Manuscript/Mixed Material National Thrift Week in Washington, D.C., 1927.

Title

• National Thrift Week in Washington, D.C., 1927.

Created / Published

• 1927

Headings

• -  Young Men's Christian associations
• -  Saving and investment
• -  Child consumers
• -  Manuscripts

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  The folder, originally titled "Thrift Week, January 17-23, 1927," contains a mix of Washington Post newspaper clippings and letters sent to Mrs. Wiley by the Thrift Committee for the District of Columbia regarding her participation in Thrift Week as a representative of the Housekeepers Alliance. Documents include a "Report of 1927 Thrift Week in Washington, D.C." by C. E. Fleming, secretary; a fold-up poster, titled "Seven Days with a Purpose," outlining "The Ten Point Success Creed;" and a clipping from January 9, 1927, quoting Pastor Earl Wilfley: "Giving and spending is as much a part of the new thrift idea as is saving." Local sponsors of Thrift Week, in addition to the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A., the movement's mainstays, included the Young Men's Hebrew Association, the Jewish Community Center, the Cosmopolitan Club, the D.A.R., the Housekeepers Alliance, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Catholic Welfare Council, the National Confederation of Catholic Charities, the Rotary Club, the Twentieth Century Club, the Lions Club, the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, the Real Estate Board, and the Public Library. "Thrift Week, Jan. 17, 1927," a six-page typescript for children, with handwritten corrections and underlinings, narrates the biography of Benjamin Franklin and the significance of Thrift Week. Entire folder reproduced as facsimile page images: 26 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Container 336
• Folder: Thrift Week, Jan. 17-23, 1927

Source Collection

• Anna Kelton Wiley papers.

Repository

• Manuscript Division

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/amrlm.mss45682_05

Online Format

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