Ithaca Womans Club records, 1897-1963.
Collection Number: 2743
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ithaca Womans Club records, 1897-1963.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2743
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).
Creator:
Ithaca Woman's Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
4.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ithaca Woman's Club records, #2743. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Ithaca Woman's Club (Ithaca, N.Y.). Home Economic Section
Places:
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Women -- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Societies and clubs.
Home economics.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Minutes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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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:
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1928 | |
Scope and Contents
Later photographs include:
(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.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
"New Crusader" Yearbooks + Journal Writeups
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1915-1925 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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03/1909 - 03/1914 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Secretary's Report of Meetings of Ithaca Women's Club
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04/1914-03/1921 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
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)
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10/1921-05/1932 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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09/1921-12/1947 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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01/1948-06/1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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05/1952-02/1958 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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02/1958-04/1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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05/1964-12/1970 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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01/1971-10/1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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11/1976-12/1985 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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12/1984-10/1996 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Meeting Minutes Ithaca Women's Club
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11/1996-06/2010 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Member Lists in annual booklets
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1985-2010 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Constitution and bylaws in annual booklets
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1915-1985 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Card catalogue of resigned members, deceased in back
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Card catalogue of active/current members
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Card catalogue of former, life and deceased members
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Social Chairman's Records
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1935-1980 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Minutes for 5th Household Arts Group of Women's Club
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1949-1973 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Treasurer?s Reports Household Arts
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1967-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Second Division Household Arts Minutes + Old Correspondence
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1947-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Corresponding Secretary cash records notebook
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1911-1912 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
First Literature Department Notebook
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1956-1961 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Treasure Report
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1966-1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Antique Study Group Programs
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1957-1981 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Second Drama Division Annual Report
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1978-1994 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Second Literature Department Annual Program
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1978-1992 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Second Literature Department Notebook
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1963-1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Second Literature Department Programs + Notebook
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1983-1991 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Second Literature Department Notebook
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1938-1946 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Antique Study Group Minutes and Attendance Records
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1949-1970 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Household Arts Group
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1983-1997 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Chairman of Committees Bylaws
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1977 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Committee Reports
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1969-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Community Improvement Project
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1964-1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
First Literature Department Meeting Book
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1950-1956 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Secretary-Treasurer's Book of the Second Division of Household Arts
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1946-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
First Literature Group Treasury Book
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1976-1986 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Literature Department Book
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1963-1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Women's Community Building Treasurer's Reports
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1997-1999 |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Community Improvement Program Report
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1998-2000 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Ithaca Women?s Club Receipts Book
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1962-1972 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Ithaca Women's Club Receipts Book
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1972-1989 |
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Income and Expenses Ledger
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1989-1990 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Awards and Memoranda I
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1968-2005 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Awards and Memoranda II
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1968-2005 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Second Drama Division Notebook
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1980-1990 |
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
In Remembrance Book
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1957-2009 |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Secretary Book
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1961-1981 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Parliamentary Practice Book
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1921 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Burgess Excerpts
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Box 5 |
Scrapbook
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1925-1946 | |
Box 5 |
Scrapbook
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1946-1962 | |
Box 5 |
Scrapbook
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1966-1969 | |
Box 5 |
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
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Box 5 |
Small manuscript volume - Treasurer's Book
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1897-1909 | |
Box 5 |
IWC Constitution
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1915-1916 | |
Box 5 |
Minute book of the Home Economic Section of the Ithaca Woman's Club
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1902 | |
Scope and Contents
This book consists of typed and mimeographed copies of minutes of meetings, outlines
of talks given by various people on different topics such as:
People mentioned as giving talks:
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Two page handwritten information about Mrs. Louisa L. Riley, organizer of the Ithaca
Woman's Club in 1895
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Receipted bill for $15.00 for programs from Atkinson and Mitchell
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1907 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Receipt from New York State Federation of Women's Clubs for dues
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1908-1909 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Receipt from Western New York Federation of Women's Clubs
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1909 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Ithaca Woman's Club, Twentieth Anniversary Dinner program
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1914 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Constitution and By-Laws, Ithaca Woman's Club, revised
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1924 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Note about the gavel presented to the Club by Mrs. E.A. Denton
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1931 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Poem by Mary M. Denton, written originally for the Woman's Club Conservation Dinner,
1918-04-29, seven months before the Armistice was signed. Repeated at the fortieth
anniversary
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1918-04-29, 1935-12-2 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Ten pages (typed), "A History of the Woman's Club," written for the Fortieth Anniversary
Banquet, Mary M. Denton
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1935-12-02 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Four pages (carbon typescript), about the Woman's Club, written for the Fortieth Anniversary,
by (Mrs.) G.D. Hopkins.
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1935-12-02 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
News clipping from New York Times, regarding the founding of the Woman's Club of Orange, New Jersey, at Mrs. Louisa
L. Riley's home in 1872
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1939 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Four page carbon typescript, "History of the Ithaca Woman's Club," written by Ada
E. Hasbrouck, a charter member. For the Fortieth Anniversary in . Contains list of
Charter and Earliest Members, so far as known
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1940 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Letter to "Dear Maude" from Alice M (?- née Myers?)
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1945-05-09 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Resolutions (carbon typescript) adopted at Club meeting
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1963-04-01 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Two negatives of the group pictures in Scrapbook
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