Women -- Societies and clubs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW) Indianapolis collection
File
Identifier: L514
Scope and Contents
This collection includes newspaper clippings, Indianapolis Branch newsletters, correspondence, membership directories, meeting minutes, treasury reports, programs and the official magazine of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW), "The Pen Woman," ranging from 1928 to 2011.
Dates:
1928-2011
Nora E. Thomas collection
Collection — Folder S1302
Identifier: S1302
Scope and Contents
This 25-page, typed article, "Folklore on the Wabash," was written by Nora E. Thomas and read to the Indianapolis Woman's Club on March 10, 1939. The topic was suggested to her when the Hoosier Folklore Society held their first convention in Bloomington in April 1938. Professor Stith Thompson taught courses in folklore at Indiana University for years. He wrote four books on the subject and was president of the American Folklore Society from 1937 to 1938. On pages 3 and 4, Nora reprints the aims...
Dates:
1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Nora E. Thomas collection
Oral history and audio collection
Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates:
circa 1904-2019
Pierce-Krull family papers
Collection
Identifier: L353
Scope and Contents
The collection includes family correspondence (1834-1963), writings, financial records, journals, and scrapbooks from the Pierce-Krull family ranging from 1834 to 1963. Family correspondence includes correspondence of the John Moore family of Ellisville, Geneseo, and Rock Island, Illinois (1834-1870), including letters from family members in St. Louis, Missouri., California, and Madison, Jefferson County and Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana. Also included are letters, and transcripts of...
Dates:
1834-1963
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pierce-Krull family papers
Riley Hospital Junior League Occupational Therapy Department photograph collage
Collection — Folder OBC027
Identifier: OBC027
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a photographic collage with 3 black-and-white photographs glued to a board depicting the entrance of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children building in Indianapolis, Indiana and two images from the Junior League Occupatioanl Therapy Department at the hospital, circa 1924-1934.
Dates:
circa 1924-1934
St. James Episcopal Church History collection
Collection — Folder S2182
Identifier: S2182
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three typed manuscripts, a history of the church (1941) and two papers on women's work in the parish (1889 and 1940), as well as one typed transcript of the program for the Semi-Centennial Celebration of St. James Church held in November 1889. The paper written by Francis M. Van Natter in 1941, 15 pages, covering the history of St. James Church from its inception in 1823 to the consecration of its new building in 1907.
Sophie Amelia Langton Ghee wrote the six-page...
Dates:
1889-1941
Wilma J. Usrey collection
Collection
Identifier: L667
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Wilma Usrey's records regarding District 7 and District 5 of the Indiana Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Ranging from 1983 to 2003, the collection includes meeting minutes, budgets, bylaws, membership reports, spring meeting programs, essay contest entries, and young careerist applicant photographs and entry forms. The record notebooks were left as Mrs. Usrey had organized them. The collection also has a full size, handmade District 7 flag.
Dates:
1983-2003
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Wilma J. Usrey collection
Winona Woman's Club collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1638
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the Winona Woman's Club meeting minutes (1903-1907), the clubs constitution (circa 1908-1910), and a May 15, 1916 circular letter from the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs along with pamphlets printed that year regarding the petitioning of Congress for the mountain laurel to be designated as the national flower. The collection also includes several handwritten notes regarding club committees (undated).
Dates:
1903-1916
Woman's Franchise League of Richmond record book
Collection — Volume V309
Identifier: V309
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the record book of the Woman's Franchise League of Richmond, Indiana and includes the organization's constitution and meeting minutes ranging from 1912 to 1920. Also included is a printed copy of the September 30, 1918 address made by President Woodrow Wilson before the United States Senate urging the passage of the suffrage bill and a list of the women who were members of the Richmond League.
Dates:
1912-1920
Woman's Press Club of Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S1639
Identifier: S1639
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of 7 pages from a record book kept by the Woman's Press Club of Indiana to record dues paid from 1913 to 1914 by both charter members and members who joined later. The collection also has a copy of an October 21, 1913 financial report from the record book that lists payments made for club expenses.
Dates:
1913-1914
