Women's Clubs Collection, 1812-1995
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Women's Clubs Collection
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Scope and Contents of the Collection Six members of the Birdwoman Club, an organization for women pilots and students, undated This is a collection of small files on various women's clubs in the United States, primarily in New England. The collection dates from 1812 to the present and includes charitable, literary, political, social and religious clubs. Some of those represented are the Concord Female Charitable Society (1812-1912), Mother's Study Club (Cambridge), the Home Study Club (Ashland, Mass.), Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, DC), Worcester Woman's Club, and the Woman's Baptist Social Union (Boston). There is also a small amount of material on African American club women Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Women's ERA Club of Boston) and Julia Davis (Saint Louis City Association of Colored Women's Clubs). Types of materials include programs, yearbooks, calendars, by-laws, fliers, newsletters, histories, articles, books, pamphlets, and other published materials. There are also books, articles and pamphlets on the history of women's club movement, individual clubs and clubwomen. These include The Mother of Clubs: Caroline M. Seymour Severance, ed. Ella Giles Ruddy; and Reminiscences of the Springfield Women's Club, 1884-1924, by Carrie Niles Whitcomb.
Women--Societies and clubs--United States--History--Sources
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Clubs--United States--History--Sources
Women--New England--History--Sources
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The Afternoon Club, Gardner, Mass.: publications, 1906-07, 1910-11
American Women's Clubs: articles, pamphlet, 1899-1975
Birdwoman Club: photograph, n.d.
The Cabot Club, Middleboro, Mass.: Calendar, 1909-10
Chautauqua-by-the-Sea for Eastern New England, 30th Annual Session: publications, 1910
Concord Female Charitable Society: publications, 1812-1912
The Cosmopolitan Club, Springfield, Mass (?): publications, 1910-12
District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, Washington, D.C.: Yearbook, 1902
Dover Women's Club, Dover, N.H.: publications, 1905-06
Edgewood Women's Club, Providence, R.I.: Yearbook, 1907-08
Enfield, The Woman's Club of, Enfield, Conn.: Calendar, 1900-01
Fortnightly Club, Bath, Maine: Yearbook, 1909-10
Friends in Council, Turners Falls, Mass.: publications, 1904-05
The Froebel Society, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Souvenir, 1898; Program, 1901-02, 1904-05
General Federation of Women's Clubs: clippings, pamphlets, and articles, 1889-1957
H.H. Club, Dayton, Ohio: publications, 1893-94, 1898-99
Hackensack, New Jersey, Women's Club of: Year Book, 1912-13
Home Study Club, Ashland, Mass.: publications, 1908-09
Hyde Park Current Events Club, Boston, Mass.: publications, 1907-08
Kosmos Club, Wakefield, Mass.: Yearbook, 1905-06
The Medford Women's Club, Medford, Mass.: publications, 1899-1900
Middlesex Women's Club, Lowell, Mass.: Year Book, 1898-1900
Milford Woman's Club, Milford, (State?): publications, 1905-06
Mother's Study Club, Cambridge, Mass.: publications, 1964
National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.: report, 1949-50
New Britain, Conn., Women's Club of: publications, 1905-06
New England Women's Club, Boston, Mass.: publications, 1899
New Hampshire Missionary Society, Female Club Institution: annual report, 1830-33
Ohio State Association of Colored Women's Clubs: newsletter, n.d.
Old and New, Malden, Mass.: publications, 1898-99, 1907-08
Oneonta, New York, The Woman's Club of: Yearbook, 1899-00
Quota Club: article, 1927
Rhode Island Women's Club, Providence, R.I.: Year Book, 1906
St. Johnsbury Women's Club, St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Year Book, 1909/1910
The Saint Louis City Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. (Julia Davis): correspondence, pamphlets, and articles, 1961-64
Sarah F. Doyle Club, Providence, R.I.: Year Book, 1906/1907, 1910/1911
Southern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: program, 1902
Springfield, Ohio, Woman's Club of: publications, 1902/1903, 1912/1913
Springfield Women's Club, Springfield, Mass.: publications, 1884-1889
Sunderland Woman's Club, Sunderland, Mass.: publications, 1905/1906
Thursday Club, Westborough, Mass.: publications, 1907/1908
Thursday Morning Club, Great Barrington, Mass.: publications, 1901/1902
Tuesday Afternoon Club, Easthampton, Mass.: publications, 1995
Upland Women's Club, Upland, CA: clippings, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, 1926-50
Waltham Woman's Club, Waltham, Mass.: publications, 1908-1909
Wellesley Hills Woman's Club, Wellesley Hills, Mass.: Program, 1910-11
West Concord Woman's Club, Concord Junction, Mass.: Year Book, 1910-11
Whitman Woman's Club, Whitman, Mass.: publications, 1909-11
Wisconsin, Woman's Club of, Milwaukee, Wis.: Calendar, 1909-10
Woburn Woman's Club, Woburn, Mass.: Year Book, 1907-08
Woman's Baptist Social Union, Boston, Mass.: Gentlemen's Night, 1904
Woman's Congressional Club: magazine 1909
Women's City Club of Boston
Women's City Club of New York: goals, 1983
Women's ERA Club of Boston (Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin): clippings, 1842-1924
Woman's Literary Club, Dayton, Ohio: publications, 1902-03
Woman's Literary Union, Androscoggin County, Maine: publications, 1909-10
Woman's National Democratic Club, Washington, D.C., 1950, 1951 (By-Laws)
Woman's National Farm and Garden Assoc., New York Division, By Laws, 1948
Worcester Woman's Club, Worcester, Mass.: Year Book, 1895/1896, 1909-10
Women's City Club of Boston: book, pamphlets, 1926-30
Yearbook of Women's Clubhouses. Published by the Woman's Journal, 1929-30
General
Winslow, Helen M. Literature via the Woman's Club, The Critic, March 1904
Literary Club Women, The Critic, April 1904
The Story of the Woman's Club Movement, New England Magazine, July 1908
BOOKS ON SHELF
The Mother of Clubs: Caroline M. Seymour Severance, An Estimate and An Appreciation, edited by Ella Giles Ruddy (1906)
Reminiscences of the Springfield Woman's Club, 1884-1924 by Carrie Niles Whitcomb