Main content
Woman's Club of Conshohocken records
Notifications
Held at: Conshohocken Historical Society [Contact Us]120 E. 5th Avenue, Conshohocken, PA, 19428
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Conshohocken Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The Woman's Literary Club of Conshohocken was established in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1897. Its purpose was "to form an organized center for the moral, the intellectual and social advancement of women of the community." For the first twelve years it was primarily a literary club, and members prepared and presented essays on literary and historical topics. Gradually, the focus of the group shifted toward civic matters, and the group dropped the word "Literary" from its title in 1900. The Woman's Club of Conshohocken established a public library, worked on Home Front initiatives during both World Wars, sponsored local girls' groups including the Junior Woman's Club of Conshohocken, and organized or participated in numerous other philanthropic projects and drives.
The Woman's Literary Club of Conshohocken disbanded circa 1994. The Junior Woman's Club of Conshohocken, formed in 1922, is still in existence as of 2012.
Bibliography:
Woman's Club of Conshohocken. "Sixtieth Anniversary, 1897-1957." Pamphlet found in collection.
Woman's Club of Conshohocken. "1897-1982: Eighty-fifth Anniversary." Pamphlet found in collection.
This collection is comprised of meeting minutes (1897-1926), attendance records, financial records (1897-1947), newspaper clipping scrapbooks (1924-1970), brochures and pamphlets from anniversary celebrations, and photographs of the Woman's Club of Conshohocken. An inventory of the collection is provided below:
MEMBERSHIP AND MEETING MINUTES AND NOTES
Membership and Meeting Notes November 14,1897
Corresponding notes of the corresponding secretary, 1897-1905
Record of attendance and meeting minutes/notes, 1899-1903
Membership and Meeting Notes , 1901-1902
Membership and Meeting Notes, 1902-1903
Membership and Meeting Notes, 1904-907
Membership and Meeting Notes, 1907-1910
Meeting minutes and record of meeting attendance, 1911-1920
Meeting minutes of the book section of the Women's Club, 1918-1924
Membership names, addresses and record of payments, 1920-1926
Cash accounts of the Women's Club, 1897-1905
Cash Accounts (Ledger), 1897-1920
The First National Bank of Conshohocken, 1902-1905
The First National Bank of Conshohocken, 1912-1922
The First National Bank of Conshohocken, 1923-1925
Bank Book from The First National Bank of Conshohocken, 1930-1947
SCRAPBOOKS
Newspaper clippings regarding local events involving the Women's Club, 1924-1936
Newspaper clippings from The Conshohocken Recorder regarding local events involving the Women's Club, 1936-1939
Newspaper clippings from Conshohocken Recorder, Times Herald, Inquirer, Bulletin, Round Table regarding local events, 1939-1946
Press Book: Newspaper clippings from The Conshohocken Recorder, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Round Table, Norristown Times Herald an Philadelphia Record regarding local events involving the Women's Club, 1939-1946
Newspaper clippings from Conshohocken Recorder, Times Herald, Inquirer, Bulletin, Round Table regarding local events, 1946-1948
8x10 black & white photographs of Women's Club members during the presidency of Mrs. Edwin (Maza) Montross, 1946-1948
Newspaper clippings regarding local events, 1948-1949
Scrapbook, 1952-1959
Newspaper clippings from the Times Herald involving the Women's Club, 1959-1960
Newspaper clippings from Recorder, Montgomery Post, Montgomery County County Shipping News, 1961-1964
Newspaper clippings from Conshohocken Recorder, Times Herald, Inquirer, Bulletin, Round Table regarding local events involving the Women's Club, 1965-1966
Scrapbook, 1966-1967
Scrapbook, 1967-1968
Scrapbook, 1968-1969
Scrapbook, 1969-1970
ARTICLES AND CLIPPINGS
Clippings, 1925
Conshohocken Community Center Clippings 1926-1927
PHOTOS AND SNAPSHOTS
5x7 portraits taken during the presidency of Mrs. Harold Shoemaker, 1931-1936
8x10 black & white portraits of Women's Club members during the presidency of Mrs. Edwin (Maza) Montross, 1946-1948
snapshots, 1957
snapshots, 1977
Gifted to the Conshohocken Historical Society at the time of the Club's disbandment, circa 1994.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of a pilot project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Conshohocken Historical Society directly for more information.
Organization
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Conshohocken Historical Society
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
-
Contact Conshohocken Historical Society for information about accessing this collection.