Newsletter, Jul, Oct, 2009

The St. Anne's Hill Historic Society collection includes administrative records for the Historic Society's Board of Trustees and General Membership; posters, bulletins and invitations for various events; the Society's monthly newsletter and other publications; scrapbooks on various subjects, photographs, news clippings and information on various topics of interest to the Society and residents of St. Anne's Hill, such as crime, nuisance properties, etc.

The records of the St. Anne's Hill Historic Society are divided into 9 distinct record groups or series, several of which contain subseries. These series are grouped by size. Inside the series, the subseries are grouped alphabetically and then chronologically. The entire collection encompasses approximately 150 years (1862-2009).

Series I: Administrative Records Due to the large quantity of records and the important information located within those records, Series I was divided into several subseries. Subseries IA, Board of Trustees Meetings, documents specifically the Board of Trustees meeting minutes from 1983 to 2007. Subseries IB, General Membership, includes General Membership meeting minutes (1990-2007) and also member lists, and applications for membership from 1975 through 2000. Subseries IC, Governmental, contains the constitution and subsequent amendments, by-laws, articles of incorporation and office procedures, and duties, for the Society. Years in this collection span from 1974 to 1987. Subseries ID, Studies and Surveys, relates to a variety of local government funded studies dealing with the St. Anne's Historical District (1968-2000) and also several surveys done by the Society for its members (1992-2000). Subseries IE, Other, is a miscellany of administrative records, including logos for the Society, web-site information, insurance records and neighborhood maps. Records in this collection span the years 1862-1999.

Series II: Correspondence This primarily consists of the SAHHS newsletters (1977-2009), and also one folder containing several letters of general correspondence.

Series III: Special Events Each of these folders contains all the information pertaining to a particular event, including financial information, publicity, artwork, news clippings, etc. There are three concentrations in this series relating to Christmas events, Home and Garden Tours, and Other Holidays and Events. The first contains all information on the Christmas events the Society has staged since 1979 and biennially through 2007. The next contains all information concerning the Home and Garden tours that, like the Christmas celebrations, have taken place since the late 1970s through 2006. The third, "Other Holidays and Events," (1977-2007) includes a variety of smaller folders on other seasonal celebrations and special events occurring in and around St. Anne's Hill. Series IV: Topics Series IV is broken up into concentrations consisting of People, Properties, and Issues. The People concentration primarily deals with two people in particular Alice Woodward who was a member of St. Anne's Hill Historical Society and owner of the famous Steamboat House, and also Lee Smithson, who was the Society's president for a number of years and a local inventor. In addition there is a small collection on other noteworthy people in the neighborhood. The concentration on property includes news clippings, documents, and any other information about the many properties in the St. Anne's Hill District. Also included in this concentration are inventories, property histories, and real estate information. This grouping dates from 1869 through 2000. The Issues section, is a collection of documents related primarily to issues of construction, crime, and neighborhood cleanup.

Series V: Financial Concentrations in this series include annual budgets and spending accounts from 1980 through 2000. Next in this series is Grants & Loan information from 1974 through 1996, and the series finishes with tax information (1994-1998) and a folder of miscellaneous undated financial information.

Series VI: Publicity Series VI includes news clippings dealing with general goings on around the neighborhood. Also included in this collection are announcements and publications published by the Society. This collection spans from 1960 to 1982 .

Series VII: Scrapbooks This collection consists of a series of scrapbooks chronicling the neighborhood throughout the last 150 years. There is also one book that came filled with nothing but slides of historic properties. Collection dates from 1862 through the1990s .

Series VIII: Audio Contains one undated cassette tape of an oral history with Alice Woodward.

Series IX: Oversize The oversize series is put together of documents taken from Series I through VI. The pieces are too large to fit in the folders with the rest of the corresponding series. In Series I through VI, a "Document Removed to Oversize" paper will be stored in the proper folder.