Women in charitable work -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and realia from Charlotte Griffin Weld’s local volunteer roles.

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Collection contains newspaper clippings and seven yearbooks spanning 1932 to 1940 (incomplete). The yearbooks include an annual President’s Report, calendar of engagements, brief financial report, committees and members, members and addresses, and the Concordia Anniversary Song lyrics.

Description of Contents The collection documents the activities of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and its local chapters in Minneapolis. Local chapters represented in the collection include the Minneapolis, Colonial, Monument, Keewaydin, Rebecca Prescott Sherman/Fort Snelling, John Holmes, General James Knapp, John Prescott, John Witherspoon, and Maria Sanford chapters. Box 1 contains newspaper clippings and a small amount of material from the Minnesota Society of the DAR...

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This collection includes newspaper clippings (1938-2001), anniversary booklets (50th, 1974 and 75th, 1999), a yearbook and directory, and miscellaneous programs, press releases, membership information, brochures, announcements, and assorted ephemera from the Junior League of Minneapolis.

Description of Contents The collection consists of five boxes of material related to the Fifth District of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs. Box 1 contains newspaper clippings from 1921-1964 with the bulk of the clippings dating from the 1940s. Box 2 contains comprehensive early histories of the Fifth District and a small amount of material related to various events and conventions. Boxes 2-5 contain scrapbooks from the 1920s-1940s and District directories from 1904-1967. The scrapbooks, primarily compiled...

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The collection consists of seven record books (1892-1901), several clippings from the 1890s, miscellaneous publications, treasurer's reports, and correspondence from the 1890s.

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Collection contains newspaper clippings about the National Society of New England Women and the club’s annual programs spanning 1927-1937.

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Collection consists of newspaper clippings about the Pathfinders Club and the club’s annual programs spanning 1901-1960.

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Collection consists of newspaper clippings about the Twentieth Century Club and the club’s annual programs spanning 1917-1956.

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Subseries was accompanied by a memo from the Minneapolis Public Library noting, "This ms consist (sic) of a few notes in Mrs. Paige's handwriting, but, for the most part, of transcriptions from dictation--Mrs. Paige's reminiscences of her life. Mrs. Darragh Aldrich had access to these in writing her biography of Mrs. Paige, Lady in Law, though much of the material in the notes did not get into the book."