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Clubs and Societies

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

Women's Overseas Service League records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2950
Abstract

The Women's Overseas Service League was a national organization founded in 1921; the Portland chapter was formed in 1923. Collection includes scrapbooks; membership lists; newspaper clippings; officer lists; certificates; organizational histories; programs; minutes; correspondence; obituaries; and financial records.

Dates: 1922-1991

Young Men's Christian Association of Albany, Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2097
Abstract

The collection contains minutes of meetings of the board of directors; constitution and by-laws; membership records; and cash and account journals.

Dates: 1889-1906

Young Men's Christian Association of Portland, Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1782
Abstract

Records consist of promotional material, correspondence, camp maps, building plans, counselors' material, scrapbooks and memorabilia primarily regarding Camp Meecham and Camp Collins, which were summer youth camps on Spirit Lake in Washington. Both were destroyed in the eruption of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

Dates: 1914-1980

Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2384
Abstract

Records of a YWCA center located in the Albina neighborhood of northeast, Portland, Oregon, which served the African American community. Includes historical background, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, surveys, study workbook, and papers on relief for people displaced by the 1948 Vanport flood.

Dates: 1918-1961