American Association of University Women, Ithaca Branch records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1849

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters, minute books, committee reports, financial statements, membership list, photographs, clippings, subject files, typescript of published history by Edith Anna Ellis, programs, announcements, membership tool kit, and miscellaneous printed material. Includes publicity file on Cornell 11. Also, Board meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, and announcements from the Ithaca Branch and the City Federation of Women's Organizations, 2001-2007.

Dates

1918-2007.

Creator

American Association of University Women. Ithaca Branch (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Ithaca Branch of the American Association of University Women was founded in 1918. Prominent Ithaca, New York women have participated in the organization, including Helen Magill White, Anna B. Comstock, Margaret K. Carleton Farrand, and Jennie Farley. The AAUW's Legal Advocacy Fund grew out of the Ithaca Branch's fundraising for the legal expenses of the Cornell Eleven from 1980-1984.

The City Federation of Women's Organizations was founded in 1910 by a group of women "concerned with education, recreation, philanthropy, health, safety and civic betterment." Initially it provided housing for women as well as coordination among the dozens of women's organizations in Ithaca. For many years it owned the Women's Community Building downtown, which included meeting rooms, a small library, and an auditorium for community events. Since the 1960s, the number of local women's organizations in the CFWO has shrunk to about a dozen. The Women's Community Building was sold in 2012 to make room for an apartment building to provide much-needed affordable housing. The CFWO now administers an endowment to help support the work of its member organizations.

Extent

7.0 cubic feet. (7.0 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Letters, minute books, committee reports, financial statements, membership list, photographs, clippings, subject files, typescript of published history, programs, announcements, membership tool kit, and miscellaneous printed material.

Physical Description

Correspondence, organizational records, printed materials, and reports.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: January 2016
EAD encoding:: Marcie Farwell, February 2016
Date modified:: RMC Staff, February 2016