Third Triennial Conference: manuscript report, scrapbook, and printed program.
Scrapbook
[Roosevelt, Eleanor]. Associated Country Women of the World. Proceedings of the Third Triennial Conference. Held at Washington May 31 – June 11, 1936. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1937.
8vo.; dark green cloth; spine stamped in gilt. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition of the proceedings of the first conference of the ACWW held in the United States; colophon notes that this is a Department of State publication 1092, Conference Series 34; with frontispiece photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt, captioned “Honorary Chairman of the Conference.”
The Proceedings is printed in five parts; the Introduction notes the history and aims of the ACWW, its constitution, organization of the conference, program of events, officers, related organizations and delegates; Part 2 is a list of business sessions, which took place over nine meetings during the conference, and includes a list of resolutions passed and new officers elected during the conference; Part 3 features minutes from various discussions groups, which included “Art in Rural Life,” “Country Women and the Economic Problem,” “Country’s Women’s Use of Rural Resources,” and reports relating to health., education, electricity, music, marketing and unemployment; Part 4 transcribes addresses delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carrie Chapman Catt, among others; and Part 5 prints reports given by ACWW officers, and by delegates from the seventeen participating countries: the United States, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, England, Estonia, Germany, India, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nyasaland, Scotland, South Africa and Switzerland.
Boxed together with:
Lambden, Mabel. Scrapbook from Triennial Conference. Ca. 1937.
4to.; dark green leather; string-tied; color illustration affixed to upper panel; stamped in gilt; covers soiled; edgeworn; fragile.
This scrapbook was assembled by a participant at the conference named Mabel Lambden, from Delaware. She provides related printed matter as well as a first hand account of Roosevelt’s presence at the conference.
Laid-in at the beginning of the scrapbook is a printed program from the conference; a 17 page diary entry recapitulating Lambden’s experience at the conference, and a typed sheet, titled, “Songs for the Associated Country Women of the World,” printing “Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, “Netherlands – Prayer of Thanksgiving,” “Billy Boy,” “God Our Help in Ages Past,” “Home on the Range, and “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.”
Lambden’s diary notes, “There were to be selected thirty women to represent Delaware at this Conference [ ] from each county…We all boarded a bus driven by W.O. Dawson of Camden. We made difference stops up the state to pick up the women.”
During Roosevelt’s address to the delegates, Lambden records, “After welcoming all the A.C.W.W. Mrs. Roosevelt invited all delegates Rep. to the White House for a garden party at 3:30 P.M. She also asked that some group to sing a song in front of the White House, she also made the remark that Franklin would enjoy so much to hear them sing.” Lambden describes this party:
It was a beautiful sight to see all the women in such pretty dresses. There were between 6,000 & 7000 women to attend the party…As Pres. and Mrs. Roosevelt approach the porch, the group from Indiana assembled in front of the porch & sang. Happy Days are Here Again & Home on the Range. The Pres. address was very interesting he also made the remark he would of like to spend the afternoon with the women, but business would not permit him. Mrs. Roosevelt strolled around the lawn & shook hands with the women. I also had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Roosevelt she was accompanied by two Secret Service men.
Affixed to the following nine pages are newspaper clippings and photographs from the conference.
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