Series 10: Photographs, Negatives, and Slides, 1910-2000, inclusive; 1980-1995, bulk
Extent
Scope and Contents
Series 10 consists of two sub-series housed in three manuscript boxes, one oversize box, one photo box, and one slide box.
Sub-series 1, Exhibition Photographs, contains approximately forty enlarged and mounted photographs depicting significant League events and service projects, dating between 1940 and 1989. These photographs were exhibited at an unknown League event and are approximately 5" by 7" and 8" by 10" in size (not including matting or mounting board).
Sub-series 2, Members, Events, and Service Projects, consists of photographs, negatives, and slides of League members, events, and service projects. There are approximately sixty negatives and negative strips, twenty-five loose 8" by 10" photographs, 650 loose photographs (mostly 4" by 6" size), and ninety-four slides.
Arrangement
Series 10 is divided into two sub-series.
Sub-series 1: Exhibition Photographs, 1940-1989, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series 10, sub-series 1, Exhibition Photographs, contains approximately forty enlarged and mounted photographs depicting significant League events and service projects, dating between 1940 and 1989. These photographs were exhibited at an unknown League event and are approximately 5" by 7" and 8" by 10" in size (not including matting or mounting board). There are two manuscript boxes and one oversize box. Notable items include photographs portraying award presentations to the League, including the Presidential Recognition Award in 1983, the Eleanor Roosevelt Community Service Award for the League's work with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), circa 1990s, and a Parenting Education Project grant presentation in 1984. There are also photographs of League fundraising events, including the Underground Society Bash at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, 1977, and Champagne Gala fundraiser in 1988.
Toy Workshop toy drive, circa 1970, inclusive
Parenting Education Project grant presentation, 1984, inclusive
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Neita Loy Blondeau Montague
Health and Safety Awareness Day at LIU, 1985, inclusive
Operation Breakfast, Fort Greene, 1971, inclusive
Senior Citizen Action Desk, 1978, inclusive
Presidential Recognition Award Presentation, 1983, inclusive
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Neita Loy Blondeau Montague accepting award. Also pictures Joseph Montieciolo, Regional Administrator of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Dr. Bernard Kilbourn, Regional Director of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Board of Directors, 1989, inclusive
Connie Reich with young hospital patient, circa 1960, inclusive
Committee to Celebrate Brooklyn Historical Society's 125th Anniversary, 1989, inclusive
Project Reach Youth, Park Slope, circa 1980, inclusive
Underground Society Bash fundraiser, 1977, inclusive
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Event located at New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.
Champagne Gala fundraiser, 1988, inclusive
Theatre Productions: "The Plain Princess", circa 1940, inclusive
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Sue Blum, Anne Moore, Nancy Pearsall, Narcissa Titman, Jeni Blair, Elinore Bachman
Women's Survival Space, child's poem, circa 1990, inclusive
Senior Citizens Radio Show, 1985, inclusive
Opening meeting, 1988, inclusive
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President Christine Nevin presiding over opening meeting
Gateway Gala, 1981, inclusive
"Professional Women in the 80's" Forum, 1982, inclusive
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Carol Jenkins, NBC-TV news anchor. Neita Loy Blondeau Montague.
"Celebrating 80 Years of Service" poster, 1990, inclusive
JLB Funds, Neonatal at Cumberland Medical Center, 1967, inclusive
Eleanore Roosevelt Community Service Award, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), circa 1990, inclusive
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Sarah Kennedy holding medal
Informational poster, Community Boards with JLB representatives, circa 1990, inclusive
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Presidential Recognition Award, Neita Blondeau, Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, New York City Self-Help Clearinghouse, Long Island College Hospital Associate Board
WNYE-TV Channel 25, circa 1980, inclusive
Mentoring, circa 1980, inclusive
Fundraiser, 1962, inclusive
Informational Poster, Court Appointed Special Advocates, circa 1990, inclusive
Sub-series 2: Members, Events, and Service Projects, 1900-2000, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series 10, sub-series 2, Members, Events, and Service Projects, consists of photographs, negatives, and slides of League members, events, and service projects. These are housed in one manuscript box, one photo box, and one slide box. This sub-series notably includes photographs of past League presidents and founding women, dating from the early 1900s to the 1990s, including a photograph of Harriet Barnes Pratt, League founder and president from 1911 to 1913. Enlarged prints show unidentified theatrical productions dating from 1930 to circa 1960s, with people in elaborate costumes. Other enlargements dating between 1910 and 1950 show women in fashionable clothing, furs, and hats, including one photograph depicting a fashion show in 1953, with women in previous decades' fashions. There are a large number of smaller prints representing Provisional classes, members at meetings and events, and notable service projects, such as Long Island College Hospital (LICH) Children's Story Hour, a Toy Workshop toy drive, Hug a Baby, Parenting Education Program, and projects at the Crown Heights Youth Collective. Smaller prints also depict fundraising events, such as the Hemisphere Ball in 1962, the League's 85th Anniversary Ball, and an unknown formal event at the Marriott Hotel, circa 1990s.
Past presidents and founding women (6 folders), circa 1910-1990, inclusive
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Alletta L. Dening Crane, Frances J. Douglass Kerby, Annie-Lee Duncan Kerst, Elinore Lincoln Bachman, Neita Loy Blondeau Montague, Nancy Boden Pearsall, Leonore Caldwell Woodcock, Gail Donovan, Ann Chalfant Ellis, Michele Brouillard Flynn, Mary Jane Harris, Harriette Heller, Natalie Stanton Kennedy, Dona Laughlin, Julie Dozier Nelson, Deirdre Colby Sato, Debra Smallwood, Marcia L. Smith, Mary Noyes Spelman, Helen Spontak, Joanne L. Steward Woodfin, Mrs. Hollis K. Thayer, Mrs. Oscar P. Schoenemann, Mrs. John M. Beers, Mrs. John H. Livingston, Mrs. William G. James, Mrs. Philip F. Mygatt, Harriet Barnes Pratt, E.B. Thayer McKee, Agnes Thompson Verrill, Virginia Mollenhauer Maynard, Emily Goetz, Mary Osborn Polak Oenslager, Esther Baldwin Bromley, Virginia Fuller Francis, Grace Love Blust, Jane Smith Bonynge, Janet Sweet Sanborn.
Scrapbook photographs, 1980s, inclusive
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Removed from poor condition scrapbook. Documents from same scrapbook are located in Series 9: Scrapbooks, file "Scrapbook materials." In-League Fundraiser Spring 1980, Claudia Benzenberg, Ginny Gleichman, Dwight Ellis, Susan Kilborn, Gail Grossman, Mary Lou Wells, Susan Skerritt, Claudia Barber, Kate Firth, Eileen Aird, John Wells, Lynn Rutan(?), Addie Rosen, John Gleason, Bryce Sanders, Chris McKay. AJL Annual Meeting, May 1983, Dallas, Texas. The Big D Ranch. Pat Vitacco, Marianne Decker, Christine McLaughlin, Laurel Whitaker, Susan Kilborn, Kay Desai at unknown event.
Theatrical productions, 1930-circa 1960s, inclusive
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Children's theater, Hansel & Gretel, 1930. Photo credit Jay Sharp. Various unidentified theatrical productions.
Events, members, service projects (4 folders), circa 1940s-2000, inclusive
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Virginia Lee Comer, Helen Creamer, Mrs. Newton D. Crane, photo credit Martin Candids. Children's hospital theatre marionette/puppet performance, circa 1960s, Mrs. Thomas Blankley, Mrs. Charles Stern, Mrs. O. Taft Nelson, Janie Cook, Donald Clark, Richard Jackson, Rhea Collins, photo credit Publicity Photographers. JLB Fashion Show 1953, Mrs. Richard Shaffer, Ann Winslow, Patricia Foote, Mrs. David Bush, Mrs. Paul Bonynge, Jr., depicting women's hats and fashion from 1910-1950. Ann Clausen, Claudia Barber. Holiday Gala 1990. Project Reach Youth. Long Island College Hospital (LICH) Children's Story Hour, 1988-1989. Hug A Baby, 1990. Parenting Education Program. Neita Loy Blondeau Montague and small plane, 1998. Brooklyn Bridge Centennial, 1983. JLB Dapper Dan, 1984. Julie Dozier Nelson. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) President Harvey Lichtenstein. Photo credits Deborah Gardner, Tom Callan, and Rob Kinmonth. Underground Society Bash, 1977 at New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. AJL Annual Conference, 1977-1978, Ann Ellis. Photo credit Cliff Kalick Photography. Provisional Bank Party, December 1978. Free Lunch Program. Selma Fink teaching sculpture to the blind at Industrial Home for the Blind. Provisionals at the Hemisphere Ball, 1962. F. Thayer, E. Flickinger, W. Lewis, Moore. Connie Reich with young hospital patient. Students studying, tutoring. Toy Workshop toy drive. Brooklyn Children's Museum.
Events, members, service projects (photo box), 1980s-2000s, inclusive
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League members circa 1980-2000. JL-NYSPAC conference, March 1982. Presidential Recap Awards, May 1983. Unknown events, 1980s-2000s. Scrapbook photos, 1982-1983 including AJLI Conference; July Board meeting at Ann Heilakka's; JLB Annual Meeting 1982; Opening meeting, September 1983; May Picnic; House Tour Day volunteers; Board dinner at Barbara Moore's, June 1982. Board training circa 1990s. Quilting story circa 1990s. Provisionals circa 1990s. Headshots circa 1990s, Michele Brouillard Flynn, Xanthe Effros Kaldis. Crown Heights Youth Collective, circa 1990s. Crown Heights Health Fair, circa 1990s. Ellen Chesler Lecture at Brooklyn Historical Society, circa 1990s. Unknown event at Marriott Hotel, circa 1990s. JLB Cruise, April 1992. Bates Youth Conference, 1992. Brooklyn Friends School, circa 1992. AJLI Annual Conference, 1993. Placement Fair, 1993. Sustainer Tea at Selma Fink's, 1993. JLB Fundraiser, 1993. Bates Youth Fest, 1994. Crown Heights Youth Collective book drive at Brooklyn Historical Society. 85th Anniversary Ball. Silent Witness March in New Jersey, 1995. Women's Survival Space and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), circa 1990-2000. JLB March for Breast Cancer, circa 1990-2000. Diads, circa 2000s.
Events and corresponding negatives, 1971-1989, inclusive
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Each black and white 5"x7" print is accompanied by an approx. 4"x5" negative. Photo credit Deborah Gardner. Operation Breakfast, Fort Greene, 1971; Opening JLB meeting, 1988; Health and Safety Awareness Day, LIU, 1985; Board members 1988-1989; Committee to Celebrate Brooklyn Historical Society's 125th Anniversary, 1989; Parenting Education Project grant presentation, 1984; Senior Citizen Action Desk, 1978; "Professional Women in the 80s" Forum, 1982.
Negatives, circa 1960s-2000s, inclusive
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Negative strips and 4"x5" negatives for Brooklyn Children's Museum circa 1990s, Parenting Education Project Grant Presentation 1984, AJLI conference circa 1990s, Placement Fair 1993, Ellen Chesler Lecture at Brooklyn Historical Society circa 1990s, Bates Youth Conference 1992, JLB Fundraiser 1993, Past Presidents 1911-circa 2000, unknown event at Marriott Hotel circa 1990s, "Plain Princess" theater production circa 1960s, Neita Blondeau accepting "Exemplary Community Service" award 1983, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) Children's Story Hour 1988, Judy Stutt and friends playing checkers circa 1990s, Connie Reich and patient circa 1960s, Toy Workshop toy drive circa 1970s, other unknown events circa 1980-1990. Four printed pages from negative strips, unknown event (possibly a holiday party) and unknown meeting.
"A Tribute to AJL's History" script, 1984, inclusive
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Accompanies "A Tribute to AJL's History" slide show, 77 slides, located in Series 10, sub-series 2, file "Educational and Event Slides."
Educational and event slides, 1984, circa 1980, inclusive
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Parenting Education slide show, fourteen slides. "A Tribute to AJL's History" slide show, May 1984, seventy-seven slides, script located in Series 10, Sub-Series 2, file "'A Tribute to AJL's History' script." Hot Breakfast and Landlord Program, circa 1970s, five slides.
