Manuscripts

Thirty years with the Barstow Women's Club, 1922-1952

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Description: This manuscript deals with the thirty-year history of the Barstow Women's Club and includes details about their activities, members, awards won, and fundraising. The manuscript includes several photographs. Included with the item is a two-page history of the women's club of Needles, California, written by Mrs. George G. Curry.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1952.
Call number: mssHM 68419
Creator: Salisbury, Alice Richards(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. G. O. Kenyan, August 12, 1952.
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Group 1207: Women's National Republican Club

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Includes correspondence with George Santayana, William Henry Schofield, and Oscar James Campbell. Later exchanges are with Schofield's widow, Mary Lyon Cheney Schofield, who was President of the New Hampshire Women's Republican Club.

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Eve's Daughters Club presents "His Women Folks,"

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Two programs created by the Phillips Temple C.M.E Church's women's club, the Eve's Daughters Club, for performances of the three-act comedic play "His Women's Folks." One program is from 1945 and includes a brown cover page printed with a photograph of the Phillips Temple C.M.E. church. The later program is from 1955 and includes a blue cover page printed with an illustration of nine women in profile. The play was written by Priscilla Wayne and husband Wayne Sprague starring a cast of nine female characters: Martha Lewis; Lucinda Lewis Breckenridge; Jane Lewis; Edith Breckenridge; Polly Breckenridge; William Breckenridge; Mamie (Cook); Liza (Maid); and Patrice/Patience Trent (neighbor). Programs include actor names, administrative information about Phillips Temple, and advertisements from local African American businesses in Los Angeles.

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Hollenbeck South Ebell Club and Los Angeles Transit Women's Club

Manuscripts

The papers are arranged in three series: Family History, Hollenbeck Ebell Club and LA Women's Club and Photographs. Within the Family History series, the items are arranged by manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera. The items are filed alphabetically by name or subject within those subdivisions. Within the Hollenbeck Ebell Club and LA Transit Women's Club series the papers are also arranged first by creator name, in this case Cynthia Lisetta Vose or Nellie Stearns McCormick, and then by manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera under that subseries. The items are then filed chronologically within the subdivisions of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera. The last series of the papers is photographs. The items within this series are arranged alphabetically by name or subject. The Vose Stearns McCormick Family Papers contains personal papers in the form of manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera material and photographs that document the activities of the family members of the Vose, Stearns and McCormick family lines. The family's activities documented within this set of papers range from 1834 to 1949. Limited documentation exists of the family's beginning in Stoughton, Massachusetts and their move west and settlement in Lake County, Illinois.

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Hollenbeck Ebell Club and Los Angeles Transit Lines Women's Club

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The Women's Athletic Club of Los Angeles

Rare Books

An early prospectus for potential new members of the newly built Women's Athletic Club. The club had just been completed, at a cost of more than $1 million (raised from members and a loan from the Bank of Italy, later Bank of America). The club, a female response to Los Angeles' oldest private club, the all-male Los Angeles Athletic Club, offered upper-middle class women and a growing female professional class opportunities for recreation and socializing. The building, thoroughly illustrated in this pamphlet, provided sports facilities and hotel rooms.

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Group portrait of the Lamanda Park Women's Club

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A panoramic group portrait of the Lamanda Park Women's Club. There are around 50 women wearing white dresses with dark kerchiefs at the neck, and they are surrounded by men, women, and children. There is a musical group on the right.

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Thirty years with the Barstow Women's Club, 1922-1952

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