Research Catalog

Title

Wilhelmina F. Adams papers, 1914-[ca. 1970]

Author

Adams, Wilhelmina F. (Wilhelmina Ferris), -1987.

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Description

5.8 linear ft.

Summary

Official correspondence, minute books, press releases, photographs, invitations, annual convention and activity programs, printed material, and news clippings, chiefly relating to Adams' participation in various social, political, and civic organizations in New York, including the Aeolian Ladies of Charity, Democratic Club, Friends of the Northside Center, a child guidance center for the prevention of delinquency and maladjustment, Harlem Cooperating Committee on Relief and Unemployment, Harlem Hospital Chaplaincy Committee, Nannie H. Burroughs Philanthropic Club, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, National Committee for the American Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Liberia, National Council of Negro Women, New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing, New York Urban League, New York World's Fair Committee of Negro Women, and the Utopia Neighborhood Club, a nursery center for small children, as well as several local New York City organizations. Also included are personal papers and memorabilia.

Subjects

• New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing
• National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs
• Harlem Cooperating Committee on Relief and Unemployment
• Friends of the Northside Center
• Clubs > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Charities
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > New York
• Nannie H. Burroughs Philanthropic Club
• New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) > Committe of Negro Women
• Political clubs > New York (State) > New York
• Liberia > Anniversaries, etc
• Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.) > Chaplaincy Committee
• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Democratic Club (New York, N.Y.)
• Democratic Party (N.Y.)
• African American women > New York (State) > New York > Political activity
• African Americans > Housing > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Employment
• National Committee for the American Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Liberia
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• African American women > New York (State) > New York > Societies and clubs
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• Women > Political activity > New York (State) > New York
• Utopia Neighborhood Club (New York, N.Y.)
• Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > New York
• Urban League of Greater New York
• Photoprints
• Hospitals > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951
• New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions
• National Council of Negro Women
• Day care centers > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Aeolian Ladies of Charity

Genre/Form

Photoprints.

Note

• Photographs have been transferred to Prints and Photographs Division and described separately.

Source (note)

• Adams, Wilhelmina F.

Biography (note)

• Civic leader of New York City and a major figure in local Democratic Party activities.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed

Call Number

Sc MG 37

OCLC

NYPW89-A9

Author

Adams, Wilhelmina F. (Wilhelmina Ferris), -1987.

Title

Wilhelmina F. Adams papers, 1914-[ca. 1970]

Biography

Civic leader of New York City and a major figure in local Democratic Party activities.

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LCCN

ms 82001351

Research Call Number

Sc MG 37