These records document the history of the Potrero Women's Club from its inception in 1908 to 2011. Included are constitutions and bylaws, meeting minutes, membership and financial records, certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, a scrapbook, and other club records documenting its social activities and service projects.

In February of 1908, a group of Potrero Hill women met to discuss ways to improve their neighborhood's quality of life, as well ways as to provide services to those San Francisco residents who had been displaced by the 1906 earthquake and fire and were living in temporary housing around Potrero Hill. This informal meeting led to the organization of the Potrero Women's Club, which held its first official meeting on April 10, 1908 at the Nurses' Settlement on 19th and Iowa Streets in San Francisco.

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