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Palos Verdes Woman's Club Collection
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Administrative Records

Scope and Contents

Includes publications, financial records, member yearbooks, meeting minutes, and correspondence.
Box 1

Bulletins 1945-2013

Physical Description: 3 Folders

Scope and Contents

Includes monthly publications providing members with the Club's major events, important dates, and membership information.
Box 1

Bylaws and revisions [ca 1956]; 1958

Scope and Contents

Includes bylaws of the Palos Verdes Woman's Club, proposed additions and changes to the bylaws, and the revised bylaws in 1958.
Box 1

Clippings October 26, 1950 - April 25, 2011

Scope and Contents

Includes articles from local publications such as the Daily Breeze, Palos Verdes Peninsula News, South Bay Weekly, and Los Angeles Times.
Box 1

Correspondence 1947; 1951; 1995; 1996

Box 1

Coza H. Dorr [n.d]

Scope and Contents

Includes poems written by member Coza H. Dorr to the future presidents of the Club.
Box 1

Dish Rentals and Silver Ledger 1934-1959; 1976

Scope and Contents

Includes dishes rental records documenting dates, names, and occasions. A rental policy and record instruction appear on the first page of the record book, showing rental fees to private parties.
Box 1

Event promotional materials 1950-2000

Scope and Contents

Includes programs, brochures, and invitation cards.
Box 2

Meeting minutes 1944-1999

Physical Description: 2 Folders

Scope and Contents

Includes board meeting minutes, general meeting minutes, publicity chairman's reports, treasurer's reports, list of the club's properties, and budget proposals.
Box 2

Member yearbooks 1956-1993

Physical Description: 2 Folders

Scope and Contents

Includes member rosters containing meeting schedules, list of executive officers, and member's contact information. The combined Palos Verdes Woman's Club and Palos Verdes Junior Woman's Club yearbooks were published under the title of "Palos Verdes Woman's Club and Juniors" between 1962 and 1969. The combined yearbooks were also published under the title of "Palos Verdes Woman's Club" between 1971 and 1988 intermittently.
Box 2

Organizational history 1996-[n.d]

Scope and Contents

Includes brief summaries of the Palos Verdes Woman's Club history.
Box 2

Photographs and negatives 1951; 1996

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of the Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon (1951), the Annual Garden Tour (1996) and negatives for the 1996 Garden Tour.
Box 3

Press releases 1994-2001

Scope and Contents

Includes press releases for the Club activities, in particular, the Annual Garden Tours and the Books and Authors Luncheons, the Club's two major fundraising programs.
Box 3

Treasurer's reports 1963-1967

Scope and Contents

Includes monthly reports of balance, income, and expenses.
 

Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents

Includes sixteen volumes dating between 1934 and 1991. In its earlier volumes, the Club mainly focused on its organization's publicity, featuring news article clippings collected from local publications such as the Daily Breeze, Palos Verdes Review, and Los Angeles Times. The Club occasionally titled these scrapbooks between 1934 and 1955 as "publicity."
After the Club's incorporation, the format and the content of the scrapbook change significantly. For a short period between 1956 and 1960, the Club endeavored to keep an organization-focused record of members and their activities, including board members' photographs, a copy of bulletins, president's messages, member rosters, and treasurer's financial reports in addition to the news article clippings. In the title section of the scrapbooks, the Club also specified the scrapbook as "historian's book." The scrapbooks between 1971 and 1991 contain mainly photographs of members at various events sponsored by the Club.
Box 4

Scrapbook 1934-1942

Processing Information

The Palos Verdes News (page 1 through 4) inserted in the scrapbook between 1934 and 1942 is discarded.
Box 5

Scrapbook 1942-1946

Box 5

Scrapbook 1946-1947

Box 5

Scrapbook 1949-1951

Box 4

Scrapbook 1952-1953

Box 4

Scrapbook 1953-1954

Box 6

Scrapbook 1954-1955

Box 6

Scrapbook 1956-1957

Box 7

Scrapbook 1957-1958

Box 8

Scrapbook 1958-1959

Scope and Contents

The scrapbook was created with a theme of "portrait of a lady" in celebration of its 25th anniversary.
Box 13

Scrapbook 1959-1960

General

Loose Daily Breeze article, "P.V. Women's Club Observes 34th Year," published on January 10, 1960 inserted in scrapbook moved to Box 9 due to size.
Box 9

Scrapbook 1960-1961

Box 10

Scrapbook 1971-1972

Box 13

Scrapbook 1981-1982

Box 11

Scrapbook 1987-1988

Box 12

Scrapbook 1990-1991

Box 3

Scrapbook reference copies

Physical Description: 8 Folders

Scope and Contents

Includes reference copies for eight scrapbooks, dated 1934-1942, 1942-1946, 1946-1947, 1949-1951, 1952-1953, 1953-1954, 1954-1955, and 1956-1957.
Collection Contents
Administrative Records
Scrapbooks
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