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

• Abstract
• Inventory

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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.

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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
	1986-1987	Additional 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