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Box 1

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Contains 243 Results:

"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

At My Home, 1952

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

Black and white print depicts four people in the backyard of a house, standing around a table laden with food.

Dates: 1952

Hawaiian Party, [No.1], June 1967

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

Color print depicts one woman wearing a lei with a grass skirt and another woman carrying a rolliflex camera and a lamp.

Dates: June 1967

Quilting Party, 1967

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

Color print depicts six women sitting around a table in HQB auditorium, all working on the same red and white quilt.

Dates: 1967

Hawaiian Party, [No.2], June 1967

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

Color print depicts two people in Hawaiian dress, dancing together on a checkered floor.

Dates: June 1967

Royal Party, circa 1967

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

Color print depicts three people, a man and two women, all seated at a table in a restaurant. A handwritten caption, written in blue ink, reads as follows:

Royal Party. Bradley--King. Abernathy--Queen.

Dates: circa 1967

Group of women, August 1962

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Identifier: 014.01.24.1a
Scope and Contents

Color print depicts nine women in dresses, standing on a gravel road.

Dates: August 1962