This Record group forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records
Because the YWCA of the U.S.A. was a participant in an international movement and affiliated with the World YWCA, information related to international work/relations is located throughout the records. The following materials are particularly relevant:
RECORD GROUP 1. SERIES VI. and
VII contain reference files on 'Foreign' YWCAs and the World YWCA.
Records of early international work by American YWCAs can be found in the records of the predecessor organization known as the American Committee in
RECORD GROUP 2.
YWCA of the U.S.A. officer and staff correspondence with YWCAs worldwide and with the World YWCA is in RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE.
Discussions of the program for International Work can be found in RECORD GROUP 4. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND CONFERENCES.
Public advocacy on international problems is documented in the work of the Public Affairs program in
SERIES III of RECORD GROUP 6.
Tools and methods for presenting the concept of World Fellowship and the international work of the YWCA to various Constituent Groups can be found in
SERIES IV and SERIES V of RECORD GROUP 6. PROGRAM.
SERIES 6. PUBLICATIONS: The main YWCA serial Association Monthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine/YWCA Interchange has many articles on international work and YWCAs in other countries.
RECORD GROUP 9. PHOTOGRAPHS contains a large collection of photographs of YWCAs in other countries.
RECORD GROUP 10. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS contains audio for a 1982 slide presentation, "Breaking Barriers;" video from the Uganda Study-Travel Program and a "Fact Finding" trip to El Salvador in 1991; and 1991-92 visits between Chinese and U.S. YWCA leaders.
Elsewhere in the Sophia Smith Collection
The
Records of the Committee of Correspondence contain correspondence with YWCA women.
The Sophia Smith Collection also houses the papers of a number of YWCA Overseas and World YWCA staff members including:
The SSC Periodicals collection contains Today: Magazine of the YWCA of India for 1963-79
See also the online exhibit of five YWCA overseas secretaties (Bessie Boies Cotton, Virginia Heim George, Ruth Lois Hill, Elmina R. Lucke, and Ruth Frances Woodsmall)
"An Ever-Widening Circle of Friendship": YWCA Overseas Secretaries from China to Liberia.
