Historical Background
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Women's Auxiliary, National Association of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors
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content: Women's Auxiliary, National Association of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919 - 2015
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1304, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: This series contains materials documenting the history and organizational structure of the Women's Auxiliary. Materials include its constitution, by-laws, meeting minutes, state and local charter books, lists of officers and committees, convention proceedings and programs, and NAPHCC history volumes, compiled primarily by presidents during their tenure.   

The state and local charter books are bound volumes that contain information about the issuance of charters to local auxiliaries. Included are the location, date, and the names of the national corresponding secretary and state president who issued the charter.  In some instances the entries are annotated and there are certificates of membership. The materials are arranged chronologically. 

The scrapbooks were compiled by Auxiliary presidents and detail the organizations work for a specific year.
Many of the scrapbooks include lists of presidents and other officers, biographical data for members, by-laws, directories, brochures, reports, minutes from annual conventions, committee guidelines, industry product literature such In-Sink-Erator and Delta Faucet who sponsored various aspects of the NAPHCC Annual Conventions), memorial service programs for deceased members, programs for annual conventions, press clippings, photographs, issues of PHCC Woman and the newsletters Pipeline,Times Bulletin, the Women's Auxiliary, and NAPHCC Auxiliary. The materials are arranged chronologically.  In some instances, the name of the president who compiled the history is included. 

Other materials in this series include subject files covering a range of topics such as award guidelines, proclamations, and the history of the auxiliary emblem pin. There are some examples of ribbons and pins distributed at annual conventions. The installation ceremony materials include a 1957 Let's Install Correctly Manual by Marguerite Grume, a registered parliamentarian in the National Association of Parliamentarians, and a nationally known instructor, lecturer on parliamentary law.