Junior League of Ogden Archives
Scope and Contents
Manuscript Collection 28 (MS 28) comprises thirty-one (31) boxes of records chronicling the activities of The Junior League of Ogden (1953 - 1984) and its predecessors, The Martha Society (1914 - 1941) and The Welfare League of Ogden (1933 - 1953). From the files of these three organizations comes a history of volunteer and charitable services spanning nearly a century. Records of the Martha Society (1914 - 1941): Financial records and yearbooks pertaining to the work of Ogden’s earliest charitable organization. Among its projects were a day nursery for the children of working mothers (The Martha Home), and hospital care for low income male heads of households incapacitated by illness or injury. Records of the Welfare League of Ogden (1933 - 1953): Administrative and financial records pertaining to the League’s participation in such projects as: the Well-Baby Clinic; the Community Chest Dental Clinic; and Public Health Nurse Program; the Immunization Clinic; and the Dee Hospital Tumor Clinic. Records of the Junior League of Ogden (1953 - 1984): Administrative and financial records pertaining to the admission of the Ogden League to the Association of Junior Leagues and its subsequent participation in such programs as: The Shelter Workshop; the Juvenile Court; the Crisis Center; the Community Arts Center; the Youth Symphony Concert; the Career Development Program; the Junior Great Books; Reading in Fundamental; the Nature Center; historic preservation; Avons Future Tennis Tournament; and Drug Abuse Prevention.
Dates
- Creation: 1914 - 1984
Extent
41 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
BOX 1 WELFARE LEAGUE OF OGDEN RECORDS: 1934/1935 - 1946/1947
BOX 41 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF OGDEN RECORDS: 1993 ADDITIONS
Cultural context
- Browning
- Dee
- Eccles, Bertha
- Junior League of Ogden
- Littlefield
- Martha Society
- Rich
- Wattis
- Women--Societies and clubs
Geographic
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository