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Negative shows a large crowd of men and women walking towards the starting line for the y-Walk in 1986. They are leaving from a parking lot and a few of the people are carrying balloons. There is one little girl visible in the crowd. On verso of duplicate photograph: ""They're off..." YWCA Walk 1986." On envelope 1986 Y-Walk. On the large envelope holding the smaller envelope used to hold the negatives: "Name: Brock, Trish. Date: 12/2-. Phone: 295-4011. "Executive Director Faith Rein (the top job had been renamed again) and President Sarah Janigian launched two annual events that heaped public attention on the association: the Y-Walk downtown in 1984, in which volunteers enlisted sponsors to raise money for YWCA programs; and TWIN, Tribute to Women and Industry, in 1985." From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.87. 1986 Scanned with Epson Perfection V700 photo; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
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