Woman’s Club (Richmond, Va.)

A Guide to the Woman’s Club (Richmond, Va.) Records, 1894-1995
Call Number Mss3 W8405 a


Abstract

Main Entry:Woman's Club (Richmond, Va.).
Title:Records, 1894-1995.
Size:450 (ca.) items.
Historical Note: 
Scope Note:The collection includes constitutions and by-laws, minute books of members' and officers' meetings, annual reports, programs, bulletins, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials concerning the operations, programs, and activities of the club and its members, and information on the preservation of the club's headquarters, the Bolling Haxall House in Richmond, Va. Founded in 1894 by fourteen leading women of Richmond, Va., the Woman's Club was designed to enhance the cultural and intellectual lives of its members. Over the years, the club has annually attracted prominent authors, scholars, artists, and performers to Richmond to present programs on literary criticism and current events, along with presentations of music and drama.
Provenance:Gift of the Woman's Club, Richmond, Va., through the courtesy of Mrs. Anne B. Little and Mrs. Jean R. Appich, 7 September 1995.
Restrictions:None.
Index Terms:Bolling Haxall House (Richmond, Va.)
Franklin Street East, No. 211 (Richmond, Va.)
Richmond (Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Richmond (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Woman's Club (Richmond, Va.) 
Women – Virginia -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Virginia – Intellectual life -- 20th century. 
Women -- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Inventory

Box 1:Constitution and by-laws (printed): 1901 (including charter), 1935, 1942, 1947, 1949, 1951.
Working copies of by-laws and standing rules: 1954, 1963, 1967.
Minute books (meetings of members, executive committee, board of governors, reports of committees and officers):
1894-1896 
1896-1899 
1899-1901 
1901-1904 
1904-1907 
1907-1909 
1910-1912 
1912-1915 
1915-1920(folder of transcriptions, 1907-1920); (folder of loose minutes, 1916)
1920-1925(transcriptions)
 
Box 2:1926-1927 
1927-1928 
1928-1929 
1929-1930 
1930-1931 
1931-1932 
1932-1933 
1933-1934 
1934-1935 
(1935-1936 missing) 
1936-1938 
 
Box 3:1938-1940 
1940-1943(marked “1940-1942")
1943-1946 
1946-1949 
1949-1951 
1951-1955(marked “1952- ")
 
Box 4:1955-1958 
1958-1964 
1964-1967(loose)
(1967-1972 missing) 
1972-1974 
(1974-1975 missing)
1976(loose)
1977(loose)
1978-1979(loose)
1979-1980(loose)
1981-1982(loose)
1982-1983(loose)
1983-1984(loose)
1984-1985(loose)
1985-1986(loose) [end April 1986]
Annual reports (printed): all reports contain a letter or notice from the outgoing president reviewing events of the preceding year, as well as reports from various chairpersons. A directory of members is also published in each annual volume. In 1942 the club began to issue yearbooks with this basic information, but also including listings of programs, speakers, and other information; annual reports (strictly the reports of committee chairs) continued to be printed separately in later years.
 
Box 5:1896-1897 
1899-1903 
1905-1907 
1909-1912 
1914-1916 
1910-1918(bound)
1920-1923 
1914-1924(bound)
1919-1924(bound)
1924-1925 
1925-1926 
1924-1930(bound)
 
Box 6:1924-1931(bound)
1927-1928 
1929-1930 
1930-1931 
1931-1937(bound)
1931-1940(bound)
1938-1944(bound)
1940-1947(bound)
 
Box 7:1945-1950(bound)
1947-1955(bound)
1950-1958(bound)
1955-1963(bound)
1957-1958(special edition)
1963-1971(bound)
1969-1970 
1971-1972 
1971-1978(bound)
1975-1976 
1974-1985(bound) Annual reports 1995-1996
1979-1985(bound)
1985-1986 
1986-1987Additional copies added 2/23/2006
1987-1988 + 1 
1990-1991 
1991-1992 
1992-1993 + 1 
1993-1994 + 1 
1994-1995 + 1 
Bulletins (issued twice yearly): 1934-1935, 1938, 1944-1945, 1947-1948, 1952-1954, 1954-1957, 1968-1969
Programs: 1898-1899, 1901-1902, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1907-1908, 1908-1909, 1910-1911, 1914-1915, 1915-1916, 1921-1922, 1926-1927
List of members and programs, 1912-1915 (bound volume)
Record book of Lelia Gilliam Munce Memorial Library, 1916 (bound volume)
Membership materials, 1950-1978
Personnel materials, 1957-1977
Finance committee records, 1973-1982 (minutes, reports, etc.); budgets, 1952-1958, 1969-1981
Club menus, 1929-1945
History of the Bolling Haxall House, Richmond, by Sarah Driggs (two copies); Bolling Haxall House materials, 1972-1973
Notes and miscellaneous minutes, 1948-1957
General miscellany
Autograph album (bound volume), 1897-1958
 
Boxes 9-10:Enclosures removed from scrapbooks (including some correspondence of officers, loose news clippings, photographs, programs, etc.)
 
Volumes:Scrapbooks (filed on open shelves): contents of the earliest scrapbooks consist primarily of newspaper clippings concerning the club and its activities, and club members. In later years, the books contain many photographs of club members, functions, and the club headquarters itself (Bolling Haxall House, Richmond), ballots from the elections of officers, and membership directories. From time to time, announcements concerning renovations to the Haxall House appear, along with notices and background information concerning guest speakers and other programs.
1984-1926(primarily 1919-1926)
1926-1927,1927-1928
1928-1929,1929-1930
1930-1931,1931-1932
1932-1933,1933-1934
1934-1935 
1935-1936 
1936-1937 
1937-1938 
1938-1939 
1939-1940,1940-1941
1941-1942 
1942-1943 
1943-1944 
1944-1945 
1945-1946 
1946-1947 
1947-1948 
1948-1949 
1949-1950 
1950-1951 
1951-1952 
1952-1953 
1952-1954(loose sheets)
1953-1954 
1954-1955 
1955-1956 
1956-1957 
1958-1959 
1959-1960 
1960-1961 
1961-1962 
1962-1963 
1963-1964 
1964-1965 
1965-1966 
1966-1967 
1967-1968 
1968-1969 
1969(75th anniversary celebration)
1969-1970 
1970-1971 
1971-1972 
1972-1973 
1973-1974 
1974-1975 
1975-1976 
1976-1977 
1977-1978 
1978-1979 
1979-1980 
1980-1981 
1981-1982 
1982-1983 
1983-1984 
1984-1985 
1985-1986 
1986-1987 
1987-1988 
1988-1989 
1989-1990 
1990-1991 
1991-1992 
1992-1993 
Photograph album, 1894-1944 (photos of charter members and officers)
Junior department of the Woman’s Club scrapbook, 1931-1956

Last updated: March 30, 2006