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Guide to The Willows Reading and Study Club Records,1896-1980s

CR-2009-04-01

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Table of contents

Collection Contents

Box/Folder 1/1-7/31

Series I. Administrative Files, 1896-1980

Physical Description:

31 folders

Scope and Content Note

The contents in this series are arranged alphabetically by format and, in the main, by date. This series contains correspondence, meeting minutes which are mostly in bound record books, and financials.

Box/Folder 1/1-1/11

Correspondence, 1930s-1980

Box/Folder 1/1

Correspondence, undated

Box/Folder 1/2

Correspondence, 1969-1980

Box/Folder 1/3

Correspondence, 1950s

Box/Folder 1/4-1/8

Correspondence, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/4

Correspondence 1 of 5, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/5

Correspondence 2 of 5, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/6

Correspondence 3 of 5, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/7

Correspondence 4 of 5, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/8

Correspondence 5 of 5, 1940s

Box/Folder 1/9-1/11

Correspondence, 1930s

Box/Folder 1/9

Correspondence 1 of 3, 1930s

Box/Folder 1/10

Correspondence 2 of 3, 1930s

Box/Folder 1/11

Correspondence 3 of 3, 1930s

Box/Folder 2/12-2/15

Financials, 1896-1947

Box/Folder 2/12

Financials, 1940-1947

Box/Folders 2/13

Financials, 1916-1939

Box/Folder 2/14

Financials, 1924-1946

Box/Folder 2/15

Financials, 1896-1925

Box/Folder 3/16-3/18

Minutes/Record Books, 1956-1980

Box/Folder 3/16

Minutes/Record Book, 1968-1980

Box/Folder 3/17

Minutes/Record Book, 1958-1968

Box/Folder 3/18

Minutes/Record Book, 1956-1968

Box/Folder 4/19-4/21

Minutes/Record Books, 1934-1956

Box/Folder 4/19

Minutes/Record Book, 1949-1956

Box/Folder 4/20

Minutes/Record Book, 1943-1949

Box/Folder 4/21

Minutes/Record Book, 1934-1942

Box/Folder 5/22

Minutes/Loose, 1939-1951

Box/Folder 5/23-5/27

Minutes/Record Books, 1909-1938

Box/Folder 5/23

Minutes/Record Book, 1925-1934

Box/Folder 5/24

Minutes/Record Book, 1918-1925

Box/Folder 5/25

Minutes/Record Book, 1920-1938

Box/Folder 5/26

Minutes/Record Book, 1913-1918

Box/Folder 5/27

Minutes/Record Book, 1909-1913

Box/Folder 6/28-6/30

Minutes/Record Books, 1899-1909

Box/Folder 6/28

Minutes/Record Book, 1907-1909

Box/Folder 6/29

Minutes/Record Book, 1903-1907

Box/Folder 6/30

Minutes/Record Book, 1899-1903

Box/Folder 7/31

Miscellaneous Records and Printed Matter, 1949-1959, 1980

Box/Folder 7/32

Series II. Photographs, 1922 1932 1974

Physical Description:

1 folder

Scope and Content Note

This series contains one folder of photographs of the club's members.

Box/Folder 7/33-7/39

Series III. Printed Matter, late 1800s-1980s

Physical Description:

7 folders

Scope and Content Note

This series is arranged alphabetically by format and then chronologically by date. It contains news clippings, yearbooks, and miscellaneous printed matter.

Box/Folder 7/33-7/35

Clippings, 1900s-1980s

Box/Folder 7/33

Clippings, 1930s-1980s

Box/Folder 7/34

Clippings, 1900s-1950s

Box/Folder 7/35

Clippings, 1920s-1930s

Box/Folder 7/36

Miscellaneous, 1930, 1934, 1971-1980

Box/Folder 7/37-7/50

Yearkbooks, 1961-1967

Box/Folder 7/37

Yearbooks, 1961-1967

Box/Folder 7/38

Yearbooks, 1956-1961

Box/Folder 7/39

Yearbooks, 1951-1955

Box/Folder 7/40

Yearbooks, 1944-1950

Box/Folder 7/41

Yearbooks, 1940-1944

Box/Folder 8/42

Yearbooks, 1935-1940

Box/Folder 8/43

Yearbooks, 1928-1934

Box/Folder 8/44

Yearbooks, 1925-1928

Box/Folder 8/45

Yearbooks, 1921-1925

Box/Folder 8/46

Yearbooks, 1918-1921

Box/Folder 8/47

Yearbooks, 1915-1918

Box/Folder 8/48

Yearbooks, 1910-1915

Box/Folder 8/49

Yearbooks, 1905-1909

Box/Folder 8/50

Yearbooks, 1899-1911

Box/Folder 8/51-8/52

Series IV. Written Essays and Poems, late 1890s-1980s

Physical Description:

2 folders

Scope and Content Note

This series contains written essays and poems by members of The Willows Reading and Study Club. Many of the essays were written to be given as addresses at club meetings. The essays cover a diverse range of topics. The topics include progressive activist Jane Addams, the object of Forestry, the Hawaiian Islands, and the juvenile court system.

Box/Folder 8/51

Essays, 1890s-early 1900s

Box/Folder 8/52

Essays and poems, early 1900s, 1960, 1980

Collection Contents

Administrative Files,

Photographs,

Printed Matter,

Written Essays and Poems,