Y-Teen, circa 1945-1950
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning the YWCA of the U.S.A.'s work with teenagers and Y-Teen programs. Included are materials concerning the use of the Y-Teen symbol, adult and youth leadership, conference participation, teenage program emphases and purposes, reaching rural youth, membership fees and conditions, national Y-Teen projects, cooperation with the YMCA and their Hi-Y teenage program, and participation in the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth.
Dates of Materials
- circa 1945-1950
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
552 frames (1 partial reel)
- Congresses and conventions -- Planning
- Leadership in adolescents
- Leadership in women
- Memorandums
- Newsletters
- Nonprofit organizations -- Finance
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management
- Notes
- Pamphlets
- Rural girls
- Teenage girls -- Religious life
- Teenage girls -- Social conditions
- Teenage girls -- Societies and clubs
- Teenage girls -- United States
- YWCA of the U.S.A. Teen-age Department
- clippings (information artifacts)
- correspondence
- handbooks
- minutes (administrative records)
- reports
- scripts (documents)
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
