| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland |
| Title: | Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland Records |
| Dates: | 1878-1960 |
| Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (12 containers) |
| Abstract: | The Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland (YWCA) is a women's social and service organization founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Women's Christian Association of Cleveland. In 1893 it became the Young Women's Christian Association. The collection consists of reports, histories, bulletins, broadsides, scrapbooks, and minutes containing rosters, attendance records, correspondence and other materials. |
| MS Number | MS 3516 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland was founded on November 11, 1869 as the Women's Christian Association of Cleveland. Its purpose was the promotion of the "temporal and spiritual" welfare of the ever-increasing number of urban women. Starting with a single building at Superior Street and Seneca Street (now West 3rd Street), the Association provided instruction in traditional women's trades, domestic work, and office work, and also provided recreational facilities. With gifts of land and funding from such prominent Cleveland, Ohio, residents as Leonard Case, Amasa Stone, Joseph Perkins, and Mrs. Eliza Jennings, the YWCA expanded its services during the latter half of the nineteenth century. By the turn of the twentieth century, the YWCA provided boarding houses and found employment for transient women, and maintained retreats and rest homes for the aged or incurably ill. As the twentieth century progressed, the YWCA was actively involved with the movement to outlaw war following World War I, efforts to improve race relations, finding solutions to immigrant problems, and addressing the problem of unemployment during the Great Depression. The YWCA continues to operate several branches in Cleveland and provides educational, recreational, and welfare services for women in the community.
The Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland Records, 1878-1960, consist of reports, histories, bulletins, broadsides, scrapbooks, and minutes containing rosters, attendance records, correspondence and other materials.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the history of women there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The board of trustees minutes comprise the bulk of the material in this collection and include rosters, attendance records, correspondence, and other material pertaining to topics discussed at board meetings. Of special interest are references in the post-World War I minutes to the movement to outlaw war, and references in the Great Depression-era minutes to unemployment aid programs. The minutes for the late 1930s also contain material refuting allegations that the YWCA was influenced by the Communist Party.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3516 Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of the Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland in 1970.
Processed by John J. Grabowski in 1970.
Young Women's Christian Association of Cleveland Records 1878-1960 |
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| Box | Volume | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Secretary's book of the Association containing the organization's revised 1878 constitution and by-laws and minutes of meetings 1878-1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Minute book of the Association 1893-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Minute book of the Association 1897-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Minute book of the Association 1903-1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Unbound records of the Association 1878-1908 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1907-1911 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1911-1913 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1915-1918 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1919-1921 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1922-1923 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1924-1927 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1928-1931 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1932-1935 | |||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1936-1938 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1939-1940 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1941-1942 | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1946-1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1948-1950 | |||||||||
| Box | Volume | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees/Board of Directors 1946-1956 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Directors 1956-1958 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Minutes and records of the Board of Directors 1957-1960 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Minutes of the Advisory Committee 1952-1956 | |||||||||
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| 7 | 1 | Building Fund Committee minutes and records 1903-1906 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Building Fund Committee minutes and records 1906-1907 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Building Fund Committee minutes and records 1907-1909 | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Building Fund Committee minutes 1902-1908 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Building Fund Committee contribution records 1902-1908 | |||||||||
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| 8 | 1-15 | Annual Reports 1869 1872 1873 1891-1892 | |||||||||
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| 9 | 1-16 | Annual Reports 1903-1913 1936-1939 1946 | |||||||||
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| 10 | 1 | Newsletters and other publications, "Y.W.C.A. News" 1927-1933 | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Newsletters and other publications, "Horizons" 1937-1939 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Newsletters and other publications, "Y's Business Girl" 1933-1934 | |||||||||
| 10 | 4 | Newsletters and other publications, "The Shuttle" 1920-1922 | |||||||||
| 10 | 5 | Newsletters and other publications, "Cross Section" 1939-1941 | |||||||||
| 10 | 6 | Newsletters and other publications, "The Association News" 1915 | |||||||||
| 10 | 6 | Newsletters and other publications, "The Association Record" 1908 | |||||||||
| 10 | 6 | Newsletters and other publications, "The Y's Announcer" 1926 | |||||||||
| 10 | 7 | Newsletters and other publications, Association Manual 1879 | |||||||||
| 10 | 8 | Newsletters and other publications, "Anna M. Campbell Memorial Pamphlet" . | |||||||||
| 10 | 9 | Newsletters and other publications, After Thirty Years, and souvenir history . | |||||||||
| 10 | 10 | Newsletters and other publications, promotional booklets dates vary | |||||||||
| 10 | 11 | Newsletters and other publications, departmental and camp bulletins dates vary | |||||||||
| 10 | 12 | Blank forms and tickets dates vary | |||||||||
| 10 | 13 | Broadsides and printed invitations dates vary | |||||||||
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| 11 | 1-2 | Scrapbooks of of newspaper clippings and a typescript history (ca. 1905) of the Association 1869-1907 | |||||||||
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| 12 | 1-2 | Annual Reports in cloth-bound volumes 1894-1907 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 2 | Minutes and records of the Board of Trustees 1901-1911 | |||||||||