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Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Records, 1939-, Date acquired: 09/00/1988

 

Summary

Creator:
Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
Extent:
362.00 items
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Records, 1939- , including newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other records of the organization. Records cover history of the Council including Diocese changes and organizational changes of the Council as a part of the Mobile Diocese (to 1954), the Mobile-Birmingham Diocese (1955-1968), the St. Augustine Diocese (1969-1975), and the creation of the Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese in 1976.

Subjects include the National Council of Catholic Women, the Florida Council of Catholic Women, the International Year of the Woman (1976) and related DCCWs in other West Florida towns.

Many of the materials also cover the history of various Catholic churches and parishes, their priests, and activities in the community. Includes materials about Maria Von Trapp's appearance at the 1961 Mobile-Birmingham annual meeting, and a photograph of Mother Teresa taken at the 1976 meeting. Subjects include abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.

NOTES:

Photographs include state and national DCCW meetings, presenters of Burse, 1976-1988; 1st meeting of Pensacola-Tallahassee DEEW; Northwestern Deanery; First Cathedral Deanery meeting, 1986.

Scrapbooks of the organization include newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials. Earliest scrapbooks are in priority need of microfilming, with deterioration of pages, clippings, and presence of tape.

Acquisition information:
Diocesan Council, Mrs. John Geist and Mrs. Elaine S. Sheppard, September 1988
Processing information:

Cataloged 07/15/1991

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.

Terms of access:

Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.

Location of this collection:
University Archives and West Florida History Center
11000 University Pkwy
Pensacola
FL
32514
USA