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Contains 243 Results:

Seniors standing in front of a hearth, circa 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: 014.01.21.1f
Scope and Contents

Color print depicts seven senior citizens standing together in front of a hearth, side by side.

Dates: circa 1967

Cut Ups Camp X, 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: 014.01.21.2b
Scope and Contents

Color print depicts three women in dresses, standing on a gravel road, posing for the camera.

Dates: 1967

Group of women, circa 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: 014.01.21.2a
Scope and Contents

Color print depicts nine women standing together in a line, inside of an auditorium.

Dates: circa 1967

"Swingin' Project Idles Rocking Chair", February 19, 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: 014.01.21.2c
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Rocking chairs reserved for the "golden years" of St. Paul's senior citizens are rocking less and less these days. Thanks to Operation THree-Score, the rocking chairs are being idled by parties, card games, craft and hobby classes, dancing and singing and other activities designed to give senior citizens in the Greater St. Paul area a new lease on life. Although St. Paul has more than 70 senior...
Dates: February 19, 1967

"An injured woman", circa 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: 014.01.21.2d
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: An injured woman is comforted adter being thrown out of a car after a collision at Central Avenue and Dale Street at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. She is Lullu M. Howland, 70 of 514 Fuller Ave., who was a passenger in a car driven by Jefferson D. Nash, Jr., 26, of 725 Kingston St. The car collided with one driven by Douglas L. Alexander, 21, of 1242 Queen Ave N., Minneapolis. Mrs. Howland was taken to Miller Hospital with back...
Dates: circa 1967

Three people in HQB gym, circa 1960

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: 014.01.22.1
Scope and Contents

Black and white print depicts three adults, 2 women and one man, standing alongside a table in HQB auditorium. On the table are various knick-knacks and antiques.

Dates: circa 1960

"Golden Agers Won't Let Director Get Old". St. Paul Pioneer Press., March 1969

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22, 32
Identifier: 014.01.22.2
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Mrs. Patton was conducting a handicraft class at Phyllis Wheatley House 20 years ago when she was asked to head the Golden Agers. [...]THe Golden Agers, Mrs. Patton revealed, "are the oldest Senior Citizens group in the state of Minnesota." Organized in 1919 as "The oldest Boys and Girls of Yesterday" club, one of the rules for membership was St. Paul Residence of "at least 50...
Dates: March 1969

"They Ain't Dead Yet", February 2, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: 014.01.23.1
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: 'They Aint Dead Yet' set the theme for the Golden Agers of Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, 553 Aurora AVe., last week at a program observing Negro History Week. Ethelwyn Bailey, left, 554 Central Ave., gave a sprightly rendition of the title poem, "I Ain't Dead Yet," and Mrs. Virginia Greene, 421 Dayton Ave., right, performed a reading on Paul Lawrence Dunbar to a rapt audience. Besides craft exhibits, the...
Dates: February 2, 1972

Golden Agers photo album, Summer 1953

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: 014.01.23.2a
Scope and Contents

Black and white prints containing images of seniors sitting in wooden chairs, facing a body of water; seniors sitting in metal chairs next to a three-story house; a man named Bradley with a fishing rod, standing at the edge of the pier; two women in dresses walking on the shore of a lake; people standing in the backyard of a house; and two photos of a group od seniors standing in the grass at Como.

Dates: Summer 1953

Seniors in a park, June 1952

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: 014.01.23.2b
Scope and Contents

Black and white print depicts five seniors walking through trees in a park, all looking towards the camera.

Dates: June 1952