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H.Mss.0685
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Title: Pomona College Rembrandt Club papers
Dates: 1887-2011
Collection number: H.Mss.0685
Creator:
Pomona College Rembrandt Club
Extent:
8.75 Linear Feet
(8 records boxes, 1 document box, 1 small box)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont, CA 91711
Abstract: Collection consists of paperwork and materials collected over the course of normal business of the Pomona College Rembrandt
club. Documents span 123 years of club history and include materials regarding the club’s history and documents on how it
conducts its business including, but not limited to, meeting materials, financial documentation, scrapbooks, club history
and club activities.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Physical Location: Please consult repository.
Collection open for research.
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
[Identification of item], Pomona College Rembrandt Club Records (H.Mss.0685). Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont
University Consortium.
Provenance / Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of The Pomona College Rembrandt Club, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015.
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processed by the Introduction to Archival Studies 310 class of Fall 2015 in the Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections Reading
Room, with assistance from Lisa Crane and Dr. Gabriele Carey. The original arrangement of this collection was rearranged by
club year then alpha order, with materials not distinguished by club year put at the end. Membership directories were also
pulled out and put at the end. All staples, paperclips and any other fasteners that would be damaging were carefully removed
from the documents. The documents were then put into sleeves made out of acid-free paper to keep the contents together. All
lose leaf photographs were put into mylar sleeves, then put into boxes. Scrapbooks were disbound with the pages containing
the photos put into mylar sleeves and then put into boxes. Newspaper clippings were interleaved with acid-free paper and flagged
to be photocopied later by student interns. All duplicates were removed from the collection and discarded.
The Pomona College Rembrandt Club was founded in 1905 by Hannah Tempest Jenkins, Pomona College’s resident art instructor
at the time, and Lucretia Brackett, the wife of Professor Frank Brackett. Ruth Eddy was the first club president, and the
position has been held by a woman ever since. The club was originally created for the Art Department of Pomona College and
dedicated to the study and appreciation of art. The club was opened up to the rest of the Claremont community in 1907, and
since then has sponsored many fundraisers, activities, and events to support the arts in Claremont. Today the Pomona College
Rembrandt Club year runs from October to May, and the club has over 150 members.
This collection contains materials generated through the operations and events organized, held, and attended by the Pomona
College Rembrandt Club from its
inception in 1905 to 2010.
Series 1 consists of materials that were produced to record club operations. This includes various versions of the club constitution
and by-laws, board member lists, board meeting minutes and notes,
typed and handwritten correspondence about events, schedule changes, and financial and tea donations, lists of supplies for
tea gatherings, financial reports,
invoices, event programs, event fliers and posters, mailed event notices, photographs of club members and events, and newspaper
clippings of various events.
Series 2 includes materials developed in the organizing of bus trips for the club’s members to attend regional events and
art exhibits,
including administrative functions required in the arrangement of these trips, as well as correspondence, event notices, and
pamphlets.
Series 3 contains the written documents, drafts, and notes, and various materials, such as campus newspaper articles, assembled
by
longtime faculty member, Perdita Sheirich, who wished to develop a more unified history of the club.
Series 4 contains administrative materials such as meeting minutes, job and program descriptions, and club event materials.
The collection is arranged into the following series:
Series 1: Club Materials, 1905 - 2011
Series 2: Bus Trips, 1990 - 2004
Series 3: Club History, 1887 - 2012
Series 4: Administration, 1990 - 1997
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog.
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Art--Societies, etc
Art