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Women -- Societies and clubs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

1900 Study Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS406
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of materials created by and about the 1900 Study Club. The bulk of the collection is club minutes and scrapbooks. Also included in the collections are yearbooks, correspondence, and programs.

Dates: 1903-1990

Annie Howard Parliamentary Study Club notebooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS379
Scope and Content

This collection contains two notebooks that contain minutes and some financial records pertaining to the club.

Dates: 1951-1959, undated

Atlanta Pioneer Women's Society collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS391
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence among the society's members, membership lists, biographies of some members, financial records, newspaper clippings, early recollections of Atlanta, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1909-1984, undated

Atlanta Woman's Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS353
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of records that provide details on the history of the club. Included in the collection are yearbooks, scrapbooks, pressbooks, newspaper clippings, and programs pertaining to the club's social and civic activities. Of special interest are materials that provide details on the historic Wimbish House.

Dates: 1895-1986, undated

Atlanta Women's Network records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS710
Scope and Contents This collection contains records documenting the establishment and operation of the Atlanta Women's Network. Areas of the organization documented include the Board of Directors, committee creation and work, luncheon and other event planning, and business operations. The bulk of papers consist of correspondence and memos, meeting minutes, marketing ephemera, newsletters and publications, and rosters and directories. Of particular note are articles of incorporation, by-laws, and surveys on...
Dates: 1978-1989, undated

Atlanta's Woman of the Year records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS415
Scope and Content

This collection consists of organizational records that document activities leading up to the annual dinner and awards ceremony. Also included are agendas, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings. There are scrapbooks that contain photographs and newspaper clippings regarding the awards ceremony.

Dates: 1943-1973, undated

Brookwood Hills Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS648
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, reports, yearbooks, and correspondence that document the civic and social activities of the club. Minutes also include membership and financial reports. Scrapbooks detail the club's programs, flower shows, and civic projects. Three of the scrapbooks are devoted to the club's restoration of Brookwood Hills Park in the 1970s.

Dates: 1938-1988, undated

Chastain Park Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS973
Scope and Content

This collection contains one scrapbook that documents the club's civic and social activities. Included in the scrapbook are correspondence, clippings, photos, programs, and yearbooks that provide details on the meetings, flower shows, and civic work of the club.

Dates: 1954-2005

Cherokee Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS650
Scope and Content This collection contains minutes, newsletters, yearbooks, histories, and president's notebooks that document the civic and social history of the club. President's notebooks include correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, financial records, and membership information. Also a part of the collection are scrapbooks which illustrate the club's many projects including two scrapbooks devoted to the "Christmas Trees Around the World" project and a scrapbook devoted to the restoration project...
Dates: 1928-2019, undated

Clifton Road Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS651
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that document the civic and social activities of the Clifton Road Garden Club. Scrapbooks comprise the majority of the collection and detail the club's monthly meetings, beautification projects, and flower show awards earned by members of the club. Garden publications offer more insight into the club's interests including victory gardens, conservation, and flower arranging.

Dates: 1938-1949, undated

Club Estates Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS653
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, reports, clippings, and yearbooks that document the civic and social activities of the club. Also a part of the collection are scrapbooks that provide more detail of the club's projects, programs, and flower shows. Two of the scrapbooks contain personal photos and awards of club member and avid dahlia grower, Mrs. Olive R. Uhl. One scrapbook focuses on the installation of an illuminated fountain in the garden of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home.

Dates: 1939-2011, undated

Consingeniorum Literary Society minute book

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS75f
Scope and Content

This minute book contains minutes of meetings of the Consingeniorum Literary Society at the Hartwell Institute in Hartwell, Georgia. The minutes are prefaced by the constitution and bylaws of the organization and a list of the founding members.

Dates: 1893-1896

Darlington Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1052
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes and a history of the club. Minutes include membership and financial information, as well as correspondence. Also part of the collection is a rezoning petition that the club developed to protect a neighborhood residential property for sale in 1961.

Dates: 1947-1971

Daughters of the American Revolution collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS426
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials from the Atlanta Chapter, Joseph Habersham Chapter, Fielding Lewis Chapter, Sarah McIntosh Chapter, and the Baron DeKalb Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Included in the collection is scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, programs, and membership rosters. There are also DAR magazines and other ephemeral items.

Dates: 1898-1964, undated

Edwards family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS345
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of genealogy and family records pertaining to the Edwards family. Included in the collection are family histories, biographical sketches, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1714-1975, undated

Emmelyn Gregg Carter Harrison scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS269
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of one scrapbook.

Dates: 1940-1942

Four Seasons Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1053
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, yearbooks, and scrapbooks that document the social and civic history of the club. Minutes include financial and presidential reports. Scrapbooks provide further detail about the club's flower show participation as well as programs and civic work. Much of the material highlights the garden club activities and speaking engagements of Mrs. Isabelle L. Spearman, one of the club's founding members and past president of the Georgia Daffodil Society.

Dates: 1942-1993, undated

Garden Club of Virginia Research Fellowship reports

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1205
Scope and Contents

This collection contains reports written by graduate fellows that document a variety of historic sites across Virginia. Reports include a history of the site, research documentation, landscape details, and site plans. Sites include houses, plantations, parks, farms, and other historic properties. Many reports include historic photographs, maps, sketches, and landscape drawings.

Dates: 2000-2020

Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS419
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of materials pertaining to the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Included in the collection is correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and programs. It also includes material from the national organization.

Dates: 1924-1957, undated

Iris Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS669
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks, yearbooks and minutes which document the club's social and civic activities. Also part of the collection are landscape plans for the Orchard Terrace of the Thornton House project. Several scrapbooks focus on the Iris Garden and Woodland Glen that the club created in Winn Park of the Ansley Park neighborhood.

Dates: 1928-2009, undated