Guide to the Ithaca Woman's Club Records,
1897-1963

Collection Number: 2743

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
B. Shepherd
Date completed:
July 1967
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, February 2011

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ithaca Woman's Club records, 1897-1963.
Collection Number:
2743
Creator:
Ithaca Woman's Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Quantity:
.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscript volumes, receipts, programs, historical summaries, news clippings, and a scrapbook.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records include three manuscript volumes containing constitution, by-laws, list of charter members; treasurers' records (1897-1909); and minutes of the Home Economic Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club (1902). Also miscellaneous items including receipts, programs, historical summaries, news clippings. One scrapbook containing a history of the club, lists of charter and early members, photographs of club presidents and copies of presidents' speeches and club brochures (1897-1949).
Language:
Collection material in English


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records include three manuscript volumes containing constitution, by-laws, list of charter members; treasurers' records (1897-1909); and minutes of the Home Economic Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club (1902). Also miscellaneous items including receipts, programs, historical summaries, news clippings. One scrapbook containing a history of the club, lists of charter and early members, photographs of club presidents and copies of presidents' speeches and club brochures (1897-1949).

SUBJECTS

Names:
Ithaca Woman's Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Ithaca Woman's Club (Ithaca, N.Y.) Home Economic Section.

Subjects:
Home economics.
Women--Ithaca (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.

Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Tompkins County (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Form and Genre Terms:
Clippings.
Minutes.
Scrapbooks.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ithaca Woman's Club records, #2743. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Small manuscript volume of Constitution and By-Laws, also contains list of charter members. (This volume has the following inscription: "This is to record that this constitution is in my father's handwriting" (signed) Howard Wait Riley, June 5, 1967). This volume also contains the Revised Constitution of June 1, 1903.
Box 1
Small manuscript volume - Treasurer's Book, 1897-1909.
Box 1
Minute book of the Home Economic Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club, 1902.
Box 1
This book consists of typed and mimeographed copies of minutes of meetings, outlines of talks given by various people on different topics such as:
  • Development of the Home
  • Books and Pictures in the Home
  • Artistic Homes
  • Some Advantages of Vegetarianism (etc.)
People mentioned as giving talks:
  • Martha Van Rensselaer
  • Mrs. Effie D. Morse
  • Mrs. John Gifford
  • Professor Carpenter
  • Dr. Wilder
  • Prof. V.A. Moore
  • Mrs. M.V. Slingerland
2 page handwritten information about Mrs. Louisa L. Riley, organizer of the Ithaca Woman's Club in 1895.
Box 1 Folder 1
Receipted bill for $15.00 for programs from Atkinson & Mitchell, 1907.
Box 1 Folder 1
Receipt from New York State Federation of Women's Clubs for dues, 1908-1909.
Box 1 Folder 1
Receipt from Western New York Federation of Women's Clubs, 1909.
Box 1 Folder 1
Ithaca Woman's Club, Twentieth Anniversary Dinner program, 1914.
Box 1 Folder 1
Constitution and By-Laws, Ithaca Woman's Club, revised 1924.
Box 1 Folder 1
Note about the gavel presented to the Club by Mrs. E.A. Denton in 1931.
Box 1 Folder 1
Poem by Mary M. Denton, written originally for the Woman's Club Conservation Dinner, Apr. 29, 1918, seven months before the Armistice was signed. Repeated at the fortieth anniversary, Dec. 2, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 1
10 pages (typed), "A History of the Woman's Club," written for the Fortieth Anniversary Banquet, Dec. 2, 1935, Mary M. Denton.
Box 1 Folder 1
4 pages (carbon typescript), about the Woman's Club, written for the Fortieth Anniversary, Dec. 2, 1935, by (Mrs.) G.D. Hopkins.
Box 1 Folder 1
News clipping from New York Times, 1939, regarding the founding of the Woman's Club of Orange, New Jersey, at Mrs. Louisa L. Riley's home in 1872.
Box 1 Folder 1
4 page carbon typescript, "History of the Ithaca Woman's Club," written by Ada E. Hasbrouck, a charter member. For the Fortieth Anniversary in 1940. Contains list of Charter and Earliest Members, so far as known.
Box 1 Folder 1
Letter, May 9, 1945, to "Dear Maude" from Alice M (? - née Myers?).
Box 1 Folder 1
Resolutions (carbon typescript) adopted at Club meeting, Apr. 1 or Apr. 8, 1963.
Box 1 Folder 1
1915-1916
IWC Constitution
Box 1
Large scrapbook compiled by Mrs. A.E.M. Hasbrouck and presented to the Ithaca Woman's Club in 1928. Contains typed history of the Club, list of Charter and Earliest Members for as far as was known at that date, photographs of:
Box 1
  • Mrs. Hasbrouck
  • Mrs. Charles Crandall
  • Miss Charity Smith
  • Mrs. Louisa Riley (2) and her home on University Avenue
  • The Lewis Home, 444 N. Aurora St. (where Club was organized)
Later photographs include:
  • Mrs. Jamie Messenger
  • Juanita B. Bates
  • Mrs. J.A. Winans
  • Lelle Rhodes Mangang
  • Mary M. Denton
  • Mrs. Sidney L. Howell
  • Sarah L. Osborn
  • Viola B. Lent
  • Maude Coleman Walker
  • Margaret L. Head
  • Mrs. Thomas J. Parker
  • Alice D. Smiley
  • Anna Ball Cary (Mrs. Elmer E.)
  • Gratia Mungle
  • Isabel B. Doyle
  • Mrs. Alfred H. Butwell
  • Mrs. David Perry
  • Minnie W. Muenscher
  • Veta A. Butterworth
  • Mrs. A.L. Winsor
  • and groups.
(All the foregoing were presidents.)
This scrapbook also contains copies of the presidents' speeches and brochures of the club through various years. The first program is dated 1896-1897 and series runs through to 1948-1949.
Two negatives of the group pictures in Scrapbook.
Box 1 Folder 1
1915-1925
"New Crusader" Yearbooks + Journal Writeups
Box 2 Folder 1
03/1909 - 03/1914
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 2
04/1914-03/1921
Secretary's Report of Meetings of Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 3
10/1921-05/1932
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club. Note: Minutes from Oct 3 1921 to Sept 1942 were burnt when Secretary left town (with approval of President)
Box 2 Folder 4
09/1921-12/1947
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 5
01/1948-06/1952
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 6
05/1952-02/1958
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 7
02/1958-04/1964
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 8
05/1964-12/1970
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 9
01/1971-10/1976
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 10
11/1976-12/1985
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 11
12/1984-10/1996
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 12
11/1996-06/2010
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
Box 2 Folder 13
1985-2010
Member Lists in annual booklets
Box 3 Folder 1
1915-1985
Constitution and bylaws in annual booklets
Box 3 Folder 2
Card catalogue of resigned members, deceased in back
Box 3 Folder 3
Card catalogue of active/current members
Box 3 Folder 4
Card catalogue of former, life & deceased members
Box 3 Folder 5
1935-1980
Social Chairman's Records
Box 3 Folder 6
1949-1973
Minutes for 5th Household Arts Group of Women's Club
Box 3 Folder 7
1967-1979
Treasurer’s Reports Household Arts
Box 3 Folder 8
1947-1968
Second Division Household Arts Minutes + Old Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 9
1911-1912
Corresponding Secretary cash records notebook
Box 3 Folder 10
1956-1961
First Literature Department Notebook
Box 3 Folder 11
1966-1971
Treasure Report
Box 3 Folder 12
1957-1981
Antique Study Group Programs
Box 3 Folder 13
1978-1994
Second Drama Division Annual Report
Box 3 Folder 14
1978-1992
Second Literature Department Annual Program
Box 3 Folder 15
1963-1966
Second Literature Department Notebook
Box 3 Folder 16
1983-1991
Second Literature Department Programs + Notebook
Box 3 Folder 17
1938-1946
Second Literature Department Notebook
Box 4 Folder 1
1949-1970
Antique Study Group Minutes and Attendance Records
Box 4 Folder 2
1983-1997
Household Arts Group
Box 4 Folder 3
1977
Chairman of Committees Bylaws
Box 4 Folder 4
1969-1979
Committee Reports
Box 4 Folder 5
1964-1966
Community Improvement Project
Box 4 Folder 6
1950-1956
First Literature Department Meeting Book
Box 4 Folder 7
1946-1951
Secretary-Treasurer's Book of the Second Division of Household Arts
Box 4 Folder 8
1976-1986
First Literature Group Treasury Book
Box 4 Folder 9
1963-1976
Literature Department Book
Box 4 Folder 10
1997-1999
Women's Community Building Treasurer's Reports
Box 4 Folder 11
1998-2000
Community Improvement Program Report
Box 4 Folder 12
1962-1972
Ithaca Women’s Club Receipts Book
Box 4 Folder 13
1972-1989
Ithaca Women's Club Receipts Book
Box 4 Folder 14
1989-1990
Income and Expenses Ledger
Box 4 Folder 15
1968-2005
Awards and Memoranda I
Box 4 Folder 16
1968-2005
Awards and Memoranda II
Box 4 Folder 17
1980-1990
Second Drama Division Notebook
Box 4 Folder 18
1957-2009
In Remembrance Book
Box 4 Folder 19
1961-1981
Secretary Book
Box 4 Folder 20
1921
Parliamentary Practice Book
Box 4 Folder 21
Burgess Excerpts
Box 4 Folder 22
1925-1946
Scrapbook
Box 5
1946-1962
Scrapbook
Box 5
1966-1969
Scrapbook
Box 5