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Indiana -- Societies and clubs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Alton Woman's Christian Temperance Union minutes

 Collection — Folder S3481
Identifier: S3481
Scope and Contents This collection includes the minutes of the October 13, 1899 meeting of the Alton (Indiana) Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) held at the Methodist Episcopal church. The women who attended were Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. Brooks, Susan Roberts, Mary Rohl, Cora Parr, and Katie Wilson. The brief handwritten minutes were recorded on Peckinpaugh, Harrison and Co. letterhead.
Dates: 1899/10/13

American Business Club, Indianapolis, Indiana scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: L765
Scope and Contents This collection comrpises a scrapbook containting photographs, clippings, pamphlets, ribbons, and papers from the American Business Club in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1923 to 1938 regarding club activities and members.
Dates: 1923-1938

Asa J. Smith essay

 Collection — Folder S2417
Identifier: S2417
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 29-page essay about Nikola Tesla written and read by Asa J. Smith before the Century Club of Indianapolis, Indiana on Tuesday, May 24, 1949. The essay was written as a "brief" review of a biography of Tesla authored by John J. O'Neill and Smith states that his paper was written from the "point of view of a layman in a field inscrutable even to many experts."
Dates: 1949/05/24

Belleville Lodge No. 65, Free and Accepted Masons historical sketch

 Collection — Folder S2369
Identifier: S2369
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of "History of the Belleville Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 65, 1848-1966," a 9-page historical sketch written by Burke Miller, secretary and historian of the lodge. The history includes a transcription of the 1847 dispensation, the lodge's initial bylaws, points of interest and various facts of the lodge, a list of the past masters, and a list of the officers in 1966.
Dates: circa 1966

Center Township, Rush County, Indiana collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2248
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of items related to Center Township, Rush County, Indiana, including docket entry records of the justice of the peace from November 1830 to September 1831; school attendance records for District No. 3, Township 15, Range 10 from November 1845 to February 1846, certified and signed on March 27, 1846 by the teacher, Gabriel F. Sutton; the treasurer's book of the Shiloh United Presbyterian Church Sabbath School containing entries ranging from 1884 to 1892; and...
Dates: 1830-1892

Century Club of Indianapolis collection

 Collection
Identifier: L200
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, official records, newspaper articles, program listings and notices, membership proposals, and yearbooks from members of the Century Club in Indianapolis, Indiana and elsewhere in the United States ranging from 1889 to 1944, regarding club organization, membership, and the duties and activities of members.
Dates: 1889-1944

Charlotte Jones Dunn, Contemporary Club of Indianapolis reminiscences

 Collection — Folder S2418
Identifier: S2418
Scope and Contents This collection includes the reminiscences of Charlotte Jones Dunn regarding the early days of the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis. Dunn's circa 1940 recollections were handwritten on five pages of her personal stationary. The collection also includes a few brief recollections about the club typewritten by Dr. Christopher B. Coleman in December 1940.
Dates: 1940

Citizens' Child Welfare Study Committee reports

 Collection — Folder S3338
Identifier: S3338
Scope and Contents This collection comprises five reports from the Citizens' Child Welfare Study Committee during 1946-1949 regarding the needs and services provided for children and young adults in Marion County, particularly in the legal and educational systems. The "Survey Report of the Juvenile Aid Division, Indianapolis Police Department" provides statistics of arrests from 1938 to 1946, descriptions of facilities, and recommendations for changes. The "Survey Report of The Marion County Juvenile Court and...
Dates: 1946-1949

Contemporary Club of Indianapolis collection

 Collection — Folder S2773
Identifier: S2773
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items from the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, including the program from its December 3, 1940 golden anniversary dinner; a copy of The Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, 1890-1940, a 48-page commemorative booklet about the club's first 50 years; a copy of the bookletThe Contemporary Club of Indianapolis: Members, 1954-1955; a letter to members listing the officers and directors elected for the...
Dates: 1940-1959

Denny and Janet Osborne Murat Shriners band photographs

 Collection — Folder SP126
Identifier: SP126
Scope and Contents This collection includes 3 photographs from Denny and Janet Osborne in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York in 1951 and undated, showing members of the Murat Highlanders Pipe and Drum Band. One image depicts an unidentified man in a Murat Shriners Highlanders uniform with bagpipes. The remaining iamges are two group photographs of the Murat Highlanders, both on parade at the 77th Imperial Council Session of the Shriners in New York City, July 8-14, 1951 and standing in front of the World War...
Dates: 1951, undated