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Description
Scrapbook/photo album created by the San Jose Exchange Club to document the organization's activities from 1951-1953. Includes joint meeting at Rickey's (September 13, 1951); Sadie Hawkins "Dogpatch" Dance (L'il Abner characters, September 29, 1951); Family Picnic, c. 1952); letter to wives of new members re the women's auxiliary, "Exchangettes" (September 2, 1952); 1952 Convention at Catalina Island; Annual Bar-B-Que and Dance (1953); Dance of the Fall "Sin in the Yukon" (November 8, 1952); Traffic Safety program (February 1953); Model Airplane Meet (September 28, 1952). (Note that one of the attendees at the "Sin in the Yukon" dance appears to be dressed as a caricature of a Chinese man, in "yellowface.") One of 15 scrapbooks created by the Exchange Club of San Jose documenting the organization's community service projects in the 1950s.
Type
image
Identifier
66DD543B-CE18-4241-800D-343272362039 2021-13-9
Subject
Charitable organizations Nineteen fifties (LCSH) Scrapbooks (LCSH) Men Community service Meetings Dance parties Costumes Picnics Families Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) Bathing suits Fishing Straw hats Leis Bars Alcoholic beverages Fashion (LCSH) Women Caricatures Chinese (LCSH) Racism Mining camps Plaid Traffic safety Accordions Peyser, Jefferson
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