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Collection
Identifier: MS-482
Abstract
The American Business Women's Association is a nationwide professional association for women. The Bur Oak chapter was established in Dayton, in 1981. The collection includes information about projects undertaken by the organization, items discussed during meetings, social events (fundraiser), legal and financial documents, scholarships offered, and initiatives taken to help women professionally and socially in the Dayton-area. This collection is a source of information on how the ABWA Bur...
Dates:
1969-2011
Collection
Identifier: MS-187
Abstract
Records include annual reports, programs, meeting minutes, membership records, and scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs pertaining to the club's activities. Founded in 1907, the Dayton Federation of Women's Clubs is an amalgamation of Dayton area women's organizations and is engaged locally in charitable, educational and social activities.
Dates:
1907-2007
Collection
Identifier: MS-129
Abstract
Organized in 1975, Dayton Women Working was a feminist organization concerned with insuring equal employment opportunities locally for women and minorities. The records consist of meeting minutes, by-laws, membership records, progress reports, newsletters, broadsides, and files documenting DWW's public programs and projects including a study of discrimination in three Dayton banks. There is also material pertaining to DWW's affiliation with other working women's organizations and the...
Dates:
1974-1983
Collection
Identifier: MS-290
Abstract
The Friday Afternoon Club was founded in 1893 as a literary club for women in the Dayton area. Aside from academic and literary studies, the Friday Afternoon club also enjoys social events such as lectures, plays and picnics. Still in existence, the club meets every other Friday at the homes of its members. The collection consists of minutes and membership rosters, financial records, yearly programs, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1893-2014
Collection
Identifier: MS-123
Abstract
The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920, the year American women were granted the right to vote by the passage of the 19th Amendment. The League has since grown into a nationwide organization that works to promote political responsibility on the part of all citizens. It is non-partisan and does not support or oppose political parties or candidates, but it does take stands on public issues, after conducting extensive studies and reaching a consensus of the membership. The Dayton Area...
Dates:
1920-2000
Collection
Identifier: MS-349
Abstract
The mission of the Progressive Mothers' Club was to promote the role and education of mothers within the setting of a social group. The collection illustrates the Club's purpose through yearly event books, financial records, membership records, scrapbooks, meeting minutes, the president's gavel, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Most of the items relate directly to the Progressive Mothers' Club, but the collection also consists of a subgroup containing records from the Progressive...
Dates:
1923-2003; Majority of material found within 1985-2003
Collection
Identifier: MS-408
Abstract
Records include yearbooks, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial and membership records, and scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs pertaining to the club's activities. Founded in 1889, the Woman's Literary Club was the first women's club in Dayton. The club's purpose is the study of literature, but it has also engaged in charitable activities. It has also evolved over the years to include creative writing as well as literary study.
Dates:
1889 - 2023