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Description

1. 5.8 linear ft.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing
2. National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs
3. Harlem Cooperating Committee on Relief and Unemployment
4. Friends of the Northside Center
5. Clubs > New York (State) > New York
6. African Americans > Charities
7. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
8. Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > New York
9. Nannie H. Burroughs Philanthropic Club
10. New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) > Committe of Negro Women
11. Political clubs > New York (State) > New York
12. Liberia > Anniversaries, etc
13. Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.) > Chaplaincy Committee
14. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
15. Democratic Club (New York, N.Y.)
16. Democratic Party (N.Y.)
17. African American women > New York (State) > New York > Political activity
18. African Americans > Housing > New York (State) > New York
19. African Americans > Employment
20. National Committee for the American Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Liberia
21. African Americans > Economic conditions
22. African Americans > Societies, etc
23. African American women > New York (State) > New York > Societies and clubs
24. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
25. Women > Political activity > New York (State) > New York
26. Utopia Neighborhood Club (New York, N.Y.)
27. Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > New York
28. Urban League of Greater New York
29. Photoprints
30. Hospitals > New York (State) > New York
31. New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951
32. New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions
33. National Council of Negro Women
34. Day care centers > New York (State) > New York
35. African Americans > Civil rights
36. Aeolian Ladies of Charity

Genre/Form

1. Photoprints.

Call number

1. Sc MG 37

Note

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

Source (note)

1. Adams, Wilhelmina F.

Biography (note)

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

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed

Author

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

Title

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

Biography

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

Finding aids

1. Inventory.

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1. Finding Aid

LCCN

1. ms 82001351

Research call number

1. Sc MG 37