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Photograph shows a group of campaign workers from Washburn School. Most of the front row hold cards in their hands. On verso: "Campaign Workers from Washburn school". Mrs. Arthur (Jessica) Washburn who operated Washburn preparatory school was part of a cadre of women recruited to help with the $100,000 building fund drive. On June 2, 1914, the Y.W.C.A. of San Jose started their 10 day building campaign with a goal to raise $100,000. They succeeded and raised $105,310 which they used to build a three story building on Second and San Antonio streets in San Jose, California. From: Smith, p. 24-29. 1914-06 Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; 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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