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Biographical Note
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Related Material
Administrative Information
Note to the Researcher
Description of Series
Record of Pictures, Senior Citizen Month Collection
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Anna C. Leahy Papers:
A Guide
Anna C. Leahy, a retired Fort Worth high school teacher, was the director of the program for Senior Citizens Month with Senior Citizens of America in Washington, D.C. It was through her efforts that May was declared Senior Citizens Month nationwide. Leahy was named Fort Worth senior citizen of the year in 1972.
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Correspondence, reports, proclamations, photographs, clippings, newsletters, booklets, commemorative stamp, and articles. Includes letters and proclamations from presidents, governors, mayors, and legislators; a history of the nationwide development of Senior Citizens Month by Leahy; and records from Leahy’s service with Senior Citizens of America, 1956-1963.
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For the most part, the collection was left in its original order. It is arranged by document-subject type. Material within each document type is arranged in reverse chronological order. |
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Proclamations by governors are in alphabetical order by state. They were part of the material sent to President Kennedy and his committee for study before they issued the nationwide proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month (1963). |
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Access
Open for research.
Literary Rights Statement
Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.
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These materials are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. |
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Persons |
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Leahy, Anna C., 1888-1977--Archives. |
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Organizations |
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Senior Citizens of America. |
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Subjects |
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Senior Citizens of America--Records and correspondence. |
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Women--Texas--Fort Worth--Archives. |
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Older people--United States--Societies and clubs. |
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Alternate Titles |
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Historical Manuscripts Collection |
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The UT Arlington Oral History Collection contains an interview with Leahy, (call number HD8083.T4). |
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Gift of Anna C. Leahy, May 1971 and November 1972.
Anna C. Leahy Papers, AR76, Box Number, Folder Number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library.
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Folder 76-2-4 contains a calendar of correspondence for the years 1953-1957.
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Correspondence 1975-1964 |
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Correspondence 1963 |
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Correspondence Dec., 1962 - April, 1962 |
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Correspondence Mar., 1962 - May, 1961 |
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Correspondence April, 1961 - Jan., 1961 |
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Correspondence 1960 |
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Correspondence 1959 |
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Correspondence 1958-1956; 1954 |
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Calendar of Correspondence 1963-1957 |
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Proclamations by governors 1963 |
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Proclamations by governors 1962 |
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Proclamations by governors 1961. |
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Proclamations by governors 1960. |
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Proclamations by governors 1959. |
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Proclamations by governors 1958. |
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Proclamations by governors 1957. |
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Proclamations by Mayors 1961-1958, 1982. |
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Reports on Nationwide Senior Citizens' Month 1972; 1963-1962; 1960; 1958. |
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Report, February, 1963 mounted in OS83 Article 30 |
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Publicity for Senior Citizens' Month 1968-1966. |
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Articles and clippings, Senior Citizens 1972-1959. |
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Display Material - Articles 1 to 8 1963-1971. |
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| OS80 |
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Display Material - Articles 9 to 16 1954-1971. |
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| OS81 |
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Display Material - Articles 17 to 20 undated. |
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| OS82 |
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Display Material - Articles 21 to 26 1959-1969. |
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Early photo of Anna C. Leahy and miscellaneous. Description tags and photographs of previous displays are in OS82. |
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Display Material - Articles 27 to 33 1954-1967. |
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Proclamations by governors, a report by Anna C. Leahy, printed material. |
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Display Material - Photographs of Anna C. Leahy, letters from governors and senators to Anna C. Leahy 1961-1966. |
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Record of Pictures, Senior Citizen Month Collection |
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Picture of John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by the President of the United States (Kennedy). Signed, with seal (copy) |
1963 |
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Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, announces the President's decision to proclaim SCM |
1963 |
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President Kennedy on April 18, 1963 announced the signing of the Proclamation naming the month of May as Senior Citizens' Month |
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Picture of Lyndon Baines Johnson |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by President Johnson |
1966 |
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Picture of Richard M. Nixon |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by President Nixon |
1971 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by R. M. Stovall, Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas |
1971 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by President Kennedy (copy) |
1971 |
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A Letter by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (concerning Senior Citizens) |
1959 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia |
1959 |
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A Picture of Governor Price Daniel of Texas signing the Proclamation (Senior Citizens Month) in 1961 |
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A Picture of Governor Price Daniel of Texas signing the Proclamation, (Senior Citizens Month) |
1962 |
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A Picture of Willard Barr, who assisted with the first Senior Citizens' week program in Texas |
1954 |
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A Picture of M. M. McKnight, Mayor Pro Tem of Fort Worth, Texas, holding the first Proclamation of city-wide Senior Citizens' Week in Fort Worth, Texas |
1954 |
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A Picture of Eula F. Hunter, pioneer worker in the Senior Citizen month program |
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A Picture of Clara W. Harvey, pioneer worker in the Senior Citizen Month program |
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A Picture of Evelyn Bryant, pioneer worker in the Senior Citizen Month program |
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A Picture of Anna C. Leahy, pioneer worker in the Senior Citizen Month program. Two pictures at age 19 |
circa 1963 |
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Grandma Moses Commemorative Stamp, first day of issue |
May 1, 1969 |
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Grandma Moses Commemorative Stamp Ceremony |
May 1, 1969 |
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Congressional Record, August 6, 1959, Senior Citizens Month, Jacob K. Javits of New York, in the Senate of the United States |
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Congressional Record - Senate, September 18, 1961, Joint resolution by Senators Keating, Hart and Javits |
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Senior Citizens Month - An American Project (article) |
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A brief statement of the history of Senior Citizens' Month |
(undated - sometime after 1969) |
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A Proclamation, copy of the original, signed by M. M. McKnight, Mayor Pro Tem of Fort Worth |
February, 1954 |
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A Picture of Senator Thomas C. Desmond, pioneer Senior Citizen Month worker in New York State |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia |
1963 |
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A Report on Nationwide Senior Citizens' Month And Related Activities |
Feb. 1963 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by Governor Paul J. Fannin - Arizona |
1960 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by Governor J. Millard Tawes, Maryland |
1960 |
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A Proclamation of Senior Citizens' Month by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller New York |
1963 |
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