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Women's Club of Flourtown records
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Held at: Springfield Township Historical Society (Montgomery County, Pa.) [Contact Us]1432 Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown, PA , 19031
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Springfield Township Historical Society (Montgomery County, Pa.). Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Flourtown Chapter of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), colloquially known as the Women's Club of Flourtown, first began meeting in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1940. The group was originally known as the Whitemarsh Valley Woman's Club, and under that name was inducted into the Montgomery County Federation of Woman's Clubs in 1941. From the 1950s to the 1990s the club met in the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, which is located in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, and so the club became known as the Women's Club of Flourtown. The club was primarily a community service, volunteer, and charitable organization.
Bibliography:
"GFWC Woman's Club of Flourtown Origins and History." Document found in collection.
This collection includes meeting minutes, scrapbooks, event files, and various other records of the Women's Club of Flourtown. The meeting minutes span from 1974 to 1990, and there are also by-laws, 1991. The scrapbooks (there are two) consist of press clippings. There are files on several events run by the Club, including a file on the Kidney Dialysis Center Project, 1967; a file on the Festival of the Arts, 1985; and extra event photographs, circa 1985. The collection also includes annual statistics reports, publicity reports (1966-1985), and program booklets (1971-1984).
This collection is associated with accession numbers 2004.7 and 2008.57. Most of items gift of First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, circa 2008.
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 Springfield Township Historical Society directly for more information.
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- Publisher
- Springfield Township Historical Society (Montgomery County, Pa.)
- 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.
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