Description

Negative shows a group of men, women, and children who are participants in the 1986 y-Walk. Most of them are in the background, milling around a building and many of them are holding balloons. There is a gentleman who appears to be African American in the foreground with street clothes including a sweater vest and a cap. He is strolling across the buildings parking lot with his hands in his pockets. There is a piece of what may be the finish line banner above him and the readable words on the banner are: "Avia. High performance athletic footwear."On envelope "1986 Y-Walk." On large envelope holding smaller envelope used to hold the negatives: "Name: Brock, Trish. Date: 12/2-. Phone: 295-4011. "Executive Director Faith Rein (the top job had been renamed again) and President Sarah Janigian launched two annual events that heaped public attention on the association: the Y-Walk downtown in 1984, in which volunteers enlisted sponsors to raise money for YWCA programs; and TWIN, Tribute to Women and Industry, in 1985." From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.871986Scanned with Epson Perfection V700 photo; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3

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San José State University, Special Collections and Archives

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California Digital Library