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Woman's Club of Wyncote records
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Held at: Old York Road Historical Society [Contact Us]
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"The Woman's Club of Wyncote organized in November, 1898, with Mrs. Maurice J. Hoover, as president, and Mrs. William C. Kent as secretary, to form an organized center for the intellectual and social development of its members, and to promote such public measures as shall be conducive to the welfare of the community. The programs are devoted to literary subjects and interests."
The club appears to be still active as of 2012.
Bibliography:
Hunsicker, Clifton Swenk. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: A History, volume 1. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1923. Page 214.
The bulk of the Woman's Club of Wyncote records, 1898-2005, is made up of scrapbooks compiled by Flavia Witte. The Club's "history" scrapbooks, created between 1980 and 2005, include photographs, newspaper clippings, printed pamphlets, speeches, and ephemera from 1898 to 2005. There is also a President's scrapbook with annual reports, budgets, correspondence, and newspaper clippings from the 1980s; a scrapbook with pictures of past presidents; and a centennial luncheon scrapbook.
The collection also features several volumes, including minute books, 1924-1938; membership lists, 1913-1928; account books, 1916-1938; and guest ledgers, 1925-1930. "Yearbooks," printed annually with treasurer's reports, annual reports, membership lists, and list of Board members, are present in this collection for every year from 1906-2005.
Gift, 2006.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), using data provided by the Old York Road Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project 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 done in the HCI-PSAR project.
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- Old York Road Historical Society
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- 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
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- 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.
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