A photograph album labeled as Album "#1" was taken apart, with photographs removed from the adhesive pages of the album and retained in folders according to their original page numbers. While DeCrow's original designations of "family and friends" and "professional" were retained, photographs within these designations are organized by size and format.
NORTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCENE PROFESSIONAL
The designations DeCrow herself had given to various groups of photographs are blurred between "family and friends" and "professional." Gatherings for local NOW meetings included many of DeCrow's friends and were sorted under "friends" even though her involvement in NOW could be considered a professional one. She often said that as her parents' first child, every minute of her childhood was documented. The majority of photographs of DeCrow's early life are held in scrapbooks. The photographs in the collection depict DeCrow from childhood and family pictures to professional portrait photographs, but most are casual snapshots. Materials include meeting minutes and official memoranda, conference programs, notes on various NOW-related actions and issues, files on other presidents and correspondence. These document DeCrow's efforts with four other female lawyers to integrate women into Onondaga County Bar Association leadership and to protest the OCBA's University Club meeting location, which did not admit women at that time.Īs a member of NOW since 1967, DeCrow's records and papers relating to NOW are numerous and comprise their own series.
NORTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCENE SERIES
A highlight of this series are the materials relating to the Onondaga Five and University Club. Files for committee membership, events and conventions are included. Much correspondence exists elsewhere within various subject files, and no attempt was made to file material from the general correspondence files in this series into other existing named or subject files.ĭeCrow was a member of many legal associations, including the Central New York Women's Bar Association (CNYWBA), New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), Onondaga County Bar Association (OCBA), and the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY).
For preservation purposes, a brittle scrapbook's contents were removed and foldered, and can be found in this series as "Scrapbook (#5)." General correspondence files are held within this series, with noteworthy correspondents given their own folder titles. Biographical materials include correspondence, childhood papers and keepsakes, diaries, calendars, family papers (including those for DeCrow's mother, Juliette Lipschultz), clippings, and personal financial and medical records.
Robert Seidenberg, speeches and debates, general subject files, writings, audiovisual materials, and awards and other artifacts. The Karen DeCrow papers encompass biographical materials, files from legal organizations and NOW, photographs, files relating to the work of colleague Dr. The Karen DeCrow collection fills 236 boxes and spans the years 1920-2014.
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