Czechoslovakia, 1919-1922
Scope and Contents
Reports and correspondence from YWCA of the U.S.A. staff working in Czechoslovakia concerning current YWCA work and programming and assessing those efforts. YWCA work in Czechoslovakia takes on many forms including recreation leadership, the Czech-American Summer School for Social Work, student associations, work with employed women, health education, and general programming. Secretaries' reports and correspondence include description of their travels and impressions of their new culture and surroundings.
Dates of Materials
- 1919-1922
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
However, by agreement with the YWCA of the U.S.A., microdexes known to contain financial records or personal health information (usually on job applications) were not digitized and/or not published in our online repository as part of the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant. These microdexes may still be accessed on the original microfilm, and digital files may be made available to individual researchers upon request.
Extent
576 frames (1 partial reel)
- Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovakia -- Description and travel
- Health education of women -- Czechoslovakia
- Home economics -- Czechoslovakia
- Nonprofit organizations -- Finance
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management
- Recreation -- Czechoslovakia
- Social service -- Czechoslovakia
- Women -- Employment -- Czechoslovakia
- Women -- Religious life
- Women -- Social conditions -- Czechoslovakia
- Women in development -- International cooperation
- Women in the labor movement -- Czechoslovakia
- YWCA of the U.S.A. Foreign Division
- Young Women's Christian associations -- Czechoslovakia
- correspondence
- reports
- telegrams
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
