Women--Societies and clubs

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Minutes, scrapbooks, and yearbooks of the Talbot Park Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The minutes range in date from 1941-1956 and yearbooks from 1951-1968. The eight scrapbooks cover 1954-1958, 1964-1966, 1970-1971, 1974-1975, 1977-1979, and 1981-1983 and include clippings, photographs, and ephemera.

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One 1909-1923 minute book recording the events and activities of the women in the Norfolk College Alumnae Association, R. M. Saunders Memorial Chapter in Norfolk, Virginia. Additional loose materials found inside the minute book range in date between 1888 and 1944 and include more minutes, treasurer's notes, miscellaneous organizational records, correspondence, and clippings.

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Circa 1958-1963 minutes and programs from 1898-1955 of The Wednesday Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also includes a detailed history of The Wednesday Club from its inception to 1954. There is also a 1962/1963 program from the Wednesday Club in Danville, Virginia.

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Two 1959-1961 scrapbooks from the Tidewater District Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Also known as The Federation of Garden Clubs of Norfolk & Vicinity, Inc., the scrapbooks include an alphabetical collection of pages from local garden clubs in the Hampton Roads region. Each page is unique, consisting of paintings, drawings, magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, poems, yearly summation of activities, lists of officers and members, mottos, and poems.

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Five 1955-1964 scrapbooks relating to the Lafayette Yacht Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, brochures, newsletters, and other materials. Scrapbook 1 includes signatures and addresses of founding members of the Lafayette Yacht Club. Most of the subject matter of the scrapbooks focus on events and social activities engaged in by club members.

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Personal school records and correspondence of Virginia Old and memorabilia relating to the Norfolk College for Young Ladies and the Granby Street Chapter of the Epworth United Methodist League in Norfolk, Virginia.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 10 yearbooks from the Woman’s Club of Norfolk from 1925-1927 and 1940-1954 and two yearbooks from the Junior Woman’s Club of Norfolk from 1948-1950. Included are three annual reports for 1922-1924 and two copies of the club's biennial report for 1927-1928 and 1929-1930. The collection also includes a souvenir program booklet for round table events sponsored by the Woman’s Club of Norfolk and overseen by the organization’s department of literature chairman, Mrs. F. R....

Scope and Contents This collection contains the records of the Woman's Club of Windsor, Virginia. The records include minutes, club rosters, executive board meeting minutes, club histories, treasurer reports, club newsletters, and ephemera such as programs for special events. A few photographs and newspaper clippings are included in the records. The records date back to the founding of the club in 1930 and continue through 2015, though there are gaps between May 1939 to March 1947, May 1961 to August 1982, and...

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Minute books, bylaws, administrative records, yearbooks, correspondence, histories, speeches, poems, clippings, and memorabilia from the Woman's Reading Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The records date from 1905-1972, with gaps in the meeting minutes from 1916-1923 and 1928-1944.