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

© 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).


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

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
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