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Booklet of the Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament
by Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament (2008)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The multi-page booklet of the Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament provides information and photographs on past tournament winners and a comprehensive history of the tournament that began in the early 1980s as the Chris Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament.
Dorcas Club Ledger (West Virginia)
by Dorcas Club (1900 – 1904)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This ledger was created by a Dorcas Club in West Virginia and provides records of the organization's activities, which include its dues, expenses, and member names.
Fort Branch Community Club Ledgers (Fort Branch, Indiana)
by Fort Branch Community Club (1926 – 1954)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
These two ledgers document the weekly meetings of the Fort Branch Community Club in Indiana between 1926 and 1954. In addition to meeting minutes are newspaper clippings that demonstrate the local publicity the club received. Activities of the club included placing markers on the old fort, feeding needy children, and inviting lecturers.
Ladies Financial Aid Society Journal (Glen Cove, New York)
by Ladies Financial Aid Society (1873 – 1880)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The Ladies Financial Aid Society was located in Glen Cove, New York and was open to both men and women. This journal contains the minutes of the club from 1873 to 1880, which includes the club's finances, elections, new members, meeting locations, and more.
Ledger of Ella N. Mackenzie
by Mackenzie, Ella (1868 – 1874)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The ledger of Ella N. Mackenzie contains all the purchases that Ella N. Mackenzie made from 1868 to 1874 in the Baltimore, Maryland region. The purchases were listed by subject, such as personal, washing, sundries, Christmas presents, casual, charities, and others.
Minutes of the Ladies Aid Society (Guerneville, California)
by Ladies Aid Society (1902 – 1917)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This journal contains the meeting minutes, dues collected, and expenditures of the Ladies Aid Society of Guerneville, California from 1902 to 1917. The group purchased sewing supplies mainly for quilts and comforters that were made for soldiers.
Minutes of the Opportunity Club (Pasadena, California)
by Opportunity Club (1911 – 1915)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The Opportunity Club of Pasadena, California began as a club for young girls to help the lonely and needy around them. This journal details the minutes of the club's meetings, which includes meeting places and hosts. The journal also includes member lists, newspaper clippings, and a Treasurer's Report.
Overseer of the Poor Ledger (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania)
by Hess, Adam (1869 – 1870)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This ledger was written by Adam Hess of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania between 1869 and 1870 and is an account of the poor residents who lived in the town. Harris Township paid Hess, who owned a farm and orchard, to oversee the impoverished people, ensuring that they had lodging and were often hired to help on the orchard. Each person that he provided for were signed into a contract in this ledger.
Piney Point Community League Ledger (St. Mary's County, Maryland)
by Piney Point Community League (1918 – 1930)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
The Piney Point Community League was established in St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1918 for the "Benefit of Colored People." The League's work included the establishment of the benefit organization known as the "Good Hope Home League" in 1919, formation of an industrial school for African Americans, creation of structured home school programs, and disbursement of sick and death insurance benefits. This ledger documents the League's work through meeting minutes, member rolls (with officer names), accounts for charities and the industrial colored school, accounts of sick benefits and deaths, and League laws. Also included are loose notes regarding attendance and dues that were likely originally inside the ledger. The transcribed ledger is attached.
Records of the Ladies Charitable Society Alliance Branch of the Unitarian Church (Woburn, Massachusetts)
by Ladies Charitable Society Alliance Branch of the Unitarian Church (1919 – 1936)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
These two volumes contain the records of the Ladies Charitable Society Alliance Branch of the Unitarian Church in Woburn, Massachusetts from 1919 to 1936. Included are meeting notes and annual reports. The purpose of the group was to increase the religious and intellectual life of its members, promote fellowship and cooperation, arouse and sustain interest in denominational and missionary work, and provide for the material prosperity and the social and charitable work of the church.
Records of the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society and the Lima Mutual Improvement Association
by Limaville Philomathic Literary Society (1854 – 1861)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This bound journal contains the records of two different Ohio organizations at different time periods: the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society from November 9, 1854 to March 29, 1855 and the Lima Mutual Improvement Association from October 15, 1860 to April 8, 1861. The records for both organizations include the constitutions, by-laws, preambles, and minutes. The Limaville Philomathic Society's stated purpose was "the mutual improvement of its members in Literacy and Scientific exercises such as original compositions, declamations, the reading of selected pieces, and debates or polemics." The youth-oriented organizations met weekly at a local schoolhouse and was divided into three classes: Composing, Declaiming, and Polemic. The Lima Mutual Improvement Association was similar in purpose to the Limaville Philomathic Literary Society. Topics of discussion in both organizations include slavery, religion, and the United States, which make the records significant for understanding small Midwestern towns prior to the American Civil War.
Women's Relief Corps Records (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
by Women's Relief Corps (1904 – 1956)
6 folders (0.6 linear feet)
The records of the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic are from the J. F. Reynolds chapter in Cheyenne, Wyoming and were written from 1900 to 1956.