AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS MILE HIGH CHAPTER RECORDS

Business conducted by the Mile High Chapter is recorded in the collection of files and scrapbooks. The content represents both the administrative and the public side of the Denver based humanitarian institution. A series of Junior Red Cross scrapbooks represent international junior members from Greece, Peru, and Sweden during the 1960s. Newspaper clippings, files pertaining to volunteers, recognition awards, correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, and reports cover the national and local phases of work in the Mile High Chapter from the year 1918 to 1985. Black and white photographs of events and entertainers are also here.

The series includes letters addressed within the Mile High Chapter and other major chapters around the country pertaining to official business. The Chapter meetings are documented by programs, newsletters, meeting minutes, and notes. One file includes a copy of song lyrics composed for the organization by Irving Berlin.

The Mile High Chapter published a newsletter entitled Denver Chapter News and kept very thorough scrapbooks of local newspaper clippings. The series contains these materials along with similar national and international publications, which chronicle the events and issues within the Red Cross from WWI to the late 1970s. An extensive scrapbook collection of first day covers, stamps and seals represents virtually every country involved in the organization throughout the years of 1960-1979.

Mile High Chapter volunteers were frequently awarded for their outstanding service with the posting of a service honor roll. Materials included in the series: the names of volunteers who were awarded this special honor throughout the years, their monthly and annual service reports, and other official documents recording the daily activities of a typical chapter volunteer.

Newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters, and other publicity materials are compiled here in 39 oversized scrapbooks, which present a near complete history of the chapter ranging from the years 1918 to 1981. A series of International Junior Red Cross scrapbooks record a global dialogue maintained by junior members during the 1960s.

Black and white photographs of volunteers, entertainers, aid recipients and others. Some are identified with names and dates, many have photographers name stamped on back. Some appear to be from World War II era.