, Jan 1943
United Community Defense Services (UCDS)
General, 1952-53, n.d.