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Founded in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the Union and the policies of President Abraham Lincoln, the Union League of Philadelphia laid the philosophical foundation of other Union Leagues across a nation torn by Civil War. From its founding to the present, the League has been a leading civic organization and has played an important role in the history of our country and the City of Philadelphia. Over the past 150 years, this service has ranged from raising troops during the Civil War and lobbying for enforcement of the “freedom” amendments during Reconstruction, to feeding the hungry during the Great Depression, to finding jobs for returning veterans after World War II. The Union League has hosted U.S. presidents, heads of state, industrialists, entertainers and visiting dignitaries from around the globe. It has also given loyal support to the American military in each conflict since the Civil War, and continues to be driven by its founding motto, "Love of Country Leads."
The classic French Renaissance-styled League building, with its brick and brownstone façade and dramatic twin circular staircases leading to the main entrance on Broad Street, dates to 1865. Additions to the building in the Beaux Arts style, designed by Philadelphia architects Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele and completed in 1910 and 1911, expanded the building to occupy an entire city block. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Inside, the traditional décor is accented in rich leather, patinated wood and polished marble. Adorning the walls and hallways is the League’s distinguished collection of art and artifacts. The collection is a rich, historical chronicle of Philadelphia’s unique imprint upon the American landscape from the 19th century to today and is recognized by historians and art experts as valuable components of our shared American history.
Biographical note taken entirely from the websites of the Union League of Philadelphia (http://www.unionleague.org/history-philanthropy.php) and the Heritage Center of the Union League of Philadelphia (http://www.ulheritagecenter.org/)
The Union League of Philadelphia archives houses a wide variety of records related to the general administration of the Union League, its mission, building and history. Additionally, researchers will find a small sampling of papers more generally related to the Civil War, including a few letters written by Abraham Lincoln. Dating from 1833 to 2010, the collection holds architectural drawings; broadsides, circulars and other ephemera; clippings; correspondence; meeting minutes; photographs and drawings; and annual reports.
For the most complete documentation of the history of the Union League, researchers should first consult the Architectural Drawings, Minutes and Records series. In architectural drawings, there is a collection of drawings evidencing the various systems within the Union League's Broad Street building as well as several renovation projects. The Records series houses the meeting minutes of the Board of Directors and the annual reports of the Union League, among other records. The Minutes series houses the minutes of the House Committee.
For the most part, the collection is arranged alphabetically by record type, though researchers should note that there is significant overlap among the record groups. For example, the Documents, Files, Letters, Minutes and Records series contain similar materials. Likewise, the Broadsides, Circulars, Ephemera and Pamphlet series all contain ephemera. Many of the series house a small number of items, while others, like the Clippings or Records series are significantly more robust.
The creation of the electronic guide for this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources’ “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Finding aid entered into the Archivists' Toolkit by Garrett Boos and Courtney Smerz.
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Collection Inventory
Abar Corporation Rooms 516-518-520. 1 item, duplicate r68.
Bower Lewis Thrower. Fire Suppression & Alarm System. 7 items r51, duplicates r52.
Bower Lewis Thrower. Master Plan (from Air Conditioning plan). 6 items r53.
Bower Lewis Thrower. Project 6, Options A, B, C, D Fifth Floor, Fifteenth Street Squash Courts and Fitness Center, Hotel. Presentation boards. 4 items. Shelf 77 top.
[Bower Lewis Thrower]. Unidentified Project. Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street, Sub-basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Penthouse. Presentation boards. 4 items. Shelf 77, top.
Sarstedt & Association Main Kitchen Proposed. 1 item.
Tull. North Dining Room Lighting. 1 item
Tull. Proposed changes (basement). Project B8426. 1 blueprint.
Ballard. Dining Room, Middle, Cornice. 1 item.
Ballard. Banquet & Board Rooms treatments. 3 items.
?Wagner-Taylor. Water Lines Plan.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1909-1939.
circa 1909 Philadelphia City Supporting Piers or Underpinnings for Broad Street Subway. 1 item.
1909 Trumbauer. 15th Street Building. Project 1992. See VII. 1992
1910-1911 Trumbauer. Middle Building. Project 2085. See VII.2085.
1911 Trumbauer. Broad Street Basement Alterations. Project 2110. See VII.2085.
1914 Frank C. Roberts. Broad Street 1st, second, Mezzanines. Project 4290. See VII.4290
1914 Frank C. Roberts. Broad Street Basement, Ground. Project 4291 See VII.4290.
1916 Frank C. Roberts. Toilet, Wash & Cloak Rooms Alterations. Project 4289. See VII.4290.
1930 Ritter & Shay. Boker Area, Ground Fl/Ladies Dining, Reception. Project P-194. 16 blueprints, poor condition.
1930 Ritter & Shay. Women's Quarters Alterations. Project 1276. 14 blueprints, poor condition.
1931 Ritter & Shay. First floor plan. 1 blueprint.
1938 Anderson. Ducts: Basement, Sub-basement, Dining Rooms. 3 items r46. Duplicates: blueprint.
1939 D'Ambly. Kitchen Ventilating System Alterations and Additions. 1 blueprint, marked, poor condition; duplicate r68.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1940-1950.
1945 C. Tull with Manypenny. Switchboard Proposed Changes. 1 blueprint.
1945 Haney. Front Office, Pres. Office Adjacent Areas Survey. 1 item.
1947 Tull. Turkish Bath Alterations. Project C-718. 1 blueprint.
1948 Tull. Electrical-1946-47. Project C 2178. 8 items. Tull & Pringle E5527. Switchboard. Project D 15609. 1 item.
1948 Steele. Transformer Room Proposed Alteration. Project 76. 2 blueprints.
1949 ONSA Brothers Cafeteria & Counter Layout. Project 5383. 1 item.
1950 Fleming. Heating - Boiler & Engine Room. 2 blueprints.
1950 Tull & Manypenny S1411. Switchboard, supersedes D15609. Project D17823. 1 item.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
1952 Tull. Fire Alarm, Emergency, Exit Lighting. Project C-9895. 9 items.
1952-1953 Ballard. Front Office Layout/Old Café/Oak Room & Counter. 17 items, part second set; duplicates r68.
1953 Ershler-Krukin. Oak Room Kitchen Equipment. 15 items.
1953 S. Olsen (incl. Tilton, Peelle, LCN). Subveyor Details. Project E-2961. 12 items.
1953 Ballard. Dishwashing Area Proposed. 1 item.
1953 Jellett. Air Conditioning. Project 5840. See VII.5840.
1953 ?D. M. Hunt. Letter Rack Base.
1953 Tull. Barber Shop Lighting. 1 item.
1953 Tull & Pringle H531. Switchboard supersedes D 17823. Project E 21780. 1 item.
1953 J. P. Manypenny. Dual Service with 2300v, 2ph, 3w. Project S-2651. 1 blueprint.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1954-1959.
1954-1956 Harry B. Binkin Water Lines and Seating. see VII.1956
1954 Bower Brothers Water System Changes. 1 blueprint; duplicate r68
1954 Johnson Service Co. Fan Systems: Oak North/South Dining, Ladies Dining & Lounge. 4 items r62.
1954 Anderson Air Conditioning, Basement, Ground, First floors. (Jellett 5879). 1 item r47; duplicate blueprint.
1954 York Co. with Bower Brothers for Jellett 5879. New 140 Ton Cooler. Project 44-4099. 12 items.
1954 American Air filter. Roll-o-Matic Air Filter. 1 item.
1956 Yohn. Cigar Case and Magazine Rack. Project 431. 1 item.
1957 Otis Elevator. 10-21 & 30 UCL Controller Broad Street. 2 Mylar.
1958 Murphy Quigley. Dishwasher Installation. 1 blueprint.
1958 Otis. 20 & 50 UCL Controller, Kitchen. 6 Mylar.
1959 Kling. Lincoln Room. See VII.1959.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1960-1962.
1960 Kling. Men's Grille Alterations. See VII.1961
1960 Jellett. Air conditioning. See VII.5840
1960 Anderson. Duct Work. 60025. r48/Jellett 6095--see VII.5840
1960 Johnson. Air Conditioning Controls, 060-78. 2 copies, r62
1960 W. Amend. Portable Food Cart. Project 261 1 item/duplicate r 68
1961 Johnson. AC Controls. Project 160-180. 2 copies, r62
1961 Amend. Under Bar Equipment. Project 283. 4 items.
1961 Kling. Café/Bar Plans, Women's Lounge Survey, Fire Protection. See VII.1961.
1961 Jellett. Air Conditioning. See VII.5840
1962 Kling. Card Room & Doorman's Desk, Rostrum/Table Top Speaker, Lincoln Room Desk, Card Room. See VII.1961.
1962 Jellett. Air Conditioning. See VII.5840.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1963-1965.
1963 Kling. Ladies Lounge, Benson Room. See VII.1961.
1963 George M. Ewing. Staff Dining Room, revised 1964. 1 item, poor condition.
1963 Johnson. Thermostats. Project 260-214. 1 item r62.
1964 Anderson. Toilet Renovation, Second floor, Sansom Street (Broad Street). Void, not built. 1 item, duplicate r68.
1964 Kling. Table Top Speaker Desk/Lectern, Benson Room Chandelier, Marble Room, Benson Room. See VII.1961.
1964 McCloskey-Grant. Display Case. 1 item.
1964 John A. Miller. Freight and Service Elevators 4 & 5. 2 items.
1964 Interior Milling. Oak Showcase, Lincoln Room. 1 item, duplicate r70.
1965 Otis. 10-21 & 30 UCL Controller, Kitchen. 5 Mylar.
1965 Kling. Ladies Lounge. See VII.1961.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1966-1970.
1966 Vickery Stone Co. Broad Street Building Brownstone. Project 9328-L. 14 items.
1966 Otis. 21 & 30 AU1 Controller. Project13-1S7402T. 21 items.
1966 Kling. Men's Room, Ladies Lounge Entrance. See VII.1961.
1967 Heebner. Women's Room, Ground floor, Broad Street. 1item.
1967 Kling. Women's Powder Room, second floor. See VII.1961.
1961 Jellett. Air Conditioning. See VII.5840.
1968 Yohn. Lincoln Room Door to Closet. 1 item.
1970 National Products (& South Jersey Metal Inc.). Silver Sort Table. 2 items.
1970 Blakeslee. Kitchen Equipment (steam heat wiring). 1 item.
1970 Ewing Cole Erdman Eubank. Proposed Alteration, 3rd, 4th floor See VII.1970.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1971-1972.
1971 Allabach & Rennis. Waste Compactor & Laundry Details, Fifteenth Street Fifth floor. Project 2903. 2 items.
1971 Murphey Quigley (with Allabach). Chute, Curtain Wall. Project 244. 2 items.
1971 Pomerantz. Executive Offices (revised 1973-1975). 5 items.
1971 H. B. Frazer. New Electrical Service & Distribution/Refrigeration Control Panel. Project 7128. 6 items, duplicates r69
1971 Ewing Cole. Receiving & Archives Department See VII.1970.
1972 Ewing Cole. Partial First, Partial Ground Alterations, Food Service Equipment Layout. See VII.1970
1972 Anderson (for Ewing). Ductwork:, Sub-basement. 6 items, 2 sets r49, 50.
1972 Interspace Inc. Sheridan Grille Table plan. Project 2042. 2 items.
1972 Keystone Fire. Kitchen Fire Protection. 1 item.
1972 Equipment Sales Co. (for Ewing Cole/McQuade). Kitchen Equipment. 7 items.
1972 Johnson (submitted by W. M. Anderson Co.). Air Temperature Controls. Project 260-90. 8 items, including title, r63.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1975-1985.
1975 A & R Engineering. Squash Court Feasibility, Middle Section. Project 75051. 6 items.
1976 Pomerantz. Dining Room, Lower Level. 1 item, duplicate r70.
1979 Interior Milling. Counter Top. Project 1558. 2 items.
1980 Ewing Cole Cherry. 1st Floor Office Renovations, Renovations to Existing Office. See VII.1970.
1982 Unidentified. Proposed gas piping, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement. 1 item.
1983 Delaware Valley York. Broad Street Steam Heat. Project S-122. 1 item, duplicate r68. VOID-removed 1985
1984 H2L2. Meridian Suite. Project 3021. 2 items.
1985 Diversified Interior Design. PNB Apartment at U.L. Project D8515. 5 items.
1985 Fluidics Inc. Suite 415 Air Conditioning. 2 items.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Architectural drawings of, or relating to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1986-2000.
1986 H2L2. New Women's Toilets & Coat Room Layout, Fifteenth Street First floor. Project 1562. 4 items.
1987 A&R Engineering. Boker Room Renovation Structural Plan. Project 87121. 1 item, duplicate r68.
1988-1989 Bower Lewis Thrower. Master Plan. Broad Street, Fifteenth Street, Middle Section, Sub-basement, Basement, ground, First, second, Third, Fourth, Fifth; alternate plans for Fifteenth Street and Middle Section Fifth, Third, Fourth Floor suites, Ground and Basement. 12 items. Presentation boards. Shelf 78 top, dup. of alternate plans in flat drawers.
circa 1988-1989 Bower Lewis Thrower. Fifteenth Street Fourth Floor Squash Courts, Fifth Floor Fitness Center. 2 items. Presentation boards. Shelf 77 top.
1988 Killinger Kise Franks Straw Improvement. Sansom Street Entrance Proposed. Project 88050 (with Trumbauer 1992-1996). 3 items.
1989 Fitz, R. S. ?Café Section/Section thru Door Threshold. Project Sk-2114-023. 1 item, duplicate r69.
1990 Clemmer. Washington Grays Monument. 1 item, duplicate r68.
1995 Kopple & Association Grille Room, etc. Project 888. 3 items r67, duplicate r70.
2000 DPK&A. Sansom Street Entrance. 2 items.
2000-2001 Thompson, William Post & Association Archives Plus, Broad Street Third Floor. Project 008. 6 items. Not executed.
(Collection: Union League Drawings)
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
The kitchen renovation involved pantries and elevators on the First and Second Floors. Drawings dated 1945 are for projects not built or possibly built later; 1946 drawings are for kitchen renovations.
This series is for the kitchen renovation. Additional drawings may be found in subsequent series.
#1 Plan for General Construction of Kitchen Ground Floor. July 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#2 Plans of Sections, pantries, 1st, second floors; Plan of Storage Refrigerators, Ground floor. July, December 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#3 Key Plan and Section of the Kitchen Ground Floor. July, December 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#4 Details and Section, Kitchen Ground Floor. July, December 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#5 Sections through Elevator Hoistways #2 and #3. June, December 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#6 Miscellaneous Details, Kitchen Ground Floor. July 1946, February 1947.
#7 Foundation at Elevator Pits. September 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#8 Reflected Plan of Kitchen Showing Ventilating Ducts. November 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#9 Part Plan of Kitchen Showing Location of Chef's New Office, Relocation of Refrigerator, #2 Garde Manger Counter. November 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
#10 Layout of Kitchen Equipment ("see sheet Number 34 for schedule of Equipment). July 1947. Duplicates: blueprint r16.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
The kitchen renovation involved pantries and elevators on the First and Second Floors. Drawings dated 1945 are for projects not built or possibly built later; 1946 drawings are for the kitchen.
P Series includes blueprint surveys of existing conditions, proposed kitchen and other changes, with revised and marked for revision changes that may have been for later projects.
#P-1 Survey, Sub Basement Plan, Fifteenth Street. August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-2 Survey, Basement Plan, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. July 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-3 Survey, Ground Floor Plan. Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. "See drawing Number 1 Construction of Kitchen for present arrangement" (VII.1497.1). July 1946. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-4 Survey, First Floor, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. "See drawing No 2, First and Second floor Pantries for present arrangement" (VII.1497.1 for original survey and present arrangement). August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-5 Survey, Second Floor, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. "See drawing Number 2, First and Second floor pantries for present arrangement' (VII.1497.1). August 1945.
#P-6 Survey, Third Floor, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-7 Survey, Fourth Floor, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-8 Survey, Loft, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
#P-9 Survey, Fifth Floor, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. August 1945. Duplicates: blueprint r17.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
P Series includes blueprint surveys of existing conditions, proposed kitchen and other changes, with revised and marked for revision changes that may have been for later projects.
#P-12 First Floor, Broad Street, Middle Section, Scheme B. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." November 1945. Superseded by P-45.
#P-13 First Floor, Fifteenth Street, Alternate Scheme B. September 1945.
#P14 Basement, Scheme A. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." November 1945. Superseded by P-45.
#P-[15?] Ground Floor (Kitchen), Scheme A. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." October 1945.
#P-16 Second Floor, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street, Scheme A. November 1945. Superseded by P-45.
#P-17 Ground Floor (Kitchen) Scheme B. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." November 1945. Superseded by P-35.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
P Series includes blueprint surveys of existing conditions, proposed kitchen and other changes, with revised and marked for revision changes that may have been for later projects.
#P-18 Executive Offices, First Floor Arrangement, Fifteenth Street, Scheme C. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." November 1945.
#P-19 Health Bath, Ground Floor, Fifteenth Street. Marked "Present Work to remain" and "New Work." October 1945.
#P-20 Changes in Layout of Equipment in Baker and Salad Pantry, Ground Floor. October 1945.
#P-21 Elevator Machine Room; Part Elevation Moravian Street, Broad Street; Part Elevation Sansom Street, Broad Street. November 1945.
#P-22 Proposed Changes for Bar Room and Snack Room, First Floor, Broad Street. November 1945.
#P-23 Proposed Changes for New Front Office, First Floor, Broad Street. November 1945.
#P-24 Elevation Showing Possible Arrangement of Drawings for Display in Main Corridor. November 1945.
#P-26 Plans and Elevation of Proposed Additions and Changes to Present Board Room, Second Floor, Broad Street. November 1945. (Also original drawing with VII.1497.1)
#P-28 Details for Pent Houses, Third Floor, Broad Street. December 1945.
#P-29 Plans, Details, Secrions, Elevations of Emergency Exit, Bowling Alleys, Heat Ducts, and Dining Room Window Sills, Fifteenth Street. December 1945.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
P Series includes blueprint surveys of existing conditions, proposed kitchen and other changes, with revised and marked for revision changes that may have been for later projects.
#P-35 Part of Ground Floor Kitchen Layouts. Supersedes Sheet P-17. June 1946.
#P-36 Footing Plan of Columns, Middle Building. See also Trumbauer 2085-#56. June 1946. Duplicates: Photostat r18.
#P-37 Ground, First Floor Framing, Middle Building. See also Trumbauer 2085-#16. June 1946. Duplicates: Photostat r18.
#P-38 Second, Third Floor Framing, Middle Building. See also Trumbauer 2085-#17. June 1946. Duplicates: Photostat r18.
#P-39 Fourth Floor Framing, Middle Building. See also Trumbauer 2085-#18. June 1946.
#P-40 Procedure Diagram for Rebuilding Kitchen. May 1946.
#P-41 Procedure Diagram Procedure Diagram Second Operation of Rebuilding Kitchen. May 1946.
#P-42 Procedure Diagram Third Operation of Rebuilding Kitchen. May 1946.
#P-43 Procedure Diagram Fourth Operation of Rebuilding Kitchen. May 1946.
#P-44 Procedure Diagram Fifth Operation of Rebuilding Kitchen. May 1946.
#P-45 Part of Basement, 1st floor Pantry, part of Second Floor plan, part of Third Floor plan (elevator). Supersedes Sheets P-14, P-12, P-16. June 1946.
#P-46 Wall Panel in Corridor East of South Dining Room, First Floor, Middle Building. May 1946.
#P-47 [Kitchen.] July 1946.
#P-48 [Kitchen.] October 1946.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
M, PM, PMR are blueprints clipped together as "Preliminary and working plans for ventilation."
#M-1 Dining Rooms, First Floor, Middle Section. December 1945.
#M-2 Basement Equipment Room. December 1945.
#M-3 Kitchen. December 1945.
#M-4 Dishwashing Room. "Void Not Built." December 1945.
#M-5 Card Room, Second Floor, Broad Street. "Void? Check." November 1945.
#M-6 Health Baths, Ground Floor, Fifteenth Street. "Void? Check." December 1945.
#M-7 Bowling alley and Locker rooms, Basement, Fifteenth Street. "Void? Check." December 1945.
#M-8 Sub Basement. "Void Not Built." December 1945.
#M-9 Banquet, Second Floor, Broad Street. "Void. Not Built." December 1945.
#M-10 Ladies Dining Room, Basement, Broad Street. "Void. Not Built." December 1945.
#PM-1 Ventilation of Main Kitchen. June 1946.
#PM-2 Basement Ventilation & Piping. "Void." June 1946.
#PM-3 Revised Ventilation & Piping. "Void. Not built this way." June 1946.
PMR-3Ground Floor Plan. June 1946.
PMR-4 Basement, Part First, Second, Fourth. June 1946.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Blueprints for electrical and details.
#PE-1 Ground Floor electrical. June 1946.
#PE-2 Basement, Sub Basement electrical. June 1946.
#PE-3 First, Second, Third, Fourth electrical. June 1946.
#PE-5 Sub Basement electrical. June 1946.
#SK-1 Detail Hood Lighting Fixture. December 1946.
#SK-2 Reflected Plan of Kitchen Ceiling showing Location of General Lighting Outlets. December 1946.
#SK-3 Plans and Detail Transformer Substation. December 1946.
#SK-5 Plan of Kitchen Showing Power Wiring Receptacles. December 1946.
#SK-6 Wing Diagrams for Refrigerators. December 1946.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Belfi (with Steele). Marble Layout, February 1947.
Crescent Iron Works. Miscellaneous Steel Doors for Stairs, Project P144 November 1946.
Donovan. Main Kitchen Duct Layout, Project 689, 1947.
Drehmann. Kitchen Tile Alterations, October 1946.
Elliott-Lewis. Refrigeration Layout, March 1944.
Habgood. Counters, Partitions, Frames, Project 7386, October 1946. Bronze Rail, Project 10983.
Jamison. Freezer Doors, Project BS-4243.
Mack Machine. Refrigeration Installation, 1947.
Market Forge. Shelving Layout, Project A-3925, January 1947.
Nesbitt. B50 Thermovent, Project 32611, September 1946.
Olsen. Subveyor.
Otis Elevator. Passenger Elevator, Project P2901 November 1945. Elevators 2 & 3, Project 250197/96 August 1946. Trumbauer Elevator, Project 1295, 1909.
Robinson Steel. Elevator Steel, Project 13514, 1946. Column Underpinnings, September 1946.
J. Steel. Steel Shelving November 1946. Transformer Room Proposed Alteration, Project 76, March 1948 (2 blueprints).
Sundries Service Co. Kitchen Equipment Details, 1947.
W. S. Tykler. Otis #250196 & 97, Project E8355, December 1946.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Third Floor, Broad Street Alterations, Project 1472, October 1945. 3 paper. Duplicates: blueprints r14.
Basement, Ground, First, Second Floor Alterations, Improvements (becomes #1497) November 1945. 4 blueprints, 2 paper. Duplicates 4 paper r15.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
1950-1956
Men's Washroom, First Floor east, Project 1852 November 1951. 1 on paper. Duplicates: blueprint.
Men's Washroom, First Floor east, Project 1884, February 1952. 1 on paper.
Help's Quarters, Including Basement and Sub basement locker rooms, male help's toilet, ground floor, nw. corner of Broad Street, women's locker room and toilet, Ground Floor, Project 2065 (also 1625c), 1954-56. 9 paper, 1 blueprint. Duplicates 5 blueprints (women's locker room) r19.
West Coat Room Alterations, Project 2068, September 1954. 12 paper. Duplicates (#P:1-5) 5 blueprints r19
Broad Street Door and Vestibule Alterations, Project 2069, May 1955. 1 blueprint
Fifteenth Street Entrance/Vestibule Alterations, Project 2146, August 1956. 7 paper.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Broad Street Building Fire Protection and New Elevators, Project 2172, April 1957. 19linen, paper, blueprint, Photostats. Duplicates 6 blueprints r20.
Electric wires for cooling heads of departments on Project 2172 drawings. 3 paper, 4 blueprints.
Ground Floor Service Bar, Project 2199, June 1957. 2 paper, 1 Photostat. Duplicates 1 blueprint, 2 Photostats r20.
Fire Doors and Partitions, Project 2212, June 1957. 9 blueprints. Duplicates. Photostat r21.
Moravian Street Service Entrance, Project 2217, 1957. 2 paper, 2 Photostats.
Lighting Fixtures & Standards, Project 2224, October 1957. 2 paper.
Main Service Bar, First Floor, Project 2235, October 1957. 4 linen, paper, blueprint (see also Project 2172 #SVY2, and duplicates). Duplicates 2 blueprints, 2 Photstats r22.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Broad Street Entrance Alterations, Project 2254, January 1958. 8 linen, paper, Photostats. Duplicates: 2 blueprints, 1 Photostat r22.
Dishwashing Area Alterations & Soiled Dish Receiving Room, Project 2255, 1958. 12 linen, paper, blueprint, Photostats. Duplicates 8 blueprints, 4 Photostats r23.
Various Pantry Alterations, 2255a, 1958. 3 paper. Duplicates: 3 blueprints r24.
Cocktail Room, Proposed Screen, Project 2258, 1958. 4 paper, blueprint, Photostats.
Ladies Cloak Room, Proposed Alterations, Project 2266, January 1958. 5 paper. Duplicates: blueprint, 2 Photostats r24.
Bencker prepared plans for a number of proposed alterations throughout the Union League building in 1945. Eventually the projects were divided into an A and B list, with only A, kitchen renovation, being approved by the members.
Bencker provided plans for Union League building alterations, an arrangement that was formalized by a 1953 agreement with the House Committee. The agreement ended in 1960.
Ground, Main, Second, Floor, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street Plans prepared from data assembled by office, Project 2309, May 1959. 3 Mylar. Duplicates: Photostat r25. Ladies Lounge, Proposed, Project 2314/2318, February 1959. 5 paper, 2 blueprints.
Louis Klauder's drawings for a new steam generation plant. See "Steam Generation in the Union League Building," 1984, in House Committee records. Plans are in large and small format, flat and rolled.
#1790.1-10 Includes originals, bid, and as built sets (*note: small format not found October 2007). Duplicates 2, 4 in r37. See also r43
#1790.A-J Radiation, Fans, and Air Conditioning Units on plans for Sub-basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, Fifth floors, and Roof in Broad Street, Middle, and Fifteenth Street buildings. Also shown on Martin 8701-09, 8800. #100 New Ventilation System. VOID NOT BUILT.
n.n.(l) Boilers #1-7, Valve Identification. June 7, 1986.
Note: Bincken drew certain floor plans on heavy paper, titled "Water Lines," and transferred them to linen with dates, scale, and initials added. The linens were copied with "Hot" and "Cold" added to the titles. However, few of the drawings actually show any of the water lines.
Binckin's linens (all in drawer 5) and any drawings and duplicates showing actual water lines were retained.
Sub-basement May 4, 1954
Sub-basement Hot Water Lines/ dup r45 June 1, 1954
Sub-basement Cold Water Lines June 25, 1954
Sub-basement Plan & Elevation of Hot & Cold December 57
Water Lines/ dup. r45
Fifteenth Street, Basement Water Lines November 5, 1954
Middle, Basement Water Lines November 15, 1954
Water Lines in Kitchen December 17, 1954
Fifteenth Street, Ground floor Water Lines January 10, 1955
Broad Street, Ground floor Water Lines January 30, 1956
Broad Street, Ground floor Hot & Cold Water Lines January 30, 1956
Broad Street, Ground floor Water Lines March 7, 1956
Fifteenth Street, First floor Water Lines December 16, 1955
Middle Building, First floor, Water Lines January 4, 1956
Middle Building, First floor Cold Water Lines r44
Middle Building, First floor Hot Water Lines r44
Broad Street, First floor Water Lines March 56
Broad Street, First floor Cold Water Lines March 7, 1956 (not found October 2007)
Unidentified floor (with "Library Storage") r44
Other
Second floor Pantries February 14, 1955
Receiving Department February 22, 1955
Lincoln Hall Seating 642
Lincoln Hall Seating 483
Oak Room Seating (3/8" scale) February 10, 1954 Showing Water Lines? r44
Oak Room Seating (1/4" scale) June 11, 1954 Showing Water Lines? r44
North/South Marble Dining, Benson Rooms, June 18, 1954 Corridor Lighting
Former President's Office December 20, 1955
Restaurant/Coat Room November 28, 1944
Ladies Room Seating r44.
Vincent Kling designed many small projects in the 1960s.
1959 Lincoln Room Alterations. Project 382. 8 items.
1960 Men's Grille Alterations. Project 429, with 1982 notes. 29 items, duplicates r64.
1961 Old Café/Bar Plans. Project 469. 12 items, 4 Photstats.
1961 Women's Lounge Survey. Project 470. 1 item, duplicate r66.
1961 Fire Protection, Sub-basement, Basement, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth floors, Broad Street, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street. Project 493, in two phases, 1962-1963. 18 items, duplicate r65.
1962 Card Room, Doorman's Desk, Lincoln Room Lecterns. Project 537-1D, revised to 1964. 4 items.
1962 Rostrum/Table Top Speakers Desk, Lincoln Room. Project 510ID. 2 items.
1962 Card Room. Project 537C. 5 items.
1963 Ladies Lounge. Project 537D. 5 items, duplicate r66.
1963 Benson Room Existing Conditions. Project 537F. 2 items.
1963 Doorman's Desk, Ladies Lounge. 1 item.
1964 Table Top Speaker/Lectern. Project 537. 2 items.
1964 Benson Room Chandelier. 1 item.
1964 North and South Marble Rooms, Benson Room. Project 537E. 6 items, duplicate r66.
1965 Ladies Lounge. 2 items.
1966. Men's Room, Fifteenth Street. Project 537H. 1 item.
1966 Ladies Lounge Entrance. Project 537I. 1 item.
1967 Women's Powder Room, Second floor. Project 537-04. 2 items.
Undated. Marble Rooms Chandelier sketch. 1 item.
Ewing Cole Erdman & Eubank was succeeded in the late 1970s by Ewing Cole Cherry & Parsky.
1970 Proposed Alterations, Middle Section Third, Fourth floors, Fifteenth Street First Floor. Project 2870. 4 items
1971 Receiving & Archives Department (Sub-basement). Project 2671. 5 items, duplicates r55.
1972 Fifteenth Street Partial First floor, Partial Ground floor Alterations. Project 2771. 21 items, duplicates r56.
1972 Food Service Equipment Layout (with Bohnet). 3 items, duplicates r57.
1980 First floor Office Renovations. 2 items, duplicate r57. VOID, NOT BUILT.
1980 Renovations to Existing Office. Project 8011. 1 item, duplicate.
Undated floor plans for Sub basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, Fifth Floors, Middle Section, Fifteenth Street.
r26: All floors except Loft (stained)
r27: Partial set with some notations for Sub basement, First, Second Floors
r28: Duplicates for First, Second, Third Floors
Above floor plans with revisions made in 1972.
r29: All floors except Loft (sepia)
r30: Annotated with steam piping, includes room numbers, some room names, dimensions
r31: Annotated "Used for calculating loads"
r32: Duplicates, Sub basement, Ground, First, Second, Fourth Floors
r33: Mylar, Fourth, Fifth Floors.
Theodore Martin's floor plans were adapted from the 1972 series and subsequently used for other house drawings. Drawings in small and large (l) format, and are stored in both flat and rolled ( r ) series.
11 x 17 Architectural Originals (numbered by Martin), (with working plans and Klauder plans--not located October 2007). "Information now on 1/8" scale drawings." See r54.
11 x 17 Radiation, Fan, and Air Conditioning Units, with Klauder drawings. "now on Mechanical drawings 1/8" scale." (not located October 2007). See Martin 8701-09
#8701-8709 Mechanical Floor Plans for Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, and Fifth floors, and Roof, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings. r38 (#8701-8708) set of 1972 drawings with 1987 revisions showing Kitchen Steam Piping in Sub-basement and Basement and AC Locker Rooms and Print Shop in Basement and Ground. r39 (#8701-8709, 8800), 1988 set numbered differently to include Loft, with Schedule of AC, Heat, Fan System; on Mylar, slightly stained. r40 (#8701-8708), revised 1989. #8709 see also r43.
#8710 (l) Mechanical Department, Pot, Sink, Steam Coil, Coil Guards
#8712-8713 Condensing Water Schematic, Chilled Water Schematic
#8714 Sub Basement Equipment Layout
#8720-24 Air Conditioning, Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third floors, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings.
#8726-27 Ductwork, Third floor, Broad Street, existing and revised.
#8728-8730 Condensate Pump Installation, Sub-basement, Equipment Room.
#8731 Revised Boiler Room Condensate
#8732 Concrete Floor Repair, Equipment Room
#8733-8735 New Print Shop Air Conditioning, Sub-basement, Basement.
#8736-39 Fire Protection, including: Fire Escape, Sub-basement, Basement, Fround floors, Entrance for Fifteenth Street Building; Klauder drawings showing Fire Tower Review, Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, and Fifth floors for Middle and Fifteenth Street buildings.
Miscellaneous:
11 x 17 "Spare drawings" many "superseded."
Miscellaneous schematics and instructions re. AC units, vacuum pumps, boiler steam valves, etc.
Theodore Martin's floor plans were adapted from the 1972 series and subsequently used for other house drawings. Drawings in small and large (l) format, and are stored in both flat and rolled ( r ) series.
#8800 Mechanical Roof Plan r39. See also r43.
#8801-8818 Main Kitchen Air Conditioning System, revised 1988, 1989.
Theodore Martin's floor plans were adapted from the 1972 series and subsequently used for other house drawings. Drawings in small and large (l) format, and are stored in both flat and rolled ( r ) series.
#8900-8904 Proposed Basement Laundry Room--Conceptual Air Supply, Basement to Roof.
#8905-8907 Fourth floor Meeting Rooms Air Conditioning System, Middle Building, with calculations.
#8906-8914 Plumbing Layout, Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth floors, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings. r41 (no #8913). #8906-8910-fw, Water Filter System, Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings. r42
#8912-8921 New Domestic Hot Water Heater. #8913 see also r43.
#8915 Main KitchenAir Conditioning System, alternate basement mechanical room--VOID
#8924-8927 Air Conditioning Review, Sub-Basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, and Fifth floors, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings
#8929-8939 Expanded Basement Mechanical Room
#8940-8945 Third Floor Broad Street Building, Archives Department
#8946 (l) Air conditioning, Third floor Broad Street; Third floor Broad Street plan
#8947-8949 Air Conditioning: First, Second floors, Broad Street Building (with some duplicates).
Theodore Martin's floor plans were adapted from the 1972 series and subsequently used for other house drawings. Drawings in small and large (l) format, and are stored in both flat and rolled ( r ) series.
#9000 (l) Broad Street building Air Conditioning Control Schematic.
#9001-9002 Broad Street building Air Conditioning, Basement Mechanical.
#9003-9006 Broad Street Building Air Conditioning, Electrical Layout, Sub-basement, Basement, Ground, Third floors.
#9007 Broad Street Air Conditioning, Lighting and Fire.
#9008 (l) Electrical layout, Sub-basement.
#9009 (l) Electrical Schematic layout, Sub-Basement.
#9010-9020 Electrical layout, Equipment, Schedules and Panel Boards, Sub-basement, Basement, Ground, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Loft, Fifth floors, Roof, Broad Street, Middle, Fifteenth Street buildings. Also color-coded series.
#9021 (l) Electrical layout: Schematic of 2-Phase Electrical Power. See also r43.
Miscellaneous Color coded Mechanical Plans r43
Klauder 1790-2 Boiler Room
Martin 8709 5th floor
Martin 8800 Roof
Martin 8913 Loft plumbing
Martin 8946 3rd floor Broad Street AC
Martin 9021 Electric schematic
Bincken Sub Basement Schematic Piping Diagram/Domestic Water
Bincken Sub Basement Hot Water lines
Bincken Basement Plan & Elevation of Hot and Cold Water Lines
1988 Sub Basement plan
No # Boiler Room.
Floor Plans
#1 Sub-Basement, Basement. 1/4/09. Duplicate r2
#2 Ground, First. 1/4/09. Duplicate r2
#3 Second, Third. 1/4/09. Duplicate r2
#4 Fourth, Loft. 1/4/09. Duplicate r2
#5 Not present
Elevations and Cross Section
#6 15th St, Moravian. 1/4/09. Duplicates r2 blueprint & photostat (for mylar duplicate see Killinger)
#7 East, Sansom. 1/4/09. Blueprint, no original. Duplicate r2 photostat
#8 Cross Section Looking East, Longitudinal Section Looking . North. 1/4/09. In mylar. Duplicates r2 blueprint & photostat
#9 Not present
Details
#10 Library. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#11 Interior. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#12 Billiard Rm. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#13 Lounging Room, Museum. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
Footing and Framing
#14 Footing, framing. Basement. Duplicate r3
#15 Framing. Ground, First. Duplicate r3
#16 Framing. Second, Third. Duplicate r3
#17 Framing. Fourth, Loft. Duplicate r3
#18 Framing. Fifth, Roof. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#19 Column Schedule. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#20 Footing for Columns, &c. 1/4/09. Duplicate r3
#21 Suspended Ceiling Second, below First, First. 1/4/09.
Mechanical
#22 Sub-Basement, Basement. 1/4/09. Duplicate r4x2*
#23 Ground, First. 1/4/09. Duplicate r4x2*
#24 Second, Third. 1/4/09. Duplicate r4x2*+photostat r4m. Showing ductwork?
#25 Fourth, Loft. 1/4/09. Duplicate r4x2*+photostat r4m. Showing ductwork?
#26 Fifth, Roof. 1/4/09. Duplicate r4x2*+photostat r4x4m. Showing ductwork?
#27 Power Plant Showing Overhead Piping. 1/4/09. Duplicate r5.
#28 Power Plant Showing Underground Piping. 1/4/09. Duplicate r5 in poor condition.
#29 Riser Diagram. 1/4/09. Duplicate r5
Details
#30 Window Elevations/Details/Sections for Basement, Sub-Basement, Boiler & Pump Rms, &c. 4/1/09. Roll 1
#31-32 Not present
#33 Chases in Exterior Walls. Duplicate r5. Original corner damage repaired; blueprint condition poor.
#34 Details for Granite Base & Sansom St. Vestibule. 4/8/09. Roll 1.
#35 Exterior Detail for Main Entrance. 4/26/09. Roll 1
#36 Exterior Details Ground, First. 4/29/09
#37-40 Not present
Details
#41Details for Entrance, Vestibule. 7/26/09. Roll 1
#42 Not present
#43 Details for Library. 5/6/09. Duplicate r5 . Blueprint condition poor.
#44-47 Not present
#48 Details for Entrances on Sansom & Moravian; Window #117 & Returns of Limestone in 1st & Ground Floors Against Present Building. 5/17/09
#49-62 Not present
Details
#63 Details Entrance #124 & Returns of Base Mould (paper). 5/31/09
#64 ½ Plan of Cornice Showing Spacing of Brackets (paper). 6/2/09
#65 Detail Exterior from 1st Floor Cornice to Top of Ballustrade (roll1). 6/2/09. Poor condition
#66-74 Not present
#75 Details Terra Cotta Sills & Coping-Full Size (photostat). 7/15/09
#76 Details Doors #118, 124, 125, 225, 226, 322, 323, 522, 523, 722, 723 (paper). 7/20/09 + Revised
#77 Details Windows in Light Court. 7/29/09
#78 Openings #16-18, 21-31. 8/14/09
#79 Not present
Details--Chimneys
#80 Plan of Heat Ground fl. & Vent Flues Partitions. 8/24/09
#81 Heat & Vent Basement Ducts Revised. 8/24/09. Duplicates r6x2*
#82 Details Library Chimney Stacks (blueprint).
#83 Details North Billiard Rm. Chimney Stacks. 9/3/09. Duplicate r6
#84 Not present
#85 Details South Billiard Rm. Chimney Stack. 9/3/09. Duplicate r6
#86 Not present
#87 Details of Smoke Stack & Connection to Horizontal Boiler Flue. 9/9/09. Duplicate r6. Original in poor condition
#88 Not present
Details
#89 Details Ground fl. Corridor & Stair Hall. 9/18/09. Duplicate r6
#90 Not present
#91 Details Tank House. Duplicate r6 (photostat). Original condition poor
#92 Details Lounging Rm. & Museum Stacks. 9/30/09
#93 Not present
#94 Scale Details Billiard Rms. 10/7/09. Duplicate r6. Original condition poor
#95-96 Not present
#97 Corridor Hall First floor. 9/29/09. Duplicate r6
#98 Not present
#99 Ground fl. Ceiling Vent Duct-Revised Arrangement. 10/5/09. Duplicate r6/+photostat. blueprint condition poor
#100-04 Not present
Electric
#105 Electric Distribution Sub Basement, Basement. 10/25/09. Duplicate r7
#106 Electric Ground, First. 10/25/09. Duplicate r6
#107 Electric Second, Third
#108 Electric Fourth , Loft
#109 Electric Fifth, Roof. 10/25/09
#110-12 Not present
Details
#113 Main Stairs.October 1909. Poor condition. Duplicate r7
#114-115 Not present
#116 2nd floor Corridor & Stair Hall. November 1909. Encapsulated.
#117-118 Not present
#119 Toilet Rooms. November 1909.
#120 Not present
#121 Barber Shop. December 1909. Duplicate r7.
#122 Not present
#123 Museum. November 1909.
#124 Lounging Room. Duplicate r7
#125-128 Not present
#129 Doors #128, 129, 131, 132, 135, 136, 139, frame for #118 & door #119, 122, 123 & window #199-1/2. Revised. December 1909.
#130-131 Not present
#132 Iron for Entrance Enclosure Support. December 1909.
#135-143 Not present
#144 Toilet and Bath Room Windows & Doors. On paper. December 1909.
#148 Detail of Dressing Booths. March 1910.
#149 Heating, Ventilation Member Locker. Revised. January 1910. Copy with Project 2085 clipped series, r73 photostat available for loan.
Detail
#150 Stair & Typical Panel of Main Stair Railing. Blueprint. January 1910. Duplicate with #2085 clipped.
#151 Third Floor Window Grilles. Paper. January 1910. No original.
#152 Turkish Bath. January 1910.
#153 Not present
#154 Revised Door #118. Paper. March 1910.
#155-159 Not present
#160 Turkish Bath revised. July 1910.
#161-162 Not present
#163 Drinking Fountain Pedestal. With Light Fixtures.
#164-166 Not present
#167 Wood covering for Fifteenth and Sansom St. Steps Entrance. December 1910. Sketches of Light Fixtures on tissue.
Floor Plans
#1-3 Not present
#4 Fourth Floor, Loft. October 1910. Original photostat. Duplicate r10 photostat.
#5 Fifth Floor, Roof. October 1910. Blueprint.
Details
#107 Coatroom. Original paper, clipped. July 1911
no# Heat & Vent Ducts. Original paper, clipped. April 1911. Duplicate blueprint.
no # Ventilation Ducts. July 17, n.d. Duplicate blueprint.
no # Linen Closets. Original paper, clipped
no # Layout of new Kitchen. Original blueprint. Also marked H. B. B.
no # Plan of Ground Floor [Plastering?]. Original blueprint. 1913?
no # [Restaurant]. Original blueprint (poor condition).
Elevations
#6 Moravian, Sansom Street. July, October 1910. Duplicate r10 photostat; r74 for loan.
#7 East, and Exterior Details. August, October 1910. Original in linen, blueprint (poor condition), and photostat.
#8 Cross & Longitudinal Sections. July, October 1910. Duplicate r 10 photostat, r74 for loan.
#9 Not present
#10? North and South Elevation, 1/2 East, West Elevation; 1/4 Plan of Ceiling Floor; 3/4 Scale Section through Window. August 1910. Original blueprint. Edges tattered.
Heating
#10 Basement. Original blueprint. October 1910. Duplicate r. 71 photostat.
#11 Ground and First Floors. Original blueprint. October 1910. Duplicate r71 photostat.
#12 Second, Third Floors. Original blueprint. October 1910. Duplicate r71 photostat.
#13 Fourth Floor, Loft. Original blueprint. October 1910. Duplicate r71 photostat.
#14 Fifth Floor, Roof. Original blueprint. October 1910.
Framing
#15 Footing, Column Schedule. Original blueprint. Duplicate r11 photostat. r75 for loan.
#16 Ground, First Floor. October 1910. Duplicate r11 blueprint. r75 for loan. Also marked Bencker 1497, P-37.
#17 Second, Third Floors. October 1910. Duplicate r11 blueprint. r75 for loan. Also marked Bencker 1497, P-38.
#18 Fourth Floor, Loft?. October 1910. Duplicate r11 blueprint. r75 for loan. Also marked Bencker 1497, P-39
#19 Fifth Floor, Roof. October 1910. Duplicate r11 blueprint. r75 for loan.
#20 No title. Original blueprint. Duplicate r11 photostat (2). r75 for loan.
#21 Fourth Story Ceiling. Duplicate r11 blueprint. r75 for loan.
#22 Basement, showing revised framing for Ground Floor under oven. Original blueprint. February 1910.
#25-27 Not present
Miscellaneous
#24 Plan of Restaurant, Moravian Street, Elevation, details, sections, etc. ("Plan of Cafe on Sansom St. Similar"). Original blueprint, edges tattered.
#25-27 Not present
#28 Detail Granite Base Course, Elevation on Sansom St. December 1910. Duplicate r12 photostat.
#29 Plan Fourth, Fifth Floors. December 1910. Original blueprint
#30 Revision of 28, Method of Jointing where 2nd section Joins Present Addition, Elevation on Sansom St. ?Moravian St. Original blueprint, faded. December 1910.
Details
#31 Windows, Basement & Ground Floor. Folded. December 1910. Duplicated r12 photostat.
#32 Not present
#33 Typical End Bay First Floor to top of Balustrade, Sansom St. Elevation. Original r9 (poor condition). December 1910. Duplicate r12 blueprint (poor) and photostat.
#34-47 Not present
#48 Exterior Center portion, Fist Floor to top of Balustrade. December 1910. Duplicate, r12 photostat.
#49-51 Not present
Details
#52 Window Frames #301-303, 306-308. Original paper, clipped. December 1910.
#53 Not present
#54 Revised Windows #2, 2-1/2, 3-5-1/2, 8, 9, 11, 12. Original blueprint. December 1910. See sheet #31.
#55 Basement Openings. Original paper, clipped. January 1911.
#56 Footing Plans of Columns. Original linen and blueprint. January 1911. Duplicate r12 photostat. r75 for loan. Also marked Bencker 1497, P-36
#57 Finishing Members Rooms. Original paper, clipped. January 1911.
Details
#58 Openings. Original paper, clipped. January 1911.
#59 Openings, First, Second Floors. Original blueprint. January 1911.
#60 Openings Ground Floor. Original paper, clipped. March 1911. Duplicate blueprint
#61 Not present
#62 Footing Revision at S. W. Corner, N. W. Corner to be similar. Original blueprint. January 1911.
#63 Not present
#64 Ground Floor drains. Original blueprint. January 1911.
#65 Not present
#66 Fourth and Fifth Floors revised figures. Original blueprint. January 1911.
#67-80 Not present
#81 Coal Storage Room, Coal chute. January 1911.
#82 Vent Shaft. Original paper, clipped. Duplicate blueprint.
#83-87 Not present
#88 Kitchen Stack & Vent Shaft. Original blueprint, clipped. March 1911
#89-90 Nor present
#91 Dafe & Restaurant Vent Registers Detail. April 1911
#92 Position of Register Elevation, Section through Gallery. Original blueprint, April 1911.
#93-94 Not present
#95 Opening at end of Ground Floor Passage. Original blueprint.
Electrical
#96 Basement, Loft, Penthouse. June 1911. Duplicate blueprint r13.
#97 Ground, First Floor. June 1911. Duplicate blueprint r13.
#98 Second, Third Floors. June 1911. Duplicate blueprint r13.
#99 Fourth, Fifth Floors. June 1911. Duplicate blueprint r13.
Details
#1 Not present
#2 Entrance Hall, Reception Hall, Entrance Door and Marquee.
#3 Ladies Reception Room.
#4 Ladies Dining Room.
#5-10 Not present
#11 Marquise & Grille at Front Entrance.
#4290 Plan of First and Second floors, mezzanines for First and Second Story. May 25, 1914. Blueprint; 4 copies altered; actual size negative.
#4291 Plan of Basement and Ground floors. May 25, 1914. Blueprint; 3 copies altered; actual size negative.
#4289 Alterations to Toilet-Wash and Cloak Rooms ("for later revisions see drawing 4138"--not found). June 13 1916. Blueprint; 4 copies; actual size negative.
Jellett drawings for original Union League air conditioning, 1953, with subsequent alterations and additions 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967.
Project 5840, 1953. Drawer 8, duplicate r58
#1 Fifteenth Street, Sub-basement, Tank Room & Roof.
#2 Fifteenth Street, Middle Buildings, Basement
#3 Fifteenth Street, Middle Buildings, Ground floor
#4 Fifteenth Street, Middle Buildings, First floor
#5 Fifteenth Street Second floor
#6 Broad Street, Basement and Ground floors
#7 Broad Street, First floor
#8 Broad Street, Middle Buildings, Second floor
#9 Broad Street, Middle Buildings, Third Floor
SK1 Fifteenth Street, First floor
SKM-2 Changes to New Service Bar & Front Office
SKM-3 Exhaust System for Front Office
SKM-5 Revised Plan of Ladies Dining Room (January 13, 1954)
Project 6095, 1960. r59 #1-9 See also Anderson 60025, Johnson 060-78.
Project 6129, 1961. Original and duplicate r60 #1, 3, 7-9. See also Johnson, 160-180
Project 6158, 1962. Drawer 8.
#1, 3, 7-9.
Project 6275 (Lincoln Hall), 1967. Drawer 8, duplicate r61 #1,2,7-9.
February 2001. Presentation boards.
Broad Street, Middle Building, Fifteenth Street
Horizontal View, existing
A.1 Sub-basement
A.2 Basement
A.3 Ground
A.4 First
A.5 Second
A.6 Third
A.7 Fourth
A.8 Loft
A.9 Fifth.
The Inn. DPK&A, Architects; Meyer Associates, Inc., Interiors; Marvin Waxman Consulting Engineers, Inc., Mechanical Engineering; DLR-Lescher and Mahoney, Electrical Engineers; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers; Anderson Consulting Engineers, Hazardous Materials. Project 877-014. 1998.
Demolition, Architectural, Interiors, Structural, Hazardous Materials, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Electrical, Fire Alarm: Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors, Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth Floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Roll 77: Schematic Design Drawings, February 2, 1998 (some sheet numbers differ from Primary Set).
Roll 78: Interiors (Meyer), December 1998.
Roll 79: Interiors (Meyer), January 1999 (note: 1.02-1.04 are incorrectly dated January 1998; 1.10-1.13 are for Stroud Group).
Roll 80: Interior details (Meyer), February, April, 1998.
Roll 81: Reception Desk (Meyer), undated.
Roll 82: Mechanical (includes some voided).
Roll 83: Plumbing.
Roll 84: Fire Protection. Construction Documents.
Roll 85: Fire Protection. Grinnell Fire Protection. August-December 1998. As Built. 2 sets.
Roll 86: Electrical (includes voided). June-July 1998.
Roll 87: Electrical (marked).
Roll 88: Fire Alarm (includes voided). June 1998.
The Inn. DPK&A, Architects; Meyer Associates, Inc., Interiors;; Marvin Waxman Consulting Engineers, Inc., Mechanical Engineering; DLR-Lescher and Mahoney, Electrical Engineers; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers; Anderson Consulting Engineers, Hazardous Materials. Project 877-014. 1998.
Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors, Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth Floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Demolition
AD1.01 Sub-basement, Basement, Ground. r. 77
AD1.02 Third, Fourth
AD1.03 Loft, Fifth.
The Inn. DPK&A, Architects; Meyer Associates, Inc., Interiors;; Marvin Waxman Consulting Engineers, Inc., Mechanical Engineering; DLR-Lescher and Mahoney, Electrical Engineers; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers; Anderson Consulting Engineers, Hazardous Materials. Project 877-014. 1998.
Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Architectural:
A1.01 Sub-basement, Basement, Ground. r 77.
A1.02 Third. r 77.
A1.03 Fourth. r 77.
A1.04 Fifth. r 77.
A1.05 Fourth Surface Remediation Plan.
A1.06 Third/Fifth Surface Remediation Plan
A1.07 Reflected Ceiling
A3.01 Details (Spa, Locker rooms)
A3.02 Details
A3.03 Details (Stairs, Moravian Street entrance)
A3.04 Details (Bathrooms)
A3.05 Details
A4.01 Door Schedule. r 77.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Interiors:
F1.01 Ground-Furniture. r 77, 78.
F1.02 Third-Furniture. r 77, 78, 79.
F1.03 Fourth-Furniture. r 77, 78, 79.
F1.04 Fifth-Furniture. r 77, 78, 79.
F1.05 Ground-Finish. r 78.
F1.06 Third-Finish. r 78.
F1.07 Fourth-Finish. r 78.
F1.08 Fifth-Finish. r 78.
F1.09 Finish Specifications
F1.10 Ground Signage and Specifications. r 78, 79.
F1.11 Third-Signage. r 78, 79.
F1.12 Fourth-Signage. r 78, 79.
F1.13 Fourth-Signage. r 78, 79.
F3.01 Detail. r 77.
F3.02 Detail
F3.03 Detail. r 80.
F3.04 Detail. r 80.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Structural:
S1.01 Sub-basement, basement, Ground, Roof. r 77.
S1.02 Details, Sections & Notes.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors, Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth Floor.
Hazardous Materials
HM.01 Known Asbestos Containing Materials, Sub-basement, Basement, Ground
HM.02 Known Asbestos Containing Materials Third, Fourth
HM.03 Known Asbestos Containing Materials Loft, Fifth.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Plumbing
P1.01 Basement West. r 83.
P1.02 Ground West. r 83.
P1.03 Third West. r 83.
P1.04 Fourth West. r 83.
P1.05 Fourth East. r 83.
P1.06 Loft East. r 83.
P1.07 Loft West. r 83.
P1.08 Fifth East. r 83.
P2.01 Plumbing Schedules Notes & Diagrams. r.83.
P3.01 Sanitary Riser Diagrams. r 83.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors, Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth Floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Fire Protection. See also VII.877.014.08.01, r 85.
FP1.01 Sub-basement, Basement. r 77, 84.
FP1.02 Ground, First. r 77, 84.
FP1.03 Second, Third. r 77, 84.
FP1.04 Fourth, Loft. r 77, 84.
FP1.05 Fifth. r 77, 84.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Mechanical
MD1.01 Loft Demolition-HVAC Demolition. r 77, 82.
M1.01 Partial Ground-HVAC. r 77, 82.
M1.02 Third-HVAC. r 77, 82.
M1.03 Fourth-HVAC. r 77, 82.
M1.04 Loft East-HVAC. r 77, 82.
M1.05 Loft West-HVAC. r 77, 82.
M1.06 Loft East-HVAC Piping. r 82.
M1.07 Loft West-HVAC Piping. r 82.
M1.08 Fifth-HVAC. r 77 (as M1.05), 82.
M1.09 Roof-HVAC. r 82.
M3.01 HVAC Details. r 82.
M3.02 HVAC Details. r 82.
M4.01 Water Flow Diagram. r 82.
M5.01 HVAC Schedules. r 82.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Electrical
E1.00 Symbols & Notes. r 77 (as E0.01), r 86.
E1.01 Sub-basement, Basement, Ground. r 86.
E1.02 Basement. r 86, 87.
E1.03 Ground. r 86, 87.
E1.04 Third. r 77 (as E1.03), r 86, 87.
E1.05 Fourth. r 77 (as E1.04), r 88, 87.
E1.06 Loft. r 86.
E1.07 Fifth. r 77 (as E1.05), r 86, 87.
E1.08 Roof. r 85.
E1.09 Gound and First Telecommunications. r 86, 87 (not in Primary Set).
E3.01 One Line Diagrams. r 86, 87 (as E3.03)
E3.01 Configuration drawing, nor for construction. r 77, r 86.
E4.01 Lighting Fixture Schedule. r 86, 87.
E4.02 Panel Schedules. r 86.
ED1.01 Ground-Demolition. r 86.
ED1.02 Third-Demolition. r 86.
ED1.03 Fourth-Demolition. r 86.
ED1.04 Fifth-Demolition. r 86.
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Fifteenth Street Sub-basement, Basement, and Ground floors (Fitness/Spa room), Fifteenth Street Third floor, Middle Section and Fifteenth Street Fourth floor, Middle Section Fifth floor.
Drawer: Primary Set. May 22, 1998, includes all drawings. Additional drawings are found in rolls as noted in catalog entries.
Fire Alarm
FA1.01 Sub-basement. r 88.
FA1.02 Basement West. r 88.
FA1.03 Ground West. r 88.
FA1.04 First. r 77 (as FA1.01), 88.
FA1.05 Second. r 77 (as FA1.02), 88.
FA1.06 Third. r 77 (as FA1.03), 88.
FA1.07 Fourth. r 77 (as FA1.04), 88.
FA1.08 Fifth. r 77 (as FA1.05), 88.
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G1.01. Site Requirements Plan.
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission, portion marked "Delete"), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 5
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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G1.02. Site Requirements
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission, portion marked "Delete"), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 5, f. 6 (reduced), r 89
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
September 1, 100 % Construction Documents: f. 9.
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A0.01 Site Plan
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
May 25, Zoning submittal: r 89.
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A0.02 Work Restriction Requirements
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced), f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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A1.01 Roof Plans
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 6 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 5, f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
September 1, 100 % Construction Documents: f. 9.
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A1.02 Roof Plan & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 4 (reduced), f. 5
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), f. 5, f. 6 (reduced)
June 24, 100% Construction Documents: f. 3 (void), f. 6
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
September 1, 100 % Construction Documents: f. 9.
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A1.04 Basement Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.05 Ground Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.05 Ground Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.06 First Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.07 Second Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.08 Third Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.09 Fourth Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.10 Loft Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A1.11 Fifth Floor Plan-Interior Finish Removal and Repair (Deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 4 (reduced).
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A2.01 Broad Street Exterior East & Portico Elevations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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A2.02 Broad Street Exterior North, South & West Elevations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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A2.03 Fifteenth Street Building East & West Elevations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A2.04 Fifteenth Street Building North Elevation
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), r 89
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 3, f. 4 (reduced), f. 5
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A2.05 Fifteenth Street Building South Elevation
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 3, f. 5
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A2.06 Fifteenth Street Building Light Well Elevations (deleted)
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced)
September 1, 100 % Construction Documents: f. 9.
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.01 Broad Street Building Details Tower Plans, Sections & Elevations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
A3.01 Fifteenth Street Building Sansom Street Canopy
May 25, 2004 Zoning Submittal: r 89.
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A3.02 Broad Street Building Details Tower Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 5, f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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A3.03 Broad Street Building Exterior Ornamental Metalwork
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced)
September 1, 100 % Construction Documents: f. 9.
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.05 Broad Street Building Details Steps Plans & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.06 Broad Street Building Details Steps Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), r 89
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.07 Broad Street Building Details Protective Glazing Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.08 Fifteenth Street Building Details Steps Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.09 Fifteenth Street Building Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.11 Fifteenth Street Building Details Sansom Street Canopy
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), r 89
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.12 Fifteenth Street Building Details Window Work
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A3.13 Fifteenth Street Building Details Window Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A7.01 Broad Street Building Window & Door Schedules
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A7.02 Fifteenth Street Building Window & Door Schedules
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 5, f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
A7.03 Fifteenth Street Building Window & Door Schedules
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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S0.01 Structural General Notes and Abbreviations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 7, f. 8 (reduced).
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S3.01 Broad Street Building Structural Tower Plans, Sections & Elevations
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
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S3.02 Broad Street Building Structural Steps Plans & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
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S3.03 Fifteenth Street Building Structural Steps Plans & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
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S3.04 Fifteenth Street Building Structural Steps Plans & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3, f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
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S3.06 Fifteenth Street Building Structural Canopy Plans & Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 3 (void), f. 4 (reduced), r 89
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
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E1 Electrical Plan
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
E2 Electrical Details
March 15, 100% Construction Documents: f. 1, f. 2 (approved by Department of Licenses and Inspections, Philadelphia Historical Commission), f. 4 (reduced)
May 12, 100% Construction Documents: f. 6 (reduced)
September 1, Conformed Set: f. 8 (reduced).
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
SK-A-019 Broad Street Building East & West Portico Elevations June 2, f. 3.
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
SK-1-020 Broad Street Building North, South & West Elevations June 2, f. 3.
Exterior Restoration. DPK&A, Architects; Keast & Hood Co., Structural Engineers, International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimators; Mulhern Consulting Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Project 877-043. 2004.
SK-1-021 Broad Street Building Lanterns Elevation June 10, f. 3-includes notes and photographs on rail support brackets and newels.
By-Laws, Certificate of Incorporation, House Rules, List of Officers and Members. (Collection: Collections. Other Union Leagues).
Signed by Morton McMichael, Grand President, Samuel F. Gwinner, Grand Secretary. (Collection: Collections. Civil War. Other Civil War).
Invitation to become a member of the Assemblies, the objects of which "are to afford opportunities for our Union citizens to meet in social life, thereby strengthening all, in this hour of trouble to our beloved Country, and showing who can be depended upon when she demands the support of her entire people." Printed. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War).
Invitation to attend a consultation for the purposed of formation of a Union League in Trenton, NJ. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Printed circular announcing formation of Union League's Employment Committee "for the purpose of obtaining employment for disabled Soldiers and Seamen who have honorably retired from the service of their country...," and urging the attention of other Union Leagues and patriotic citizens to the matter. (Collection: (Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Union League has formed a Committee of Arrangement for the celebration of the Anniversary of American Independence and invites the Union Leagues and Loyal Citizens of the respective States to join in the National Celebration at the Hall of Independence. "The Committee are gratified to announce that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES has accepted an invitation to participate in the proceedings. Charles Gibbons, Chairman. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Printed circular requesting positions for 320 disabled soldiers. A. Martin, In behalf of the Committee. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Citizens' Union Convention nominations for local offices. (Collection: (Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Urging use of new rapid fire rifle. Philadelphia. Printed. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War).
Encouraging attendance at ward primary and election meetings of National Union Party for delegates to the Convention which frame local and State tickets. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
...for the purpose of taking into consideration the adoption of a patriotic and humane enterprise... (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Dear Sir urging "you to use your influence, and make every effort to ascertain the names of all the soldiers who have left your Election District for the Military Service" and facilitate paperwork to allow soldiers to vote in the Presidential election. Photograph. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
The purposes for which the Union League of Philadelphia was organized.... Description of League founding, suggestions for establishing other leagues, invite other league members to Philadelphia, mention of publishing program. Printed. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War Collection).
Illustration: club house exterior with procession in front; Blaine reviewing the parade, 1884 September 24.
Event/Member/Art: Welcome home banquet for Edwin N. Benson after trip abroad where he purchased and presented to the Union League "Psyche [and the Butterfly]" [by Wilhelm Kray].
By-Laws: amendments to be proposed at next annual meeting, 1887 November 19.
Illustration: The Invincibles Color Guard, A Section of Young Republicans, Harmony Legion Red Shirts, Double Columns of the Jubilee Parade [marching in front of Union League--portion missing], 1888 September 15.
Event: banquet for Pan-American Congress delegates, 1889 November.
Illustration: General Meade, 1891 June 1, 2.
IIllustration: clubhouse exterior and interior.
Illustration/cartoon/operations: depicting Judge Pennypacker outside Union League with money bag concerning sale of liquor in clubs, 1892 January 11.
Illustration: Nelson W. Aldrich, Chauncey M. Depew in action, 1892 October 20, 27.
Illustration: clubhouse exterior with fireworks display, described as inaccurate in later clipping.
Union League annual meeting.
Farewell banquet for William Potter, United States Minister to Italy.
Illustrations and photo: member William Potter, 1892 November.
Annual meeting: John Russell Young elected president over John H. Michener; resolution to require members to declare Republican Party vote; criticism of Colonel A. K. McClure for voting for Cleveland; call to participate more in state and local politics; John Russell Young biographical sketch.
Illustration: member John Russell Young, 1892 December.
Illustration: Clement A. Griscom, clubhouse interior with reception scene, 1893 April 19.
Member: Edwin Benson gives party to mark his 30 years as member, 1893 June 29.
Illustrations: clubhouse interiors.
Event: reception for ex-President Benjamin Harrison with description of decorations, activities during the day while escorted by John Wanamaker.
Illustration: ex-President Harrison; clubhouse interior with reception.
Annual meeting: John Russell Young re-elected as President; defeat of General Wagner's bylaw amendment requiring affiliation with Republican Party, and approval of resolution that directors not accept applicants into membership unless affiliated with Republican Party, 1893 December.
Illustration: Academy of Music interior, with Union League banner, Gaslusha A. Grow, Honorable J. P. Dolliver.
Event: Lincoln Birthday with address by United States Senator Cullom of Illinois, 1894 February 10.
Illustration: General Grant, ex-Governor James A. Beaver, General Horace Porter, General D. E. Sickles, Connecticut Senator Joseph R. Hawley, Street Clair McKelway; clubhouse interior showing banquet, 1894 April 28.
Illustration: members William Potter, Mayor Stuart, Senator Penrose, Charles Emory Smith.
Event: Frederick Fraley 90th birthday banquet.
Illustration: members Frederick Fraley, Joel Cook, Dr. William Pepper, C. Stuart Patterson, Coleman Sellers, Hamilton A. Hill, William V. McKean, Angelo T. Fredly.
Real Estate: decision to purchase Sansom and Moravian Street buildings, 1894 May.
Illustration: scenes from baseball game, 1894 June 29.
Illustration: Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham; clubhouse interior with presentation of medal; medal, 1894 October 3-5.
Illustration: member Silas W. Pettit, 1894 December 11.
Illustration: clubhouse interior, with scene of ball, circa 1895.
Illustrations: member Charles F. Warwick; clubhouse interior with banquet and reception.
Real estate: Union League to buy Moravian Street property, 1895 May 29.
Event: Reception for International League of Press Clubs delegates where women were allowed (for second time), with reports on activities of the other proceedings of the convention.
Illustration: clubhouse interior with reception scene; "prominent women at the Union League reception to Press Club delegates," including Mrs. J. Stoddard, of New York, Mrs. L. Friend, The Misses Branson, of New Mexico, Mrs. J. B. Parke, Mrs. Matthews.
Politics/National: special meeting adopting resolution in favor of sound money, with speeches by C. Stuart Patterson, William Potter, Mayor Warwick in favor, and Abraham Barker in opposition to passage of resolution.
History/clubhouse: the Baldwin Mansion, former Union League home, Chestnut Street below Tenth, to be sold, 1896 June.
Illustration: Union League clubhouse exterior with parade.
Event: luncheon in honor of General James Longstreet.
Illustration: Longstreet, 1895 September 3.
Illustration: member Silas W. Pettit.
Annual report: purchase of Moravian and Sansom Street property, dues raised, membership, 1895 December 9, 10.
Illustration: clubhouse interior, with scene of the ball, circa 1896 March.
Illustration: Grant, Colonel Fred D. Grant; head table.
Member: William C. Houston funeral notice and Union League resolution, 1896 April.
Art: presentation of Dr. H. Ernest Goodman memorial bronze bust, 1896 May.
Illustration: Edwin H. Fitler.
Special meeting: purchase of properties for clubhouse extension. National Politics/Presidential election: endorsement of William McKinley for President.
Illustration: outline of property and additional purchase (not to scale).
History: "Prominent Clubs, The Union League of Philadelphia," with sketch of history, current activities, description of house. 2 copies.
Illustration: exterior, Chess Room and Library, Main Parlor, Flemish Room. (see Color--not in color though), 1896 June.
Illustration: Baron and Baroness von Scheliha, 1896 July 25.
Illustrations: parade scenes, including arrival and Germantown Junction, reception at Independence Hall, interior of the special car, room where Mrs John Russel Young received, Union League reception, Mrs. John Russel Young, John Russel Young, Fayette R. Plumb, Yellow Jacket, hat with peacock feathers, China Town, "as Li impressed Press artists" (derogatory cartoons), 1896 September.
Illustration: General Daniel E. Sickels, General Horace Porter, General Russell A. Alger, Gen J. R. Hawley, Adj. General Thomas J. Stewart, General O. O. Howard; Colonel Robert Beath, Corp. James Tanner.
Union Club: history.
Illustration: Ferdinand J. Dreer, John Russell Young, Clarence H. Clark, Abraham Barker, James W. Paul, William Sellers, Lindley Smyth, A. J. Antelo, Frederick Fraley, 1896 October.
National Politics/Presidential Election: Presidential election returns displayed on screen in front of clubhouse; parade in honor of McKinley victory.
Illustration: clubhouse exterior, "receiving returns at the Union League."
Non Union League event: National Hardware Association banquet at the Union League given by The Hardware Manufacturers of Philadelphia.
Illustration: A. B. Palmer, George T. McIntosh, W. Quincy Wales, 1896 November.
Illustration: C. Stuart Patterson.
Union Club Annual Dinner.
Illustration: Frederick Fraley, Abraham Barker, Lindley Smith, John Russell Young, 1896 December.
Union League gives souvenirs to Company D, First Infantry in recognition of service as body guards for President McKinley visit in May 1897, undated [1897].
Illustration: Captain Alexander W. Gilchrist.
Lincoln Association of the Union League: history and forthcoming changes in operations.
Illustration: S. H. Grey, Robert J. C. Walker, Edward C. Knight, Alexander P. Colesberry, William H. Hurley.
Event: Washington's Birthday address, "Cornwallis and the Surrender of York," by Charlemagne Tower.
Illustration: Charlemagne Tower, Count De Grasse, Lord Cornwallis, 1897 February.
Illustration: Boies Penrose, 1897 March 13, 14.
Organization of Advisory Real Estate Board.
Charlemagne Tower appointed to Austrian Mission by President McKinley.
Illustration: Charlemagne Tower.
Non-Union League: business meeting of First Defenders Association held at Union League.
Non Union League: Dinner given at the Union League by the Catholic Club in honor of Archbishop Ryan's 25th anniversary of his consecration.
Event: Dinner by Union League Directors in honor of Charlemagne Tower, 1897 April.
Illustrations: William McKinley, McKinley arrival, parade route (partial), Mayor Charles F. Warwick, Washington Monument detail ("A Typical Guardian"), Washington Monument (partial), parade, Philadelphia's City Troop Salutes the President, unveiling, Naval Salute, Bicycle Parade, 1897 May 15, 16.
Illustration: John Russell Young.
Union Club: annual dinner and history, 1897 December.
Politics/National: addresses of ex-Senator Edmunds, Chairman, and C. Stuart Patterson, member of the Monetary Commission on the conclusions of the Commission; resolution in favor of the Monetary Commission's report in favor of the gold standard.
Member: Joshua H. Costy death notice.
Non-Union League: Rev, Dr. William Neilson McVickar, Bishop Coadjutor of Rhode Island, formerly rector of Holy Trinity Church, farewell banquet.
Illustration: Bishop William Neilson McVickar; menu card, gift (silver salver and pitcher), banquet head table.
Annual report, 1898 January.
Member: charge of unbecoming conduct of Thomas Dolan.
History: Civil War troops raised by the Union League, 1898 March.
Illustration: clubhouse exterior, 1898 July 5.
Non-Union League: conference held at Union League by Governor Hastings concerning plans for state hospital train bringing sick soldiers home from the south, 1898 August.
Illustration: "Civic Day as seen by a 'Press' artist; tea for Mrs. McKinley at the Bellevue; clubhouse exterior decorated for the Peace Jubilee, 1898 October.
Event: Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith dinner and reception.
Politics/National: election returns received at Union League, 1898 November.
Illustration: Joseph G. Darlington.
Curiosity: plans to start a new club by those frustrated with Union League waiting list, "the most radical feature of it will be the admission of the ladies on a much broader scale than has heretofore been attempted...", 1898 December.
Member: John Russell Young obituaries and funeral notices.
Illustration: John Russell Young.
Event: Judge William W. Porter reception and dinner on occasion of appointment to Superior Court (date uncertain).
Illustration: Judge W. W. Porter, 1899 January.
Illustration: views of dinner and reception for Peace Commission; Commissioners Senator Cushman K. Davis, Senator William P. Frye, Senator George R. Gray, Honorable Whitelaw Reid, Judge William R. Day.
Event: Lincoln Day Dinner beset by bad weather preventing participation by Senator-elect Albert J. Beveridge (see also January 1899) and Booker T. Washington; address given by Hampton L. Carson. Beveridge gives address at lunch February 13. Washington given luncheon and speaks at home of Henry C. Davis February 15.
Illustration: Albert J. Beveridge; Booker T. Washington; Hampton L. Carson, 1899 February.
Illustration: William Camac.
Event: Captain Charles E. Clark, former commander of battleship "Oregon" in war with Spain and Captain of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, dinner.
Illustration: Charles E. Clark.
Event: United States Senator from Nevada John M. Thurston dinner and speech.
Non-Union League: First Regiment N. G. P. and First Regiment Veteran Corps thirty-eighth anniversary dinner at Union League.
Non-Union League: reception for President McKinley following unveiling of Grant statue.
Illustration: Miss Rosemary Sartoris Unveiling the Grant Monument; Jackies Landing from the Raleigh; City Troop Awaiting the President; Mrs. Grant Leaving the Stand; The President and Mrs. McKinley Arriving at the Hotel; General Miles; Battle Flags Passing the Reviewing Stand; Chinese Naval Reserve, 1899 April.
Illustration: "The Return of the Laborer" by Millet, "An Officer Writing Orders" by Terborch; "Dance of the Nymph" and Hagar in the Desert" by Corot.
Event: Admiral William T. Sampson dinner and reception.
Illustration: Rear Admiral Sampson at the Union League; banquet table; Rear Admiral Sansom; Joseph G. Darlington, 1899 May.
History: circular requesting assistance with compilation of Union League history.
Event: Admiral Schley luncheon.
Illustration: Nevada greeting Admiral Schley (at Academy of Music), 1899 October.
Event: chess performance by Harry N. Pillsbury.
Annual nominations: Darlington renominated.
Member: possible appointment of Dr. Daniel Hughes to the head of the new Health Bureau by Mayor Ashbridge.
Political/National: procession on election of McKinley.
Illustration: Union League members exiting Union League in parade.
Event: Founders' Day banquet with address by Honorable Jacob. G. Shurman, president of Cornell and the Philippine Commission.
Illustration: banquet table; Honorable John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, Prof. Jacob E. Schurman; Joseph G. Darlington, Harry F. West, L. K. Passmore, J. Levering Jones, Edward I. Smith, 1899 November.
Illustration: Joseph G. Darlington.
Union Club: thirty-fifth anniversary dinner, 1899 December.
Illustration: Charles Emory Smith; Joseph G. Darlington, 1900 January.
Illustration: Senator William P. Frye.
Event: dinner for State Supreme Court justices.
Address: Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, on "Business Vicissitudes--Looking Backward" (March 31, reported April 1, 2).
Illustration: Lyman J. Gage; the Reception, Secretary Gage addresses the Union League, 1900 March.
Member: Dr. William Camac obituary.
Illustration: Dr. William Camac.
Member: Charles E. Smith obituary.
Illustration: Charles E. Smith.
Non-Union League: First Regiment, N. G. P., thirty-ninth anniversary parade review in front of Union League and banquet.
Illustration: First Regiment approaching reviewing stand; Colonel Bowman...passing in review...in front of the Union League; Major General John R. Brooke.
Address: Joseph B. Foraker, Senator of Ohio, on "Porto Rico." Part of a series.
Illustration: Senator Joseph B. Foraker, 1900 April.
Illustration: James Dougherty.
Event: Senator Marcus A. Hanna, Republican National Committee Chairman, banquet.
Illustration: banquet table; Senator Hanna speaking, 1900 May.
Illustration: Joseph G. Darlington.
Club house: illumination for McKinley-Roosevelt.
Member: William J. Pollock obituary.
Illustration: William J. Pollock.
Non-Union League: Joseph G. Darlington gives breakfast.
Real Estate: incorrect report in New York paper on acquisition of property explained in Philadelphia article, 1900 June.
Illustration: Baldwin Mansion.
Politics/National: National Campaign Committee of Union League appointed; McKinley sends thanks, 1900 July.
Illustration: Fairman Rogers in his coach, 1900 August.
Illustration: Henry Cabot Lodge; Lodge giving address at Academy of Music, 1900 October.
Illustration: members exiting building in procession.
Politics/National: dispute between Republican chairman of eastern district of Pennsylvania fund raising committee, W. W. Gibbs, and Union League campaign fund chairman, Edward T. Stotesbury.
Illustration: Chairman W. W. Gibbs, Chairman Edward T. Stotesbury.
Nominations: Joseph G. Darlington nominated for third term.
Event: Founders Day banquet with President William McKinley as guest of honor, with Roosevelt and cabinet. Addresses of Darlington, McKinley, Roosevelt. Includes criticism for not inviting Mayor Ashbridge and humorous suggestion for speech had Ashbridge attended.
Illustration: cabinet, Union Club surviving founders A. J. Antelo, Clarence H. Clark, Frederick Fraley, Ferdinand J. Dreer, Abraham Barker, William Sellers; McKinley speaking at the banquet, crowds before the Union League; President McKinley, Joseph G. Darlington; view of banquet hall (table decorations), diagram showing position of prominent guests at the President's table, Vice-President Elect Roosevelt; facsimile of Stratford Hotel register page with signatures of Cabinet members Curiosity: Tom, the Union League cat to participate in Cat Reception at the Second Annual Exhibition of the Keystone Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association of Philadelphia in December (see December).
Illustration: Tom, the Union League Cat, 1900 November.
Illustration: Joseph G. Darlington, Casting their votes.
Curiosity: death of Union League cat "Tom" and presentation of new cat "Brother Ben" by Kindergarten Club.
Club: Kindergarten Club dinner and presentation of cat "Brother Ben."
Illustration: President Darlington at the Kindergarten Club banquet (with "full dinner pail").
Union Club: thirty-eighth anniversary dinner, 1900 December.
Event: Rear Admiral Silas Casey, retiring Commandant of Philadelphia Navy Yard, farewell banquet.
Illustration: Rear Admiral Silas Casey.
Member: Congressman Robert Adams, Jr., resigns from Union League, with suggestion that resignation was due to disrespect shown him.
Illustration: Representative Robert Adams, Jr.
Address: David J. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State, on "Our Place Among the Nations."
Illustration: Dr. David Jayne Hill, 1901 January.
Address: General James H. Wilson on "Our Commercial Relations with China", 1901 February.
Illustration: Memorial to the Regiments Recruited by The Union League of Philadelphia, 1901 June.
Member: Henry C. Lea as a founder of the Citizens' Municipal League.
Member?: Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong caught in an indiscretion, 1901 July.
Illustration: President William McKinley (including McKinley on porch); Shooting of President McKinley; Temple of Music; Mrs. William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt.
Member: George R. Howell death notices.
Illustration: George R. Howell, 1901 September.
Member: mention of Henry C. Davis luncheon for Booker T. Washington with respect to Roosevelt's meeting with Washington and criticism and attitudes toward black race, 1901 October.
Member: Theodore Roosevelt accepts membership.
Event: Founders' Day banquet with cabinet members and addresses by Joseph G. Darlington (suggesting Union League might become involved in state and local politics), Ex-Attorney General John W. Griggs (tribute to McKinley), Senator William P. Frye (on the Merchant Marine), Solicitor General John K. Richards (on anarchy), Governor of Puerto Rico William H. Hunt
Illustration: John K. Richards, John W. Griggs, William P. Frye, Lyman J. Gage, William H. Hunt, Joseph P. Darlington; Jay Cooke, John Sellers, William Sellers, A. J. Antelo, Judge J. I. C. Hare, Abraham Barker, Ferdinand J. Dreer, Ellis Yarnall, Clarence H. Clark; banquet table; Darlington toasts health of President of the United States; building exterior.
Member: Samuel B. Huey death and funeral notices, 1901 November.
Select Council votes to fund mummers celebration for second year.
Annual meeting: Darlington elected.
Event: Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, luncheon following auction of old United States Mint, Chestnut and Juniper Streets.
Illustration: Chestnut Street from Juniper to Broad with sale value of properties.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Gifts to guests at Kindergarten Club dinner.
Union Club: annual dinner.
Illustration: Abraham Barker, William Sellers, Ferdinand J. Dreer.
Member: William J. Sewell obituary.
Illustration: William J. Sewell, 1901 December.
Art: Colonel Samuel gift of "Returning from the Fields" by J. Crawford Thorn.
Illustration: "Returning from the Fields", 1902 January.
Non-Union League: Lincoln Club dinner in honor of Lincoln's birthday.
Member: William H. Hurley, Sr., obituary.
Illustration: William H. Hurley, Sr.
Member: William S. Stokley impending death.
Illustration: William S. Stokley.
Non-Union League: Baldwin Locomotive 70th Anniversary banquet.
Illustration: Banquet dining room; John H. Converse, George F. Baer, John P. Green, James M. Beck; Baldwin's 20,000 locomotive; Matthias W. Baldwin, "Old Ironsides", 1902 February.
Event: Prince Henry of Prussia luncheon, including controversy over invitation to "men of affairs...who may or may not be members of the Union League."
Illustration: cartoon "Men of Affairs;" Henry G. Darlington; Prince Henry at Cramps Shipyard, Prince Henry bidding farewell to Joseph Darlington; Prince Henry and City Troop on South Broad Street; scene at City Hall reception room while Mayor addresses Prince, crowds in front of Inquirer office; Prince Henry saluting Washington statue in front of Independence Hall; Daniel Baugh, Henry Tatnall, Francis B. Reeves, C. S. W. Packard, James L. Miles, Charles H. Cramp, Dr. William P. Wilson, Arno Leonhardt, C. Stuart Patterson, Honorable Samuel H. Ashbridge, Samuel Gustine Thompson, Theodore C. Search, A. J. Cassatt, George F. Baer, Craige Lippincott, James Elverson, George McCurdy, Honorable Boies Penrose, M. Richards, Muckle, John Cadwalader, Colonel A Loudon Snowden, Clement A. Griscom, Captain Barclay H. Warburton, Joseph L. Caven, Thomas S. Harrison, John H. Converse, W. W. Foulkrod; diagram showing seating arrangement; Prince receiving bouquet from little girl at the Union League; Prince at Broad Street Station.
Member: Charles M. Schwab up for election to membership.
Dinner in honor of Joseph G. Darlington before departure for Europe, 1902 March.
Yellow Mansion (Dundas Lippincott) expected to go on the market, with history of property (see August 1902).
Illustration: "Yellow Mansion," James Dundas.
Non-Union League: Veteran Corps of the First Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania 41st anniversary parade, reviewed by Admiral Schley from Union League portico, followed by banquet at Union League.
Illustration: General Schall and Admiral Schley reviewing the parade, parade.
German government mint issues coin commemorating visit of Prince Henry to the United States, 1902 April.
Illustration: General Collis
Art: hanging of William McKinley portrait by A. Cameron McConnell (Robert Lee MacCameron).
Program: appointment of Martinique National Relief Committee and funds raised.
Illustration: John G. Milburn, H. C. Frick, James A. Gary, Don M. Dickinson, Cornelius N. Bliss, Myron T. Herrick, C. A. Griscom, John H. Converse, Charles Emory Smith, J. G. Darlington.
Real Estate: south Broad Street property values.
Illustration: Broad Street, looking south from the City Hall.
Member: Ferdinand J. Dreer obituaries.
Illustration: Ferdinand J. Dreer.
Member: Joseph Darlington holds dinner at his home in honor of Charlemagne Tower, 1902 May.
Illustration: General Thomas J. Stewart.
Member: Abraham Barker 81st birthday.
Illustration: Abraham Barker.
Member: Joseph G. Darlington luncheon in honor of General Horace Porter, Ambassador to France.
Employees: waiters go on strike, 1902 June.
Illustration: Samuel H. Ashbridge, Joseph G. Darlington, Charles H. Cramp, George W. Boyd, Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, 1902 July.
Illustration: Dundas-Lippincott mansion.
Member: Edward B. Edwards obituary.
Member: Charlemagne Tower gift of Russian books to the Philadelphia Library (Library Company of Philadelphia).
Illustration: Charlemagne Tower.
Building/Interior: improvements to library and banquet room.
Employee: Henry Detwiler, former head clerk, arrested in San Francisco for embezzlement from Union League, 1902 August.
Illustration: William E. Littleton.
Illustration: Labor Day parade on south Broad Street, showing Union League building steps.
Member: Jacob S. Bunting death notice.
Employee: employee Henry T. Detwiler, cashier, arrested for embezzlement from Union League.
Illustration: Henry T. Detwiler.
History: review of "Chronicle of the Union League."
Illustration: original site of Union League house, 1863.
Member: Charlemagne Tower appointed Ambassador to Germany, 1902 September.
Illustration: Secretary Shaw, John H. Mitchner, Edward B. Smith, W. M. Coates, C. Wesley Thomas, Charles E. Pugh, G. C. Purves; Joseph G. Darlington.
Employee: Henry T. Detwiler, former cashier, sentenced for larceny, 1902 October.
Illustration: Senator Quay, Jacob G. Orth, Colonel Wm. R. D. Blackwood, O. W. Bennett, Colonel Bingham, Street Clair Mulholland, Daniel Caldwell, Major J. Wallace Scott, Serg. Michael McKeever, Major Moses Veale, Richard Binder, H. B. Preston, James Miller, Richard Conner, A. J.
Sellers, Chas. M. Betts, Sylvester H. Martin, W. J. Wray, Edmund English, John F. Mackie; wives and daughters of Medal of Honor men, General Daniel E. Sickles; Jos. Darlington; Medal of Honor men at Independence Hall.
Election: Edward T. Stotesbury nominated for president; Darlington retires.
Illustration: Edward T. Stotesbury.
Non-Union League: dinner in honor of Henry C. Loudenslager United States Congressman from New Jersey.
Illustration: Congressman Loudenslager.
Event: Founders' Day, including guest of honor President Theodore Roosevelt, following his address at dedication of new Central High School building.
Illustration: scene on Broad Street at High School, President Roosevelt and Mr. Darlington in carriage, President Roosevelt speaking to students; President Roosevelt and President Edmunds of the Board of Education; Union League banquet guests, student audience, guests of honor at the banquet (Secretaries Hitchcock, Root, Shaw, Payne, President Roosevelt) with banquet seating arrangement.
Illustration: Men who will attend the Founders' Day Banquet. Edward T. Stotesbury, William Sellers, J. I. Clark Hare, Joseph G. Darlington, Theodore Roosevelt, A. J. Antelo, Abraham Barker, and Leslie M. Shaw, 1902 November.
Illustration: E. T. Stotesbury.
Union Club: Fortieth Anniversary banquet.
Member: William L. Elkins escapes injury when construction crane at Broad and Sansom breaks; Union League "resembled a hospital" for victims.
Illustration: wreckage from falling iron girder at the Land Title building.
Non-Union League: Engineers' Club of Philadelphia banquet held at Union League.
Event: Union League will have music for the first time on Christmas day.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner, 1902 December.
Illustration: Memorial to the Regiments Recruited by the Union League of Philadelphia.
Non-Union League: Bankers Association of Pennsylvania, Group. Number 1 banquet at the Union League with address by Treasury Secretary Leslie M. Shaw.
Member: article on Philadelphia during the Civil War mentions that George H. Boker was threatened with assassination in front of Union League, 1903 March.
Illustration: Henry Clay McCormick.
Event: Baron von Rheinbaben, Prussian Minister of Finance, dinner, 1905 May.
Illustration: Henry Erben Garsed, 1903 September.
Illustration: Charlemagne Tower.
Member: Frank Black, former New York Governor, epigrams.
Event: Pillsbury exhibition of chess, whist, and memory, 1903 October.
Illustration: Charles H. Dorsey.
Election: E. T. Stotesbury re-nominated for president.
Event: Founders' Day banquet.
Illustration: Clarence H. Clark, Abraham Barker, William Sellers; Edward T. Stotesbury, General S. B. M. Young, Senator Perkins of Cal., Governor Pennypacker, Frank S. Black, Admiral Sigsbee, Edwin M. Stanton letter, banquet invitation, banquet table; Admiral Dewey, Union League's first home; Major General Corbin, General John R. Brooke, banquet hall.
Member: Andrew Wheeler obituary.
Illustration: Andrew Wheeler, 1903 November.
Member: Edward T. Stotesbury mansion fire (date uncertain), 1903 December.
Annual report: report shows ping-pong no longer popular.
Member: Henry B. Ashmead funeral notice.
Club: Kettle Club twentieth annual dinner, 1904 January.
Event: special amateur billiards tournament won by Philadelphia champion T. M. S. Rolls over E. W. Gardner and T. Ferdinand Poggenburg.
Activities: billiard and pool banquet in honor of Edward T. Stotesbury, 1903 March.
Non-Union League: First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania 29th anniversary banquet.
Real estate: members vote against extension of club house to 15th street, 1904 April.
Event: Merchant Marine dinner, 1904 May.
Politics/national: ratification of Republican ticket.
Illustration: E. T. Stotesbury, William H. Lambert, Peter Boyd, George D. McCreary.
Non-Union League: City Club luncheon for Missouri Governor Folk, 1904 June.
History: founding, 1904 August.
Illustration: Colonel W. H. Patterson.
Politics/national: Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice Presidential candidate, reception.
Illustration: Charles W. Fairbanks; Fairbanks entering the Union League with J. Hampton Moore; Fairbanks leaving the Union League with Senator Penrose, John R. Wiggins, Senator Foraker.
Employee: George Perkenpine, fighter of Union League 1866 fire, death notice (date uncertain), 1904 September.
Illustration: Union League's New Campaign Transparency.
Illustration: General Fred D. Grant; Lieutenant-General Samuel B. M. Young, who will be a guest at the Union League this evening (date uncertain).
Politics/national: mass meeting held at Academy of Music, with Secretary of War Elihu Root and United States Senator from Massachusetts Henry Cabot Lodge.
Illustration: Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge; cartoon.
Event: Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark dinner in honor of retirement from commondant at League Island Navy Yard.
Illustration: Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, thye "Oregon," the banquet room.
Member: A committee of clergymen against ballot fraud in Philadelphia includes Union League members J. G. Bickerton, Stephen W. Dana, Floyd Tomkins, and Charles Wood, 1904 October.
Illustration: employee James E. Rawlings, keeper of the billiard room to serve as banner carrier at Roosevelt/Fairbanks victory parade; Union Leaguers parading.
Employee: James E. Rawlings and his employment at Union League (with articles on Rawlings father John H.).
Illustration: Rawlings.
Politics/local: Torresdale filter plant tour.
Illustration: McNichol leading Union League guests and others to the filter plant (Wm. J. Smith, Felix Eckerson, H. C. Dingee North American reporter, Union League detraining at Torresdale); cartoon.
Elections: nominations, 1904 November.
Illustration: proposed Union League house (by architect Huston).
Real estate: 99 year lease acquired for 1428 Sansom Street.
Election: Edward T. Stotesbury for president.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual banquet.
Illustration: Banqueting table.
Real estate: Bellevue to be replaced by skyscraper, 1904 December.
Member: William Sellers obituaries.
Illustration: William Sellers.
Event: James Ferguson Hope, retiring House Committee Chairman, testimonial dinner.
Illustration: James Ferguson Hope.
Event: Founders' Day Dinner, with President Theodore Roosevelt as guest of honor.
Illustration: E. T. Stotesbury, Edwin S. Stuart; William M. Coates; President Roosevelt; the President speaking at the Union League; Ellis Yarnall, Joseph G. Darlington, Jay Cooke, Governor of Delaware Preston Lea, Governor of New Jersey Edward C. Stokes; Mayor Weaver, Governor Pennypacker, Charles Emory Smith, 1905 January.
Illustration: George H. Colket.
Real estate: Union League considering purchase of Yellow Mansion, sale of current lot to city for art gallery and free library; lot to be sold at auction.
Politics/local: Union League might enter protest against Scott-Crout bill (date uncertain).
Event: Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks reception.
Illustration: Vice-President Fairbanks.
Member: Alexander Purves obituary.
Illustration: Alexander Purves.
Member: Judge Joseph C. Ferguson obituary.
Illustration: Joseph C. Ferguson.
Non-Union League: Stock Exchange dinner in honor of election of Frederick Taylor Chandler as president.
Illustration: Fred T. Chandler, table decorations, loving cup, undated.
Illustration: site of present building, the Union League today, proposed League House, J. Gillingham Fell, Abraham Lincoln election ticket,
medal presented to Lincoln; Union League's first home; Honorable Chauncey M. Depew; Cadwalader Biddle, Judge J. I. C. Hare, 1905 May.
Illustrations: Mayor Weaver and Elihu Root entering City Hall after conference at the Union League, Leaving the League Conference; Cartoons "Poor Disguise," "The Yawning Door," "A Question of Principle as well as Interest," "A Year Hence," "Public Sentiment," "Naturally, Reform within the Party will add to the Union League Membership," "Sic' Em Tiger," "The Table are Turned;" W. P. Hensey, Samuel F. Rotan, Frederick T. Chandler, Colonel R. Dale Benson, Joseph G. Darlington, Dr. John B. Deaver, Richard M. Rushton, Joseph L. Caven, Dr. W. B. Van Lennep, James C. Brooks, General Louis Wagner, Silas W. Pettit, Winthrop Smith, John S. W. Holton, Samuel B. Stinson, 1905 June.
Illustration: Ellis Yarnall.
Member: Colonel A Loudon Snowden birthday.
Illustration: A. Loudon Snowden.
Politics/local: petition of members requesting special meeting to disassociate Union League from the "Committee of Twenty-One."
Illustration: Ex-Judge Dimner Beeber, James F. Hope.
Member: William H. Kirkpatrick obituary.
Illustration: William H. Kirkpatrick, 1905 September.
Politics/local: Special Meeting adopts resolution disowning Committee of Twenty-One and that the Union League follow the policy of not taking part in local politics.
Illustration: cartoon "Cleaning Out the Committee of Twenty-One Impression
Building: preliminary plans of architect Joseph M Huston for Union League annex accepted by House Committee and Board.
Illustration: elevations and ground floor plan of new Union League addition, 1905 October.
Election: Edwin S. Stuart, William M. Coates, and James F. Hope are candidates for president.
Illustration: Edwin S. Stuart, William M. Coates, James F. Hope.
Building: members authorize financing for building addition and improvements.
Employee: Samuel M. Haldeman, night watchman, celebrates 25 years at Union League, 1905 November.
Election: Edwin S. Stuart elected president by narrow margin in contested election in which 19 votes were thrown out.
Illustration: James F. Hope, Edwin S. Stuart, William M. Coates; cartoon "Got It!.."
Non-Union League: Wistar Party.
Member: Mayor Stuart to make address at laying of Southern Manual Training School corner stone.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Kindergarten Club presents.
Event: dinner in honor of ex-president Edward T. Stotesbury.
Illustration: Edward T. Stotesbury, silver vase gift to Mr. Stotesbury.
Member: Judge J. I. Clark Hare obituary.
Illustration: J. I. C. Hare, 1905 December.
Illustration: renderings of Dorsey with Presidents Roosevelt, Garfield, McKinley, Harrison, and Grant.
(clipping is illegible in parts), 1906 November.
Illustration: Edwin S. Stuart; Merry Mummers passing the Union League.
Member: Judge J. I. Clark Hare funeral notice and notice of portrait to be presented to University of Pennsylvania law school.
Art: unveiling of "The Battle of the Alabama and the Kearsage" by Xanthus Smith.
Illustration: "The Battle of the Alabama and the Kearsage", 1906 January.
Illustration: Joseph G. Cannon; cartoon/caricature "'Uncle Joe' Canon."
Member: Edward Tonkin Dobbins death notice.
Illustration: Edward Tonkin Dobbins.
Member: New Jersey Courts adjourned in honor of death of Peter V. Voorhees, 1906 February.
Illustration: Clarence H. Clark.
News item: Union League almost a victim of bogus scheme to buy goods at fabulous prices.
Club: Wishbone Club second annual dinner.
Event: Philander C. Knox, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, reception.
Illustration: Senator P. C. Knox, 1906 March.
Illustration: Abraham Barker.
Club: The Pilgrims dinner.
Member: Clayton McMichael obituary.
Illustration: Clayton McMichael.
Member: Judge G. Harry Davis obituary.
Illustration: Judge G. Harry Davis.
Event: billiard match between Edward W. Gardiner, J. F. Poggenburg, and T. M. S. Roll, 1906 April.
Illustration: Major E. A. Hancock.
Building: plans for addition sent to builders for estimates, 1905 May.
News item: Representative Mann argues for a pure food bill by claiming Union League olive oil is really cottonseed oil, but chemist analysis verifies that oil is not adulterated.
Member: Colonel C. C. Knight death notice.
Illustration: Colonel C. C. Knight.
Member: Dimner Beeber marriage notice, 1906 June.
Member: William H. Lucas obituary.
Illustration: William H. Lucas.
Member: Harry F. West obituary.
Illustration: Harry F. West.
Member: James Pollock appointed Harbor Master by Governor Pennypacker.
Illustration: James Pollock.
Employee: John Gibbons and Tony Fisher in knife fight.
Member: Monroe Smith death notice and estate information, 1907 July.
Illustration: Thomas Gillespie, 1906 September.
Real estate: assessment and tax.
Operations: installation of in and out board, maintained by doormen Joe Greg and Jimmy Hughes.
Member: Cadwalader Biddle obituary.
Illustration: Cadwalader Biddle, 1906 October.
Election: nominations of Edwin Stuart, Dimner Beeber, William H. Coates, Joseph G. Darlington, James F. Hope, John Sailer, Edwin T. Stotesbury, William T. Tilden for president.
Member: Joseph Patterson Reed death notice.
Politics/state: members watch returns as Edwin Stuart is elected Governor, 1906 November.
Election: contest for president between William M. Coates and Dimner Beeber.
Illustration: William M. Coates, Dimner Beeber.
News item: Fellowship Club dinner for Republicans at Bellevue-Stratford.
News item: attempt to cash bad check at Union League with Governor-elect Stuart's name.
Event: dinner given by Edwin Stuart of officers and directors; silver vase given to Stuart.
Club: Sawdust Club dinner.
Member: Stuart cabinet rumors include appointment of fellow Union League member Dimner Beeber as Attorney General
Member: Dimner Beeber being considered as candidate for Mayor.
Election: Dimner Beeber elected president; Board organization; implications of League political affiliations in vote for directors.
Illustration: Dimner Beeber; Max Riebenack.
Member: Stuart portrait to be hung in Mayor's reception room.
Illustration: Templeman's portrait of Stuart.
Member: George W. Hall death notice.
Illustration: George W. Hall.
Member: John Sellers, Jr. obituary.
Illustration: John Sellers, Jr.
Building: vote against new building; vote in favor of removing Fifteenth Street buildings and construction of six modern two story buildings.
Clubs: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Member: George W. Hall obituary.
Illustration: George W. Hall.
Member: William G. Neilson death notice.
Illustration: William G. Neilson, 1906 November.
Illustration: President Beeber receiving at the Union League; New Year's Day Table Decorations at the Union League.
Employee: Archibald B. Millar, superintendent of Union League named private secretary to Governor Stuart.
Illustration: Archibald B. Millar.
Member: John T. Bailey obituary.
Illustration: John T. Bailey
Member: Dimner Beeber possible mayoral candidate of Republican Party.
Illustration: P. Fred Rothermel, John E. Reyburn, John M. Walton, Edwin S. Cramp, Dimner Beeber, William S. Vare
Member: Stuart cabinet appointments.
Building: dispute with architect Joseph Huston over bill.
Background: Manufacturers' Club contemplates clubhouse construction; the Union League and other clubs as a models for success.
Politics/state: delegation of members go to Stuart inauguration, 1907 January.
Member: Henry W. Gray obituary.
Illustration: Henry W. Gray, 1907 February.
Event: Governor Edwin Stuart dinner.
Illustration: Union League decorations, Governor Edwin Stuart.
Non-Union League: John H. Converse and James M. Beck dinner in honor of Mayor Weaver for his work on the parkway movement.
Event: amateur billiard match won by J. Ferdinand Poggenburg over J. M. S. Rolls, 1907 March.
Non-Union League: Veteran Corp, First Regiment Infantry N. G. P. banquet at the Union League.
Illustration: Colonel Theodore E. Wiedersheim; parade; Governor Stuart reviewing troops.
News item: tracks on Broad Street.
Illustration: Union League, in 1869, with tracks in front.
Member: Joseph G. Darlington lunch in honor of Charlemagne Tower, Ambassador to Germany, at the Union League.
Event: Ulysses S. Grant birthday anniversary party, 1907 April.
Illustration: George von L. Meyer, John Wanamaker, Washington Atlee Burpee; Senator Penrose, 1907 October.
Illustration: Vonnoh portrait of Stuart.
Elections: nominations.
Illustration: Edward T. Stotesbury, Dimner Beeber, William T. Tilden, James F. Hope, William M. Coates.
Event: Founders' Day celebration with General O. O. Howard as guest of honor.
Illustration: "General Meade's Conference With His Corps Commanders After the First Day of Battle of Gettysburg" by Ludwig Faber; Major General O. O. Howard; stage of the Assembly Room; badge of the 11th Army Corps; Chief Justice James T. Mitchell; General O. O. Howard and Grand Daughter, 1907 November.
Illustration: Dimner Beeber, William T. Tilden, Charles D. Barney Norris Clothier, John Sailer.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Scene of Kindergarten Club's dinner, with heroic doll figures which stood guard over the baby member.
Non-Union League: Central High School 70th anniversary banquet at Union League.
Illustration: Alexander Dallas Bache, John S. Hart, Nicholas H. Maguire, George Inman Riche, Franklin Taylor, Zephaniah Hopper; Congressman Joel Cook, Franklin Spencer Edmonds, Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Dr. Robert Ghompson.
Non-Union League: start of New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania marked by banquet at Union League.
Illustration: Scene at the New Jersey Dinner.
Member: Charles A. Porter obituary.
Illustration: Charles A. Porter, 1907 December.
Illustration: Dimner Beeber; culinary display.
Building: adjourned meeting considers improvements.
Illustration: site of Union League in 1863, 1908 January.
Illustration: Joseph G. Darlington.
Operations: Union League argues in court against collecting mercantile tax.
Building: architect Horace Trumbauer receives commission to design changes to building, 1908 March.
Event: Club Night, 1908 April.
Political/national: ratification of Republican ticket for President and Vice President.
Illustration: The Union League Illuminated, The Union League Banner, William S. Vare.
Politics/local Illustration: cartoon "The Complacency of 1908 Dims the Glory of 1861."
Non-Union League: unveiling of McKinley monument preceded by McKinley Memorial association luncheon at Union League.
Member: General O. O. Howard 77th birthday, with biography. (Date of article not given but appears to be June from scrapbook placement)
Illustration: General O. O. Howard.
Member: John B. Roach obituary.
Illustration: John B. Roach.
Member: article on "Daring Deeds of the American Volunteers" by Street Clair Mulholland.
Illustration: Street Clair A. Mulholland and other Civil War officers, 1908 June.
Member: Henry (Harry) Gwinner Riebenack obituary, 1098 September.
Illustration: audience at the meeting, taken by electric light, Vice Presidential candidate James S. Sherman, United States Senator Philander C. Knox; General O. O. Howard, 1908 October.
Member: Silas W. Peitit obituary, 1908 November.
Illustration: James F. Hope.
Opinion: Penn's column describing Union League, plans for building, election, 1908 December.
Building Illustration: views of building on Broad Street prior to Union League building and "more recently constructed" Union League building, undated [circa 1909].
Illustration: Striking exhibits of culinary art at the Union League ("Swiss cottage, covered with icing and made of dainties, the identity of which are known only to the chef;" "a boar's head on an edible sled, drawn by roast suckling pigs").
Real estate: 99 year lease on 1418 Sansom Street from Cecilia J. Carr estate to Union League.
Illustration: 1418 Sansom Street
Building: Union League asking for estimates on construction of 15th Street addition, 1909 January.
Illustration: present Union League building, proposed new building, first Union League House (1118 Chestnut Street), buildings on Fifteenth Street to be demolished.
Illustration non-Union League (?): banquet scene "Weight[y] Themes of Nation's Weal Claim Attention of Yachtman at Banquet", 1909 February.
Illustration: Pres. Taft's seat at the banquet table, decorated corridor in Union League, Pres. Taft; scene at the banquet hall; Frank H. Hitchcock, Horace Porter, James Wilson, James F. Hope; Charlemagne Tower, Governor Stuart, Reverend Dr. Stephen W. Dana, C. Stuart Patterson; President's battleflag, 1909 April.
Building: corner-stone laying ceremony for 15th Street building.
Illustration: 15th Street elevation; Wm. T. Tilden, Governor Stuart, D. Beeber, J. F. Hope; the corner stone, after laying corner stone, Building Committee; members attending ceremony (W. W. Porter, Charles D. Barney, James E. Mitchell, Max Riebenack, George H. Hill, R. C. Lippincott, Morris L. Clothier, Howard B. French), Stone, 1909 October.
Illustration: Lincoln statue with no wreaths, 1910 February.
Event: First Defender Association banquet on 49th reunion (includes poem).
Illustration: photographs of members of First Defenders Association.
Non-Union League: First Regiment, National Guard Pennsylvania 49th anniversary parade reviewed from Union League balcony and banquet at Union League.
Illustration: parade, 1910 April.
Illustration: Max Riebenack, 1910 May.
Illustration: 15th Street building.
Parking: notice from Director Clay that Union League will be take action if members continue to leave cars blocking Broad St, 1910 August.
Illustration: hallway entrance from 15th Street, Grill room, library, 1910 November.
Illustration: Head from the portrait, 1911 January.
Illustration: First Regiment's memorial statue, First Regiment veterans (including Union League members Colonel T. E. Wiedersheim, R. Dale Benson); scenes at unveiling; uniforms worn by First Regiment during its existence, 1911 April.
Event: dinner given in honor of Captain George P. Morgan.
Illustration: George P. Morgan photograph given as souvenir, 1911 October.
Illustrations: new Marble Cafe, William T. Tilden, James T. Hope.
Election: William T. Tilden elected president.
Illustration: William T. Tilden.
Member: Paul S. Keller, arrested without cause, files complaint against policeman.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual banquet, 1911 December.
Illustration: Rawlings
Member: Charles J. Matthews to marry secretary.
Illustration: Matthews, Gertrude Stackhouse, undated [circa 1912].
Politics/national: endorsement of Taft for Republican candidate for President protested by some members as inappropriate action, 1903 March.
Illustration: Edwin S. Stuart, President Taft, William T. Tilden, R. Dale Benson, 1913 February.
Illustration: Hope, 1913 June.
Election: John Gribbel elected president.
Illustration: John Gribbel, 1915 December.
Member: John Gribbel's letters to and from the Scotch Club of Tampa, 1915 January.
Illustration: Captain George P. Morgan, 1915 February.
Illustration: ex-President Taft and Reception Committee (Charlemagne Tower, George S. Graham, George B. Evans, Alexander W. Wister, John W. Hamer); speakers' table (Miers Busch, George B. Evans, John Gribbel, Mayor Blankenburg, Charlemagne Tower, Senator Penrose); Union League in 1869, Horatio C. King, C. Stuart Patterson, First Union League house 1118 Chestnut St, 1915 May.
Illustration: Tilden, 1915 July.
Illustration: on the steps of the Union League (Philander C. Knox, Charles R. Miller, John W. Hamer), 1915 November.
Illustration: Henry P. Fletcher; Governor John S. Fisher, William G. Price, Jr., and Fletcher.
Election: nominations for president.
Illustration: Colonel Louis J. Kolb, Melville G. Baker, Miers Busch, 1929 November.
Illustration: Haldeman during Civil War and in circa 1923, undated [circa 1923].
Event: description of Marguerita Sylva concert at Witherspoon Hall on visit to Philadelphia when she performed at a Ladies Night recital, 1923 April.
Election: E. Pusey Passmore elected president.
Illustration: E. Pusey Passmore.
Politics/international: 85% of Union League members vote for Bok peace plan (date uncertain), 1923 December.
Illustration: James S. Rawlings.
Event: Edwin S. Stuart and William C. Sproul hear ex-Governor Allen of Kansas speak at Union League, 1924 April.
Illustration: C. Stuart Patterson.
Politics/national: Union League victory march with election of Coolidge.
Illustration: Union League's March of Triumph.
Election: nominations for officers and directors.
Event: Founders' Day banquet with address by former Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge; Union League history.
Illustration: Albert J. Beveridge; Edward T. Stotesbury, George H. Boker, Edwin S. Stuart, John Gribbel, Dimner Beeber, William C. Sproul, E. Pusey Passmore, 1924 November.
Illustration: James E. Mitchell, 1925 April.
Illustration: Dwight F. Davis.
Election: former Governor William Cameron Sproul and former Judge of the Superior Court W. W. Porter candidates for president, 1925 November.
Illustration: Andrew W. Mellon; Mellon with Senator George Wharton Pepper and former Governor William C. Sproul, 1926 March.
Illustration: Frank O. Lowden; Lowden with William C. Sproul, 1926 April.
Event: address by Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth.
Illustration: Nicholas Longworth; Longworth with Henry W. Watson, George P. Darrow, William C. Sproul, George S. Graham, 1926 May.
Illustration: parade in front of Union League, 1926 June.
Illustration: John S. Fisher, 1926 November.
Illustration: building on Broad Street showing "street made ready for Coolidge" covering subway excavation; Gold Medal, Certificate of Membership to Coolidge, souvenir medal; Calvin Coolidge; President Coolidge with Sproul; President Coolidge at train shed with Sproul and William G. Price, 1927 November.
Illustration: building fire, 1927 December.
Illustration: E. Pusey Passmore, 1928 January.
Event: Gold Medal given to General John J. Pershing.
Illustration: General Pershing greeted by Charles H. Ewing, Harold B. Beitler, George S. Patterson; General Pershing with Major General William G. Price, Jr, 1928 February.
Illustration: William C. Sproul, 1928 March.
Politics/national: electric sign for Hoover and Curtis; Republican Party nominees ratified.
Illustration: electric sign for Hoover and Curtis; chairman and speakers at ratification meeting, Edward T. Stotesbury, John Gribbel, Charles E. Roberts, Charles J. Hepburn, 1928 June.
Illustration: Governor Fisher before the mike, 1928 October.
Illustration: Melville G. Baker.
Club: Kindergarten Club dinner.
Illustration: At Kindergarten Club dinner, David Burpee, E. T. Stotesbury, R. W. Tunis, John Gribbel, Charles H. Ewing, M. G. Campbell, W. L. Lawson, Frank M. Hardt, Major General William G. Price, Jr., Dimner Beeber, W. H. Smedley, Fletcher W. Stites, 1929 December.
Illustration: Seth W. Richardson, 1930 February.
Illustration: Melville G. Baker.
Election: George Stuart Patterson elected president.
Illustration: George S. Patterson, 1930 May.
Illustration: Dimner Beeber, 1930 June.
Art: President Hoover portrait by Pilides Costa to be delivered to White House and replica will go to Union League.
Illustration: President Hoover portrait by Pilides Costa, 1930 December.
Illustration: Costa with sketch of portrait, 1931 January.
Illustration: portrait of President Hoover by Pilides Costa; President and Mrs. Hoover with Charles H. Ewing, George S. Patterson; President Hoover leaving train; First City Troop leading Presidentil party to hotel from station; Veteran Corps, First Regiment standing escort of honor on Union League steps, Mrs Hoover at dinner with Mrs. Patterson; Pilides Costa, 1931 May.
Illustration: William F. Homiler, Frank M. Hardt, E. Lawrence Fell.
Event: Founders' Day banquet with address by United States Senator David A. Reed.
Illustration: David A. Reed with George Stuart Patterson; with Frank M. Hardt, Thomas Shallcorss, Jr, 1931 November.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Kindergarten Club members Edward T. Stotesbury, Robert T. Tunis, E. Lawrence Fell, Major General William G. Price, Jr., Frank H. Caven, 1931 December.
Illustration: Mayor J. Hampton Moore, with E. Lawrence Fell, 1932 January.
Illustration: Ernest Lee Jahnke with E. Lawrence Fell, 1932 February.
Illustration - building: depiction of Constitutional Centennial, 1887, with Union League as only unchanged building (date uncertain), 1932 May.
Politics/national: ratification of Republican ticket, with address by United States Representative from Connecticut John Q. Tilson.
Illustration: Tilson with E. Lawrence Fell, Mayor Moore, and Frank Caven, 1932 June.
Illustration: Stimson with E. Lawrence Fell and J. Hampton Moore.; caricature of Stimson; Hughes with Fell; General James G. Harbord with Fell.
llustration Building: Broad Street exterior decorated for presidential campaign, 1932 October.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell, Raymond Pitcairn; facsimile of Woodrow Wilson Independent Republican League letter said to have been drafted by Penrose with Wood and Kolb names on letterhead; caricature of E. Lawrence Fell.
Election: E. Lawrence Fell nominated for president (month uncertain), 1932 November.
Illustration: Governor Sproul present Gold Medal to President Coolidge; Union League memorial tribute to Coolidge, 1933 January.
Member: William H. Woodin appointed Secretary of the Treasury; Union League membership not threatened. (date uncertain)
Event: luncheon in honor of Major General William G. Price, Jr., on his retirement as commander of Pennsylvania National Guard.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell with Major General William G. Price. (date uncertain), 1933 March.
Employee: head doorman Thomas J. Moran presented with bouquet for 30th anniversary at Union League. (date uncertain), 1933 April.
Illustration: Union League original clubhouse at 1118 Chestnut St, 1933 May.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell, 1933 July.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell, Edward Merchant, 1933 November.
Illustration: Frank M. Hardt.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: members of Kindergarten Club Major General William G. Price, Jr., Robert W. Tunis, David Burpee, Colonel Louis J. Kolb, Frank M. Hardt; E. T. Stotesbury, 1933 December.
Illustration: Rear Admiral W. C. Watts, Frank M. Hardt, Vice Admiral Harris Laning, Mayor Hampton Moore, Major General William Price, Jr, 1934 July.
Illustration: Colonel Frank Knox and Frank M. Hardt; William A. Schnader with David A. Reed, 1934 October.
Illustration: Major General William G. Price, Lawrence Fell, Frank C. Hardt, Robert W. Tunis; dinner table scenes with Malcolm G. Campbell, E. T. Storesbury, 1934 December.
Illustration: Mayor Moore with Colonel Louis J. Kolb.
By-laws: members vote to strike rule that a bar cannot be installed in building, 1935 April.
Illustration: Judge Otto R. Heiligman, Judge Harry S. McDevitt.
Club: Wishbone Club annual dinner with Otto Heiligman as guest of honor; Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Judge Heiligman with Judge Allen M. Stearne; with Thomas K. Ober, Jr., Frank A. Bedford; Robert W. Tunis with E. T.
Stotesbury; Frank M. Hardt, Major General William G. Price, Jr., Judge Otto R. Heiligman, Robert W. Tunis.
Employee: William H. Stauffer, Jr., assistant manager, and Eli C. Schmidt, head cashier, honored for 25 years service.
Illustration: William F. Homiller, William H. Stauffer, Jr., Eli C. Schmidt, 1935 December.
Politics/national: campaign speech by Henry P. Fletcher, Republican National Committee chairman; address by Representative (N. Y.) James W. Wadsworth.
Illustration: Henry P. Fletcher, Otto R. Heiligman, J. Hampton Moore; James W. Wadsworth, Frank M. Hardt, 1936 January.
Illustration: Walter E. Edge, George Wharton Pepper, Otto R. Heiligman.
Membership: president Otto Heiligman demands resignation of hard-hearted Republicans and Democrats, 1936 February.
Illustration: John Gribbel, 1936 August.
Illustration: George Wharton Pepper, John Hollsiter Stewart, 1936 September.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Edward Townsend Stotesbury; Judge Harry S. McDevitt, 1936 December.
Illustration: Edwin S. Stuart, 1937 March.
Event: Constitution Sesqui-Centennial day with essay prize awarded to Benjamin D. Raub, Jr., and address by Ira Jewell Williams.
Illustration: Benjamin D. Raub, Jr.; with Otto R. Heiligman, 1937 September.
Illustration: Bainbridge Colby; building exterior; building interior Lincoln Memorial Room; battleship Maine clock; Colby with George Stuart Patterson, Frank van Roden, Joseph F. Stockwell; Otto R. Heiligman.
Election: Judge Allen M. Stearne unopposed for president, 1937 November.
History: small town in Illinois claim to be the site of the first Union League refuted.
Member: suit against Samuel P. Carmel, former chauffeur and Union League member, by guardians of his employer, and question concerning Carmel's gift of a rug to Union League.
Election: Judge Allen M. Stearne elected president.
Illustration: Judge A. M. Stearne.
Club: Wishbone Club presents club member Judge Allen M. Stearne with stuffed owl in recognition of his election as Union League president.
Illustration: Stearne with Thomas K. Ober, Jr., Frank A. Bedford, and owl.
Member: Judge Allen M. Stearne prefers number 13, Governor Sproul likes 7.
Clubs: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Thomas W. Brahany, Maryland Governor Harry W. Nice, Robert Tunis, Colonel George A. O'Connor; Frank M. Hardt, Colonel Milton Baker, FRank Van Roden; Judge Harry S. McDevitt, Edward T. Stotesbury; M. L. Annenberg, Major General William G. Price, Jr, 1937 December.
Illustration: members at the Fishhouse Punch bowl; Judge Allen M. Stearne with former presidents Frank M. Hardt, E. Lawrence Fell, Edward T. Stotesbury, Man. General William G. Price, Judge Otto R. Heiligman.
Real estate: assessment for Union League reduced with other city properties. Union League rents 1418 Sansom Street
Event: testimonial dinner for Otto R. Heiligman, with Stotesbury performing on drums.
History: account of George H. Boker's role in founding of Union League.
Membership: Union League does not follow Union League of New York in passing bylaw allowing Jeffersonian Democrats as members, 1938 January.
Illustration: Major Generals William Price and Edward C. Shannon proceed through First City Troop honor guard, 1938 February.
Art: description of Andrew Jackson portrait.
Illustration: Andrew Jackson portrait.
Event: chess exhibition by Jose R. Capablanca. (see also April)
Illustration: Jose R. Capablanca waiting for Anthony H. Geuting to move; chess tournament scene.
Employee: recipes of Philadelphia club chefs, including sole parisienne by Union League chef Peter Grassi.
Illustration: Chef Peter Grassi preparing sole parisienne (also Manufacturers and Banker Club chef Arthur K. Thieme and Penn Athletic Club assistant chef Jean Arnaudy), 1938 March.
Illustration: Hulburd with Allen M. Stearne.
Art: Judge Otto Heiligman portrait by Leopold Seyffert displayed.
Illustration: Seyferrt's portrait of Heiligman.
Recreation: Union League competes in bowling league.
Illustration: Union League members C. J. Hepburn and H. C. Stahler bowling (with other clubs' members).
History: Saturday Evening Post remembers Jack Kelly climbing the front of the Union League following 1936 election.
Illustration: Kelly climbing.
Member: Justice Owen J. Roberts voted honorary member.
Event: Tournament winners dinner.
Non-Union League: First Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard (103rd Engineers, P. N. G.) 77th anniversary dinner at Union League.
Illustration: First Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard Veteran Corps Color Guard; section of veteran corps, 1938 April.
Art: oil painting of South Broad Street looking north to City Hall in 1896 [by Henry J. Harris?] acquired by Union League.
Illustration: painting of South Broad Street.
Building: exhibit of 38 scenes of yesteryear on display commemorating 73rd anniversary of building.
Illustration: original home at 1118 Chestnut Street, back porch before addition, present exterior view.
Art: President Calvin Coolidge portrait by William McGregor Paxton on view.
Illustration: oil portrait of Calvin Coolidge by William McGragor Paxton.
Real estate: possible Sheriff's sale of 1418 Sansom Street
Illustration: notice of Sheriff's Sale.
Member: Civil War veteran Frederick McWade reminiscence of 1864.
Illustration: Frederick McWade; Civil War veterans in Union League, Charles D. Parney and Robert Carson, who will observe Memorial Day, 1938 May.
Illustration: Frank Van Roden, Thomas K. Ober, Allen M. Stearne, van Roden fishing for goldfish at dinner table; William M. Davidson, C. Brewster Rhoads, J. W. McWilliams, 1938 October.
Operations: Mayor Wilson charges that Union League has gambling room; Allen Stearne give reporter tour to prove that there is no gambling.
Art: paintings of Russell Smith and Xanthus Smith being removed from Smith family home; painting of Battle of Alabama and Kearsage by Xanthus Smith hangs in Union League smoking room.
History: account of background to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with mention that Union League was represented by J. L. Claghorne at ceremony.
Event: 76th anniversary marked quietly, 1938 November.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual banquet, 1938 December.
Illustration: Price with Steinberg and Charles A. Tyler, president of The Inquirer, 1939 January.
Event: Lincoln Day celebration with address by Ohio Governor John W. Bricker.
Illustration: Governor and Mrs. Bricker, Bricker with Allen M. Stearne; with George Wharton Pepper, 1939 February.
Illustration: Hi Paul, club professional, and Allen M. Stearne, 1939 March.
Non-Union League: First Regiment Infantry 78th anniversary banquet at Union League. Senator Robert A. Taft address to Philadelphia Life Underwriters, with reception at Union League.
Illustration: Taft with Thomas Kane and Philip F. Murray.
Event: Grant birthday observed with decoration of portrait, 1939 April.
Illustration: Lincoln campaign badge presented to Union League by Dr. J. Torrance Rugh.
Member: Richard P. Brown appointed Pennsylvania Secretary of Commerce. George Wharton Pepper awarded National Institute of Social Sciences gold medal.
Illustration: Richard P. Brown. George Wharton Pepper with Herbert Hoover, 1939 May.
Illustration: Bye cleaning "The Combat" by Eugen Verboeckhoven and holding George Washington equestrian portrait by Thomas Sully.
Non-Union League: retirement dinner for Major General Edward C. Shannon, commanding officer of 28th Division, Pennsylvania National Guard, at Union League.
Illustration: Shannon with Major General William C. Price and other officers, 1939 June.
Illustration: committee to promote tournament, including Sam Gilpin, W. Biddle Page, Ward Wheelock, Arthur A. Bailey, William Dyer, 1939 July.
Employee: Chef Peter Grassi interviewed about Union League recipes.
Illustration: Chef Grassi, 1939 October.
Illustration: van Roden with Allen M. Stearne.
Election: eleven candidates nominated for president.
Art: Allen M. Stearne portrait by William Macgregor Paxton on display.
Illustration: Stearne portrait.
Event: dinner in honor of Mayor-elect Robert E. Lamberton. No special recognition of Union League's 77th anniversary, 1939 November.
Election: E. Lawrence Fell elected president.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell; Fell with vice-presidents Joseph F. Stockwell, Frank Van Roden, Maurice W. Sloan.
History: Union League presidents.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Kindergarten Club members Harry McDevitt, Wilfred Lawson, Z. Taylor Hall, Allen M. Stearne.
Non-Union League: New Jersey Society annual dinner at Union League, 1939 December.
Illustration: Stearne with E. Lawrence Fell and Frank van Roden; with puppet portrayals, 1940 January.
Non-Union League: University of Pennsylvania James Wilson Law Club annual dinner at Union League.
Member: Joseph F. Stockwell to celebrate "14th" birthday in leap year, 1940 February.
Illustration: Dr. Shaw with Dr. Charles H. Henninger, Dr. Rufus S. Reeves, 1940 April.
Employee: former night superintendent Joseph D. Gregory death notice, 1940 May.
Politics/national: Union League electrical sign and dinner for members of Republican National Committee.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell with Mrs. J. Worthington Scranton; building exterior with electric sign "Welcome G.O.P", 1940 June.
Illustration: Electric sign "Willkie and McNary", 1940 July.
Illustration: Cooke with Governor James
Member: Herman L. Collins, Inquirer columnist "Girard," death notice.
Non-Union League: Republican Luncheon Club of Southeastern Pennsylvania luncheon at Union League. Military Order of the Loyal Legion dinner held at Union League.
Illustration: Senator Warren R. Austin and Mrs. John Hampton Barnes. Major General Edward Martin, Rear Admiral A. E. Watson, Colonel William Innes Forbes, 1940 October.
Illustration: crowd in front of Union League, undated.
Election: E. Lawrence Fell re-elected president.
Non-Union League: Stephen Girard Lions Club annual luncheon held at Union League.
Illustration: Temple coach Ray Morrison, guard Charles Drulis, backfield Andy Tomasic, Herbert Craft.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Gerald P. Nugent, Brigadier General William G. Price, Jr.
Non-Union League: dinner in honor of Frankford High School football champions feted by Northeast business and professional leaders at Union League (Allen M. Stearne as toastmaster), 1940 December.
Non-Union League: 103 Engineers, Pennsylvania National Guard Washington Day parade reviewed in front of Union League.
Illustration: parade review in front of Union League, 1941 February.
Illustration: Donovan with E. Lawrence Fell, 1941 April.
Employee: James S. Ramsey, cashier, death notice, 1941 July.
Illustration: Bullitt entering Union League; caricature of Bullitt and Kelly at Union League.
Politics/local: reception for Republican candidates for judicial and row offices and appeal to members to work for them, 1941 October.
Member: Horace P. Liversidge, Philadelphia Electric Co. president explains decision to raze building at 908 Sansom Street for war steel and iron. (date uncertain)
Illustration: 908 Sansom St, 1941 November.
Illustration: A. D. Swift, 1941 December.
Illustration: painting used in Gimbels advertisement, 1942 January.
Illustration: Frank van Roden, 1942 July.
Event: luncheon with Peter Wright first speaker in series to present first-hand accounts of war action.
News item: announcement of Roosevelt's trip to North Africa met with disappointment at Union League. (date uncertain), 1942 October.
Illustration: General Arnold with college officials at luncheon, 1943 March.
Illustration: George S. Patterson, 1943 May.
Illustration: Charles D. Barney, S. Horace Disston; exterior with McKinley campaign decoration, exterior showing "bleak and frigid aspect," Democrats in the Union League, Luther Harr, Horace Barba, John J. Raskob, Joseph Gallagher, H. Edgar Barnes; Lincoln statue and flanking panels, Civil War relics; view of billiard room with members, Kindergarten Club new member Thomas E. Wynne, Charles A. Tyler, Ralph H. Reeder, John Slonaker, Jr.; Joseph R. Grundy, Henry B. McIntyre etching of exterior; Joseph N. Pew, Jr., view of 15th Street exterior; old porch, chandelier, Archie D. Swift and John Blakely in Old Cafe; members around Fish House Punch bowl on New Year's Day; portraits of former presidents; interior view of second floor stairway; George Boker, site of Union League in 1865, 1118 Chestnut Street; Frank H. Caven, Judge Buffington, Pedro G. Salom, oldest employee Norris Comegys, interior view of Library corridor.
Operations: Union League agrees to War Manpower Commission restrictions to eliminate luxury services, 1943 June.
Member: E. Lawrence Fell obituary.
Illustration: E. Lawrence Fell, 1943 September.
Employee: Norris Comegys recognized for 50 years.
Event: Dinner with address by Governor Edward Martin.
Illustration: Governor Martin with Archie D. Swift, 1943 November.
Illustration: WAC swearing in, in front of Lincoln statue.
Event: Union League and Society of the Alumni of the College of the University of Pennsylvania host Navy V-12 program students, 1944 January.
Illustration: Lord Halifax and George W. Maxey, 1944 March.
Illustration: Senator Brewster with William I. Schaffer, 1944 April.
Employee: Augustus (Gus) Spear, cigar manager, explains the art of smoking and describes Union League members' habits.
Illustration: Augustus S. Spear, J. Howard Pew, Howard M. Long, Charles A. Wright, James R. Trimble, Judge Finletter, John H. Maurer, John F. Metten, 1944 May.
Illustration: governors visit Liberty Bell, 1944 June.
Illustration: George P. Orr with paintings, violins and boat model; Peter Schauble hangs photo.
Politics/national: Dewey campaign fund raising thermometer; address by Henry J. Taylor.
Illustration: thermometer, 1944 September.
Employee: William A. Cloak, restaurant manager, celebrates 50 years at Union League, with observations on eating habits over the years.
Illustration: William A. Cloak with menu collection.
Illustration: "Liberty Belles" Dewey-Bricker Certificate drive booth in front of Union League (no view of Union League), 1944 October.
Illustration: Mrs. John W. Lord, Jr.
Election: William I. Schaffer nominated for president, 1944 November.
Illustration: M. D. Brown, 1945 December.
Building/Interior: proposed renovations to include new kitchens, offices, oyster bar, and first liquor bar, 1946 February.
Illustration: Taft with Millard D. Brown, 1946 October.
Illustration: Dr. Distler with Frank M. Hardt, Millard D. Brown, 1947 February.
Illustration: W. H. Dilworth, Colonel Millard D. Brown, F. S. Wall, and J. W. Hale watch facsimile edition unroll; Frederick Dickson, K. J. Klemm, Jr.
Program: Union League Boys Citizenship Award given. (see also June 1947)
Illustration: Brown presents award to Robert Jessie; Brown with General Manton S. Eddy (speaker), Larry Creter, Frank Trojan, Robert Stone, James Williams; Eli Schmidt, assistant manager with James Outerbridge, Howard Miller, Jr., James Kelley, Ronald Gordon; Brown with William Mincey Hannon.
Non-Union League: Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion annual meeting held at Union League with address by Colonel Robert R. McCormick.
Illustration: Officer of Loyal Legion greet McCormick, 1947 May.
Illustration: scenes from reunion, 1947 June.
Election: Henry P. Bryans nominated for president.
Event: New Jersey Night with address by New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll.
Illustration: Driscoll with Millard D. Brown, Major General Clifford R. Powell, 1947 November.
Illustration: Henry B. Bryans and L. Allan Passmore.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Revelle W. Brown, Charles S. Redding, A. Taylor Hall, 1947 December.
Illustration: Governor Duff with Henry B. Bryans, 1948 February.
Illustration: Dr. Gates with Henry B. Bryans, 1948 March.
Illustration: Henry B. Bryans presents resolution to Dr. Merle M. Odgers, with John A. Diemand, 1948 April.
Illustration: Wesley M. Heilman with Stan Hegland, Joseph McGinley, William Gumper; Eli C. Schmidt with Eugene Foster, Robert Mattis, Paul Burry, Arnold Foster, 1948 May.
Event: address by Senator Robert A. Taft.
Illustration: Taft speaking to members, 1948 June.
Illustration: Senator Lodge with Governor James H. Duff, Senator Edward Martin, 1948 September.
Non-Union League: Elizabeth Mitchell/James Allen Bentley wedding reception at Union League, 1948 October.
Illustration: Michael Lerner, ice cream maker, Thomas H. Jones, comptroller, Henry B. Bryans, 1949 January.
Illustration: William B. Hacket, night manager; James Allen Bentley; Mrs. James Allen Bentley (former Mary Elizabeth Mitchell); wedding guests waiting to testify; Arthur W. Kingsley, Peel Bentley
Event: Lincoln Day celebration with address by New Jersey Governor Alan Driscoll, 1949 February-March.
Illustration: James Allen Bentley, wife, and mother Mrs. Poole Bentley, Mrs. James Irving, Jr.
Club: Kindergarten Club members tour Eastern State Penitentiary.
Illustration: George P. Orr, Thomas Wynne eating prison meal with Major General Frank A. Warner, 1949 March.
Illustration: Arthur C. Kauffman, Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Dr. James Creese, Major General Milton Baker; Lieutenant General Wedemeyer speaking at Reyburn Plaza, 1949 April.
Illustration: James Allen Bentley and Mrs. Bentley, Mrs. James Irving, Jr.
Program: Boys' Citizenship Awards.
Illustration: Henry P. Bryans, Edward Linck (award winner), Herman Hickman (Yale football coach), 1949 May.
Illustration: Clayton Morris and William H. Stauffer, Jr, 1949 September.
Illustration: Henry B. Bryans with others.
Event: luncheon with address by Goy George Gabrielson, Republican national chairman.
Illustration: Gabrielson with Hugh Scott, Henry B. Bryans; with Joseph R. Grundy, G. Mason Owlett, 1949 October.
Illustration: J. William Hardt with Dick Sissler, Phillies outfielder, and award winners Melvin Fishman, Allan Barlow, Louis Wasmund, Albert Conner, Thomas Harrison, Joseph Burns, Eugene Lomas, Bill Puhl, James Crawford.
Library: $25,000 bequest of life-member W. Kirkland Dwier for purchase of library books, 1950 May.
Illustration: Peale and J. William Hart, 1951 February.
Illustration: rally outside Union League, 1951 March.
Program: Boys' Good Citizenship Awards.
Illustration: J. William Hardt with Gus Zernial (A's star), Jimmy Dykes (A's manager), and award winners Thomas Clover, Joe Heyer, Joshua Greene; with Francis Bagnell (Penn football star) Howie Dallmar (Penn basketball coach); with Jersey Joe Walcott, award winner Abe Diamond, 1951 May.
Illustration: C. Brewster Rhoads with Ford Frick (Baseball Commissioner), George Muunger (Penn football coach), Joe Astroth (A's catcher), Jimmy Dykes (A's manager), award winners Dave Hare and Clarence Collins; award winner Paul Voltz; award winners John Fink, 1952 May.
Illustration: crowd on Sansom street watching firemen, 1952 July.
Illustration: Governor Driscoll with Senator James H. Duff, C. Brewster Rhoads, 1952 September.
Illustration: Senator Taft with C. Brewster Rhoads, 1952 October.
Illustration: General Brenton G. Wallace, L. Allen Passmore, C. Brewster Rhoads, Revelle W. Brown listen to election results; views of members on election night.
Election: C. Brewster Rhoads nominated for president.
History: 25 years ago President Coolidge was made honorary member, 1952 November.
Building/Interior: members approve new dining facilities, 1952 December.
Illustration: Sartain's portrait of Lincoln after painting by John Henry Brown.
Event: Lincoln Day with address by Representative Hugh Scott.
Illustration: Scott with C. Brewster Rhoads, 1953 February.
Illustration: Connie Mack, Bob Carpenter, Steve O'Neill (Phillies manager), George M. Trautman (minor leagues president) Earl R. Yoemans (Boys' Work Committee chair) with award winners Steven Kendall, Howard Rubin; Bill Nicholson (Phillies outfielder) with Union League member William R. Nicholson, Jr. and boys from Germantown Boys Club; R. Brewster Rhoads with award winner William Jackels.
Non-Union League: Women's National Defense Committee of Philadelphia meeting at Union League.
Employee: R. Allen Rudderow, Union League doorman, death notice, 1953 May.
Illustration: Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey with C. Brewster Rhoads, 1953 October.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual banquet, 1953 December.
Employee: dinner for 25 Year Club.
Real estate: assessment increase. with other properties, 1954 January.
Illustration: Groves, Earl Yoemans, and J. Alan Passmore present awards to Joseph Dickson, Theodore Haslett, 1954 May.
Illustration: Nixon with Republican Party candidates at Convention Hall; Nixon speaking at Convention Hall, 1954 October.
Illustration: Pete Grassi with Edwin B. Morris; Grassi with Jorgen Viltoft, food and beverage manager of Minneapolis hotel.
Election: L. Alan Passmore nominated for president, 1954 November.
Illustration: Thomas J. Gibbons (Police Commissioner), Goodwin J. Knight (CA Governor), L. Alan Passmore, Dr. Earl R. Yoemens with award winners.
Operations: ex-cricket player J. Barton King sues Union League over injuries suffered during a fall at Union League, 1955 May.
Illustration: Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Harold E. Stassen, 1955 August.
Illustration: Governor Herter with Judge Peter F. Hagan at Benjamin Franklin Hotel, 1956 February.
Program: Boys' Good Citizenship Awards.
Illustration: Harry A Stuhdreher (former Notre Dame "Four Horsemen" football player), Glen Gorbous and Jim Greenhouse (Phillies outfielders), award winners William A. Tucker, Alfred H. Martin, Frank R. Chesnick, 1956 May.
Illustration: Hall with Joseph Henderson, 1956 September.
Illustration: Joseph W. Henderson, Richie Ashurn, award winner Francis O'Keefe, 1957 May.
Illustration: Joseph W. Henderson, 1957 July.
Illustration: Millard D. Brown, 1957 September.
Illustration: James M. Anderson.
Club: Kindergarten annual dinner.
Illustration: Charles E. Dearnley, Boyd T. Barnard, John Curtin, James W. Gibbs, Horace Schwarz, 1957 December.
Politics/state: Scott address in which he states Eisenhower's interest in McGonigle becoming Governor, 1958 October.
Politics/local: Union League considering fund raising for local Republican Party.
Non-Union League: Geographical Society of Philadelphia annual dinner at Union League.
Illustration: Thomas W. Wynne, Navy Commander William R. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson, 1959 January.
Event: Lincoln Day address by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Illustration: Lodge in front of Lincoln statue, 1959 February.
Politics: Political Activities Committee urges members to become involved in community affairs, 1959 April.
Illustration: James M. Henderson with award winner Jerry Halter; Robert R. M. Carpenter, Jr., with award winners Bob Glosson, Kenneth Alevy, Howard Dean.
Politics/local: Lewis H. Van Dusen, chairman of Political Activities Committee, urges support of Republican Party (but question remains how much support of local ticket will be given).
Illustration. L. H. Van Dusen, 1959 May.
Member: Maurice A. Webster, Jr., at accountants' conference.
Illustration: Webster, 1959 August.
Illustration: Senator Morton, James Anderson, 1959 September.
Politics/local: luncheon with address by Albert W. Johnson (candidate for Superior Court). Luncheon with address by Senator Hugh Scott. Luncheon with address by Harold E. Stassen (candidate for Mayor), 1959 October.
Politica/local: Joe Molinari criticizes Union League for "doing nothing."
Illustration: Joseph J. Molinari, 1959 November.
Illustration: Russel P. Heuer, Thomas B. McCabe, C. Douglas Dillon.
Member: General William G. Price, Jr., obituary notice.
Illustration: General William G. Price, Jr, 1960 February.
Illustration: Harry F. Richards, 1960 March.
Illustration: Russell P. Heuer with Charles T. Soley, 1960 April.
Illustration: Dr. Earle R. Yeomans with award winner Swain Crawford; Alvin Dark spirituals (Phillies star) with award winners Jim Esposito and Jim Soteckhert, 1960 May.
Illustration: Nixon, Mrs. Nixon throwing out ball, Senator Hugh Scott at Connie Mack Stadium, 1960 June.
Collections: artifacts on display at Gimbels in honor of 100th anniversary of Civil War.
Illustration: James H. J. Tate, H. J. Grinsfelder, Jay and Eleanor Emlen at exhibit.
History: tale of observation that crepe on door cheers up exterior and other tidbits.
Illustration: exterior by Alfred Bendiner, 1961 February.
Illustration: Eagle Scout William R. Slater, William R. Toal, Daniel B. Michie in front of Lincoln statue.
Member: Robert Burns Beath names his son Ulysses Grant Beath in 1879, 1961 April.
Illustration: Ford C. Frick, baseball commissioner with award winners William J. Klunk, Cleveland M. Edwards, 1961 May.
Illustration: Steve Van Buren (Eagles staff), Ted Dean (Eagles football player), Frederick Slack, 3d, Frederick W. Slack, Jr., Frederick W. Slack, 1961 September.
Illustration: McCabe.
Non-Union League: Laennec Society banquet held at Union League. Alan Wood Steel Co. reception for Financial Analysts of Philadelphia held at Union League.
Program: Union League to give cash gift to Mummers, 1961 December.
Non-Union League: May flower Descendents in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania lunch (see also small February 1962 clipping). Medical Club of Philadelphia annual meeting; Geographical Society of Philadelphia dinner. YMCA award given to Laird H. Simons, Jr. Philadelphia Patent Law Association dinner. Ducks Unlimited annual dinner. Philadelphia Chapter of the World Wars luncheon meeting.
Member: Raymond H. Anders retirement, 1962 January.
Illustration: Thomas B. McCabe, Admiral Felix B. Stump, Basil Rathbone; wreath placed at Abraham Lincoln monument by LuLu Temple Legion of Honor.
Event: Centennial committee appointed.
Non-Union League: Eastern Group Treasury Division, Association of American Railroads address.
History/Operations: history and current operations.
Illustration: Board of Directors, 1962 February.
Illustration: part of Harry Hawke's testimony.
Event: Father-Daughter dinner-dance
News Item: Union League as Republican Party headquarters.
Non-Union League: Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner, 1962 April.
Illustration: Eisenhower with Thomas B. McCabe; with W. B. Murphy, John Richardson; First City Troop passes reviewing stand in front of Union League; 28th Infantry Division in review.
Art: art at the Union League.
Illustration: "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter" by Albert Bierstadt, "Abraham Lincoln" by Edward D. Marchand, "George Washington at the Battle of Trenton" by Thomas Sully, "The 'Kearsage' and the 'Alabama'" by Xanthus Russell Smith. (see color clippings) Program: Boys' Citizenship Award.
Illustration: Phillies catcher Clay Dalrymple, Thomas Gonsiewski, Hirsh I. Rubin, Ned Levi, scoutmaster Marvin Miller, Marc Sonnefeld, former scholarship winner William J. Klepczynski, Eagles player Tom Brookshier, Phillies manager Gene Mauch, Germantown Boys' Club director William T. Harris, John P. Smith, Michael Gallagher, 1962 May.
Employee: Edward Shaeffer (Schaeffer), steward, lived and his wife gave birth in the Union League, 1962 June.
Employee: steward Edward Schaeffer grandson to attend special event recognizing to honor his mother, the only woman resident and who had a baby at Union League, 1962 September.
Politics/national: members vote to support President Kennedy's arms blockade of Cuba.
Exhibition: Winslow Homer sketches on display.
Illustration: "Sutler's Tent," "Playing Cards," and third sketch by Homer.
Event: Centennial Anniversary party with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.
By-Laws: Richardson Dilworth falsely charges that Union League denied Justice Michael Musmanno, a Democrat, access to dining, 1962 October.
Election: Samuel Fulton nominated for president.
Politics/national: Senator John Tower speaks at Committee for Patriotic Action meeting.
Illustration: Ivan H. Peterman with Senator Tower, 1962 November.
Illustration: J. Slade Carter, Frederick H. Starling, Dr. F. William Sunderman, Jr., Ernest G. Weber, J. Permar Richards, Colonel William I. Forbes in front of Tiffany clock, chef Peter Grassi preparing meal, W. C. Carson and attendant Arthur Unger in health club, Robert C. Ligget at ticker-tape, staff cleaning Lincoln Hall chandelier.
Event: Centennial Founder's Day dinner with address by Governor-elect William W. Scranton.
Election: Samule E. Fulton elected president.
Illustration: Scranton, Ohio Cong. Robert Taft, Lieutenant Governor-elect Ray Shafer, Atty. General-designate Walter E. Alessandroni, State Supreme Court Justice-elect Samuel Roberts; Samuel E. Fulton, Thomas B, McCabe.
Sculpture: Veterans Corp, First Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard presents "The Spirit of '61" by Bush-Brown to Union League.
Club: Kindergarten Club annual dinner.
Illustration: Willis S. Brown, David F. Maxwell, William H. Jones.
Non-Union League/Illustration: Speakers Bureau of the Insurance Information Office of Pennsylvania luncheon.
Building/Exterior//Illustration: Civil War quiz, 1962 December.
Illustration: exterior view, Moses A. Dropsie, Mayer Sulzberger, notice of Sulzberger's election as member, 1963 January.
Address illustration: N. Y. Senator Kenneth B. Keating speaks at Committee for Patriotic Action meeting, with Ivan Petersen and Samuel E. Fulton, 1963 March.
Illustration: Thomas J. Finnerty in Lincoln Memorial Room.
Politics/national: Political Activities Committee address by Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.
Illustration: Goldwater with Samuel E. Fulton.
History: chronicle of 1863, Salmon P. Chase visited the Union League.
Illustration: Chase, 1963 April.
Illustration: Old Cafe, Meredith Room, Card Room.
Program: Boys' Citizenship award.
Illustration: Samuel Fulton, Phillies manager Gend Mauch, and Frank Knoll, 1963 May.
Event: Union League delegation at Battle of Gettysburg 100th anniversary to scout for a revival of an annual Gettysburg pilgrimage, 1963 July.
Illustration: Samuel E. Fulton with Morton.
Building interior: redecoration of Ladies' Lounge.
Event: Ladies Night with address by Ohio Representative Robert Taft, Jr., and spirituals performed by Union League employee Kathleen Dennis.
Illustration: Taft with Samuel E. Fulton.
Building interior: redecoration of Ladies' Lounge by Vincent Kling firm, "Most people like it. Some are astonished. While we were there, an old-timer declared "I love it.' A younger woman remarked, 'I'm slowly recovering from the shock.'", 1963 October.
Politics/National: Union League adopts resolutions memorializing President Kennedy and supporting President Johnson, 1963 November.
Non-Union League: Society of Mayflower Descendants annual luncheon. Sales and Marketing Executives Club of Philadelphia.
Event: Valley Forge Military Academy salute to the Union League, 1964 February.
Illustration: Phillies manager Gene Mauch, Samuel E. Fulton, Allen Socal, Craig Orbell. Phillies John Callison, Tom Kane.
Non-Union League: Eagle Scout Award dinner.
Event illustration: artist Joseph E. Kolb with his portrait of General Douglas McArthur that hung in Union League throughout war and following McArthur's death, 1964 April.
Foundations: Good Citizenship Award. Scholarship Award.
Illustration: Dr. Frederick Barth, J. Permar Richards, Samuel E. Fulton, Phillies players Wes Covington and Ray Culp and Manager Gene Mauch, Albert London, Cameron Pitcairn, Lincoln Forrest Schoenberger, Richard E. Oliver, David J. OwsikJoseph H. Makurath, Frank Finch, Melvin Moss, Walter Poprycz, Dennis Laskey, Robert L. Suter, Bruce Adair, Phillip E. Downey, Michael Brywka, 1964 May.
Employee illustration: Mrs. Bertha Crothers at 25-Year Club dinner. being served by president Samuel E. Fulton, 1964 June.
Illustration: Mrs. Green, 1964 August.
Illustration: Samuel E. Fulton with Scranton.
Event: announcement of plans for Ladies Luncheon.
Non-Union League: Congressional Medal of Honor Society luncheon. (see also October 1 clippings)
Illustration: Congressional Medal of Honor winners.
History: Answer to question for information on Union League.
Illustration: Broad Sreet exterior, 1964 September.
Politics/national: addresses by Presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater, Vice Presidential candidate William E. Miller, Ohio Congressman Robert A. Taft., Jr., Congressman Richard S. Schweiker.
Illustration: Miller and wife greeted on their arrival at the Union League; Miller greets crowd before going to Union League. Robert A. Taft, Jr. Hal Beamis, Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, Samuel E. Fulton, Schweiker, Roland A. Ritter.
Event: Ladies Luncheon with addresses by Lieutenant Governor Raymond Shafer and New York Congressman Katharine Street George.
Illustration: Street George.
Event: Silver Medal awarded to General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., United States Marine Corps commandant. Congressional Medal of Honor Society luncheon
Illustration: Greene with Samuel E. Fulton and Hal Bemis.
Non-Union League illustration: Navy-Notre Dame dinner, with E. J. Hesketh, 1964 October.
Employee illustration: Samuel E. Fulton waits on Bertha Crothers at 25-Year Club dinner, 1964 November.
Illustration: Wynne
Event: Library Committee celebration of 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, 1964 December.
Event illustration: Lincoln Day, with Henry L. Schimpf, Thomas E. Wynne, Ivan Peterman examining Tanner manuscript, 1965 February.
Illustration: Society of Mayflower members, color guard.
Member: actor Edward Everett Horton has luncheon interview at Union League.
Illustration: Horton, 1966 January.
News item: Charles Camerano, fancy sugar decorator who has made model Union League soldier statue.
Illustration: Camerano.
Event: Lincoln Day luncheon with address by Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer (also described as a fund-raiser), 1966 February.
Non-Union League: YMCA board of directors meeting. Blind Relief Fund annual award.
Illustration: Blind Relief fund award, 1966 May.
Illustration: caricature of Simpson, 1966 July.
Politics: program to help GOP slate and keep members active in Republican politics, 1966 August.
Illustration: Roman Catholic Archbishop John J. Krol, Richard Crompton, Episcopal Bishop Robert L. DeWitt.
Politics/state: Ladies' Committee of 1966 Union League Campaign Committee luncheon, with address by gubernatorial candidate Raymond P. Shafer, 1966 September.
Politics/state: political luncheon with address by Republican National chairman Ray C. Bliss.
Illustration: Bliss with Thomas E. Wynne.
Member: "Why You Should Vote" feature with quote from Hal L. Bemis.
Illustration: Bemis, 1966 October.
Illustration: Dirksen with Thomas E. Wynn.
Art: copy of Union League's Henry Clay portrait by John Neagle slashed at United States Capitol.
Illustration: slashed copy of Neagle's portrait of Clay and slasher George Palakian.
Election: J. Permar Richards, Jr., elected president.
Illustration: J. Permar Richards, Jr.; Thomas E. Wynne.
Member: John Otto Lorange death notice.
Non-Union League: Penn Club dinner.
Illustration: William Penn award from Henry Hallowell.
Club illustration: Kindergarten Club induction of J. Permar Richards, Jr., Edwin K. Daly, Jr., Francis M. Richards, Jr, 1966 December.
Member: Samuel E. Fulton, chairman of Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust.
Illustration: Fulton with scholarship winner and another trustee.
Member: J. Permar Richards interviewed for advice on making New Year's resolutions, 1967 January.
Illustration: J. Permar Richards, Jr.
By-laws: discrimination against Jews in Philadelphia clubs.
Member: History of Howard University founded by General Oliver Otis Howard, Union League Honorary Member.
Illustration: General Howard, 1967 February.
Member: Robert Burns Beath names son Ulysses Grant Beath in 1879 (includes 1966 article to which 1967 is sequel and undated article on same incident), 1967 April.
Illustration: Frederick J. Ball, Gary Sadoff; Rear Admiral Robert H. Speck, Boy Scouts' James Armour, Judge Kendall H. Shoyer, Steven Sweeney.
Event: reception with address by Governor Raymond P. Shafer.
Building: director of National Tourist Organization of Greece admires Union League building, 1967 May.
Illustration: drawings of Stassen in 1942, 1967.
Member: Edward H. Smoker as pool player.
Illustration: Smoker playing pool at Union League, 1967 August.
Event illustration: president J. Permar Richards with NASA physicist and astronaut Dr. Owen K. Garriott and Gordon H. Wilder at Father Son dinner, 1967 September.
Illustration: Henry R. Hallowell, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Thomas E. Wynne.
Politics/local: poll for mayoral election giving Arlen Specter edge likely to have been taken at Union League.
Art: J. Anthony Wills painting portrait of Union League president J. Permar Richards.
Illustration: Richards portrait with Wills, 1967 November.
Non-Union League: Emily Lloyd-John Henry Clippinger, Jr., wedding reception. Methodist Hospital reception.
Building/Exterior. Illustration: watching Mummers Parade from Union League steps in January 1967, 1967 December.
Illustration: Captain Thomas D. Parham, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Kunzig. Magna Charta members.
Event: luncheon address by Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
Illustration: Kirk with J. Permar Richards, Jr., in front of Lincoln statue.
Archives: American Association of State and Local History award to Union League for discoveries of Civil War and Reconstruction documents in its archives.
News item: history of Camp William Penn, Negro Troops, Lucretia Mott's activities, Lieutenant Colonel Louis Wagner, with mention of reception at Union League.
Illustration: map of Cheltenham area, 1968 January.
Illustration: Mayflower Society members. Sons of the Revolution members. Presbyterian Social Union members, including Edward J. Dwyer.
Event: Lincoln Day luncheon with address by Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe.
Illustration: John A. Volpe.
By-laws: "Social groups asked to avoid meeting in 'restrictive' clubs," with no mention of Union League, 1968 February.
Illustration: Governor Chafee.
History: Max Whiteman comments on Andrew Johnson and impeachment, Reconstruction, and Union League's role in Reconstruction.
Program: Good Citizenship Award dinner.
Illustration: Andy Semick, Phillies coach, and award winner Bennett Keiser, 1968 April.
News item: Republican party first meets at Musical Fund Hall in 1858. No mention of Union League, 1968 June.
Non-Union League: description of General Ulysses S. Grant return from round-the-world trip and review of Philadelphia parade from Union League steps, 1968 July.
News item: review of Republican conventions and nominations for President.
Illustration: Republican nominees for President.
Politics/national: Union League backs Nixon, 1968 August.
Politics/national: Republican campaign fund-raising luncheon with address by Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton.
Illustration: Lieutenant Governor Raymond J. Broderick, J. Permar Richards, Jr., Morton, George W. Shaffer, M.D.
History: article on Union League history and current activities.
Non-Union League: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States will hold dinner-dance at Union League in October.
Non-Union League illustration: Eisenhower Fellowship with Fellowship board chairman Thomas B. McCabe, 1968 September.
Illustration: Zimmerman with pipes.
Event illustration: GeAward from J. Permar Richards, Jr.
Event: Silver Medal will be awarded to Lieutenant General Milton G. Baker, Gold Medal awarded to General William C. Westmoreland.
Illustration: J. Permar Richards, Jr., and Westmoreland.
Member: Leary's Book Store, once owned by Edwin S. Stuart, closing.
By-Laws: entrance restrictions for women, 1968 November.
Election: George M. Brodhead re-elected president.
Illustration: Brodhead.
By-laws: Democrats invited to Union League for pre-prize fight party, 1968 December.
Illustration: E. John Hesketh and George M. Brodhead placing wreath.
Archives: book review of publication of facsimile of James Tanner manuscript with Biographical Introduction by Maxwell Whiteman.
Non-Union League: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution George Washington birthday anniversary.
Illustration: includes Thomas E. Wynne.
By-laws: "Jews ask probe of bias in clubs," with no mention of Union League, 1969 February.
Non-Union League: Explorer's Club, Philadelphia Group, ladies night, with mention of William Conrad.
Program: Good Citizenship Award Dinner.
Illustration: George Brodhead, Phillies infielder Tony Taylor, Jerry Berkowitz, Joseph White, Barry Dargan; Phillies manager Bob Skinner, New York Yankees president Mike Burke, William Reil, David Fuchs, 1969 May.
News item: place bull with bologna in front of Union League.
Cartoon: "As I see it, we at the Union League have the right to exclude-but the House must expel."
Employee: article on LeRoy Holmes, Billiards Room Manager. (date uncertain)
Illustration: Holmes with Edward H. Smoker, 1969 June.
Non Union League: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States dinner-dance.
Illustration: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States guests, 1969 October.
Illustration: Maxwell Whiteman, 1969 December.
Illustration: George E. Deming 3d, Peter B. Pakradooni, J. Permar Richards 3d., Robert M. Semisch, Jeffrey A. Heebner, Russell A. McAlpine Jr.
Member: reminiscence of daughter of Charles Franklin Miller, architect and son of Stephen Miller, a member of the guard of honor at Lincoln's funeral.
Illustration: Charles Franklin Miller with father Stephen Miller, 1970 February.
Illustration: Lawrence E. Decina, John Collins, Jett N. Hightower, 1970 May.
Illustration: Conrad with Mother Mrs. J. Weir Sargent, wife Jane, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Brodhead, 1970 June.
Event illustration: 1969 luncheon guest Admiral Thomas H. Moorer and George M. Brodhead, accompanying article on Moorer's appointment as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1970 July.
By-Laws/Employee: Union League secretaries walk through front door on Women's Rights Day, 1970 August.
Illustration: Spaulding, 1970 October.
Illustration: Crawford, 1970 November.
Illustration: Robert L. Kunzig.
Election: E. John Hesketh elected president.
Illustration: Hesketh, undated [1971].
Illustration: Hesketh; Dwyer.
By-Laws: being told newspapermen were not welcome at Union League banquet is analogous to being told that a white reporter is not welcome at Philadelphia Black Political Convention, 1971 February.
News item: Soviet Union visitors behave "Like they belonged to the Union League", 1971 March.
By-Laws: Jewish agencies support charge that Raquet Club discriminates against Jews; Union League has recently admitted seven or eight; article on John Bunting with report on Bunting's withdrawal from election to Union League membership.
Illustration: building of Union League first house and Broad Street building in 1865, Hesketh, 1971 November.
By-Laws: report on Bunting's withdrawal from membership application to Union League. Also article on ruling concerning Harrisburg Moose Lodge.
Election: E. John Hesketh re-elected president, 1971 December.
Collections: Civil War material on loan for exhibit at Penn Memorial Museum.
Member: Edward J. Dwyer address on occasion of receiving Gold Medal Award from Philadelphia Public Relations Association.
Illustration: Edward J. Dwyer, 1972 May.
By-Laws: State Human Relations Commission to monitor private clubs to make sure they do not discriminate against guests. No mention of Union League, 1972 August.
Illustration: Hope receives Gold Medal from E. John Hesketh.
Event: Ladies Luncheon with address and fashion show, 1972 October.
Illustration: Baldwin, 1973 March.
Illustration: Furness.
Republican Party: article on loss and potential loss of historic structures, including Musical Fund Hall, site of first Republican convention.
Illustration: Musical Fund Hall.
History: article on Union League, describing building, finances, history, and exclusive membership.
Illustration: building exterior, a League member sits in the club's library.
Employee: letter to editor in response to article on Union League explaining that majority of employes are Democrats, without whom "the place would fold up", 1973 April.
Illustration: Hamilton, 1973 June.
Illustration: Stassen at age 31, in 1964, and 1973.
Employee: LeRoy Holmes, former billiards room manager, interviewed on gang control.
Illustration: Holmes, 1973 September.
Illustration: Robert Fulton, Jr.
Event: Ladies Luncheon.
Event: George Bush defends Republican Party despite Watergate scandal.
Illustration: George Bush press conference (with Lincoln statue behind), 1973 October.
Illustration: Wanamaker, and other new members.
Employee: articles on Philadelphia Jewish history states "The acknowledged expert on the history of Jews in Philadelphia is Max Whiteman, librarian at the Union League...", 1973 November.
Illustration: "Philadelphia club man relaxes" asleep with newspaper, 1973 December.
Illustration: Magna Charta members and banners. Mayflower Society members. Country Dance Series members outside Union League.
Art and employee: "George Washington at the Battle of Trenton" sketch by Thomas Sully stolen (with books and artifacts) by Richard Cooper, security guard, recovered, and found another painting on back.
Illustration: "Washington" by Sully, newly discovered painting, Cooper, 1974 January.
Non-Union League: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution annual Washington's Birthday Party at Union League.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution members.
Event illustration: Lincoln Day wreath laying by Junior Members Committee, 1974 February.
Program: Good Citizenship Awards to be given in May, 1974 April.
Non-Union League and member: Mr. and Mrs. Norman Joy Greene golden anniversary dinner.
Program illustration: J. Permar Richards, with Admiral Robert H. Speck, presents Good Citizenship Awards to Dan Peterkin and Michael Holden, 1974 May.
History: Union League, its business operations and membership.
Illustration: Daniel Layman on front steps.
Program: death of Citizenship Award recipient Calvin Bayard.
Illustration: Bayard trophies and awards, including Union League certificate, 1974 August.
Event: Gold Medal awarded to Eugene Ormandy.
Illustration: Ormandy with Gold Medal.
Member: Obituary article of Mrs. Ada H. Latham, daughter of Albert Gallatin Hetherington, "a prominent member of the Union League", 1974 October.
Illustration: Autumn Ball co-chairmen.
Event illustration: Bobby Clarke sips beer with president Edward J. Dwyer at stag night dinner.
Building/Exterior illustration: Chrysler Cordoba outside Union League, 1974 November.
Illustration: Etherington, 1974 December.
Illustration: Cox.
Member illustration: Walter J. Shelly...shows off an Eldorado convertible, 1975, undated.
Illustration: Magna Charta meeting.
Member: William T. Coleman nominated as United States Secretary of Transportation:
Illustration: Coleman.
Art: Richard Nixon portrait [by Joseph Richard Essig] removed from gallery (with suggestion it was caused by Nixon's tarnished reputation).
Employee: Jimmy Randolph, former Union League elevator man at gospel concert, 1975 January.
Non-Union League: Netherlands Society annual banquet. Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution George Washington Birthday party.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution members.
Member: Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr., traces President Ford's genealogy to qualify him as Son of the American Revolution, 1975 February.
Illustration: Orchid Ball cochair[wo]men.
News item: spoof on establishing the White Anglo Saxon Pavillion, a Bicentennial museum, in the Union League wine cellar.
Member: William T. Coleman confirmed by Senate at secretary of transportation.
Event: dinner in honor of Joan Sutherland and conductor Richard Bonynge, 1975 March.
Illustration: attendants at Heart Ball. Speaker and president at Street George's Day.
Republican history: future of Musical Hall, site of first Republican convention.
Illustration: Musical Fund Hall Event: Junior Committee sponsors performance of "Once Upon a Mattress."
Building/Interior: query on Union League room "decorated in the style of a New Orleans house of prostitution, 1975 April.
Member: William Cramp Scheetz, Jr., party in honor of antique car.
Illustration: Mr. and Mrs. Scheetz, 1975 May.
Illustrations: planning committee members around and in pool at "Windswept."
Art: Joseph Essig obituary with mention of his several portraits of Union League presidents, 1975 June.
Member: Randall G. Dilks died owing millions and suspected of fraud.
Illustration: Union League exterior, 1975 July.
Non-Union League: Panamanian Association's Ball of the Flamboyans.
Event illustration: George Murphy, former actor and United States Senator, who was guest at Ladies Luncheon, 1975 October.
Illustration: guests at the ball, 1975 November.
Illustration: sketch of building exterior circa 1865.
History: "What's So Stuffy About the Union League?" describing membership and building.
Illustration: Member entering through Broad Street ground floor, Lincoln statue, Billiard Room, Library, polishing Lincoln Hall floor, chandelier, north reading room, wall of president's portraits, doorman Fred Whitman, member checking stock ticker, members playing chess, exercising in health room, in barber shop. (see color clippings), 1975 December.
Illustration: Mayflower Descendants members, 1976 January.
Event illustration: Lincoln Day wreath at Lincoln statue.
Non-Union League: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution Washington's Birthday party.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution Color Guard and members, 1976 February.
Event: Bicentennial celebration dinner with address by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Illustration: Moynihan with Burton H. Hetherington, J., and Robert G. Wilder.
Non-Union League: Delaware Valley Swedish-American Bicentennial Committee dinner for Sweden's King Carl.
Illustration: King Carl with Reverend Dr. John Craig Roak.
Building: Architecture illustration schematic of Broad Street buildings with brief descriptions and architects, 1976 March.
Non-Union League: Delaware Valley Swedish American Bicentennial Committee hosts dinner in honor of Carl XVI.
News item: high school band declines coming to play for Bicentennial because of cost, Thomas Wynne offers to provide rooms at Union League.
Politics/State: "Meet the Candidate" luncheon with Republicans for Senate Arlen Specter, H. John Heinz, 3d, George Packard; also Joan Specter's objection that women were excluded from the luncheon and candidate's position on issue, 1976 April.
Illustration: dinner guests.
Member: Harold Stassen considers running for Presidential nomination, calls "Union League luncheon friend" J. Robert Mendte to set up press conference.
Illustration: Stassen
News item illustration: schematic of Broad Street with notable buildings. (see color clippings), 1976 May.
Illustration: after-performance reception.
Non-Union League: announcement of American Cancer Society's Bicentennial Crusaders Ball dinner dance at Union League, 1976 June.
Illustration: dinner guests.
Employee: Daniel Layman attending Ocean City party.
History: "Town and Country's Bicentennial Guide to Philadelphia Esoterica," including description of clubs with mention of Union League (reporting incorrectly that "it is thinking about admitting Democrats...", 1976 July.
Illustration: Emerald Ball planning committee members.
Member: Homer Grasberger attempts to seize court papers.
Illustration: Grasberger in the battle of the briefcase, 1976 August.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball preview party at Mr. and Mrs. J. Permar Richards "Windswept." Mayflower Society dinner guests.
Member: article on Leon Obermayer, A Lawyer at 90.
Illustration: Obermayer with his wife Julia, 1976 September.
Non-Union League: Inglis House's Emerald Ball. Pan American Association moving its annual ball from Union League to Merion Cricket Club.
Illustration: Emerald Ball guests and chairmen.
Event: address by John D. de Butts, AT&T chairman and CEO, 1976 October.
Illustration: guests at Crusaders' Ball pre-party, party chairmen, ball guests.
News item: report on Merion American Legion Post 545 "rolls resembled the membership of the Union League."
Exterior: sketch of Union League used as backdrop for men's clothing, 1976 November.
By-Laws: First Pennsylvania Corp. announces it will not pay for membership fees or hold meetings at clubs that discriminate in membership, with mention of Union League.
Non-Union League: Mercy Catholic Medical Center Mercy Ball.
Illustration: Mercy Ball participants.
Election: Hal Bemis elected president, 1976 December.
Illustration: Magna Charta speaker. Mayflower Society members and speaker. Academy of Music Ball guests arriving at Union League and at ball.
By-Laws: articles on club discriminatory practices mentions Union League's decision to accept Democrats as members, 1977 January.
Illustration: Netherlands Society guests.
Event and Table: "there is a little bit of whoopee-cushion humor even in the most rock-ribbed of Republicans" mentions Groundhog Table and New Year's Day Kickapoo Joy Juice, 1977 February.
Non-Union League: West Point Society celebrates West Point's 175th birthday with speaker Alexander Haig. Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion restoration dinner to be at Union League. Lehigh Alumni Club of Philadelphia to hold meeting at Union League.
News item: without Bellevue, politicians have no place to congregate. "There is the Union League.... But you will find few ward leaders there to fix a traffic ticket...."
Political/Local: "Death of a Party" article "Over at the patrician Union League, the diehards were saying that the club, a proud bastion of Republican exclusivity, was no more. Born 1862. Died 1975. The reason: the Union League was admitting - Ughhh! - Democrats", 1977 March.
Illustration: Union League and Racquet Club exteriors with arrow graphic showing different entrances for men and women.
Non-Union League: Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion dinner. Sons of Street George annual dinner.
Illustration: Eugenia Rawls at Union League. Sons of Street George members.
Employee: Max Whiteman's display at Museum of American Jewish History on "Jews Across the Plains and the Rockies."
Art: Union League shows art as part of Radcliffe Club benefit, 1977 April.
Illustration: Foltz and Jamieson.
Event: Good Citizenship awards.
Illustration: Michael C. Faragalli and award winners Kenneth Brown, John Holden, Zachery Stuckey.
Non-Union League: Academy of Music Ball to be held at Union League. Quijano-Murray wedding to be held at Union League. Wheels annual dinner.
Illustration: Wheels dinner guests.
Art: Union League collections to be part of Radcliffe benefit tour, 1977 May.
Illustration: Union League watercolor by David Coolidge.
Non-Union League: American Cancer Society's Crusaders Ball to be held at Union League; planning party at Rhoda Richards "Windswept." Guijano-Murray wedding.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball party guests, 1977 June.
Illustration: party planning guests for all.
By-Laws: women eating breakfast in the Oak Room, with sleeping rooms to be opened to husband-wife guests.
Illustration: Nelson G. Harris, Donna B. Carlyle, Don Brennan, 1977 July.
Sculpture: staircase sculptures discovered to be by Alexander Milne Calder by Max Whiteman.
Illustration: Dr. [Henry] Ernest Goodman, General George [Gordon] Meade and staircase figures.
Non-Union League: founding of Polish American Affairs Council at Union League in October 1976, 1977 August.
Employee: former member William F. Deal, as food and beverage manager, undertakes innovations, with Greek Odyssey Ball presenting challenge.
Illustration: William F. Deal on Broad Street steps and with Mrs. Gregory Lagakos and executive chef David Redmond.
Illustration: Scheie party guests, 1977 September.
Illustration: Musket Ball guests. Bateman.
By-Laws: Rita Harris is first woman to be overnight guest. Article on integration in baseball ."..the Phillies are a racially exclusive Union League of baseball...", 1977 October.
Illustration: Helenes dance for Greek Odyssey Ball guests, 1977 November.
Illustration: Mr. and Mrs. J. Permar Richards and guests at Crusaders Ball. Street Andrew's Society members.
Election: Hal L. Bemis reelected president. Reginald Beauchamp elected director.
Art: Michael J. Calby views "The Newsboy" by Elsa Koenig for which he was the model, 1977 December.
Event: New Year's day viewing Mummers parade, with columnist reporting that he snuck in a six-pack.
Non-Union League: Baronial Order of Magna Charta meeting. Academy of Music Ball.
Illustration: Magna Charta members. Academy of Music ball dancing.
News item: article on Hubert Humphrey reports that he was asked to speak at Union League.
By-Laws: male-only membership, with women allowed to eat breakfast in Oak Room and stay overnight, 1978 January.
Non-Union League: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution Washington's Birthday party.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution members.
Event: address by David W. Marston, former United States Attorney General and possible candidate for Governor, 1978 February.
Non-Union League: Netherlands Society of Philadelphia anniversary banquet, 1978 March.
Non-Union League: Netherlands Society of Philadelphia banquet. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts pre-ball dinner and dance to be held at Union League. Society of the Sons of Street George dinner.
Member: profile of Robert Montgomery Scott, with mention of lunching at Union League, 1978 April.
Illustration: Daniel M. Layman medallion, Layman on Broad Street steps. Hal L. Bemis with Layman and his wife Betts, 1978 June.
Illustration: Emerald Ball disco lesson, 1978 October.
Illustration: Ski Ball guests. Academy Ball tasting guests. Washington Crossing Assembly guests, 1978 November.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball "Gold Rush" dancers.
Election: Nelson G. Harris elected president, 1978 December.
Academy of Music ball guests.
Event: Gerald Ford to speak.
Art: review of "Paintings and Sculpture at the Union League of Philadelphia" by Maxwell Whiteman, 1979 January.
Non-Union League: dinner for visiting Irish officials on occasion of exhibition of Irish art. Boy Scout luncheon with address by Gerald Ford. Pennsylvania Publishers Association breakfast with Ford. Ford stays overnight at Union League.
Illustration: Ford at Boy Scout luncheon.
Event: Gerald R. Ford awarded Gold Medal, 1979 February.
Illustration: Maxwell Whiteman.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts Celebrity Ball.
Illustration: Liv Ullman and Richard Rodgers at Celebrity Ball.
Politics/Local: "some GOP bigwigs [Bill Devlin and Bill Meehan] are being snubbed" at Union League.
Member: Robert F. Bowman finds significant increase in industrial facilities in the region.
Illustration: Bowman at podium in front of Lincoln statue.
History: new Union League president Nelson Harris describes history, current operations, and ideas for improvements.
Illustration: Nelson Harris, 1979 March.
Illustration: General Rogers in front of Lincoln statue, 1979 April.
Illustration: guests at Wheels dinner.
Program: Good Citizenship Awards.
Illustration: boys at Philadelphia Navy Base touring destroyer, 1979 May.
Member: Nelson G. Harris elected Tasty Baking Co. president and COO.
Illustration: Harris, 1979 June.
Non-Union League: Crusaders Ball to be held at Union League; Washington Crossing Assembly to be held at Union League.
Illustration: J. Permar Richards, Jr., and other Crusaders Ball Committee members at Mummers Museum, 1979 July.
Illustration: George Whitfield slips pins in pinsetter.
Non-Union League: Clover Club breakfast at Union League, organized by president (and Union League member) Reggie Beauchamp, 1979 October.
Operations: humorous column on diminishing number of oysters in Union League New Year's lunch.
Illustration: cartoon "Frankly, Caddy, I've seen more oysters at the Philadelphia Athletic Club", 1979 December.
Illustration: Judge Sloviter, 1980 February.
Illustration: Humes with Olivia de Haviland.
History: Delores Tucker hold campaign press conference in front of Union League saying she could not run for United States Senate without the Union League's support of the Union cause.
Illustration: Tucker.
Non-Union League: George Bush campaign address to Rotary Club at Union League. Ronald Reagan address to GOP city committee at Union League (and reporters used
service entrance). Philadelphia College of Performing Arts Celebrity Ball.
Illustration: Bush with Leon Jaworski at Union League. Rudolf Nereyev at Celebrity Ball, 1980 April.
Illustration: Charles Wilkinson, Union League doorman, on front steps, 1980 August.
Illustration: Suzy Chaffee dances with G. Kurt Davidyan at ball.
News item: Union League dropped listing in Social Register, 1980 November.
Member: Charles Kahn, Jr. interviewed on future of real estate.
Illustration: Kahn, 1980 December.
Event: David P. Eastburn, former Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president, column adapted from speech at Union League.
By-Laws: Union League and other clubs' attitudes toward admitting women.
Illustration: W. Thacher Lognstreth in Union League (identified as "Urban League" "housed in an old mansion") card room, 1981 February.
Member: William W. Conrad obituary.
By-Laws: Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations sending letters and questionnaires to clubs "such as the Union League" to enforce two anti-discrimination ordinances.
Operations: Union League restaurant still serves pepper pot soup. Fish house punch and recipe given in Union League newsletter by Alfred C. McCrea, 1981 March.
Illustration: Layman, 1981 April.
News item illustration: Playboy model Vicki La Motta poses in Union League doorway.
Employee: Tyrone Glenn, former kitchen helper, found guilty of murder, 1981 October.
Illustration: Washington Crossing Assembly guests. Ski Ball guests, 1981 November.
Illustration: Hamilton.
News item: article on Mummers quotes Dennis Clark: "Philadelphia was dominated for so many years by the upper crust. They had their Union League (an elite men's club) and everything else, but once a year the Mummers could take over and it made them feel good." (Year uncertain), 1981 December.
Member: Alfred McCrea objects of price rise on Yellow pages.
Illustration: McCrea, 1982 January.
Illustration: Hamilton, 1982 February.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia College of Performing Arts Celebrity Ball honors Placido Domingo.
Illustration: Domingo at ceremonies, 1982 March.
Illustration: Myers in front of his Union League portrait by William Ewing.
History: "Inside the Union League" describe efforts to change with the times and historical background.
Illustration: Broad Street exterior, interiors, members Samuel E. Fulton, Bill Luff, and Jay Euler, bowling, parties. (see color clippings)
Non-Union League: Military Order of the World Wars luncheon.
Member: Bob Mendte researches legend of Indian reservation near Broad and Walnut Street (recounted while at dinner at Union League), 1982 April.
Illustration: Frederick Baberick, award winners Joseph Shalita and Kenneth Cifone, 1982 May.
Non-Union League: Inglis House Emerald Ball to be held at Union League, 1982 July.
Illustration: Broad Street stairway exterior. Women leaving ground floor entrance.
History: Union League lore and humor.
Illustration: caricature of Union League members around punch bowl, 1982 November.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball juggler in front of Union League.
Employee illustration: Maxwell Whiteman guest speaker at dedication of Wall House historical marker.
By-Laws: opinion column on admitting women to clubs and the "inevitable prospect of women members at the Union League...", 1982 December.
Illustration: "The Spirit of '61" (identified as "A statue of a man stands guard....").
Non-Union League: Geographical Society of Philadelphia dinner to be held at Union League, 1983 January.
Member: article on Muller M. DeVan, with mention of attending dental society luncheon at Union League, after which he collapsed and died. J. Permar Richards, Jr., party mentions that Richards had followed in footsteps of Edward T. Stotesbury as Union League president. Book on urban myths mentions that J. Robert Mendte created myth that watching television without a light on would ruin children's eyes as part of lamp company campaign.
Illustration: Richards with wife and guests at party.
New item: Union League houses evacuated guests after Bellevue Stratford fire.
Illustration: evacuated guests at Union League.
By-Laws: satirical article "The never-before-told truth: Why women can't join the Union League."
Illustration: member descending exterior Broad Street stairway, 1983 February.
Member: "Overcoming the stigma of failure" mentions James F. Bodine, William Bates, Jr., H. Robert Sharbaugh, Robert O. Purcifull, James Drumwright.
Illustration: Bodine, Bates, Sharbaugh, Purcifull, Drumwright, 1983 March.
Illustration: Broadhead and Anderson, Henderson.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts benefit concert.
Member: James J. Binns takes his former boxing trainer to lunch at Union League, 1983 April.
Illustration: Joe Gro, Mario Montenaro, Jay Halverson with winners Anthony Brown and Dalton Love.
By-Laws: Locust Club admits women, mentioning Union League vote against admission, 1983 May.
Illustration: Obermayer with Eisenhower and Arnold Palmer.
Non-Union League: Rotary Club luncheon, with town crier, 1983 June.
By-Laws: dispute on cost of barring women from membership.
Event illustration: Richard Nixon leaving Union League after speaking to a small group of business and professional people.
News item: Maxwell Mansion dinner saluted Philadelphia's "Victorian Mile" of Broad Street buildings built in Victorian era, including Union League.
Non-Union League: Rotary Club of Philadelphia luncheon. (date uncertain), 1983 July.
Non-Union League: Historic Savannah Foundation dinner. Penn Club dinner in honor of Riccardo Muti.
By-Laws, exterior illustration: view of women eating brown bag lunch on Broad Street steps--"It's still the easiest way for most women to have lunch there", 1983 October.
Election: Stanley W. Root, Jr., elected president.
Non-Union League: dinner in honor of Luciano Pavarotti to be held at Union League. American Cancer Society's Crusaders Ball. MacVaugh/Lankenau Hospital party
Illustration: Crursaders Ball guests, 1983 December.
Non-Union League: Arthur C. Kauffmann party in honor of Bill Proudfoot. Rotary Club of Philadelphia reception.
Event: John F. Lehman, Jr. to speak at Union League Lincoln Day (and note that Stanley W. Root is president, and other committee chairs, 1984 January.
Non-Union League: Washington Crossing Assembly to be held at Union League.
Member: Nelson G. Harris to receive Semper Fidelis Award. I. Maximillian Martin as president of Berean Savings Association (date uncertain).
Illustration: Harris. Martin.
Event: Lincoln Day luncheon with address by John F. Lehman, Secretary of the Navy.
Art: Abraham Lincoln portrait by Edward Marchant exhibited at Gettysburg College as part of "The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print."
Illustration: Lincoln by Marchant, 1984 February.
Club Life: "Social 'clubs' that 'just happened' compared with exclusive clubs such as the Union League, 1984 March.
Club event: Philadelphia Challenge Cup for race between Union League Sailing Club and Racquet Club Sailing Association, 1984 April.
Program: Good Citizenship Award.
Illustration: Jim Lucas, 1984 May.
Illustration: Bastille Day party guests, 1984 July.
Illustration: Thornburgh leaving Union League on Broad Street steps, 1985 February.
News item: article on Norman Braman quotes "I grew up in Philadelphia...but I never dreamed I'd have lunch one day at the Union League club."
Employee: Kathleen Dennis protests pension.
Illustration: Dennis pickets in front of Broad Street steps.
Member: Perrin C. Hamilton names Delaware River Port Authority Commissioner, 1985 March.
Non-Union League: Statue of Liberty ball.
Illustration: ball guests, 1985 April.
Illustration: Specter, 1985 May.
Illustration: Assembly guests. Ski Ball guests.
By-Laws: column on racial violence concludes "A city in which several Council members and many government officials are proud to belong to the Union League has a long way to go to prove its commitment to equality", 1985 November.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball guests.
Member: Boyd Barnard 90th birthday celebration, with mention that Barnard met Leopold Stokowski at Union League and thanked Stokowski for not hiring him for Philadelphia Orchestra. Robert G. Wilder, newly elected Union League president, attends party.
Illustration: Barnard.
By-Laws: Union League's policy against admitting women lessens its importance.
Election: Robert G. Wilder elected Union League president, 1985 December.
Illustration: Robert G. Wilder and Louis T. Klauder with Mrs. Wilder.
News item: article on bow ties mentions "An intensive 40-minute search [for bow tie wearers] outside the Union League recently turned up only one...."
Illustration: Thacher Longstreth, "Philadelphia's most famous bow tie wearer."
Non-Union League: English-Speaking Union dinner dance. Baronial Order of Magna Charta meeting.
Illustration: English-Speaking Union guests. Baronial Order guests.
Member: Harold C. Lampe heirs sue for return of nursing home property. Reginald E. Beauchamp sculpts two bas relief panels for George C. Platt Memorial Bridge.
By-Laws: New York City officials investigating discrimination at three clubs (no mention of Union League), 1986 January.
Illustration: gala planners. Four Chaplains chairman Norman Klauder with honorees. Washington Birthday guests (George Lincoln, David Rawson).
Member: Hal Bemis, former Union League president, attends ball, 1986 February.
By-Laws: article on clubs that exclude women from membership lists Union League.
Illustration: cartoon "I don't know what's come over me doc... I've had this urge to vote women into the club... But what will the rest of the guys think..."
Operations: article on business lunch comments on Union League breakfast and lunch activity.
Illustration: Robert G. Wilder, Thacher Longstreth.
Member: Robert G. Wilder retiring as Lewis Gilman & Kynett CEO.
Illustration: Wilder, 1986 March.
Illustration: sculpture "The Spirit of '61" by Henry Kurke Bush-Brown.
Member: Robert Mendte tells of legend of Indian Reservation at Broad and Walnut during lunch at Union League, 1986 April.
Program: Union League donates $25,000 to rebuild North Philadelphia Revelle W. Brown Community Center, 1986 May.
Non-Union League: English-Speaking Union annual dinner with address by Kurt R. von Schirnding draws anti-apartheid protests. United Service
Organization meeting (to install Union League member J. Permar Richards as branch president).
Illustration: protesters in front of Broad Street entrance.
Program: Boys' Work Day.
Illustration: repelling demonstration at Naval Base.
Member: Diane Allen nominated for membership, 1986 June.
Non-Union League: Mercy Catholic Medical Center ball to be at Union League, 1986 July.
Illustration: Wilder "in his cool tennis togs, and getting into a less comfortable outfit." Karen Connor, Diane Allen, Mary G. Roebling.
Non-Union League: Invest-in-American National Council luncheon to be held at Union League.
By-Laws: Union League admits women, but for the wrong reasons, and quotes Jack Ferguson that the club would be "hampered by the frivolities of women."
Illustration: Union League 1904 exterior view, 1986 August.
Illustration: Cynthia Hudson, Elizabeth J. Waters, Alyce Andrews, Robert G. Wilder. (see color clippings)
Illustration: cartoon showing maintenance women "What's the big deal? They've let me in for twenty years."
Non-Union League: Associated Services for the Blind Silver Ball. Clover Club luncheon. Invest-in America luncheon with address by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
Illustration: Burger and guests at Union League, 1986 September.
Illustration: Amethyst Ball guests dancing (member Theodore Clattenburg).
Art: Steven Juvelis sues Union League for refund on sale of "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter."
Illustration: "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter."
Election: Robert G. Wilder to be succeeded by Louis T. Klauder as Union League president, 1986 October.
Event: Founders Day with Gold Medal Award to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
Illustration: Robert G. Wilder presents award to Chief Justice Burger, 1986 November.
Illustration: Street Francis Ball guests (Ignatius Horstmann). Crusaders Ball guests. Geographical Society president and award winner.
Member: Reginald Beauchamp's Christmas displays for Bulletin lobby.
By-Laws: Union League admits women members (in year-end wrap-up), 1986 December.
Illustration: Academy of Music ball chairs on Union League stairs. Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute guests.
Member: Robert Flood participates in bachelor auction for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Illustration: Flood with other bachelors, 1987 February.
Non-Union League: lunch for supporters of Democratic mayoral candidate Edward G. Rendell. Academy of Vocal Arts Hall of Fame.
Member: Boyd Barnard, patron of music.
Illustration: Barnard, 1987 March.
Illustration: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter."
Non-Union League: Clover Club annual dinner. Young Philadelphians for Frank Rizzo Committee dinner. USO of Philadelphia luncheon to be held at Union League. Great Western Invitational Carriage Parade scheduled to stop at Union League (but didn't).
By-Laws: Supreme Court ruling on Rotary Club case mentions "The gentlemen of Duarte found that welcoming women helped their club. So did the men of Philadelphia's Union League...", 1987 May.
Illustration: Friends of the University of Rome/Jefferson dinner guests, 1987 June.
Illustration: Georgia state flag outside Union League, 1987 July.
Illustration: Inglis House's Emerald Ball guests, 1987 September.
Illustration: Myers at news conference, 1987 October.
Illustration: Washington Crossing Assembly guests.
Building: Library Company of Philadelphia preparing then and now book includes view of Union League in 1886 and now.
Illustration: Union League in 1886; "rephotographing" of Union League.
Member: Karen Connor, one of first women Union League members (first came to Union League with uncle Robert Mendte).
History: Union League prepared to celebrate 125 years with description of membership, building, art, and civic responsibility.
Illustration: Ignatius J. Horstmann and Lawrence L. Stevens reading, Alexander Milne Calder lamp, Reverend Frederick E. Maser leaving from Broad Street stairs, Abraham Lincoln portrait.
Event: 125th Anniversary with Gold Medal Award to Vice President George Bush.
Illustration: Louis Klauder awards Gold Medal to George Bush.
News item illustration: Forum of Executive Women members on Union League Broad Street steps.
By-Laws: Maxwell Whiteman outlines Union League policies toward Jews, Catholics, and women, 1987 November.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball guests.
News item: controversy over SEPTA general manager William G. Stead mentions Stead eating dinner at Union League, 1987 December.
Event: New Years Day reception.
Non-Union League: Rotary Club luncheon, with address by Governor Robert Casey. Academy of Music dinner dance (fragment). Friends of Wistar Institute dinner, 1988 January.
Irish Educational Development Foundation dinner, fundraiser had been held in spring, 1987. Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution Washington Birthday.
Illustration: English-Speaking Union guests.
By-Laws: United States Supreme Court hearing arguments on defining private club status. No mention of Union League, 1988 February.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution guests. Academy of Vocal Arts guests.
Non-Union League illustration: former President Richard M. Nixon signs autograph at Republican Party fund-raiser, 1988 March.
Illustration: Edwin J. Foltz, Barbara T. Eisenhower, Robert G. and Mrs. Wilder, Louis T. Klauder, D. David and Mrs. Eisenhower II, Craig M. Hall, Ignatius J. Horstmann, II, Robert W. and Mrs. Miller, George J. Lincoln, III, Hal L. and Mrs. Bemis, Perrin C. and Mrs. Hamilton, James K. and Mrs. Brengle.
Exterior: sandwich vendor gets permission from Union League to use sidewalk.
Illustration: Tuyetminh Nguyen and cart on Union League sidewalk.
History illustration: article on Civil War Library and Museum shows dress uniform made for General Ulysses S. Grant by John Wanamaker for a 1864 Union League affair.
Non-Union League: Wills Eye Hospital ball to be held at Union League.
Member: Fairman Rogers as a founder of Union League, 1988 April.
News item: article on David Fair, Philadelphia Health Department executive assistant in charge of AIDS programs, mentions luncheon at Union League with Health Commissioner (and Union League member) Maurice C. Clifford, 1988 May.
Illustration: Thornburgh with David Eisenhower, 1988 June.
Art: Robert G. Wilder portrait by Paul DuSold unveiled, 1988 July.
Membership: article on Philadelphia advertising agencies reports that Walter A. Spiro's application to join Union League was sabotaged by Robert G. Wilder (denied by Wilder), 1988 August.
Operations: survey of Philadelphia club food.
Illustration: Broad Street building exterior.
Member: New Jersey state building dedicated in name of Mary G. Roebling, ."..the first woman member of Philadelphia's oh-so-crusty Union League."
Illustration: Roebling with Governor Thomas Kean and former President Nixon, 1988 September.
Illustration: float.
Non-Union League: American Cancer Society Crusaders Ball to be held at Union League. Preservation Techniques lecture, 1988 October.
Non-Union League illustration: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North leaves fund-raiser.
Illustration: Assembly guests, 1988 November.
Non-Union League: Settlement Music School gala. American Cancer Society's Crusaders Ball. New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania dinner dance. English-Speaking Union gala to be held at Union League.
Illustration: Crusaders Ball guests.
Building/Exterior illustration: coach going to Bellevue's reopening passes Union League Broad Street entrance.
Member: Richard Hall's car stolen after dinner at Union League.
Employee: Carlene Jordan nominated for "waitress of distinction", 1988 December.
Illustration: Boakes and other club members.
Member illustration: Harold Still with new Drexel University president Richard D. Breslin, undated [1989].
Non-Union League: Academy of Music Ball. Friends of the Wistar Institute annual meeting.
Illustration: Academy of Music Ball guests, 1989 January.
Illustration: Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution guests.
Member: Sally and Brooks Harral uses their Moorestown mansion for charitable events.
Illustration: Sally and Brooks Harral, 1989 February.
Illustration: Pizzi.
Building: article on Broad Street buildings describes Union League, 1989 March.
Art: Henry Clay portrait by John Neagle in exhibit at Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Illustration: Clay portrait, 1989 April.
Illustration: Stacey Ann Iaquinto, Lieutenant Patrick J. Hoffman.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia Orchestra Opening Night committee meets at Union League; Hahnemann Arthritis Center Founders Ball, 1989 June.
Employee: Charles H. Dorsey, Union League cloakroom attendant, founded National United Church Ushers Association in 1919, 1989 July.
Illustration: Elliot, 1989 July.
Illustration: Moyer, 1989 September.
Illustration: Emerald Ball guests, 1989 October.
Illustration: Richards and other flag bearers in Lincoln Hall.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia Opera Guild costume ball to be held at Union League.
Tables: Cricket-Groundhog Table lunch, 1990 February.
Illustration: Humes, 1990 March.
Illustration: Barnard.
Illustration: Humes, 1990 March.
Illustration: exterior in 1935, restoration specialists in McMichael Room, Othmar Carli, McMichael Room in 1887, main stairway, 1990 September.
Illustration: Wilder, 1990 October.
Illustration: Wilder, undated [1991].
Member: Crozer-Keystone Health System president John C. McMeekin.
Illustration: McMeekin at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, 1991 January.
Table: Cricket-Ground Hog Table luncheon, 1991 February.
Illustration: work on sculpture, sculpture base being placed in front of Union League, 1991 May.
Illustration: Cherry and Lahai, 1991 June.
Non-Union League: Women for Greater Philadelphia Fashion Show; Washington Crossing Assembly Ball.
Illustration/member: Washington Crossing Assembly Ball guest of honor Diane Allen, 1991 October.
Illustration: Watkins.
Non-Union League: Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation, Inc., luncheon; American Catholic Historical Society ball; World Affairs Council lunch, 1991 November.
Art: portrait painting in Philadelphia, mentioning Union League as one of the largest collections, Nelson Shanks portrait of Edward L. Jones, 1991 December.
Non-Union League: Newcomen Society of the United States annual dinner, 1992 January.
Tables: Cricket-Ground Hog Table annual lunch.
Clubs: Yacht Club annual Commodore's Ball, 1992 February.
Non-Union League: Concerto Soloists Unstrung Heroes Concert.
Clubs: fragment of article "White Guys," mentions that Union League has clubs within the club, such as the "venerable Kindergarten Club...."
Building/interior: article on Othmar Carli mentions his restoration of stencils in McMichael Room. (see color clippings), 1993 May.
Illustration: Luff, 1993 May.
Illustration: Paquette, 1993 May.
Illustration: Paquette, 1994 October.
Illustration/exterior: Israeli flag at Broad Street entrance, 1994 October.
Event: New Year's Open House
Illustration: Daniel M. DiLella, Robert O. Dietz, Mrs. Raymond Broderick, Edward L. Jones, J. Permar Richards, Robert W. Miller, Robert G. Wilder, Perrin C. Hamilton, Ignatius J. Horstmann II, Paul C. Heintz, Robert S. Woodcock, Thomas N. Pappas, Steven W. Smith and wife, 1995 January.
Illustration: Ferber family, 1995 January.
Illustration/interior: Robert W. Miller in renovated bridal suite, refurbished exercise room, 1995 March.
Non-Union League illustration: Military Order of Foreign Wars luncheon, Bruce Hooper, Dan Ansa, Bob Miller, Thomas Butler, Jack Sweeney, Charles Reilly, 1995 November.
Pappas, Perrin and Bette Hamilton, Edwin and Barbara Foltz, Robert G. and Annabel Wilder, Robert Miller and ? with ice sculpture. Election: Robert W. Miller elected president, 1996 January.
Illustration: exterior view, Broad Street entrance, Old Cafe, "The Moorish Dancing Girl" by Leon-Francois Comerre, Conley. (see color clippings)
History: background and Union League today, noting that many don't know anything about it.
Illustration: employee waitress Eleanor Sharpless celebrates birthday with Mildred Hackney and Stephanie Watson, exterior of member Karl Rugart and brown-baggers on Broad Street steps, 1936 Broad Street exterior, employee Joanie Pitts lighting "Opima Spolia", sweatshirt with Union League shield. (see color clippings), 1996 August.
Illustration: Greenspan at podium in front of Lincoln portrait, 1996 December.
Illustration: Albert L. Pizzica and Richard S. Rueda with daughters, committee member Anne (Mrs. David) Hain and Eileen (Mrs. Michael D.) McAneny Gallagher and children, committee co-chairs Mrs. John H. Africa, Mrs. Edward I. Haupt, Mrs. George M. Ewing, Jr., and children, daughter Rachel Aslaksen, Jean Stokes, Bonnie Stokes and Lori Stokes Powers and children, J. Robert Herd and William Hirschfeld with daughter; Ladies Committee chair Susan Smith and daughters.
Illustration/clubs: Yacht Club's Commodore's Ball, commodore Archibald W. McMichael and past commodore Joseph P. McGinley with wives, rear commodore Joseph A. Martinez, treasurer Earl T. Ekas, master of ceremonies Robert O. Dietz and wives, Mark C. Rifkin.
Illustration/event: Lincoln Day address by James Earl Jones, Jones at podium and Valley Forge Military Academy buglers. (see color clippings), 1997 February.
Illustration: Klein with Mrs. Herbert R. Moody, Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas Papas, and Arthur Klein, 1998 June.
Illustration: staff Joe Dubee and Jim Mundy, members David Rowland, Dave Auten, Leon and Mary Jane Clemmer, Old York Road Historical Society members, 1998 June.
Illustration: president Tom Pappas and architect Dan Kopple. (see color series), 1998 August.
Sculpture illustration: Virginia Naude treats "The Spirit of '61." (see color series), 1998 October.
Member: Dr. F. William Sunderman named "America's oldest worker."
Illustration: Sunderman, 1999 March.
Member: Arnold Zazlow lead his family in prayer during Union League's firs-ever Seder Dinner, 1999 April.
Illustration: "The Great Emancipator" by Edward D. Marchand.
Art: George W. Bush at unveiling of his portrait by Raymond Kinstler.
Illustration: Bush with portrait. (see color series), 1999 May.
Archives illustration: G. Kurt Davidyan donates 1865 Ulysses S. Grant letter, Dividyan, Phyllis and Richard Seel, Elsie Goodall, Steven Smith, James Mundy, 1999 December.
Event: play "As Lincoln Lay Dying" written by member Mary Hagy.
Illustration: actors in front of Lincoln portrait by Marchand, 2000 April.
Non-Union League: World Affairs Council meeting; Malmud reception for Berle M. Schiller.
Membership: "Makeover at a Venerable Club," describes initiatives to enhance benefit of membership.
Illustration: member Joan Abele in fitness center, Broad Street entrance, workers in new women's locker room.
History: article on Union League.
Illustration: Broad Street building exterior with crowd April 6, 1918, Lincoln funeral services broadside, Lincoln statue in Lincoln Memorial Room, dance card from General Grant reception, Dec. 23, 1879, Broad Street exterior. (see color series), 2000 July.
Illustration: demonstration outside Union League.
Exterior: Sign from 1940 and 1948 Republican Conventions decorates Union League Broad Street facade.
Event: Declaration of Independence illuminations by Sherman Ellsworth Notestine on display.
Employee: Liz Walz, former hospitality supervisor, becomes activist. (see color series), 2000 August.
Illustration: James Bennett Straw and Blatteau in front of illuminations, 2000 September.
Illustration: building exterior Broad Street and interior library, 1887. (see color series), 2000 October.
Illustration: Sunderman. (see color clippings)
Illustration/event: New Year's Open House, Robert G. Wilder, Thomas J. Lynch, James Bennett Straw, Dr. Albert L. Pizzica, Frank Giordano, Robert O. Dietz, Perrin C. Hamilton and Bette Hamilton, J. Permar Richards, David Auten, Robert M. Flood, Jr., Edward L. Jones, Thomas N. Pappas, Ben Burke Howell, Lessa Conley Harding, Edward C. Toole, Jr., David R. Tarditi, Ronald Unterberger, Lois Mae Moody, Christopher P. Shields, John J. DePaul, Reaves C. Lukens, Alan Grossman, William F. Denney, John D. Zook, Edward G. Boehne.; Rosemary and John Curran, Frank and Marjorie Bowden, Ellen Dagit, Matt and Kiki Rosenberg, Steven Lee, Bonnie Gleeson, Karl Rugart, Diane L. Semingson. New Year's Eve Gala, Bob and Marilyn Dietz, Gerry and Sue Dowling, Maryanne and David Bevan, Geoff Beauchamp, Dr. James Sink, John Patten and family, Bruno Giordano. (see color clippings)
Operations: garage reconstruction.
Illustration: garage as is and drawing of new Chestnut Street facade, 2001 January.
Illustration: Longstreth.
Program: editorial on keeping CWML collections in Philadelphia, 2001 February.
Illustration: Sheldon Margolis, Thacher Longstreth, Melanie Hopkins, Thomas J. Lynch, Marjorie O. Rendell, Ed Rendell, Police Commissioner John Timoney, William Supplee, Stewart Vockel, Jay Oberdoff, Roger Arnold, Chris Gleeson, Joseph Prim. (see color clippings), 2001 March.
Operations: Chef Dan Reilly and dining at Union League, with box "What exactly is the Union League of Philadelphia?" (see color clippings) Illustration: Reilly, prepared dishes.
Program: CWML plan for collection criticized and mention of failed merger with Union League. Ladies Committee makes donation for preservation of Gettysburg monuments.
Event: inauguration of the Ladies Committee's Crystal Award announced.
Illustration: Tom Lynch, Ellie Haupt, Nancy Grossman, James Mundy, Kim Hill, Debbie Brangle, Lenore Annenberg, 2001 April.
Illustration: Annenberg, Thomas J. Lynch, Mrs. Edward I. Haupt, Mrs. Alan Grossman, James Mundy.
Program: Injunction halts CWML collection loan plans, no mention of Union League, 2001 May.
Illustration: Tommie (Mrs. Charles D.) Shields.
Program: MOLLUS seeks to join in suit against CWML, no mention of Union League.
Member: Joseph A. Frank, Jr., concerning coal business.
Illustration: Frank, 2001 August.
Illustration: Zaslow family. (see color clippings), 2001 December.
Member: Raymond C. Mohr bankruptcy, 2002 February.
Employee: Chef Dan Reilly and souse chef Joe Hartman prepare meal for James Beard Foundation.
Illustration: Reilly on Broad Street steps.
By-Laws: seven or eight seders to be held at Union League, indicative of Jewish membership.
Operations/restaurant: Seder dinners, 2002 March.
Illustration: Scattergood and Lazar.
Program: suit to removed CWML directors and proposal of ALF and coalition to assume responsibility for collections, 2002 April.
Illustration: Prince Andrew at luncheon; employees Joann Rivers, pastry chef, and Sheryl Frueh, cafeteria chef peek at luncheon, 2002 September.
Event: Ladies Luncheon.
Illustration: Reverend R. James Larsen, Fashion Show Chairman Patricia Boehne, Hnne Hain, President Thomas J. Lynch, Chappy Graf, Debbie Hamilton, Betty Hamilton, Committe Chairman Elie Haupt, Meghan Ryan, Sharon McGinley, Lisa Miller, Patti [?]einour, Janice Bryson, Phyllis Schirmer, 2002 October.
Illustration: Seyfried with parents in Lincoln Hall.
History: article on Union League.
Illustration: exterior Broad Street decorated with flags for ?, 2002 November.
Art: Nelson Shanks, painter of Ronald Reagan portrait for Union League.
Illustration: Reagan by Shanks, 2003 January.
Illustration: Mundy. (see color clippings)
News item: Republican Party strengthening in Philadelphia, "Just imagine the hushed conversations taking place amidst the splendor of the ornate Union League dining rooms, even as you read this", 2003 February.
Operations: Union League Passover seder (partial clipping), 2003 April.
Illustration: Dan DiLella, building exterior Broad Street entrance, building interior Broad Street staircase, South Marble dining room, library, cigar room. (see color clippings), 2003 June.
Illustration: Cercle de l'Union Interalliee, 2004 January.
Illustration: Daniel DiLella; Thomas Lynch, J. Permar Richards, Thomas Pappas, Dianne L. Semingson, Robert J. Reichlin, Albert L. Pizzica, Robert and Elizabeth Flood.
Foundation: Abraham Lincoln Foundation annual Lincoln Symposium, 2004 January.
Illustration: Frank Giordano, Alex Chamberlain, and Willie, 2004 February.
Illustration: Thomas J. Lynch, Francis P. Newell, Roanld C. Unterberger, James B. Straw, Dianne L. Semingson, Dr. Albert L. Pizzica, Joan Specter, Daniel M. DiLella, Marianne Raphaely, Senator Arlen Specter, 2004 February.
Illustration: Davidyan, 2004 February.
Event: Herbert D. Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Inc. chairman, addresses "business group", 2004 February.
History: interview with president Frank Giordano and other members and staff on Union League past and present.
Illustration: Giordano in various areas. (see color clippings)
Event: advertisement in Civil War News for Civil War Ball and Lincoln Symposium, 2004 February.
Illustration: General Manager Jeff McFadden on Broad Street, construction worker on 15th Street, balustrades.
Event illustration: Abraham Lincoln Birthday 21 gun salute on Broad Street (see color clippings), 2004 February.
Illustration: Youth Work Foundation director Joseph DuBee.
History: guide to Philadelphia's clubs including Union League.
Illustration: members shooting pool, 2004 February.
Illustration: Broad Street stairway, 2004 February.
Illustration: Scholarship Award students with Leonard Mellman; winner Jamin Gibson, Drs. John and Pina Templeton, Elizabeth Palitz; winner parents Linda and Aaron Gooding; Howard Aaronson, Marianne Raphaely, 2004 February.
Illustration: USN Sea Cadet Corps and Cadets of the Civil Air Patrol Akil Walker, Clayton Graves, Erick Williams, Nicholas Bixby, N'Chi Clary; Girl Scouts Meghan Johnson, Boy Scouts Jeff Lindenmuth, George Fegmire, John Egan, Andrew O'Brien; Frank Giordano, students Rosa Sanchez, Timothy Hanson, sponsor Wilmington Trust's president Mark Graham; member Rod Seriani with Scout Jeff Bell. (see color clippings), 2004 February.
Illustration: Touch History, Create Art director and playwright Mary Hagy with students Liza Smith, Troy LaPersoneri, Courtney Turlick, Andrew Fink, Terrell Green, Imani Scott, Kris Walski, Julia Soper, Haftom Khasai, and composer and music teacher Robert Medcalf.
Event illustration: Flag Day celebration with special assistant, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Tom Matthews, vice chief of staff, USA, General Richard Cody, Armed Services Commitee events cochair Bob Daniels, 2004 February.
Event: Library Hour speaker Dr. Peter Lillback on his book "George Washington's Sacred Fire.:
Illustration: Historical Society of Pennsylvania president David Moltke-Hansen, Mary L. Hagy, Dr. Jack Templeton, National Liberty Museum chairman Irvin J. Borowsky, Lillback, Howard Aaronson. (see color clippings)
Non-Union League: fund-raiser for United States Congressman Chaka Fattah, 2004 February.
Illustration: portraits of Ford, Reagan, Nixon.
Program: exhibit of Nelson Shanks art, "Mastery & Meaning" and public opening, 2004 February.
Illustration: man running up Broad Street steps; members giving thumbs down on Broad Street portico; protesters and members entering, 2004 February.
Member: Linda Knox of Windswept Partners selling high-end homes.
Illustration: Knox, 2004 February.
Illustration: Broad Street exterior, 2004 February.
Illustration: Frederick C. and Gabrielle Haab, Frank and Dottie Giordano; Thomas J. Lynch, Edward L. Jones, Thomas N. and Carol Pappas, James B. Straw; Betty Miller, Paul C. Heintz; Robert M. and Elizabeth Flood, Carolyn Zawrotny, Mario Mele.
Program: Union League leading effort to erect Octavius Catto statue.
Member: Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO.
Illustration: Charlton in Union League Library, 2004 February.
Event: Abraham Lincoln Birthday with Lincoln Award to former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
Illustration: Thomas J. Lynch with family; Joan Carter, Emil Kiss, Ron Unterberger, John Dorfmann; Frederick C. Haab, Meese; parade; Lincoln Table members Mike Trendler, Chris Gleeson, Spencer Manthorpe, Stuart Vockel; Christian Johnson as Lincoln. (see color clippings), 2004 February.
Illustration (in April issue): Kelley Wolfington as Molly Brown; Cetin and Judy Okcuglu; performance; Frank and Dorothy Giordano, Patrick Duffy, Dhyana D'Amato; Howard Aaronson, Elie Haupt, Fred and Gabriele Haab, 2004 February.
Illustration: Haftom Khasai, Malik Neal.
Operations: mention of Prohibition raid on Union League, 2004 February.
Illustration: Frank, Dottie Giordano, daughter Dotty Jane Housel, Ferraro, and Nancy Pelosi. see color series
Program: Scholarship winners.
Illustration: Scholarship winners.
see color clippings, 2004 February.
Illustration: Gallagher
Library: Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum to move to First Bank of the United States, with mention of Abraham Lincoln Foundation's stewardship of archival materials, undated [circa 1923].
Illustration: William Hahn, H. Mather Lippincott, Leaonard Mellman Norbert J. McGettigan.
Event: Ladies Luncheon.
Illustration: Mrs. Tommie Shields, Frederick C. Haab, Mrs. Robert W. Miller, Mrs. Frank Giordano, Frank Giordano, Mrs. Casey Johnson, Jaquiline Shultz, Mrs. Barry Magarick.
Non-Union League: Society of Civil War Historians to hold first biennial conference in June 2008.
Operations: description of "top-shelf bar", undated [circa 1923].
Illustration: catalog cover with Grant portrait, undated [circa 1923].
Illustration: Thomas J. Lynch, with Jane Bryant Quinn, Brother Michael J. McGinniss, Paul R. Brazina.
Program: history exhibit open to public.
Illustration: visitors viewing exhibit panels.
Event: Abraham Lincoln Foundation kicks off Lincoln Month, with history exhibit, Civil War Ball, Lincoln Day.
Illustration: Reenactors, including Andy Waskie, and other parade views, Dotty and Frank Giordano, Mary and Michael Hagy, Mrs. and Dr. Ralph Burnard with James Mundy, display, May 5, 1865, Daily Evening Bulletin. See Color Series, undated [circa 1923].
Event: National Medal of Honor Day.
Illustration: Rear Admiral Joseph C. Hare, Pennsylvania National Guard and Andy Waskie as General George Meade.
Non-Union League Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Annual Gala Dinner and Concert.
Illustration: members Paul Heintz, Louis Scaglione.
Non-Union League: Eisenhower Fellows reception.
Illustration: member John Templeton, undated [circa 1923].
Program: Scholarship Awards.
Illustration: Norman P. Zarwin, chairman of Scholarship Foundation, Richard Woosnam with Antoinette Maurita Barnes, John J. Meko, executive director of the Foundations, scholarship winners, Drs. John and Pina Templeton with Christopher Riccotone, undated [circa 1923].
Illustration: contest participant Malik Neal at Union League.
Non-Union League: Hugh Hewitt address at Public Affairs luncheon.
Illustration: Hewitt with members Pina Templeton, Gregory Montanaro, Edward A. Turzanski, undated [circa 1923].
Event: "Lifestyles of the Union League Rich and Famous" tour, featuring bathrooms.
Illustration: Cheryl and Paul Reid.
Illustration/Operations: cocktail-hour leftovers, with glasses and Union League napkin, undated [circa 1923].
Member: Steven Grasse new member.
Program: La Salle students conduct oral history interview of World War II and Korean War veterans.
Illustration: John Cronin, Michael Singer.
Event: Ladies Luncheon.
Illustration: Mrs. Warren E. (Liz Albert) Palitz, Rochelle Magarick, Dottie Girodano, Casey Johnson, Cagla Inselbag, Nancy Reynolds, Marlena Santomera, Deborah Hamilton, Dolly Cacciutti, Renee Cohen, Edna Cellucci, Elie Haupt, Meredith Jones, Debra Guelzo, Julie Christoph, Virginia Lynch, Marie Schwarz, Joan Momjian, Kathleen Burke, Kathleen Grubelic, Judy Connors.
Non-Union League: Laurel Hill Cemetery's Gravediggers' Ball. American Catholic Historical Society award dinner, undated [circa 1923].
Member: John Templeton, Jr., celebrates release of autobiography with party at Union League.
Illustration: John Templeton, Jr, undated [circa 1923].
Illustration: Raymond Kinstler's George H. W. Bush and Nelson Shanks' Ronald Reagan portraits; Bush and his portrait.
Member: Broad Street Ministry has something for "Union League lawyers, young teens and homeless alike."
Illustration: Jim Straw playing saxophone. See also Color Series, undated [circa 1923].
Non-Union League: Nancy Giagnacova, Robert O'Neil wedding; Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Gala Dinner and Concert; Bill Bennett radio broadcast.
Illustration: wedding party; orchestra and guests including Louis Scaglione, Craig Drake, Walter and Jayne Garrison, Christopher and Katie Topolewski, Dottie and Frank Geordano, Peg Ewing.
Employee: Martin Hamann, new chef.
Illustration: 1900 menu, 2009 January.
Employee: Director of Library and Historical Collections James G. Mundy article on Lincoln's visits to Philadelphia.
Illustration: Frank Giordano, Craig Drake, Dr. Al Pizzica, Louis Scaglione; Charles C. Coyne, Harry Carl Schaub.
Member: David S. Traub article "Lincoln and greatness."
History: member Allen Guelzo article on Lincoln in Philadelphia and particularly the Union League connection.
"Non-member event: Germantown Republican Club 120th annual Lincoln Day Dinner (portion of feature only).
Illustration: dinner guests.
Event: Civil War Ball; children's party with Lincoln; Lincoln Day and Lincoln Award to Peter Nero; Abraham Lincoln Foundation Open House. See also Color Series
Illustration: Laurel Lipshutz, Miki Krakauer; Manning and Ginny Smith, Elie Haupt, Howard Aaronson; Carol and Jack Lieberman; cake
cutting and Jeff Payne with son; President Jack Zook; Christian Johnson as Lincoln and other re-enactors; Peter Nero; past-Presidents
Frank Giordano and Jim Straw, Jim Kenney; Cunthia MacLeod, Dianne Semingson, Jane Cowley; Joan and Will Abele; Michelle and
Sandra Leonard; Allen Guelzo; Joe Mallee III and Homer Smith; Max Bachmann statue of Lincoln; exhibition cases and boards; John Meko speaking to crowd; Casey Johnson speaking to crowd", 2009 February.
Illustration: Louis Scaglione, Margaret G. (Peg) Ewing, Chris and Katie Topolewski, Walter and Jayne Garrison, Craig Drake, Dottie and Frank Griordano (see Color); Central Philadelphia Development Corporation members at table in front of Lincoln portrait by Marchand, 2009 February.
Illustration: Mark D. Lupke, Debbie and Andy Webster, Frank and Dorothy Giordano, Edward and Joellyn Cattell, Howard Morgan, Bradford Mills, Kelly Boyd.
History: Report of closing of Civil War Museum and visit of other Civil War related sites, including Union League.
Member: Talk show host Michael Smerconish.
Illustration: Back side of naked Smerconish, 2009 February.
Program: Youth Work Day.
Illustration, Liz Palitz, Jack Zook, John Capizzi (award alumnus), Rod Serianni; awardees Katelyn Frueh, James Johnson; award alumnus Edwin Brown (see Color).
Member: Kenneth Hill as first African American member of Aronomink Golf Club.
Illustration: Hill practicing golf swing, 2009 February.
Employee: Chef Martin Hamann and dining operations.
Illustration: Hamann at Union League, 1900 menu.(see Color), 2009 February.
Member: Craig Drake, with several mentions of Drake's Union League membership.
Illustration: Drake.
Non-Union League Event: Ed Rendell announces second run for Philadelphia Mayor at 1991 Union League dinner, 2009 February.
Illustration: view of 1862 by Martin Hamann.
Member: Nancy Moses living unit at Lippincott Publishing Co. building.
Illustration: Moses and husband Myron Bloom at home, 2009 February.
Politics/State: Union League members horrified at state elections, circulating poll, deciding if the Union League should take a more active part in politics, 1954 December.
Election: Thomas B. McCabe nominated as president, 1961 November.
Illustration: Ford; Thomas F. Wynne.
Operations: preparation of planked shad, 1965 January.
Collections: exhibit of historical treasures.
Illustration: librarian John J. Moraski, conservator Gale Fields, manager Daniel Layman, 1965 April.
Exterior: Union League sets example by having outdoor planters.
Description: Union League history, membership, building.
Illustration: president Thomas E. Wynne looking at Lincoln statue, 1965 May.
Illustration: Chef Louis Grassi prepares crow; Simpson prepares to eat crow with Laird H. Simons, Jr., Dr. Allen C. Bonnell, 1965 January.
Ferdinand J. Dreer Journal Extract. League House opened. Purchase of Thomas Sully equestrian portrait of Washington. Washington birthday celebration with Post Master Blair and Governor Curtain. Frederick Douglas, Governor Carmon (Delaware), Governor Morton (Indiana) address League. Trip to dedication of New York Union League. Judge Hare, S. P. Chase, Horace Maynard address League. Purchase for lot on Broad Street for building. Plans for 4th of July Celebration. Democrats meet in Independence Square. Colonel Bringham address to League on importance of enlisting negroes. Excitement over Rebels getting into Pennsylvania. Drills and parades. Hamlin and Chandler address League. Visit to ruins of Columbia Bridge at Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Fort Delaware.
President's Report:
By-Laws: reducing maximum membership from 3,000 to 2,600 and other changes to numbers in various membership categories and disposition of entrance fee receipts.
Politics/national: subject of Politics to be dismissed until close of war.
House:
Operations: Old Cafe luncheons discontinued; slot machines on telephones; Christmas decorations minimized; Easter decorations omitted; Club Night refreshments discontinued; entertaining on behalf of the Union League given up. War requirements and influenza epidemic
Building: President's office moved to Grant Room with writing room in former office; repair to refrigerating plant pipe.
Employees: most waiters and Captains discharged and replaced by colored men and waitresses, with colored men eventually replaced by waitresses (see Board minutes for more detail). Some dining services suspended.
Programs: Third and Fourth Liberty Loan subscriptions; operation of Annex for benefit of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps with dances, smokers, vaudeville, motion pictures.
Collections: bronze figures from Dr. William Campbell Posey and Mrs. Albert E. Kennedy, in memory of their brother Dr. Louis Plumer Posey; painting "The Trumpeter" from Dr. John D. Thomas; Wittridge painting "Returning Home by Sea" from Mrs. Samuel Goodman
Event: addresses by Captain Donald C. Thompson, Captain W. D. Powell, Captain De Castega and motion pictures on the world war; peace parade.
Guest Committee:
Event: reception for Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo with Committee on Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
List of individuals and locations of those who have displayed loyalty to the South. (Dreer Collection).
Union Club of Philadelphia Impromptu Toasts, December 17, 1864. Printed and manuscript copies.
Rhymed toast with verses to: J. G. Fell, M. McMichael, Dan. Dougherty, The League, The Union, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Sherman, Grant, M. McMichael, Jas. H. Orne, J. B. Lippincott, Geo. Erety, with refrain "While we go marching on" and Prelude and Finale. (Dreer Collection).
Invitation to seat on platform at public meeting to urge upon the public the justice and expediency of admitting the colored people to the Passenger Cars, January 10, 1865. With Platform Ticket and voting slip to return to any Conductor. (Dreer Collection).
Minute on address and resolution from a Committee appointed by the Board that the Union League "knows no party now but the party of the Country, and acknowledges no political obligation, save that of assisting, by all the means of its power, the constituted authorities of the land, to destroy the causeless and wicked Rebellion which threatens the destruction of our National Government...," with copy of address read for the Committee. (Collection: Union League and the Civil War).
Eagle atop Union League shield, with Publications Distribute banner (ink, with some blue on shield). (Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War).
Bounty paid by Edward Thomas; certificate of muster for Thomas Lynch, enlisted in Company B, 213 regiment. (Collection: Collections. Civil War. Union League).
Mustered in at Frankford for the 213 Regiment, Pennsylvania, Company I. (Collection: Collections. Civil War. Union League Civil War).
Largely notices of changes proposed and membership meetings scheduled for votes. By-Law amendments were often considered by the membership at Annual Meetings.
Special subjects: Admission of women, 1981-1987
See also: Committee on Change of By-Laws, 1893, in General Minute book.
A:1 1983-1987 Admission of Women. Consideration of admission of women, rejected in 1983 vote and passed in 1987. See General Minutebook.
T:4 General Minutebook, 1880-1909. Inlcudes minutes of Committee on Change of By-Laws, 1893, considering whether or not to exclude membership to Republicans only.
(Collection: Board of Directors. Amendments to By-Laws).
Notices of nominating and election meetings, slates of nominees (biographical sketches and photographs beginning ?), ballots, and sometimes tallies.
Elections occurred at annual meeting.
(see also flat drawers).
(Collection: Board of Directors. Elections of Officers and Dir).
General meetings consisted of members' Annual Meetings (in December) and Special Meetings (or Adjourned Meetings) to consider building expenses and By-Law changes, particularly in membership categories.
The General Meeting minutes were published with annual reports, 1863-1974, 1987-1988, although Special Meetings were not always included.
Printed Annual Reports often included Annual Meeting minutes and often, but not always, Special Meeting minutes. Minute books (3 volumes).
(Collection: General Meeting Minutes).
Union Club weekly meeting invitations to Dreer, 1863-1865; responses to Dreer's Club party, February, 1863, from every (or nearly) member; annual dinner notices, with some correspondence and bills addressed to Boker and Clarence H. Clark, 1866-1906 (item list available).
Union Club minute book, 1865-1906.
Alphabetical biographical file of various Club members, mostly obituaries (item list available).
(Collection: Union League Historical Papers).
Acceptances and regrets for Union Club party hosted by Ferdinand J. Dreer, February 3-5, 1863.
Additional comments against Copperheads from Edwin Greble and Joseph S. Paul, and lengthy notes in support of the Union from G. P. Putnam, New York, and Benson J. Lossing, Poughkeepsie.
(Collection: Dreer Collection).
Civil War activities miscellaneous, 1861-1865: Articles of Association, December 1862 (for printed see oversize boxes), Act of Incorporation (flat drawers), correspondence (with Boker), broadsides, clippings, and other ephemera, 1861-1903 (item list available).
Military Committee proceedings, correspondence, bounties, and other miscellaneous military, 1862-1867 bulk 1864-1865 (item list available).
Acknowledgements of receipt of silver medal, 1863-1865 (item list available). (Collection: Union League Historical Papers).
1. Union League Military, 1861-1866
2. Other Civil War Papers, 1861-1866
3. Ephemera, 1861-?.
(Collection: Collections).
196th Regiment Pennsylvania, 5th Union League, Colonel Harmanus Neff Papers, July-November, 1864 (100 items): includes small series of letters, ordnance receipts, reports and muster rolls. See container list for correspondence. Item list available. (see also flat drawers)
213th Regiment Pennsylvania, 7th Union League, Lieutenant Colonel Jacob M. Davis papers, March-November, 1865 (1.5 linear feet): includes special and general orders, correspondence relating primarily to furlough requests, Company returns and Tri-monthly Reports, and Court Martial case reports including charges (mostly Absent Without Leave), specifications, findings, and sentences. Also Reports of the Guard, May-July and September 18-26, 1865 (1 Volume), and Special Orders, July-November, 1865 (2 Volumes, one a partial duplicate of the other). Item list available. (see also flat drawers)
183rd Regiment Pennsylvania, 4th Union League, Cos. A, B, C, D, Adjutant General's Office Clothing Book, 1863-1865
Miscellaneous muster rolls and bounties for 1st, second, 3rd Union League Regiments, 1863 (item list available). (see also flat drawers). (Collection: Collections. Civil War).
Container List: Neff Correspondence. John N. Riley to Col. H. Neff. Plans to have Neff's regiment vote. September 26, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Col. Harmanus Neff to Lieut. H. V. Morris. Expiration of term of 196th near, and requests the Co. H now doing guard duty in Springifeld be brought back. With notes on back that Company will be ordered back. October 20, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Lt. Edward L. Deeme to Harmanus Neff. Reporting on the good character and military standing of Co. H 196th Pa. Vols. September 26, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Col. Harmanus Neff to Col. Potter. Requesting transportation back to Philadelphia. October 27, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Col. S. M. Bowman to Col. Harmanus Neff. Requesting presence on election day at District of Delaware. November 5, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Capt. J. M. Barr to Col. Harmanus Neff. Requesting assistance in getting a promotion. December 12, 1864.
Neff Correspondence. Edward W. [?], Late Lt. Co. A. 52nd P. M., to Col. Harmanus Neff. Declining invitation to Union League. March 19, 1866.
Neff Correspondence. James H. Orne to Col. H. Neff. Telling him of the death of Neff's mother-in-law and requests having information on his regiment. n.d.
Civil War soldiers' letters, 1861-1864 (28 items), to Hannah Eliza Delp from cousins and friends Jacob Swartzlander (104th Pennsylvania Regiment), Enos Hartman (104 Pennsylvania Regiment), and Harry Roose (?) (31st New Jersey Regiment), with transcriptions.
Robert M. Green record books, clippings, transcripts and other material relating to history of 124th Pennsylvania Regiment, with invitations, programs, George Gordon Meade Post GAR, 1862-1911 (100 items).
William Thomas Jones letters, 1861-1864 (50 items), while serving with 23rd Pennsylvania Regiment (Birney's Zoaves) and then the 61st Pennsylvania Regiment, including originals with typescripts, and background material.
David S. Hall Morgan letters, 1861-1863 (36 items), while serving in Co. H, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment (Rush's Lancers).
John Martin Steffan letters (photocopies with transcripts), 1861-1863 (50 items), with 71st Pennsylvania Regiment (California).
Record book of relief work for Civil War veterans and their families, January-March, 1866.
Miscellaneous papers, including discharges, letters, scrapbook (app. 70 items, partial item list available. See container list for partial inventory).
Ackley, Shreve, Letter to his parents, October 14, 1863, as Adjutant with the 27th Pa. Vol., at Bailey's X Roads. Misses home, advises on debt to be collected, requests a horse be purchased and sent to him.
Butler, Benjamin F., To Col. West, February 25, 1864, from Headquarters 18th Army Corps, Fortress Monroe. Reqests the arrest of two Unionists who have helped escaped officers so that Butler may do some business with them; also compensate a negro man for his assistance to escapees.
Cooke, Walter M., miscellaneous papers, 1861-1887, including letter granting the medal of honor for volunteering service at the battle of Bull Run after his regiment was mustered out.
Davis, Jefferson, August 30, 1860, instructing that copies of Laws and globes "remain for distribution from Washington" and sending requests for various publications.
Davis, J. C., May 9, 1862, from Cooper Shop Hospital. Sends a box of trophies in gratitude for aid to soldiers including spike from the gallows on which John Brown was hung.
Dougherty, A. N., Surg. U. S. Volunteers, To Asst. Surg. McLean, July 4, 1863, Ordering McLean to accompany the ambulance train of 106 Pa. Vols. with wounded until they are all removed from the field.
Fullerton, John H., to John R. Fullerton, Feb. 28, Mar. 17, 1864, from Brandy Station and near German Ford, Va. with 183 Reg. Pa. Vols., one with Union letterhead and two Union covers.
Goodman Family Papers. Dr. H. E. Goodman letters, August 7, 1861, from Sandy Hook, Maryland, and June 20, 1864, from near Marietta, Georgia, while serving in Union Army.; Maria Louisa Goodman account of trip to the Dept. of the Cumberland, 1863, "through the lines" from Philadelphia to the Wauhatchie Valley, Tennessee, to visit her wounded brother, with pass for return trip.
Lee, Robert E., facsimile of General Order No. 9, April 10, 1865, following surrender.
First Division Pennsylvania Volunteers Muster Roll, Company D, 2nd Infantry Regiment (First Brigade), April 27, 1861
Stanton, Edwin M. Orders. Circular bulletin of order to prevent the evasion of military duty and authorizing arrest of persons discouraging enlistments, August 8, 1862.
Union League of American for State of Pennsylvania Charter. To No. 11 of Bucks County, No 490, to be located in Fallsington, Bucks County, signed by Morton McMichael.
Ward, Kate. Scrapbook. Clippings, some relating to the Civil War.
Payne, Sarah P. Miller. Letters. Transcripts of letters, 1865-1872, written from Virginia to her cousins, describing life during the Civil War and adjustments after, and expressing her opinions on slavery.
Meade, George Gordon. To Editor of The Soldier's Casket, October 3, 1865, sending subscription
Paxton, E. B. To sister, November 4, 1862, describing visit to soldiers' encampment following Antietam, experiences with the local inhabitants, a visit to the battlefield, and a trip to Washington D. C. Photocopy.
Pennsylvania Volunteers 28th Regiment, Roll of Company P, giving name, age, transferred, wounded, killed, discharged, disserted, promoted, etc.
Partenheimer, Harold T. Letter, to [Lambert J. Dedford], May 18, 1865, describing Libby Prison, sends part of tree under which Lee surrendered, and other subjects relating to home and his service with the 91st Pennsylvania Volunteers.
James Tanner transcription of First Testimony Taken in Connection with the Lincoln Assassination (1 Volume). Ephemera, including election, assassination, and funeral memorabilia, clippings and articles. Item list available.
Abraham Lincoln to George H. Boker, October 24, 1863, acknowledging receipt of medal from Union League. L.S. (also facsimile)
Abraham Lincoln to Ferdinand J. Dreer, March 16, 1864, sending autograph letter for the benefit of the soldiers. Facsimile.
(Collection: Collections).
Small group of clippings and articles (item list available).
DELETED--dispersed or discarded.
.1 Other Union Leagues
.2 Republican Party in Philadelphia
.3 Sundry, including F. H. Hochrath, Electrical Contractor journal, 1893-1895, including inventory of tools and fixtures, 1893. (Collection: Collections).
Collection: Board of Directors. Presidents' Files.
Miscellaneous files and memorabilia of a few of the presidents or their family members.
Miscellaneous Presidents correspondence etc., 1880s - 1986 (2bb)
Joseph G. Darlington Scrapbooks (2 Volumes)
L. Alan Passmore, 1928-1959, memorabilia-some files labelled "scrapbook"
Samuel E. Fulton miscellaneous, including clippings, 1930s-1986
Stanley Root President's files, 1981-1987, and other (includes admission of women)
George M. Brodhead Union League memorabilia, 1958-1983
Robert G. Wilder files, 1986-1987
Robert W. Miller files, 1993-1996
James Bennet Straw files, 1996-2001
President's Dinner, 1961-1988.
Collection: Board of Directors. Presidents' Files.
Includes admission of women.
Collection: Board of Directors. Presidents' Files.
Includes the admission of women, Bierstadt suit, 125th Anniversary.
Collection: Board of Directors. Presidents' Files.
Miscellaneous files during Straw's tenure as Union League Board member and president include information on Vision 2000 Inn at the League, Locust Club members, garage purchase, and two contested elections for president (1998 and 1999).
Collection: Standing Committees. House.
Miscellaneous information on dining, member services, and operations, announcements, some postings concerning privileges, openings and closing of rooms, entertainment, forms, with some committee minutes in later period. Folder list available.
1971 Ewing Cole Erdman Eubank: "Initial Stage Implementation of Long Range Planning Study" (Billiards Rm. to Dining Room)
Insurance appraisals for furniture, furnishings, fine arts, 1937, 1952, 1955 (includes building, contents, fine arts). See also Art (II.4.2) and Curatorial Files
Mostly organizational meetings and committee assignment records. Miscellaneous board material following 1983 is included with Minutes series (I.1).
Documents include: Survey of Operations, 1950; Long Range Planning, 1982; Organizational Assessment, 1987; Membership Survey, 1995; Strategic Planning Meeting, 1996; Long Range Information Technology Plan, 1997. (Bower, Lewis Thrower Preliminary Master Plan, Reconstruction Plans, 1989-1995).
(Collection: Board of Directors. General Files).
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee. General Fi[le]
Guest privilege card to W. Paul Burkholder, at request of W. A. Pearson, M.D., October 12, 1931; Information for Members and Guests, undated.
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee.
Menus and programs are extensive, other material very fragmented:
Restaurant menus and wine lists, 1972-1993 (folder list available) 41d-f
Programs, Menus, etc. for non-Union League events, pre 1900-present includes Academy of Music Ball, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Grey Reserves, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Rotary Club) (alphabetical) (50b-e, 51f, Oversize Boxes)
Forms, stationary, miscellaneous (41g, Oversize Boxes)
Office Day Book (cash on hand), 1962-1963, 1977, 1980-1982 (41e)
Articles Lost & Found, 1945-78 (D: 3)
Marketing 41g.
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
Notices, invitations, etc. to various events, including Happy Hour, Junior Summer Frolic, wine tasting, Dinner Dances, sports, and occasional newsletters.
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
Announcements, invitations and programs, some miscellaneous committee files of speakers at Club Lunches, Breakfast Program, and other events.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign card with cartoon: "The STEAMER COPPERHEAD, Captain Woodward, attempts to land passengers. Jefferson Davis orders them off to Salt River. He refuses any Northern Copperhead agency, As An Open Foe Is Better, Even To A Rebel, Than A Domestic Traitor.."
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
"Whereas, Robert Ingersol declares there is not Hell; Therefore be it resolved that he has thereby destroyed the average Democrat's hope of immortality," by Nasby.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Envelope with view of Great Central Fair.
Colored lithographed cards of view of Great Central Fair (2 copies).
Season tickets (2).
Circular: Entertainment for the Benefit of the Great Central Fair...at the Residence of Mr. John Sellers, Jr.,...April 28, 1864.
Circular: Satire "Insanitary Affair."
Circular: Fete Champetre at Bartram Hall, May 18.
Visitor's Guide to the Great Central Fair, June 1864.
Collection: Collections. Civil War.
Sheet Music, 1861-1965 (60 items), published by Lee and Walker (item list available) and others
Covers (300 items)
Miscellaneous circulars, cartoons, newsletters, and other items (see container list for partial inventory).
Davis-iana. Satirical thoughts relating to story that Jefferson Davis fled in petticoats.
Jeff. Davis going to War/Jeff. returning from War. Cartoon, 1861, showing Davis face/donkey.
Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis. Delivered in the United States Senate, January, 1861, upon the Message of the President of the United States on the Condition of Things in South Carolina. Printed.
Hospital Slippers. Pattern and instructions for slippers for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers of the Union to be distributed by the Ladies Aid Society.
The National Guard, vol. 2, No 1. June 26, 1861, sheet with small bits of advice, opinions, stories. Harmanus Neff, editor.
Bar Fund. Notice requesting contributions for Relief of the Families of Volunteers engaged in the service of their country, with illustration of man nailing up American Flag, May 11, 1861.
The New South. Vol. 1 No. 2. Federal military news sheet, March 22, 1862
Letter from Sumter, South Carolina. To Philadelphia, March 25, 1861, in defense of the South and slavery.
Odes for the Union League. 1863. Published by Samuel T. Cobb & Co., Boston
Free Military School. Pamphlet "[Prospectus of the] Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops." Philadelphia 1864, 2nd Edition. With woodcut view of school at 1210 Chestnut St.
Mrs. John Drew's New Arch Street Theatre. Playbill, with poem "Sheridan's Ride." In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories achieved by our noble Army, Edwin Adams will, by special request recite T. Buchanan Reed's poem of Sheridan's Ride...April 12, 1865.
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Printed pocket piece, Philadelphia, 1865. Includes officers and committee members and view of saloon, foot of Washington St.
Currency. Confederate currency and U. S. fractional note.
Counsel to Our Volunteers. Broadside. "How to Prepare for the Campaign," with "Freedom's Altar," on reverse, a poem inscribed to the Pennsylvania Volunteers by a Lady of Philadelphia
Parade drill. Cartoon on fitness of soldiers in Pennsylvania Militia.
Duryeas' Maizena. Advertising circular. Bill of Fair, United States Great Central Sanitary Fair. June, 1864.
General Order No. 13. Pass for visit to Camp "William Penn," 1864
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Information booklet with image (Ives), 1864 (2 copies), The Soldier's Guide (2 copies), "The Descent of the Eagle" tribute read by T. Buchanan Read at the Academy of Music, 1865 (5 copies), "Lines in Memory of the Philadelphia Volunteer Refreshment Saloon..." (3 copies)
Flat Drawers 1864 Confederate Loan. Confederate Loan certificate with sheet of Confederate scrip, 1864
Flat Drawers New York Herald . Reporting on Lee's surrender.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Ephemera.
Includes officers and committee members and view of saloon, foot of Washington St.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Ephemera.
Camp William Penn blank printed pass, 1864.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Ephemera.
Henry C. Kellogg, Agent, S. E. Corner Chestnut and Front St., Philadelphia. Advertising circular with "Bill of Fare" of food prepared with Maizena, a product similar to Corn Starch.
Collection: Lincolniana.
Collection: Miscellaneous.
Includes Union League Ginger Ale.
Collection: Collections. Other Union Leagues.
Color illustration of seal with flags and canon backdrop.
Collection: Other Entities. Presidential Campaigns.
Typed letter signed. Cannot commit to coming to Union League, but will "bear the matter in mind."
Collection: Other Entities. United States Presidents.
Typed letter signed. Acknowledges Sproul's letter and thanking him for Union League dinner
Collection: Dreer Collection.
Copy of letter: "A few of the unconditional friends of the Union, meet at my house for the purposed of conference at 8 o'clock this Evening. If you are disengaged will you favor us with your company."
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Thanking him [George H. Boker] for trouble "taken on behalf of my poor colored friends" and enclosing "very satisfactory" letter from Colonel Crossman.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Letter presenting battle flag of "Birney's Division", Pennsylvania Regiments 68, 141, 57, 105, 110, 63, and 114.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Recommending Reverend John C. Gregg as chaplain of the First Union League Regiment, Pennsylvania Signed by J. B. McCullough, Front Street M. E. Ch., Robert H. Pattison, Street George's M. E. Ch., John F. Chaplain, Wharton Street M. E. Ch., M. D. Kurtz, 12th Street M. E. Ch., Wesley Kenney, Street Stephens M. E. Ch.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
John P. Veree to George H. Boker letter requesting more "books;" members of Congress interested in organizing similar Leagues, request copy sent to Sunbury, "The Copper Heads are alarmed and the expression of army officers in the field [?] semi-Secession.."
Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War.
D. R. Birney letter to the President of the Union League presenting Kearney Battle Flag of the 1st Division. Loyalty and confidence of the army, "Some may complain that the Army of the Potomac has not moved rapidly enough, but its list of some fifty five thousand killed and wounded in its various battles should speak for its earnestness." Glad that those who had sought peace are changing.
Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War.
Letter presenting regimental colors for 72nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Fire Zouaves) to the National Union League.
Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War.
Requesting presentation of color to Co. F, 3rd Union League Regiment by ladies of the 18th Ward Philadelphia be made in front of Union League.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Resolutions of New York Union League with suggestions of Alliance and Assistance.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Requesting his attendance at Assembly.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Acknowledging receipt by Loyal League of Union Citizens in New York of Union League of Philadelphia Articles of Association and notes that mission of Loyal League differs in that its mission is to "produce effect upon the popular mind of the Country thro the Agency of public meetings."
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Explaining the Grand Council for California's organization and goals for the upcoming elections.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
J. W. Forney, J. E. Brady, H. C. Gill, Committee of the Pennsylvania Relief Association, to George H. Boker, requesting contributions from the Union League members.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Thanks for privileges of the House, his loyalty to the Union, and his gratification that the League has prohibited gambling and for honoring the Lord's Day.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Letter presenting colours of the second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Fire Zouaves) to the "National Union League" of Philadelphia. Cover letter from Thomas B. Parry explaining that colors are in his possession.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Printed copy of letter declining invitation to attend inauguration of Loyal National League in New York City, and celebrating the Union cause.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Arrangements for dinner at Astor House with the Union League of New York.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
"My whole heart is fully set upon the return of the "Reserves" to the State this winter in order that they may recruit & [?] for the Spring," and asks for League support.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Thanks for privileges of the League.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Letter discussing arrangements for the presentation of a silk flag from the ladies of the 18th Ward to 3rd Union League Regiment, Company F, in front of the Union League.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Copy of resolution requesting the Directors to "advertise or otherwise communicate with other Union Leagues or similar associations throughout the country - recommending the establishment of organizations such as the present, in order that manufacturers, farmers, & others may be able to report opportunities for the employment of deserving men, and that such disabled soldiers & seamen honorably discharged from service may be offered facilities to obtain employment suited to their capacities." William Welsh, Chairman.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Invitation to Convention to visit League House.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Invitation to the Governor of Illinois to attend Fourth of July Celebration. Photostats.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Recommends countermanding the intended celebration of the Fourth of July, with copy of earlier letter to Horace Binney requesting the same, and reply to Boker's response.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Thanking Dreer for gift of Thomas Sully's Washington. Autograph letter signed.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Offering 56th Regimental Flag, with enclosure of print of the flag and Brigadier General Lysander Cutler letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania attesting to the service of Colonel Hoffman and the 56th Pennsylvania Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, describing how "the battle on the soil of Pennsylvania was opened by her own sons" (2 copies, different printings). Printed.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Acknowledging gift of 56th Regimental flag and enthusiasm for heroism of Hofmann and Regiment. Printed.
Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War.
Request for more books to distribute among members of Congress.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Presents to Union League documents relating to Knights of the Golden Circle "as a curiosity...of a society, soon to be remembered among the 'things that were' but which, from its very birth, was a conspiracy against the Union."
Documents are First and Second Degree initiation proceedings, printed. Knights of the Golden Circle were strengthen the South through conquest of southern territory (Mexico) and "plant there the institutions of the South." Whiteman note on bookplate: "Published in Auburn, Alabama, sometime between March and November 1860. Not copy located by Philadelphia Union cat.."
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Enclosing "The History of Our Flag," dedicated to the Union League. "The history, as well as the origin and meaning of our flag,...should form the A. B. C. of every American soldier's education, yes - be made the very ALPHABET of Glory!" Philadelphia, Autograph letter signed.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Concerning Mulberry tree in Union League Yard. Autograph letter signed. Photocopy.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Colonel Moses B. Walker to Brigadier General William D. Whipple. Reporting on information received from a Confederate soldier who had deserted as a result of reading the "Planters Almanac," that if the amnesty were more widely known many more would leave. Letter forwarded by Whipple to George H. Boker, Secretary Union League of Philadelphia. Autograph letter signed. Utoy Creek, near Atlanta Georgia.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Note from prisoner of war requesting visit from Mr. Downing or "either member of your firm." 5th & Buttonwood Barracks. Autograph letter signed.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Account of publication and distribution of Union League Gazette. Photocopy.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
October 22, 1864. Letter concerning distribution of Union League Gazette.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
"A Good Union and Lincoln Man" to George H. Boker, October 5, 1964, objecting to negroes attending Union League meetings at Concert Hall. With envelope annotated: "Read and reflect O James! GHB. Respectfully Referred to Lyndley Smyth. James A Sneak afraid to sign his name. LS.."
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
September 25, 1868, requesting funds for uniforms for Colored Reserves.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
On enlistment procedures for 198th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Union League Regiment. "Your application...cannot be granted without prejudice to the service." Washington. Telegram.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Can get from one hundred to three hundred men.... for 198th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Union League Regiment. Chicago. Telegram.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Note from Chairman Union League Military Committee. "I have an offer from Colonel Neff... to reenlist two of three hundred men for one year regiment" 198th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Union League Regiment. Union League. Copy.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Reporting on mustering 198th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Union League Regiment.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Union League.
William H. "Harry" Harrison to Anna Dale Beaver letter concerning Beaver's disappointed suitor and the fourth of July at camp of the 214th Pennsylvania Infantry; regrets that he could not obtain a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. Autograph letter signed.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous.
Robert E. Peary to Mr. Brown. Possibly to T. Horace Brown. "I sincerely trust you will pardon my inexcusable carelessness in the matter of your kindness when I was last at the Union League." Encloses narwhal tooth. From Everett House, Union Square, New York.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Acknowledgement of receipt of Silver Medal from cabinet members, Union commanders, foreign notables, and others who provided distinguished service during the Civil War. Some letters merely express appreciation for medal, others write more fully of loyalty to the Union cause. Correspondents are: Charles Francis Adams, Edward Bates, Commodore Charles Stuart Boggs, John Bright, John Elliot Cairnes, Salmon Portland Chase, Major General Darius Couch, Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, Major General Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Ishmael Day, William L. Dayton, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, William Edward Forster, Comte de Gasparin, Major General John Gibbon, Major General Henry Wager Halleck, Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Joseph Holt, Major General Joseph Hooker, Major General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, Samuel Lucas, Hugh McCulloch, Major General Irvin McDowell, Major General George Gordon Meade, Brigadier General Montgomery Cuningham Meigs, John Stuart Mill, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, Josiah Quincy, Fitzwilliam Sargent, Major General Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General Franz Sigel, Professor Goldwin Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Major General George Henry Thomas, Robert Trimble, Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Trimble, John Palmer Usher, Lieutenant Colonel Count Adolph Carlson Warberg, Gideon Welles, Brigadier General William Denison Whipple, Captain John Ancrum Winslow.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Miscellaneous.
William Thomas Jones letters, 1861-1864, while serving with 28th Pennsylvania Regiment (Birney's Zoaves), including originals and typescripts, with additional background material. (See Photographs--Civil War Related for copies of Jones portraits, not military).
Windham Union League Constitution & Declaration of Principles, with signatures of members, including women. (Collection: XI.5)
Collection: Other Entities. Political Activities.
Invitations for Presidential receptions, miscellaneous communications with Presidents, and campaign ephemera, includes: Ulysses S. Grant and Grant anniversary banquet files, 1865-1936 (item list available), and Grant Birthday Celebration Committee minutes, 1893, in General minutebook, 1880-1904; Dwight D. Eisenhower visit to Union League, 1962; Richard Nixon campaign, 1968, and Union League reception, 1988.
Also includes Ladies Night reception for Gerald Ford, 1965 (after Ford was elected as Minority Leader).
(see also flat drawers)
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Other Civil War Papers.
Goodman family memorabilia, including Maria Louisa Goodman account of trip to the Department of the Cumberland, 1863, to visit her wounded brother.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous invitations, programs, and other memorabilia relating primarily to Union League events; two items relate to Lippincott's lumber profession.
Collection: Other Entities. Political Activities. United Sta[tes].
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous. Union Leagues.
Menu with portrait of (?) Clarence E. Thompson on cover and list of Officers and Board of Governors.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Union League.
Collection: Committee on Admissions.
Reports on the Committee's requests to proposers to withdraw candidates, reconsiderations of candidates, and recommendations for membership. No discussion is recorded.
Also records actions concerning changes to bylaws relating to membership categories, and other committee administrative business.
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee.
Records the full range of House responsibilities: house maintenance, repairs, renovations; operations of restaurant, barber shop, baths, and other services; food and beverage services and other restaurant activities; relations with reciprocal clubs; League entertainment and requests for use of League for other organizations; removal of members from house privileges for non-payment of charges or dues, or misbehavior; employees and employee benefits and other relations.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks
Collections: January 30, seven years of "The Press" from Mr. Sabo.
Operations: January 30, agreement with August Frohman for Restaurant management "at his own risk and expenses" (see 1869 and 1870 minutes).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 11, United States Grant bust purchased for $10, Baily & Co. statues for stairs purchased for $700 (possibly misidentified A. Carrier-Belleuse lumieres).
Building: February, payment to John Crump for iron column girders under Restaurant.
Operations: Frohman resigns November 1869 and mode of conducting Restaurant referred to Board of Directors (see 1870).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 10, Superintendent assumes responsibility for Restaurant and outlines new procedures; has hired "a number of the best colored waiters;" March 21, Superintendant reports on playing games with cards and asks instructions for future occasions (not provided).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: April, General Taylor bust purchased.
Building: April, stair ceiling frescoed.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 13, three boys to be employed to run errands, with compensation according to distance; May 4, resolution to forbid employees to serve liquor to any member who appears to be under the influence (following apologies of members for infraction of rules); October, recommendation that Superintendent position be abolished.
Event: January 20, Ladies' receptions planned; February 10, permission to William Bell to take photographs of House interior.
Building: November 9, fresco of Restaurant by Kaiser & Bro. approved (payment December 1872); little dining room drawing by architect Frank Furness adopted (payment to Furness & Hewitt February 18, 1873), with fresco by Blender & Co.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 11, 18, procedure for members in arrears.
Building: February 8, Board Room table sold to Centennial Commission.
Event: July 11, Ladies admitted to concert.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
No minutes.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
No minutes.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
No minutes.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
No significant business.
Colletion: House Committee Minutebooks.
No significant business.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Event: April 18, ladies admitted on April 19.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Event: April 18, ladies admitted on April 10 and 19.
Collections: April 23 November 5 (accounts), Pawling's painting "New Republic" accepted, removed (see also October 7,1881); May 21, crayon portrait of A. E. Borie from F. Gutekunst; July 9, Lambdin retrieves full length portrait of President Hayes and deposits General James A. Garfield portrait, Declaration of Independence drawing placed, 2 bronze eagles returned to Warner Miskey Merrill and small portrait of Hayes removed on order of A. Louden Snowden; August 6, bronze figure returned to Hector Tyndale estate.
Program: December 24 accounts, insurance on Statue of Liberty to December 5, 1881.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 22, bronzes and Patterson and Cameron portraits moved to Cafe; April 23, Garrett C. Neagle withdraws his Andrew Wallace portrait and replace it with loan of John Neagle's copy of Napoleon portrait; December 17, James L. Claghorn purchase of engravings approved (for smoking room, see January 28, 1882 minutes).
Building: June 8 and following, architect James H. Windrim employed for repairs (J. S. Thorn for iron balconies, roof crestings; Cornelius & Co. for Smoking Room chandelier); August 25, George Herzog hired for inside painting and frescoing (November 21, December 29, January 21, 1882, payments).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: February 3, Mt. Street Michel etching by Haig purchased.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League: April 3, June 20 Reynolds Monument Association; April 18, Veteran Corps 1st Regiment, N. G. P.
Member: April 25, Emlen Hughes explains that Mr. Coffrode, who acted in a boisterous manner, was not his guest; October 21, Isidor Cromelieu apologized for offensive behavior due to being under the influence of morphia "taken by mistake."
Collections: June 10, John E. Cope estate declares Reverend Herman C. Duncan owner of Powers' bust of George Washington with pedestal held by Union League as his property.
Building: July 3, Mr. Chandler, architect, to make a Annex Porch roof opening for repair; December 23, lamp posts removed from Broad Street portico.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League: February 3, Co. C. 1st Regiment, N. G. P.; February 27, Veteran Corps 1st Regiment.
Member: May 29, E. Tracey condemned for registering a guest as an Arizona resident then altered record to show Philadelphia residence; October 9, 30, R. W. Jennings violates rule by introducing local resident (and failed applicant) Irving Laudell over limit, Jennings claims Laudell an Arizona resident.
Building: October 9, 30, Parlour appointments refurbished.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 30, E. C. Knight will take back Veron picture if it is replaced by Simons picture in north reading room; Persifor Frazer relics had been presented to Union League (see also December 30, 1885 minutes); May 14, 28, H. T. Cariss loan of "Oath of Allegiance at Valley Forge."
Event: January 30, February 26, celebration of Washington's birthday with music and address planned.
Program: January 30, March 30, chipped china donated to Northern Home for Friendless Children.
Member: June 5, Major P. P. G. Hall's surgeon explains Hall's disorderly conduct due to brain disease which will result in blindness and family problems; Frank H. DeSilver guilty of whistling at women from Union League balcony.
Building: December 21, 28, Blue Room windows frosted, stained glass in bottom sashes; December 28, New Cafe bills for decorating and painting from Tiffany Glass Co., red stone mantel from Robert D. Kelley, Tile hearth from Sharpless & Watts.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 29, purchase of photographs to be sent to clubs of other cities applying for them.
Non-Union League: January 29, Sheltering Arms tea through Mrs. Josiah Bunting.
Collections: March 30, request of E. D. Marchant to display his 1838 Henry Clay portrait approved as long as painting was not for sale.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League: January, Old Ladies' Home (John T. Bailey) at half price; April 3, Veteran Corps, 1st Regiment for annual meeting; April 27, Cameron Club for anniversary supper; May 18, Medico-Chirurgical Hospital benefit at half price.
Building: January, Lewis Havens awarded contract to enclose lower porch; April 27, confer with Herzog on refurnishing Smoking Room; May 18, main building brick and white lines painting contract to Stephen D. Cole and exterior woodwork to William H. Wilson; July 17, contract for furnishing Smoking Room according to architect T. P. Chandler's plans to Messrs. Smith and Russell ($4980); July 17, wiring for introduction of electricity to Thackara Manufacturing Co.
Operations: January, room rental prices for Assembly Hall ($70), with Banquet Room ($90), with small dining room ($100), Banquet Room alone ($25), with small dining room ($40); May 18, contract with steward for purchase and sale of liquor.
Collections: April 3, all statuary and bases to be cleaned ($18); May 18, offer to give Cariss's painting to Union League if members fill subscription for etchings of painting declined; September 28, painting "Oath of Allegiance at Valley Forge" removed by H. T. Cariss.
Member: April 27, General Lewis Merrill warned for playing chess on Sunday morning; October 16, 30, drunk, disorderly, and abusive behavior of William Richardson and Thomas Lawson referred to Board.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Member: January 11, 1889, Charles C. Newton reported to Board for drunken, disorderly and ungentlemanly conduct; April 9, H. Blake Tyler and Major Lynford Lardner reported to Board for drunken and disorderly conduct; May 31, warning to General Merrill for playing chess on Saturday at midnight.
Non-Union League: January 30, Meade Post, without charge; March 29, Executive Committee of Citizens to entertain the Secretary of the Navy, Tracy.
Collections: January 30, painting "Caught in a Shower" replaced by more valuable and costly "On the Field of Honor."
Building: June 28, contract for fitting up parlor to architect C. M. Burns, for Blue Room and Old Directors Room (with furnishing) to George Herzog; July 30, Lewis Havens awarded contract for renewing first floor hallway according to architect James H. Windrim plans and specifications.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: February 27, "Sacking of Altamura" question under investigation.
Operations: March 11, 13, Sunday liquor service suspended after receiving opinion on its legality.
Building: April 29, recommend erection of building for a billiard room with $10,000 appropriation from Edwin N. Benson per architect Chandler's plans; May 12, 22, architect Burns plans for bathing pool and bath rooms authorized; May 22, billiard room addition contract to Lewis Havens, solicit design from architect Chandler for renovating the billiard room in wood.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: February 19, repairs to Sheridan and Hartranft portraits by C. F. Haseltine.
Member: April 14, H. J. Abbott and George Cochran censored for ungentlemanly language.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: January 2, Christmas Fund distribution.
Building: January 30, architect R. G. Kennedy plans chosen for improvements over John Ord; May 7, George Herzog plans for china closets in Flemish Room accepted; July 17, Herzog decorations for Billiard Room approved; August 26, September 2 accounts, Broad Street lamp posts removed; December 17, Statement of contracts for building work.
Member: February 29 (out of sequence in minute book), payment to Health Officer for searches for deaths of members.
Collections: February 29 (out of sequence in minute book), Keystone Marble Co. to clean 12 busts and one statue; March 5, case for Meade Medal approved; May 21, July 15, Buffalo head purchase (seeAug. 26 accounts); October 22, insurance on "America Honoring Her Brave" and "Esmeralda" (insured in name of Winthrop Smith).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: March 10, May 30, accounts, Alex Calder finished and appraised. model bust General Meade, $500 (November 11, loaned to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts); November 11, marble bust of Franklin purchased (see accounts for payment to M. Thomas & Son, $45, but also transcripts of letters in minutes indicating that a Franklin bust from the Gibson Peacock estate was purchased by someone else); December 23, General W. H. Harrison portrait loan by Henry Chapman and return.
Building: May 6, 30, 18 (out of order), June 26, architect R. G. Kennedy presents plans for kitchen, sleeping rooms, and elevator, and June 15, bids; June 28, Allen B. Rorke, contractor; September 11, doorway to Restaurant from Main Hallway with present doorway closed, and decorating (by Herzog, see October 14 accounts); October 14, 17, Francis D. Kramer to decorate New Restaurant/Cafe and wainscoting Restaurant (see January 8, 30, 1894, accounts for payment); November 11 accounts, John W. Ward & Co. papering and painting rooms; December 2 accounts, Herzog painting hallway; December 23, mantle, painting &c for old Dining Room.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 15, lease for Bell Telephone equipment.
Collections: May 8, Civil War relics should not be removed from second floor Hall.
Event: June 4, July 31, baseball match (see clippings).
Building: October 2 accounts, F. D. Kramer for refinishing Parlor, etc. ($1074.30).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 26, label for T. Buchanan Read marble bust; March 16, framed portrait of Admiral Benham from F. Gutekunst; April 2, picture "Psyche" moved from Restaurant to Smoking Room, "the man in armor" cleaned and rollers placed under it (see also May 27); November 23, request to photograph William Henry Harrison portrait granted.
Member: February 23, "altercation with Mr. Brock denouncing the Republican Party etc."; April 23, Mr. Brown cited for offensive pipe smoke, ordered to use pure Havana Tobacco hereafter, Mr. E. N. Benson requests that his name be placed on all paintings and statuary given by him, tablet in the Benson annex, and on memorial window.
Building: April 16 accounts, Secretary's office partitioned; May 14, decline any improvements to avoid any debt; July 2, September 20 November 23 (description of work), architects Kean & Meade plan for altering recently purchased property for sleeping rooms; November 16, complete contract and specifications with J. K. Kilbourne for ice plant.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March 23, marble drinking fountain in hallway, adjoining main stairway contract to W. P. Ogelsby & Co.; April 2, 11, Major E. A. Hancock to place Henry M. Hoyt memorial window in Cafe dome; June 10, petition circulating to establish ladies restaurant in basement and November 3 November 26, plans submitted by architects Keen & Meade and Louis C. Hickman, Keen & Meade recommended to Board (see December 11 accounts); August 26, October 13, Francis D. Kramer contract to repair and redecorate new Cafe ceiling and walls; October 3, brown stone steps and railings crumbling and basement window into coatroom to be changed to doorway (see January 14, 1897, minutes); October 13, bicycle room established.
Event: March 4 accounts, W. H. Rau lantern exhibition.
Non-Union League: March 23, April 11, debate on the silver question between C. Stuart Patterson and Charles Heber Clarke.
Clubs: May 9, formation of Bicycle Club.
Collections: June 10, accounts and subscriptions for Dr. H. Ernest Goodman memorial bust.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: January 12, Christmas Fund paid from Treasury instead of subscription.
Building: March 4, new side board in Old Cafe.
Collections: March 19, Bennett C. Wilson claim on "Sacking of Altamura"; October 19, "original League badges which had been hanging in the office for some time, were placed in the hands of Mr. Earle for reframing."
Operations: March 19, study on the purchase of wine and champagne compared to other clubs; October 19, police inquiry on game facilities.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 8, damage to General Sheridan portrait, and "the accumulation of papers on the House Committees file, of which the Superintendent furnished a list, be left with the Secretary to be destroyed;" December 27, caribou head loaned by Mr. L. A. Flanagan.
Building: March 16, Jacob Myers & Sons contract for addition; June 23, July 18, contracts to Chapman Decorative Co. for decorating first and second halls and to Dekosenko Manufacturing Co. for electrical fixtures.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: June 6, "The Secretary was instructed to consult with a member of the Finance Committee with a view of destroying the old books and papers referred to in the Superintendent's report."
Building: July 28, Billiard Room decoration contract to Chapman Decorative Co.; December 20, recommend that additional sleeping rooms be built over Assembly Hall.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League: May 5, "Owing to the complaint of several of our members regarding the conduct of some of the Veteran Corps, it was suggested that serious consideration be given to any application which may be made by them for the use of the Banquet Hall in the future."
Building: June 5, engineer F. C. Roberts & Co. and architect E. V. Seeler proposal for oyster bar, barber shop, and lockers accepted; July 30, contractors Doyle & Doak chosen for alterations and additions.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March 4, contract for exterior stonework to William Gray & Sons; April 6, Bicycle Department to be closed and used as a laundry; December 5, contract to Doyle & Doak to rebuild 1425 Moravian St
Collections: July 8, six scrapbooks purchased for chronological arrangement from old scrapbooks.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Recreation: May 5, two tables for the game known as "Ping Pong."
Building: May 20, question of changing Oyster Room into a dining room for Ladies discussed, with report at next meeting (not made).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: November 4, "The report of the Superintendent with regard to a cigar lighter at the cigar desk, in the form of a bronze figure as a suitable design, was referred to the Chairman with power to act.."
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: June 20, G. Gerald Evans contract to decorate Library, Chess Room and Banquet Room; July 20, Huneker & Son contract to redecorate Billiard Room ceiling; August 5, Chapman Decorative Company contract to decorate Barber Shop, Toilet Room, and Coat Room.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: May 18, contract with Pennsylvania Bronze Co. for erecting two clusters with seven lights each for the tops of Newel Post figures at the foot of the main staircase in hall ($350); July 5, Warren P. Laird's program (see September 5 accounts for $500 payment) for competition for selection of architect for addition approved; September 2, special meeting to receive and open drawings submitted for competition, with some not accepted including package of Rankin, Kellogg & Crane; September 27, Laird's report ranking submitted designs, excludes one, and Superintendent's choice and objection to Laird's choice, with Superintendent's choice recommended; October 6, identification of Joseph M Huston (ranked 11th) as designated architect, along with identification of other invited competitors, C. E. Schermerhorn (ranked 7th), John Du Fais (ranked 10th), C. C. Zantzinger (excluded because of departure from program), James H. Windrim (ranked 12th), W. S. Plack (ranked 4th), Furness, Evans & Co, John B. Van Pelt (ranked 3rd), Cope & Sewardson (ranked second), W. W. Potter, Horace Trumbauer (ranked 1st), Brockie & Hastings (ranked 6th), Watson & Huckel (ranked 5th), Roberts & Seeler (ranked 9th), Kelsey & Furber (ranked 8th), also high ranking uninvited competitors, W. T. Plack, John P. Van Pelt, Brockie & Hastings.
Operations: June 5, motion to prohibit contracts with any member or any firm associated with any member of the House Committee (not indicated as having passed).
Collection: House Committee Minute books.
Collections: March 9, Benjamin Franklin bust loaned to Masonic Temple; May 7, photographs of Civil War officers of Union League regiments fading, attempt at reproduction; October 6, correspondence with Carlton L. Wilson regarding painting "The Sacking of Altamura" referred to Art Association.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: April, copper bay window approved for telephone exchange enlargement.
Collections: September, publication of "Sheridan's Ride" in newspaper; December 6, decision that it is unwise to purchase portraits of Union League vice presidents.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
All actions noted in Annual Report or Board minutes.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
All actions noted in Annual Report or Board minutes.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: October 7, various recommendations and requests for furnishings for new building.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: November 1, 133 employees cut off from getting meals as part of pay, with additional compensation of $6.
Operations: November 10, procedures for control and supervision of provisions with opening of new kitchen.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 22, Restaurant Bill-of-Fare.
Collections: April 9, James H. Orne portrait restoration by McClees & Co. approved.
Building: December 18, leaded glass throughout building contract to Alfred Hawkins & Son (D'Ascenzo, Kolb & Martin other bidders).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Member: May 27, June 9, June 13, complaint against William H. Rau who first denies knowledge of incident, then says that he has no recollection.
Employee: May 14, 27, barber Max Heineman falsely accused and fired for accepting a tip; motion adopted at February meeting (not recorded) regarding the replacing of colored men with white rescinded; October 28, new employment law that affects female employees (November and December references to action taken, but with no explanation).
Building: August 7, bronze railing for 15th street entrance outside steps.
Collections: September 26, plaster bust of ex-President Taft, having never been used, sent to Thirteenth Ward Republican Club; December 12, mounted sail fish from Leonard M. Thomas.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: April 27, July 7, July 14, engineer Frank C. Roberts report on condition of Broad Street building; July 21, August 25, September 1, paneling above wainscoting and other repairs in old restaurant; July 21, August 11, changes in South Library, including expansion at east end into former Director's room, contract to George W. Smith & Co.
Member: June 12, Dawson Hoopes apologizes for bad behavior due to law suits among family which caused him considerable personal trouble and he "had simply forgotten himself and gone on a spree...."
Collections: September 11, large Washington portrait moved from Card Room to second floor hall at heat of Broad Street stairway.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 11, minors admitted to Ladies Department only.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: December 22, General Meade portrait restored by J. E. McClees & Co.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: February 1, plans for Memorial Room submitted by engineer Frank C. Roberts, authorized to contract with George W. Smith & Co. and Bureau Brothers.
Collections: February 12, memorial tablet to include portraits of Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Thomas, Gregg, and Hancock, and Admiral Farragut.
Employee: February 12, question of wages of colored employees referred to committee; September 11, gold medal for employees in service for 40 years or more.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: May 13, "Zither Player" and "The Musquetaire" to be repaired by McClees.
Building: September 20, October 4, contract to Frederick Geary Company for new Broad Street doors according to architect Trumbauer's plans.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: May 31, architect Ralph E. White selected to prepare plans to move Barber Shop, building swimming pool, and other projects.
Member: November 17, Mrs. Edward Cadwallader's card withdrawn after she hires two employees away from Union League at higher wages.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January, locker room Superintendant to go through all lockers and remove any liquor found.
Building: June, refurbishment of two reading rooms, writing room, Old Cafe, main hall and front vestibule, Old Restaurant contract with G. Gerald Evans not to exceed $5000; Broad Street building stonework renovation contract to William Gray & Sons Co.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Three meetings recorded.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
No additional business.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: February 8, R. L. Partington borrows Governor Sproul and Gribbel portraits for McClees Gallery exhibit.
No minutes between February 10 and December 14.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: April 10, smoking permitted for ladies.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: November 11, Smoking Room ceiling dropped 4 1/2 inches, requires immediate repair; December 30, Smoking Room fire, with insurance to cover (also January 28, 1928).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: June 5, 24 members who are architects considered for enlarging Ladies Dining Room, but decide that it would be better to hire outside of membership and invite Ritter and Shea (Shay) to make survey.
Employee: December 3, all employees to have medical examination before hiring.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: June 9, rates for sleeping rooms.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: April 5, engravings of Republican Presidents up to President McKinley from Mrs. Goodbread, with order for them to be framed.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 19, insurance on Lincoln by Marchant ($5000) and Hoover ($2500) rewritten to cover Lincoln only ($7000); February 1, offer of General Sherman desk from Charles D. Thakara declined.
Membership: February 1, on request of member, widows of members may have privileges.
Building: March 23, April 21, decision to vacate Broad Street building sleeping rooms due to fire hazard rescinded.
Operations: December 5, wines and liquors to be sold, but not to women in Ladies Dining Room.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: April 5, April 8, petition for squash courts considered and denied due to expense.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: October 8, December 30, recommendation against employee health and accident insurance, use self insurance instead and salary benefits for sick staff.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: January 20, decision to put management of Union League under one person and appointment of William F. Homiller as General Manager; December 22, 10% wage reduction restored.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: September 13, Major Moses Veale portrait offered by artist Miss Archambault declined.
Building: October 18, third floor Broad Street closed to members.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Program: January 22, authorizing special committee and account to raise funds for the Union League National Defense Fund.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: May 4, sugar rationing requires one lump and one packet of sugar per serving of teas, coffees, fruits, and cereals, and reduction of dessert manufacture.
Employee: September 10, employing colored bus girls approved, providing suitable separate rest and toilet facilities can be provided.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March 1, rooms 422, 424, 426 altered for sleeping with additions of bathrooms.
By-Laws: July 19, August 9, member reports that a colored man was entertained at dinner.
Operations: October 4, use only oleomargarine, and seek advice of counsel on its use (November 1, butter restored); shortage of point rationing; December 23, new drink called "Victory appetizer."
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March 9, addition of drink/oyster bar would not be allowed by War Production Board.
Employee: March 21, 30, April 27, kitchen staff petitions for raise, granted 8% with approval of National War Labor Board.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: November 8, 4' x 5' lithograph of flag raising on Iwo Jima from
Philadelphia Inquirier's Robert McCay Green.
Building: November 15, contract to John P. Hallahan Company for 3rd floor Broad Street renovation.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 10, list of service restrictions during the war and subsequent re-establishment, including linen supply, room service, valet service, bell boys, take-out food service, liquor restrictions, ladies' restaurant hours, butter supply, bar service; May 23, request Restaurant Manager investigate if deviled crab recipe had changed.
Collections: August 1, 8, various objects of art to be disposed of through Freeman and Company so that additional storage space be made available, and a complete list of disposed articles be kept with records; August 15, "Song of the Union League" recording from composer Claus Meyer (Assistant to the Restaurant Manager, see August 22 minutes); September 12, William Cloak collection of menus and programs from Mrs. Cloak.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: April 24, May 1, 15, objects stored in loft to be sold at Freeman & Company November 13, two marble statues given by William Welsh Harrison, Jr., to be transferred from loft storage to Library entrance.
Employee: October 23 Norris Comegys employed for 54 years, longest of any Union League employee.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Member: December 2, Reverend W. Hamilton Aulenbach called before committee for making derogatory remarks about Union League.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 13, replica of Fairmount Park statue of Morton McMichael from Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt declined; January 27, letter cautioning Art Committee on disposal of gifts; November 10, books honoring late R. Dale Benson from his daughter Mrs. T. M. Meryweather.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: Albert Bierstadt's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to Corcoran Gallery of Art; March 15, suggestion that Xanthus Russell Smith's "The Monitor and the Merrimac" be given to the Mariners' Museum, Hampton Roads declined, and loan of Neagle's Henry Clay portrait to National Gallery of Art approved; proposal to increase volume of chime of ship's clock given by Colonel George F. Hoffman declined; September 13, approval for Daughters of the American Colonists Chapter to copy "Washington Presenting Governor Dinwiddie's Letter...."
Employee: April 12, policy to cover employee absentee benefits.
Operations: September 20, October 11, service of whiskey increased from 1 1/4 ounce to 1 1/2, with report to be made on increased cost.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: January 3, Oriental Rug purchased for Lincoln Memorial Room for $2,5000.
Collections: sculpture "Odalisca" loaned to Philadelphia Flower Show.
Employee: September 25, petition to Wage Stabilization Board for general wage increase of 5% and providing Blue Cross Hospitalization for employees.
By-Laws: "With reference to the recent publicity relative to the barring of negro guests by The Union League Club of Chicago, the Manager explained the policy followed by the staff of The Union League of Philadelphia. On motion, it was directed that no change be made in this."[?]
Operations: November 5, approval for use of Library Lounge for receptions in conjunction with dinners in Lincoln Hall.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: Melville G. Baker portrait retouched by artist..
Operations: May 15, June 11, discussion of policy on use of dining rooms on second floor by members and their guests, and ladies use.
Building: June 11, 20, discussion on converting pool rooms into restaurants and recommendations for an architect, in the nature of an interior decorator, including Walter M. Ballard Corporation (awarded contract), Rodgers Associates, Sidney Martin, Brumbaugh.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League event: April 16, Street Andrews Society event approved on trial basis even though committee was not in favor of increasing use of Lincoln Hall or providing buffet dinners.
Employee: April 16, list of employees and old and new salaries.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March 11, report on problems with Ladies' Dining Room floors and heating system; September 9, architect Ralph B. Bencker to provide consultant services on job to job working basis; October 14, proposal for redecorated Broad Street hall includes mural painting that is omitted by committee.
Collections: March 11, Eisenhower birthday plate from W. Welsh Harrison, Jr.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: February 17, Walter M. Ballard Corporation proposal for interior design work; June 9, new decorating schemes for second floor private dining rooms and Old Cafe approved.
Employee: July 21, Preliminary Report on a Pension Plan.
Collections: September 15, R. Alexander Manoff's offer for purchase of Stefan Rath's glass "Gettysburg Urn" declined.
Member: December 5, testimony in case of Dr. Thomas Conway, Jr., and recommendation that he be expelled.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: March 1, Sully's Washington to be repaired by Newman Galleries.
Member: April 24, $25 charge to widows of deceased members.
Building: July 12, Broad Street exterior restoration approved; December 6, Marble Rooms glass partitions to be marked to prevent members from walking into them.
Privileges: November 1, policy against wedding receptions rescinded.
Operations: December 6, special reserve of 202 cases of scotch held aside during "the present unsettled situation."
Event: December 6, President's luncheon discontinued.
Employee: December 13, list of employees and old and new salaries.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: June 6, October 3, protest application of Hotel Occupancy Tax (see January 9, 1958).
Building: June 6, bronze railing for 15th Street entrance approved.
By-Laws: September 5, recommend increase of membership from 3000 to 4000.
Privileges: formation of Social Committee to develop varied social activities to encourage use of facilities.
Restaurant: December 19, cheese service in Old Cafe not illegal.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: grandfather clock from Marion F. Fort in memory of her late husband George A.; prints, lithographs, etchings of old Philadelphia, preferably late 18th century, purchased for private dining rooms with funds from George A. Worth.
Employee: May 8, list of staff and salary increases.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: January 7, February 4, architect Ralph B. Bencker bills reviewed and retention of Vincent C. Kling's as consulting architect; June 2, alterations to Old Restaurant approved (September 8, name changed to Meredith).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January 5, procedures to assure compliance with IRS in use of tax-free initiation fees for construction or reconstruction projects.
Collections: February 2, loan of Bierstadt's "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter" and John's "Harvest Home" to Corcoran Gallery of Art, with return for 1962 Union League centennial.
Archives: March 9, exploration on storage of records and possible microfilming.
Building: May 4, July 6, architect Vincent Kling submits plans for renovated Old Cafe with bar facilities in place of Writing Room for $106,433, with eventual plan accepted for $25,000 with no alterations to Writing Room.
Privileges: July 6, House Rule restricting minors to ladies' restaurant changed to include male members only.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: February 8, agreement with architect Vincent G. Kling for service as consultant in redecoration; October 4, tiling around Oak Room food service counter.
Operations: June 7, quantities of food consumed during Eisenhower Program; June 7, Organization Chart.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January 3, Wishbone Table recommends suitable storage facility for official League papers and records of various club tables; February 5, progress in inventorying, cataloguing and restoring relics and papers in Lincoln Memorial Room; June 6, July 2, ivory billiard ball given to Winterthur to complete set on 1800 table.
Building: February 5, naming of rooms--Card Room=Morton McMichael (rescinded February 3, 1966) Number 1 Room=Horace Binney Number 2 Room=J. Gillingham Fell, Banquet Room=President's Hall, Library Lounge=George H. Boker (rescinded February 3, 1966).
Operations: May 2, June 6, $20,000 of liquor reserve supply purchased in view of proposed new taxes for Philadelphia school district, but School District decides that banquet business was not taxable; July 2, old and new liquor prices.
Employee: November 8, rules for new employee cafeteria.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: January 3, staff list with wages; March 5, personnel policies, including holidays, absenteeism, and forms.
Collections: July 2, General Douglas MacArthur portrait from Milton H. Kolb by his son declined.
Building: October 2, report on condition of all elevators with recommendations for replacement.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: May 6, itemized list for redecoration of ladies' lounge.
Event: June 3, Charles G. Simpson luncheon in honor of United States Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Event: February 3, proposal to hold New Year's Eve dinner-dance declined.
Building: February 24, Robert G. Wilder proposal for exercise equipment for Health Baths Department declined due to possible relocation of baths.
Collections: May 6, decline to purchase of display William M. Hoffman's oil of Union League; July 1, September 2, repairs being made to Lincoln Hall portraits damaged in moving.
Employee: June 1, Daniel Layman elected to Club Hall of Fame.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Privileges: April 7, case of guest card being issued under false identification of a member over the telephone.
Collections/art: April 7, Marchant's Lincoln portrait rehung on Lincoln Room north wall, with consequent rehanging of Macueuen, Smith's Lincoln, and Curtin portraits.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Employee: May 2, name pins for service staff authorized; October 4, question about propriety of pension being paid to retired employee residing in a communist controlled country (opinion not present); December 6, employee who had been released from a State institution will get payments outside pension plan (see also January 2, 1969).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: March 6, Lewis & Gilman, Incorporated, contracted as public relations consultants; November 6, cyclamates removed per government instructions, including Sweet'n Low (but restored cyclamates Sweet'n Low, see December 4 minutes).
Collections: May 1, Lambdin's John Quincy Adams portrait to be reproduced by Adams Papers; October 2, donation of 1/5 scale Liberty Bell for 1976 approved, if donors can be found.
Building: June 5, Vickery Stone Company contracted for exterior repairs.
Member: December 4, member to be informed of displeasure over guests' "long-hair appearance.."
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Program: January 29, effort to get publicity for Mummers Parade prizes.
Collections: June 4: loan of Bierstadts's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter denied due to previous loan commitment.
Operations: August 20, proposal to process payroll by computer accepted.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
no additional information.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: February 4, proper dress includes pants suits for women but turtleneck sweaters for men are not permitted.
Art: March 10, President Hesketh's portrait commission to J. R. Essig for $4000.
Privileges: April 7, June 9, review of areas and times where ladies were permitted.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: April 13, small bronze "Hare in Flight" missing from Library; May 11, two Civil War revolvers taken from room 307.
Employee: July 13, name plates for all service employees.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: January, two Civil War horn pistols given by John D. Harrison missing; July, Adolphe Borie portrait purchased by J. McAllister Borie; Mr. Dwyer selects Marc C. Schoettle to paint portrait.
Operations: January-March, Sheridan Grille opened to women on Friday evenings.
Tables: March, developing club table project including Graduate Table for former Junior members and Open Table; September, Open Table established, sizes of Tables at issue.
Building: March, Grant and Meade Rooms to be refurbished.
Program: June, David Coolidge prints to be sold.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Collections: November, Edward C. Knight portrait on loan to Collingswood, NJ, library.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March, Union League on FBI protective list during Bicentennial because of historical significance.
By-Laws: March, cancellation of law firm reservation due to policy on women, along with member's resignation and press coverage of discrimination.
Operations: May, proper dress includes turtlenecks when worn with jacket; November, 15% service fee for bar service to member dining rooms, with distribution to server, bar tender, and as incentive to captains to encourage sales.
Employee: May, Food and Beverage Manager hired.
Non-Union League: May, Swedish societies' dinner for King of Sweden of great credit to Union League.
Collections: tall clock from bequest of Mrs. Harry G. Skerrett.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Non-Union League: February, Academy of Music Anniversary Ball a success, encourage repeat.
Event: March, Library Committee's Clement Conger lecture delightful, hope for good attendance for club luncheon with William T. Coleman, Jr.; October, $5 for New Year's reception and statement on appropriate dress.
By-Laws: April, Sunday Bulletin article gives grossly inaccurate report on admission of women to house.
Building: April, June, Ladies Dining Room renamed Broad Street Room to more accurately reflect its use; April, plans for converting some sleeping rooms for use by members and their wives.
Operations: April, May, September, SEPTA strike requires extra expense.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Operations: January, turtleneck sweaters no acceptable attire; April, resolution restricting luncheon use of Lincoln Hall for Union League events only except for Military Order of the World Wars and Retired Bank Officers' Association; September, October, arrangements made for Rotary Club meetings.
Membership: April, delinquent payment notices no longer include threat of posting for legal reasons (but posting continues, see September 1978 House Committee minutes).
Art: President Bemis portrait to be done by Slayton Underhill for $4500.
Employee: May, staff manual being prepared; December, Ladies Luncheon Committee donates $3000 to Employees Pension Fund.
Event: June, members' art exhibit.
Privileges: Outrigger Club, Honolulu, made reciprocal club (terminated, then restored, see January, February 1980 House Committee minutes).
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Event: January, all programs to be arranged by Entertainment Committee; New Year's Eve buffet successful and should be continued; September, purchase of permanent Christmas decorations by Reginald E. Beauchamp to replace annual service by Pennocks.
Operations: January, Club Table relationship transferred from Library to House Committee; January, Barber Shop losing $12,000, one barber to be dropped, prices raised fifty cents; April, Barber Shop still losing $12,000. June, new IBM computer system authorized.
Non-Union League: May, change of policy to allow weddings of non-member families in exceptional circumstances.
Building: June, exterior repairs, including cornices and railings, authorized; Ladies' Dining Room refurbishment according to Mr. Beauchamp's suggestions; [July], stand-up bar in Old Cafe approved then December, abandoned when cost goes from $5000 to $20k.
Member: members of sub-committee on buildings and improvements may perform services for Union League.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
February, Charlotte W. Newcombe bequest [?]
Operations: February, Irish linen for dining room replaced by cotton damask; May, dress code allows turtleneck shirts for private parties.
Privileges: March, where ladies are allowed to eat and under what circumstances.
Building: March, April, in order to accommodate new computer equipment a rearrangement of space suggested that would put offices in Old Cafe, expand Sheridan Room and eliminate Billiard, or move Billiards to Old Cafe and put offices in basement and eliminate barber shop and health baths; May, computer in place without any rearrangement; August, barber shop moved to Health Baths foyer; October, new Billiard room (on ground floor near Health Baths, see November annual report) inspected.
Employee: May, discrimination case found in favor of Union League; June, July, new life insurance plan.
Membership: June, procedures for past due accounts.
Tables: November, progress in consolidating Club tables.
Politics/national: November annual report, "Spiraling inflation and an inept national energy policy were pivotal in producing the major problems...."
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
By-Laws: April, first large cancellation of event due to discrimination.
Building: April, stand-up bar for Old Cafe approved for $2500; May, stained glass window on Broad Street stairway repaired.
Operations: August, television installation approved.
Collection: House Committee Minutebooks.
Building: March, chair rails added to 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor hallways; November, December, list of capital improvements.
Event: March, women will not be included in New Year's Day reception.
History: June, house tours for members and employees only, all others require approval and $50 service fee.
Operations: September, Long Range Planning Committee report recommends membership classification reduction, increased initiation fee, consideration of relocation, investigation into non-profit status.
Privileges: December, recommend that wives and widows be allowed on Broad Street first floor, engage dining rooms on second floor, and conference and sleeping rooms on other floors.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
By-Laws: March 15, list of cancelled events due to "vote vs. Ladies.."
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Privileges: May, reciprocity with Pacific Club, Honolulu; November, reciprocity with India House, New York City.
Rules: May, reinforcement of no business papers in reception room or dining room reinforced.
Employee: November, $17,000 raised for family of former head masseur Stanley Mileski.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Building: February, June, plans for first floor ladies room authorized (progress reported throughout rest of year).
Privileges: September, reciprocity with Jonathan Club, Los Angeles.
Operations: October, non-smoking area designated in Boker Room.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: February, May, August, number 1 priority is to make Boker Room the very best restaurant in Philadelphia.
By-Laws: March, recommendation that women members be restricted in use of house eliminated in revised minutes; July, recommendation that Old Cafe remain male only.
Building: June, August, October preliminary plans by architect Dan Kopple for squash courts authorized; July, August, October, Broad Street stairway damaged by car accidents, architect John Lloyd to prepare plans for repairs to stairs and Broad Street building.
Finance: October, non-member business exceeds IRS limit so future charitable organization events to be charged at cost (November, earlier solution to end commercial organization events disapproved by Board); November, IRS prohibits sale of take-out food, so all profits to go to Boys' Work Foundation.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
no additional information.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Rules: February, rule on papers relaxed for breakfast and lunch in Sheridan Grille.
Operations: July, Union League will not request substantial volunteer services from members and will compensate such services according to professional standards.
Employee: July, first Employee of the Month named.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: January, modify Old Cafe design and operations, provide salad bar service in Sheridan Grille West, convert 4th floor old changing rooms to business center, reorganization of Health/Fitness services.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: November, insurance coverage changed to Alexander & Alexander on lower bid, recommend against Bellevue Sporting Club proposal, space adjacent to Fitness Center to be prepared for women's changing and personal service.
Club Tables: November, Yacht Club to use Farragut Room.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Building: January, House Construction Sub-Committee report on building projects.
Operations: January, February, Food and Beverage Action Plan and restructuring; April, menu analysis; November, revised House Rules.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Building: January, new rugs for Lincoln Memorial and Library Lounge.
Operations: March, Business Center designated non-smoking; April, ticker tape eliminated (but see 1994 Board minutes).
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: April, Boker Room designated non-smoking at dinner.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: February, introduction of new staff structure separating Sales/Marketing from Food and Beverage, introduction of Harvard/Radcliffe Table.
Privileges: Sporting Club at the Bellevue proposal not advantageous to Union League.
Affinity: April, 140 signed up for first meeting of Business Network.
Employee: September, recruitment policy provides compensation to employee sponsoring new employee.
Collection: House Committee Minutes.
MINUTES IN BOARD PACKETS
Operations: January, organization chart with duties of each sub-committee.
Building: March, employees' entrance relocation to Sansom Street approved for $28,000.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Lincoln campaign newspaper, numbers 1-3, 8, number obliterated. Photostats. Numbers 2-5, 7 (2004.14), 9. Number 2 in original titled National Union League Gazette, in Photostats Union League Gazette, with same copy.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Blank printed notice for press information on addresses sponsored by the Union League.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Ephemera.
Published by Samuel T. Cobb & Co., Boston.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Ephemera
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories/Achieved by Our Noble Army,/Edwin Adams/will by special request, recite/T. Buchanan Read's/Poem of/Sheridan's Ride" with poem printed at bottom. Printed in red and blue.
Collection: Collections. Civil War. Union League Military.
Miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Neff's command of the 196th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (5th Union League Regiment) includes small series of letters, ordnance receipts, reports and muster rolls. See container list for correspondence. Item list available. (see also flat drawers).
Correspondence. John N. Riley to Col. H. Neff. Plans to have Neff's regiment vote. September 26, 1864
Correspondence. Harmanus Neff to Lieut. H. V. Morris. Expiration of term of 196th near, and requests the Co. H now doing guard duty in Springifeld be brought back. With notes on back that Company will be ordered back. October 20, 1864.
Correspondence. Lt. Edward L. Deeme to Harmanus Neff. Reporting on the good character and military standing of Co. H 196th Pa. Vols. September 26, 1864
Correspondence. Harmanus Neff to Col. Potter. Requesting transportation back to Philadelphia. October 27, 1864.
Correspondence. Col. S. M. Bowman to Col. Harmanus Neff. Requesting presence on election day at District of Delaware. November 5, 1864
Correspondence. Capt. J. M. Barr to Harmanus Neff. Requesting assistance in getting a promotion. December 12, 1864
Correspondence. Late Lieut. Co. A 52nd P.M., to Col. Harmanus Neff. Declining invitation to Union League. March 19, 1866.
Correspondence. James H. Orne to Col. H. Neff. Telling him of the death of Neff' mother-in-law and requests having information on his regiment. n.d.
Collection: Collections.
Correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, photographs relating to Conrad's activities as explorer, supporter of young members of his extended family and of various music organizations. Also some other pieces of family history. Preliminary inventory available.
Collection: Photographs, Prints, Drawings, Audio-Visual Tapes
.1 Photographs: Union League Building
.2 Photographs: Union League People
.3 Photographs: Activities
.4 Photographs: Art, Artifacts, and Collections
.5 Photographs: Historical
.6 Prints and Drawings: Building
.7 Prints and Drawings: People
.8 Prints Drawings: Historical
.9 Audio and Video Tapes 51a-51c
Cataloged in Photographs catalog according to Other Number.
Collection: Photographs.
.1 Exterior
.2 Interior.
Collection: Audio-Visual. Photographs.
.1 Presidents
.2 Board Groups
.3 Dreer Collection of Union Club members
.4 Union League members (see also Library cabinet)
.5 Club Tables
.6 Affinity Clubs
.7 Committee on Boys/Youth Work
.8 Groups
.9 Employees.
Collection: Audio-Visual. Photographs.
.1 United States Presidents
.2 People
.3 Philadelphia Views
.4 Civil War
.5 Photographs of prints and drawings of Philadelphia views
.6 Miscellaneous.
Collection: Audio-Visual. Prints and Drawings.
.1 Original prints and drawings
.2 Photographs of prints and drawings
.3 Publications with views of Union League.
Collection: Audio-Visual. Prints and Drawings.
.1 Philadelphia Views
.2 Civil War
.3 Photographs of Political Cartoons
.4 Miscellaneous (Union League's in other cities).
Collection: Standing Committees. Member Relations.
Bulletin, 1944-February 1992; Banner, March 1992-Present.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
For subscription fee. Philadelphia.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
For 70 Rolls of Bandages.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Minute books, 1863-1982 (20 Volumes), and loose minutes, 1982-present (9 linear feet). Loose minutes consist largely as part of Board packets.
Indexes within volumes for 1863-November 1917.
Building: January, lease of Kuhn house, furniture. insurance; February 3, House to be opened; March 5, committee to inquire on purchase of lot for building; June 24 rent Broad Street hall; November 19 loan for purchase of property.
By-Laws: January, By-Laws and Charter in preparation
Membership: February 7, Clergyman entitled to house privileges; May 27, membership list to be printed in Philadelphia newspapers; April 15, Fundamental Articles amendment banning games of cards and betting, and liquor; November 25, December 9, Committee to draw up Charter.
Event: January, February, Washington Birthday observance; March, Fourth of July celebration (June 24), Fort Sumter attack anniversary commemoration (April 8); April 8, House to be opened to Ladies.
Membership: February 7, privileges granted to Clergymen subscribing to the Fundamental Articles, omitting Article 3.
Program: February 17, committee to encourage organization of Union Leagues in Pennsylvania and other states, and Committee to print and circulate useful information, provided the fund for the purpose be raised by voluntary subscription; April 8, Committee to provide employment for disabled soldiers; August 26 Silver Medals to be awarded.
Collections: January 30, Sully given privileges in return for loan of Washington portrait; March 5, General Kearney's battle flag from Brigadier General Birney; October 14 November 9, $150 for Sully's Washington portrait.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January 21, Ladies admitted to House for Washington birthday.
Program: January 26, committee to propose suitable militia system for the state; February 18, circular to all local leagues to solicit contributions to any of the Departments of the Sanitary Fair; June 23, support for purchase of new bell for Independence Hall.
Collections: March 17, request members to send carte-de-visite for a collection; July 11, Judge Pettigrew portrait from William B. White.
Member: resolutions on deaths of Benjamin Gerhard, June 20, John B. Myers, September 29.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January 24, February 4, February 21, March 14, order of business and committees and Rules of the Board; March 14, Rules of the House.
Member: January 24, Gold Medal to William M. Meredith and resolutions on his service as Union League president.
Event: February 21, resolution that flag be hung and house illuminated on Washington's birthday in honor of him and the abolition of slavery; letter of congratulations to President Lincoln for restoration of United States flag at Fort Sumter, "the scene of its first humiliation;" April 17, resolution on death of President Lincoln; May 11, opening of new League House; November 14, entertained Lieutenant General Grant, Admiral Farragut, Major General Meade and other officers at the opening of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Fair.
Politics: December 20, letter to President expressing gratification for passage of Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January 9, February 13, vote against opening restaurant on Sunday; December 18, Rules of the Board.
Member: January 23, resolution on death of Oswald Thompson.
Politics: February 27, two memorials requesting special membership meeting to endorse Congress' dissent to President's veto of Freedman's Bureau Bill, declined because Union League cannot take a position on issues with which members may differ; May 8, recommend to Congress Navy officers request for a pay raise; August 21, Preamble and Resolutions supporting Constitutional Amendments passed by Congress, condemning Andrew Johnson, welcoming Convention of Southern Loyalists, and endorsing John W. Geary for Governor.
Collections: March 13, white oak log from Gettysburg Battlefield from Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Operations: March 13, Strangers Register pages with Tunisian Embassy names torn out.
Member: April 10, 24, James M. Scovel suspended for disloyalty to the Federal Government and hostility to the objects of the Union League.
Event: July 3, Gold Medal to General George Gordon Meade.
Building: November 13, December 4, rewards given to firemen for service during Union League fire.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January 8, steward reimbursed $4496 for losses in restaurant in 1866; March 12, April 9, office of Superintendent instituted; April 9, members petition objecting to dismissal of assistant janitor Captain De Lange denied with caution that members be careful in the future with such petitions; December 17, Rules of the Board amended to make Library a Standing Committee.
Event: April 9, entertainment for League Island Commission; May 14, Schuyler Colfax; Loyal Leagues of New York and Boston; November 12, Commodore Worden.
Member: April 9, resolution on death of Samuel C. Morton; September 10, resolution on death of George Erety.
Politics: June 11, committee appointed to confer with Committee of Citizens in effort to amend local Republican Party rules in order to prevent nomination of incompetent candidates; September 18, resolutions in favor of impeachment proceedings, in support of the Republican Party in coming election, particularly Henry W. Williams to Supreme Court and M. Russell Thayer as Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.
Collections: November 12, unveiling of J. H. Haseltine's "America Mourning Her Fallen Brave;" December 17, Count Cavour portrait from E. U. Baily.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics: January 27, committee appointed to collect funds to enable the Congressional Committee to carry out the reconstruction Laws in the Southern States and to draw up an address to the members and the Republicans of Philadelphia; March 4, inadvisable to express opinion on Andrew Johnson impeachment; May 12, special members' meeting called to consider effort in local offices and to take action in regard to National measures; June 10, public ratification of nominations of Grant and Colfax; July 23, resolution at request of New York Union League against adjournment of Congress; August 11, 25, special members meeting called to take action on resolutions on coming elections; October 9, awards announced for arrest and conviction of election fraud; November 10, 21, resolution to withdraw from politics and focus on preventing election fraud.
Program: March 4, memorial to be presented to Congress for a medal to be presented to all who served in the Civil War.
Collections: August 11, 12 muskets captured from the Rebels from L. L. Langdon; December 8, $350 for Rothermel's "Reading of the Declaration of Independence;" December 22 (also January 12, 1869), Horace Binney portrait from artist E. D. Marchant (see February 1882 Board minutes on payment).
Event: August 12, resolution on death of Thaddeus Stevens; October 6, distinguished strangers, Governors and Boys in Blue attending Soldiers and Sailors convention; December 22, Gold Medal to Lindley Smyth.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January 12, February 9, rules of the Board altered to reorganize Board of Publications; November 9, Restaurant put in charge of the Superintendent.
Collections: April 15, John Sergeant portrait from artist S. B. Waugh; October 12, loan to Lambdin on the security of his pictures now in the House and investigate purchase; November 9, E. M. Stanton agrees to have Lambdin paint portrait for Union League, and Abraham Lincoln portrait from T. T. Fowler.
Building: May 11 November 9, rail for roof of building authorized and donated by Robert Wood.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January 11, class of Correspondents created who are not Philadelphia residents, are recommended by Membership Committee, approved by Directors, pay annual dues of $10 (to be added to Publication Fund).
Collections: January 11, General George Gordon Meade portrait from members; February 8, bronze "Triumviri Americani" from members; April 12, 17, purchase 17 portraits painted by J. R. Lambdin and purchase of S. B. Waugh's portrait of President Grant.
Building: April 12, recommendation for picture gallery, postponed.
Program: April 18, emblematic banner to be presented to colored citizens for April 26 procession celebrating ratification of Fifteenth Amendment.
Non-Union League: September 20, request of City Executive Committee to hold public meeting at Broad Street entrance denied, with no public meetings being allowed.
Politics: December 13, Joseph R. Lyndall endorsed for State Senator.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: January 17, resolution on death of Stephen Colwell.
Collections: March 14, General Scott portrait from Mr. Knight; October 10, bronze equestrian statue of President Grant from Edwin M. Benson.
Membership: June 13, officers of the armed services given same privileges as Correspondents.
Building: September 12, 1421 Moravian Street purchased.
Program: October 10, collection taken for victims of Chicago fire.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: February,1414 Sansom Street property purchase authorized; October, Publications office to be used for use of Directors.
Finance: February, Correspondents' dues to be used for general purposes instead of publications.
Collections: February, Powell's Picture of the "New Republic" purchase for $3,000 (see also March 1873, January 1874 Board Minutes for additional transactions ending in declining to purchase, September 1881 for removal, September, October 1886 offer to purchase).
Operations: April, May, decision against offering meals on Sunday.
Program: July, September, $6000 from Publications Committee funds for use of Union Republican State Central Committee in the campaign.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: January, "The Wine Tasters" from E. N. Benson; April, marble bust of George Washington from H. Pratt McKean.
Employee: February, Librarian hired.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January, Stewards receive 1/2 net profit of Restaurants.
Building: April, May, September Special meeting, October, examination requested for building a separate Ladies Restaurant.
Collections: May, T. T. Fowler portrait of Morton McMichael purchased.
Politics: May, committee to confer with other associations to nominate candidates for court judges.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics/state: September, $2000 to Republican State Committee for publication of Governor J. F. Hartranft and use of front of Union League for Republican meeting allowed.
Collections: December 9, photographic views of Monument to be erected in New York Harbor from Mr. Laboulaye.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: January, letters from Laboulaye regarding the proposed monument in New York Harbor acknowledged.
Membership: January, provisions for Honorary membership and Centennial Associate status during the year; May, Honorary Membership given to Don Pedro d' Alcantara.
Collections: June, loan of flags to G. A. R. declined because Union League possesses flags in trust.
Politics: September, call for ratification meeting for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates Hayes and Wheeler.
Operations: November, Restaurant to open on Sundays.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: November, endorsement of appointment of John Welsh to English Mission.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: March, reception for Bayard Taylor.
Collections: March, Governor John F. Hartranft portrait by Buelah L. Kennard from members.
History: April, committee appointed to prepare a sketch of origin of Union Club and Union League at request of Union Club.
Operations: October, card playing permitted and Parlour to be adapted for card room and provided with wines, Liquors and segars; December, positions of Clerk and Librarian consolidated with $3000 bond required.
Employee: November, C. R. Whipple, late Assistant to the Treasurer, in default with Union League for $4000.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finances: Treasurers Reports included in minutes.
Politics: May Special Meetings, resolution to hold meeting endorsing President Hayes' veto of the Army Appropriation Bill; September Special Meeting, committee appointed to raise subscription to pay poll tax for Republicans unable to pay themselves; October November mass meeting with invitation to Carl Schurz and others declined.
Operations: June, July, telephones installed.
Program: July, Gold Medal to Joseph B. Townsend and Edward C. Knight for service in connection with mortgage just cancelled.
Collections: September, October, offer of E. D. Marchant to sell portraits of Gideon Welles and Colonel Baker, with Welles purchased through application of Marchant's dues (see November 26 House Committee minutes for approved billing); December 20, 16 United States Post Route maps from Henry H. Bingham.
Employee: September, resolution to give preference to hiring Republicans (not voted).
Member: October, death of Henry C. Carey.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, March, Gold Medal to George H. Boker; June, reception for President Hayes, cabinet members, and other guests on occasion of Meade Post, G. A. R. memorial ceremonies.
Miscellaneous: January, March, recommendation that Congress consider Oliver Evans Woods' systems for letter delivery from foreign countries and delivery of mail in Dead Letter Office.
Collections: March, Union League First call to the public, Dec. 27, 1862, from Edward Mawson; April, George G. Meade portrait loaned to Meade Post, G. A. R., for memorial services; September, President Hayes portrait by W. Garl Brown[e], from members.
Operations: June, Telegraph Office to be installed for six months.
Program: September, appropriation for widow of man who saved the flag at the Union League fire.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: January, $25 to mail carrier who was injured delivering Union League mail.
Collections: April, J. Frailey Smith portrait from his wife; May 30, request purchase of Mr. Martin's portrait of Mr. Nicolay, President Lincoln's private secretary; October, General S. W. Crawford bronze medallion from James S. Martin.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: June November, Admiral Read [by Lambdin] portrait from Daniel Smith, Jr.; July, letter Press Copy of Marshall engraving of Longfellow.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: February, 500 copies of General Eaton, Commissioner of Education, address purchased.
Member: February-June, Arthur Burt suspension.
Membership: February, members no longer able to be reinstated without payment of entrance fee.
Collections: March, A. E. Borie portrait purchased from Marchant through payment of 1882 and 1883 dues; June, William D. Kelley portrait from members.
Event: December, Gold Medal to James L. Claghorn (see also January 1884 Board minutes).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: January, Eagle loaned to Veteran Corp, 1st Regiment; October, photograph of James G. Blaine birthplace from Edward B. Harden.
Politics: May, Union League declines to join New York, Brooklyn and Boston Clubs in Chicago in connection with the coming nominations for President and Vice President.
Member: November, resolution that James L. Claghorn was not in any way responsible for Clement R. Whipple embezzlement.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: January, Uhle selected to paint Claghorn portrait (with comparative pricing from Matthew Wilson, and Waugh); February, City Hall photo type from S. C. Perkins; March, Thaddeus Stevens engraving from Charles H. Barr and United States Government publications through courtesy of Charles O'Neill; October, framed Union League badges from Raymond Claghorn; November, antique mahogany clock.
Politics: October, decline to allow hanging of State and City campaign posters on front of House not being a National Campaign.
Membership: December, Board not expected to nominate candidates because it votes on candidate elections.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: January, piece of last Rebel flag raised over Richmond from General Lewis Merrill.
Member: March Special Meeting, resolution on death of Director Joseph Bernard Wilson.
Building: July, Moravian and Sansom Street railing donated to Artillery Corps, Washington Grays, Co. G First Regiment for enclosing monument at Broad and Girard Avenue.
Event: November, Blaine reception.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: April, published "Recollections of the 12th United States Infantry" by Francis Wister; May, authorization for House Committee to exchange "Caught in a Shower" and any other paintings; October, solid shot, mounted, and sword from Confederate Ram Tennessee from Mrs. Jennie Hart Mullany, widow of Rear Admiral Mullany, United States N.; December; Kray painting "Psyche" from Mr. Benson.
Building: April, Gilbert and Bacon to photograph and sell album of interior views at own expense.
Operations: November, rule suspending members indebted to Restaurant.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: February, decline to apply for liquor license and will find a way to continue serving liquor; May, amended House Rule to eliminate games on Sunday.
Politics/international: March Special meeting, decline commissioning a bust of W. E. Gladstone "owing to a diversity of sentiment among the members as to his attitude or policy" but will accept bust as gift.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, Gold Medal to Edwin N. Benson and Samuel B. Huey.
Collections: February, bronze medallion of Barnabas H. Bartol from his son H. W. Bartol; September, October, 56th Regiment, P. V. battle flag loaned for use of survivors of Regiment at Gettysburg; September, October November, Benson declines then accepts offer to have portrait painted.
Operations: March, amended House Rules.
Member: July Special meeting, resolution on death of John P. Veree.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: January special meeting, special meeting of the League on death of George H. Boker.
Collections: January, Matthew Wilson's offer to paint portrait of William C. Houston accepted; Fairman Rodgers' drawing of Union League while on Building Committee from artist.; moose head from S. S. Eaton; February, E. N. Benson portrait received (but see 1889 entries where Benson first declines to have his portrait done); May, bronze medallion of Alexander Hamilton purchased from Charles L. Hogeboom; Major General Henry W. Halleck 1863 Union League badge from Major General Schuyler Hamilton.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, special committee reports on visits to New York, recommends addition of sleeping rooms, reports that building will not support additional floors, authorized to hire architects; May, special committee discharged, deeming additions inexpedient; September, exhaustive report on strengthening floors; December, 1425 Moravian Street purchased.; Operations: January, House Rules considered.
Event: February special meeting, resolution on death of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Politics/national/local: March, delegates representing Union League attend Pennsylvania Republican League convention where member George North is elected delegate to national convention, with expenses paid by Union League; October special meeting, Union League will not endorse George D. McCreary for Philadelphia Treasurer in accord with McCreary's request that Union League not deviate from unwritten law to not participate in municipal politics.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: January, no tipping allowed.
Building: February, 10 point plan for improvements.
Collections: February, Henry Clay banner from Mrs. Charles Gibbons, House Committee to investigate "practicability" of obtaining General George Gordon Meade bust; April, cane cut from apple tree in Lincoln's yard from Charles Marshall to whom Lincoln gave it; May, Chester Arthur portrait purchased for $500, Grant portrait gift of F. Gutekunst.
Operations: April, new method of keeping accounts.
Politics/national: June, July, ratification of nomination of Republicans Benjamin Harrison and Whiteland Reid for President and Vice President; December special meeting, petition to recommend George S. Graham election to United States Senate denied following Graham's lengthy letter declining nomination.
Member: July, resolution on death of Edward C. Knight; November special meeting, resolution on William Potter's appointment as Minister to Italy.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: January, resolution on death of John L. Lawson; March, Gold Medal prepared for Edwin H. Fitler.
Event: January, invitation to President Harrison to a banquet declined so as not to appear to "attract public attention or criticize the course of his successor;" January special meetings, resolutions on deaths of former President Rutherford B. Hayes and former Secretary of State James G. Blaine; March, April, plans for Griscom reception include invitations to President Cleveland (declined).
Collections: February, proposal to establish rooms for ex-presidents' portraits and other distinguished members include mention of portraits of A. E. Borie, James L. Claghorn, and Daniel Smith; February, photographic copy of Sherman's demand to General Jos. E. Johnston's surrender from Charles R. Eddy; July, purchase of General Hartranft portrait.
Operations: April, decision to serve wine to all at Griscom reception, which had not been done previously; May, provisions for children in building; December special meeting, wine not served at Harrison reception.
Program: February, resolution in favor of preservation of Valley Forge as public park.
Building: June, authorization to make improvements to kitchen and restaurant, provide sleeping rooms for members, introduce elevator; August, cold storage/refrigeration plant recommended as being modern equipment (use will be universal in 10 years--but see July 1894, July 1895 Board minutes for problems); November, itemized contractors bills for improvements, 1892, 1893.
Politics: October, petition by 743 members to call meeting to pass resolution for repeal of Silver Bill, the purchasing clause of Sherman bill.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, March, April petition to resume occupation of Old Cafe, New Cafe to be used for entertainment and Saturday concerts; July, cold storage plant insufficient (see also July 1895).
Collections: July, offer of purchase of manuscript "Terms of Surrender" written by General Grant at Appomattox declined; August, The Daily Evening Bulletin, May 5, 1865, from R. Dale Benson; September, clock from Josiah Kisterbach, Jr., and Tarpon from F. B. Frismuth; November, members requested to send to Library any books written by them; adjourned December, highly ornamented beer mug from Art Association.
Employee: July, resolution prohibiting employees from giving general news without permission.
Politics/national: August, suggested letter to President Cleveland endorsing actions in Chicago, deemed not advisable.
Finance: September, separate account for Pepper Fund.
Member: resolution on death of Francis W. Murphy.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Privileges: February, proposal from Bailey, Banks & Biddle for medals with ribbons for officers and members declined.
Finance: March, George S. Pepper Trust Fund received.
Collections: March, strand of tail of horse ridden by General Sheridan from John R. Tait; June, Library acquires large number of United States Government publications through Congressman Robert Adams and photograph album of Rottenburg au der Tauber, Germany; July Alexander Hamilton etching purchased and framed; October November, ex-president's portraits moved to Banquet Room, to be known and "Presidents Room."
Operations: April, of two bids on silverware, J. E. Caldwell chosen because it has received most of Union League orders in the past.
Building: July, resolution to name billiard room addition "Benson Annex," cold storage plant insufficient.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: February, address by Admiral Richard W. Meade "The Caribbean Sea--the Mediterranean of the Western World."
Collections: March, marine painting by Briscoe from Mary Louis Smith estate; June, General Hector Tyndale portrait from Mrs. Tyndale; General Grant death mask from John Russell Young.
Building: March, memorial windows in Cafe dome to Dr. Goodman and General George G. Meade approved (from Mrs. Goodman and Monroe Smith, respectively--see April 11 House Committee Minutes).
Program: March (continued after adjourned meeting minute), petition to hold meeting to consider the Broad Street entrance to Fairmount Park denied.
Archives: July, certain original organizational papers, in custody of Charles Gibbons, from Isaac Gibbons Davis, to be framed.
Dues raised to $60.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, Board to assume responsibility for Lincoln Birthday dinner observance, formerly conducted by Lincoln Association of the Union League; first inter-club billiard and pool tournament (guests not member of Union League to enter by Moravian Street).
Employee: February, number of new members require increase in clerical staff and in wages; February, August, 30 employees fall under act relating to foreign born, unnaturalized males.
Privileges: February, rules on rental of dining rooms.
Collections: James W. Paul portrait to be provided by James W. Paul, Jr.; April, purchase of 187 Civil War photographs declined because "a very many of them are already in the library."!
Membership: February special meeting with Membership Committee resolves that By-Law amendments on admission would be "cheerfully" considered by Board (but see October minutes); July, October, consideration of clerical members' admission and privileges (see Notes).
Operations: April, extensive report on Restaurant operations (see 1898 Annual Report).
Member: resolution recommending that Colonel John P. Nicholson continue as chairman of United States Battlefield Commission.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics/national: May, resolution to raise 2 regiments, one of Civil War veterans, to stand ready to serve President or Governor during current war.
Building: June, re-usable electrical display approved; August, September, man falls into Moravian Street ash pit and dies, Union League not held responsible, widow requests compensation.
Event: October, arrangements for President McKinley reception.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January special meeting, committee of members to take charge and keep order at Peace Commission reception instead of Veteran Corp; complaint that formal dinners are paid by Union League and only officers attend answered that dinners are held in the interest of the League.
March, money from Lincoln birthday to be used to print past Lincoln Dinner addresses.
Politics/local: March, inadvisable to entertain state and local public officials at the time of entering office.
Building: May, slat work on roofs of Library balconies so members may sit outside.
Non-Union League: July, courtesy of house extended to visitors to Commercial Museum exhibition.
Collection: marble "Abdiel" by Mrs. Mary M. Patterson in memory of Joseph Storm Patterson.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
January, privileges of House to judges of Pennsylvania Supreme and Superior Court; February, 14 day privileges to guests attending opening of new University of Pennsylvania law school building.
Collections: March, Union Club Articles of Association from Francis Von A. Cabeen; October, Major General Daniel E. Sickles portrait accepted in advance of fund raising to pay for it (see September 21 House Committee minutes for reference to Generals Huidekoper and Mulholland letter); November, Henry Clay bust by Mrs. G. H. Townsend (to replace one injured on election night).
Politics/national: July, electrical display on nomination of McKinley and Roosevelt.
June, claims of Payne & Co. against Union League.
Event: November, request for chess demonstration denied because it was inadvisable to invite persons not members to give exhibitions (but see November 1899 minutes for chess exhibition).
Membership: December, candidate names to be circulated to membership.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: February, Rules of the Board and Rules of the House approved.
Event: April, request for billiard demonstration by Miss May Kaarlus tabled.
Building: May, October, December, George F. Payne Volumes Union League case over 1895 work on ice plant, with liens against Union League.
Collections: April, Henry C. Carey portrait from Mrs. Mary W. F. Howe; July, General Daniel E. Sickles portrait; mounted golden eagle from B. H. Tatem; November, copy of George G. Meade portrait for the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C., approved.
Member: May, George Herzog dropped; October, Theodore Roosevelt elected honorary member.
Event: July, proper date for Founders' Day examined.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: April November, case of Henry T. Detwiler embezzlement; July, head waiter, captains, and waiters strike, causing annoyance and inconvenience, and are replaced by better staff.
Program: May, $1000 donated for relief of Martinique and Street Vincent following volcanoes.
October, George F. Payne Volumes Union League case over 1895 work on ice plant, with liens against Union League.
Building: October, new wiring in Moravian Street Hall and Benson Annex, with walls and ceilings newly plastered and frescoed.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: February, April, Fedor Encke paints Joseph G. Darlington portrait for $1500; March, Bennett C. Wilson claim to painting "The Sacking of Altamura;" July, Ransom Post, G. A. R. Street Louis badge worn at General W. T. Sherman funeral from Colonel John I. Bishop; September, insurance report includes valuation on statues "Esmeralda" and "America Honoring Her Fallen Brave" for $1500 each.
Event: February (special meeting), petition to arrange pool or billiard tournament, by paid experts, who are not members of the Union League (tournaments reported in Annual Report).
Member: March, biographical sketches of early Union League presidents William M. Meredith, J. Gillingham Fell, Horace Binney, Jr., Morton McMichael, George H. Boker.
Library: March, George S. Pepper Fund restored.
Privileges: May, reciprocal agreement with Cocoa Club, London, denied.
Archives: July, contents of safe, including deeds, minutes, Articles of Association, and other records.
Building: December, list of inadequacies of existing building and proposal for new iron building addition.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: February, April (special meeting) John Roberts' resolution to create ladies' room and entrance not feasible and William S. Taylor's resolution that no new additions to be made at this time; October November, 99-year lease obtained for 1418 Sansom Street.
Collections: March, April, two silk American flags from Mrs. H. P. Taylor; September, Samuel C. Perkins 1863 sword, spurs and canteen used while serving in Landis's Battery from C. Stuart Patterson.
Event: July, October, plans for fiftieth anniversary celebration of organization of Republican Party scrapped due to demands of Presidential campaign; November, invitation from Daniel J. McNichol to tour Filtration Plan under construction.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, recommendations for other locations for new club house.
Collections: April, final phase of painting renovation to be done by Charles F. Haseltine; June, gavel made from first bank of the United States walnut door from Theodore E. Wiedersheim.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: February, May, Stotesbury portrait by Julian Story for $2000 authorized, hung; February, "A Cabman of Paris" and "The News-boy" from Edward T. Stotesbury; November, Union Club records from surviving honorary member Joseph G. Darlington.
Building: June, decorations for Republican National Jubilee, including illumination.
Member: August, resignation of member suffering from hallucinations and may use gun on himself or others accepted; December, E. B. Showell Myers institutes legal proceedings (later minutes report that actions are underway, but do not describe them or outcome).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: January, "The Empty Pipe" painting from Edward T. Stotesbury (with "Moorish Dancing Girl").
Building: February, March dispute with Joseph Huston over bill for architectural plans for Section C, Section B, and 15th Street buildings; August, petition for garage in vacant space.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: April, Head Clerk discovered to have stolen $2,552 over three years results in, May, appointment of Chief Cashier and other improvements.
Building: June, plan for improvements at $250,000 abandoned as being insufficient for needs; June, July, Real Estate Board recommends that design include space for Library; October November, only contractors who are Union League members will be asked to bid on work, reconsidered.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: March, Clerk of the Works employed to oversee new construction on behalf of Union League; July, assistant cook throws boiling lard in face of cook, blinding cook, cook sues Union League, $200 settlement.
Operations: August, Superior Court opinion that sale of cigars in Union League not subject to Mercantile Tax.
Collections: September, December, Dimner Beeber to choose between July Story and Mr. Chase for his portrait, arrangements with Thomas P. Anshutz for $1,000; November, John H. A. Klauder's offer of marble bust of ex-President McKinley accepted.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Collections: February, invitation signed by United States Grant and W. T. Sherman from Henry C. Terry; May, Dimner Beeber portrait hung.
Event: May, on death of King Edward VII flag put at half-mast, being first time mark of respect shown for foreign ruler.
Building: August, October, original flagpole replaced; petition signed by 600 for swimming pool, reply is that finances prohibit it without special instructions and that there will be a Hydrotherapeutic apparatus, with decision to provide more generous equipment for Turkish Baths.
Politics/national: September, Committee to solicit funds for Republican Congressional Committee authorized.
Operations: October, rates for sleeping rooms.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: January, $1,000 to Firemen's Fund.
Art: February, James F. Hope portrait by B. Hiram Danzi accepted.
Building: May, June, Broad Street front entrance work; Broad Street Third Floor sleeping rooms renovation.
Collections: June, First Defenders Medal of Honor, 1861, from First Defenders Association of Pennsylvania.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Privileges: March, request for reciprocal arrangements with Hamilton Club declined; discontinued reciprocal arrangements with Grosvenor Club.
By-Laws: March, eligibility of Bishop or head of Church for Clerical Membership approved with several negative votes.
Library: July, books constantly disappearing.
Building: May, memorial proposed for victims of Titanic--never acted on; October, Tungsten lamps replace carbon lamps throughout building and all fixtures in Broad Street building replaced.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: July, buzzers replace bells at Old Cafe tables; August, finishing and furnishing of north and south rooms adjoining library and conversation and lounge rooms.
Operations: August, with outbreak of hostilities abroad a large amount of supplies purchased.
Art/artifacts: October, committee to secure William T. Tilden portrait appointed (see also January 1915); November, Joseph B. Townsend Union League Gold Medal and resolution from Joseph B. Townsend, Jr., and Barton Townsend.
Program: November, $1,000 donated to Belgian relief.
Event: December, large number of members and ladies dining for Army and Navy football game.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: March, memorial room referred to House Committee; April, September, report on suggestion to move dining room to Banquet Room tabled; September, memorial room for care and preservation of historical relics, documents....authorized, and appointment of committee to compile list of Civil War veterans.
Collections: July, William T. Tilden portrait hung; September, framed copy of Clay Party minutes, 1832 from Charles F. Haseltine.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: March, memorial room referred to House Committee; April, September, report on suggestion to move dining room to Banquet Room tabled; September, memorial room for care and preservation of historical relics, documents....authorized, and appointment of committee to compile list of Civil War veterans.
Collections: July, William T. Tilden portrait hung; September, framed copy of Clay Party minutes, 1832 from Charles F. Haseltine.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, petition to place hand rail in center of 15th Street steps referred to House Committee to act; March, storeroom in 15th Street basement converted to employees' club room; June, electrical campaign display ready for lighting; November, large assembly room be designated "Lincoln Hall."
Program: March, marking ambulance in France as having been presented by Union League approved; September, request for donation from Citizens Soldiers Aid Committee denied because individual members had made contributions.
Politics/national: June, petition to invite Theodore Roosevelt to speak on national preparedness denied.
Event: November, Founders' Day cancelled due to inability to find suitable speaker.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January, request for dues rebate for members serving on Mexican border denied (despite reluctance to report against soldiers' appeal).
Building: February, new vestibule at 15th Street completed.
Event: February, member recommends that speakers be invited once or twice a month for Lincoln Hall.
Member: February, Charlemagne Tower requests his son be placed at head of waiting list, granted.
Finance: March, April, large increases in operating costs necessitate increase in prices and service charge of 10c per meal, with resolution of confidence in House Committee management.
Program: April, May, request from Governor to appoint a committee to raise a regiment for Government Service referred to Officers and Former Presidents Committee; June, special committee to consider subjects relating to preparedness and kindred matters reports that raising regiment not possible under current conscription system, no mass meeting, drilling for preparedness unlikely to have satisfactory outcome, wage allowance for employees in Government service, and other issues; July, inscription on Union League's Cedar Hill Cemetery monument to Colonel Edwin A. Glenn be changed; request to raise money for Y. M. C. A. granted.
Operations: May, request that liquor sales be suspended during war tabled on grounds that it was not within Board's power.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: Food Administration laws impact on food, Fuel Administration allowance and affect on operations; Board of Health closes bars and entertainments due to influenza.
Employees: January, waiters demand pay raises; waiter standards had deteriorated over years, apparent that qualified white men could not be found; force of colored men for main restaurant and waitresses for ladies restaurant put into place day before expected strike of regular force almost all of whom walk out; May, because new Captains are not accustomed to a la carte, new Head waiter, captains, and some waiters replaced; July, some waiters leave for resort hotels, replaced by waitresses; September, last of force of colored waiters discharged and replaced by waitresses; government requirement that employees leave non-essential services to work for government services impacts staffing.
Member: memorial on death of General H. S. Huidekoper.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: April, watchman for outside due to bomb explosion discontinued; June, sale of liquor to members before start of Prohibition (small stock of scotch still on hand).
Building: April, new cigar desk By-Laws: proposed amendment to require annual preparation of budget. Adopted.
Art/Library: committee to secure portrait of former president Sproul making progress; June, painting "Story Teller" from Thomas O.
Baird estate; Frederic Waugh painting "Transport Under Convoy" from Emergency Fleet Corporation in recognition of privileges granted them during war; G. A. R. flags on deposit (later considered as gift?).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: survey by independent professionals (see By-Laws).
By-Laws: amendment proposal to raise annual tax from $100 to $125 causes House Committee to conduct a "complete and thorough survey" of the financial condition, together with the operations of the various departments, printed April. Adopted.
Employees: September, October, all women captains replaced in order to produce better service.
Events: Election Day parade and celebration.
Non-Union League event: Meade Post G. A. R. request to furnish room for it meetings, denied.
Art/sculpture: January, painting of General Langhorne Wister portrait by Mrs. Jones Wister; May, Sproul portrait purchased; July marble figure "Marguerite" by William C. Downing (see Notes).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: May, purchase Ford delivery car to get fresh vegetables from nearby farms
Employees: June, work force, not wages, reduced for summer, but new hires will be at lower wages despite finding that Union League wages are lower than elsewhere.
Events: suggest awards made to Mummers on New Year's Day declined.
Library/archives/art/sculpture: January, 150 Civil War volumes by Meade Post 1; Emancipation Proclamation with Lincoln signature by John Gribbel and Edwin F. Keen; April, engraving of 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry camp by George M. Newhall family; June, bronze statue "Victory" by R. Dale Benson, Jr. in memory of his father; Pilgrims gatherings negatives by Pilgrims to the Battlefields of the Rebellion, courtesy of George P. Morgan.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: July, decide against a swimming pool; September North Dining Room tapestries replace mirrors.
Employees: October, head of billiard room James S. Rawlings' 50th anniversary marked by bonus.
Events: Reception for President Harding planned for October (not held).
Art/artifacts: January, Joseph Pennell sketch of League from Mrs. Horace S. Ridings; October, moosehead from Mrs. Charles Mortimoore; Lincoln-Johnson banner from Mrs. George R. Lancaster.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Events: Reception for President Harding planned for May (not held); decorations for observance of Harding's death.
Art/artifacts: February, Fremont campaign flag, 1856, from John MacAdams, Filipino insurrection flag from Dr. William H. Massey.
Legal: February/April, settlement payment authorized for suit against Miers Busch, former House Committee chairman.
Program: December, Wanamaker Statue Committee thanks Union League for help.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: June, electric sign with Republican nominees' names prepared; July report of committee to ascertain building line; Committee on War Memorial given $2,500 for tablets (September increased to $3,000).
Election: June, feasibility of a nominating committee in lieu of nomination meeting.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: February, Committee on War Memorial report with list of World War and Spanish American War veterans (decided against including Spanish American War due to incomplete list; June, tablet unveiled on Memorial Day.
Artifacts/library: March, copy of electoral vote for President Coolidge and V. P. Dawes, autographically signed from Selden P. Spencer; "Complete History of the 28th Division in the World War" from W. M. Sterrett; November, Union bullet fired from Ft. Sumter on 1st day of the Rebellion from Herman E. Bonschur.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art/library: April, purchase of President Taft portrait by Clarence Snyder referred to Art Committee; June, E. Pusey Passmore portrait completed for $2,000; paintings loaned to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for Sesqui-Centennial exhibit; prints of Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Great Central Fair, Central Sanitary Fair from Walter D. Stewart.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No additional information.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: June, Sully's Washington painting reconditioned.
By-Laws: amendments on admission procedures--submit to membership; increase dues to $25 for annual contribution to Republican National Committee--tabled; create a means of exacting a pledge of loyalty to Republican Party--referred to special committee that November, decides is unnecessary because of Committee on Membership rules.
Member: December, expulsion of member for poor behavior.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art/artifacts: February, acknowledgement ordered for 1923 loan of Millard Fillmore portrait from John J. Tuller; June (Special Meeting), Henry Clay urn given with recommendation that the Union League present it to Republican Women of Tennessee (January 1930 minutes note that letter had been received from Tennessee for Kolb's response, but no further indication of outcome).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: February, visit of Vice President Charles Curtis.
Operations: February, House Committee begins advertising campaign of various activities starting with Sun Ray room and Barber Shop).
By-Laws: June, committee appointed to consider a permanent committee on Public Affairs and By-Law changes.
Art: August, employed Alice Kent Stoddart for Melville G. Baker portrait.
Politics/national: November, Board replies to Raymond Pitcairn request that Union League make public its opinion on Prohibition that it has no authorization to do so.
Program: December, "The President laid before the Board several matters for their consideration and thought... the unemployment situation in Philadelphia and the part that the League should take in regard to it, and stated that he was appointing a special committee....; December (Special Meeting), letter to members soliciting contributions for Philadelphia Committee for Unemployment Relief for Employment and wages for men out of work and to provide breakfast for school children.
Art: December (Special Meeting), newspaper articles about Hoover portrait presentation to Mrs. Hoover were unauthorized, was to have been no publicity.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
History: April, committee appointed to make suggestions for bringing the Chronicle up to date, and the possibility of publishing a booklet to be given to new members.
Finance: July, "Finance Committee takes this opportunity of calling attention to the fact that there are no regular duties for [it] to perform. It holds itself in readiness to undertake any matters we may be referred to it.... This statement is made so that the Board will understand why there are not regular monthly reports...." October, change in Rules of the Board of Directors to give Finance Committee responsibilities of approving investments and annual budget.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: February, Executive Offices suite for President and House Committee Chairman created by adding Colonial Room; June, removed rotted 1865 weather vane; electric campaign sign installed; August, chandelier silver lacquered.
Privileges: April, "In view of the extraordinary financial situation and depression which has so seriously affected some of our membership," delinquents may resign in good standing and be restored if payment is made by November 1.
Art: April, George Stuart Patterson portrait delivered.
Employee: May, House Committee making survey of wages and adopt a plan which will result in no increase in unemployment; June, compensation review.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: January, wages reduced 10%.
Finances: February, various insurance policies cancelled and reduced, transfer of fine arts policy to Lincoln by Marchant.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, Lincoln birthday observation with Lincoln Club declined.
Membership: March, membership numbers compared with pre-1930 numbers.
By-Laws: March, committee appointed to consider reinstatement and election of more than 25 candidates a month.
Politics/national: July, Committee on Public Affairs proposes issuing a Union League Declaration of Principles.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: September-November, new amusement tax law tested by a consortium of clubs with ruling that dues are not taxable but separate charges must be made for bowling, billiards, and pool.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: February, Frank M. Hardt portrait received.
Operations: March, Special Operating Committee appointed.
Member: June, complaints against director Thomas Shallcross, Jr., and request for removal not acted on; July, letter from oldest living member Henry Clay Butcher on his pride of membership.
Building: September, Broad Street Reception Room repainted and renovated, mural painting above fireplace restored.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: January, 10% pay cuts restored; April, retirement of manager Homiller.
Membership: June, October, investigation, report, and resolution regarding actions of Committee on Membership's on application of Francis F. Burch recommending Chairman Halstead be censured and Burch application reconsidered (Burch application withdrawn in December); December, committee to consider rules of Committee on Membership.
Art: September, Edward Winslow Burt estate legacy of property for Art Association; October, Art Association recommends disposing of paintings, etchings, and prints.
Operations: October, appraisal of furnishings, etc.; December, committee to advise on public relations.
By-Laws: December, committee to consider By-Law revisions.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: February, March, correspondence and approval of Mrs. Coolidge for portrait of President.
Program: April, prize essay program rescinded; United Campaign donation ($1,250).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: March, United Campaign donation.
By-Laws: July, report of committee to study remittance of dues or a special medal for those who have been members for over 50 years recommends against either action.
Art: November, contract with William Macgregor Paxton for Allen M. Stearne portrait.
Operations: November/December, question of how to handle Federal Old Age Benefits and Unemployment compensation considered.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: January, report on art restoration done by Arthur Edwin Bye for $3,000.
Politics/national: February, authorization of $2,000 for Republican National Convention if held in Philadelphia Building: March, air conditioners to be installed in certain sleeping rooms; June, electrified sign erected.
Program: March, United Charities Campaign contribution.
Membership: June, urge Membership Committee to pass on Candidate Register as soon as possible; November, resolution remitting dues for members in military service--passed.
History: June, approve of an article on Union League to be published during Republican National Convention.
Event: July, report on dinner held for Republican National Committee.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: January, June-September, L. Alan Passmore suggests work in furtherance of interest of Philadelphia boys, specifically Sandlot Association, committee appointed, eventually tabled; February, National Defense Fund for recruiting expenses established; July, $2,000 donation to United Service Organization; December, request from Mummers for financial assistance, referred.
Art: February, art catalog completed with report on expenses; May, Washington Grays statue cleaned by staff; October November, approve permanent loan of Admiral Samuel duPont portrait to VFW Post.
Finance: March, committee recommends increasing revenue (with one or two club nights) and meeting with House Committee to find ways to curb expenses.
Politics/state/local: July, September, recommendation that Union League take active part in selection of State and local candidates, committee appointed, no action.
Membership: November, revision of Committee on Membership rules.
Event: New Year's day reception to be held unless unusual circumstances occur.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January, 50-year members apply for dues remission and question of refunds to 1939 (see 1941 Annual Reports); February, clergymen voted no longer eligible (see 1941 Annual Reports); October, dues remitted to members in full-time service to government.
Operations: February, allotment of sugar cut; May, rationing of sugar, tea, and coffee; July, October, under current circumstances it is advisable to purchase increased liquor stock; October, purchase 2 year's supply of coal.
Program: April, Library campaign to donate books to Victory Book Campaign for soldiers; George Stuart Patterson suggests raising funds for ambulance and drivers in Libya--tabled; June, Union League of New York's solicitation of members to buy War Savings Bonds--tabled.
Artifacts: May, Congressman George A. Dondero writes regarding Lincoln's Gold Medal in his possession.
Employee: July, hire colored bus girls because colored bus boys are hard to find (see September House Committee minutes); October, payroll low, recommended increase.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: February, Cameron Burnside contracted for Archie D. Swift portrait at $1,000.
Operations: October, oleomargarine substituted for butter.
Employee: October Norris Comegys, pool and billiard room attendant recognized for 50 years of service with $250 gift.
Program: $50 donation to Philadelphia New Year's Shooters' and Mummers Association, Inc.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: February, March, petition for liquor, oyster, clam, and sandwich bar, referred to House Committee, report accepted [?].
Politics/national: April, President authorized to appoint a Campaign Committee "to aid in the campaign...with the specific understanding that the duties of this committee will not include the solicitation of funds."
Employee: September, October, study of pension plan for employees deferred pending changes in Social Security legislation.
Art: October, Bierstadt's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loan to The Art Institute of Chicago.
Election: November, professional or business connections of candidates for officers and directors to be given publicity through mailings.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Privileges: April, order of 1,000 copies of Readers Digest reprint of "The Road to Serfdom" by Frederick A. Hayeck for distribution to members.
By-Laws: April, strict enforcement of by-laws prohibition of introduction of guests by clerical members; May, change in wording for clerical membership (purpose?).
Membership: May, October November, recommending allowing former Army, Navy, Consular members priority position on candidate list for active membership.
Employee: September, management will endeavor to replace inefficient employees as rapidly as possible.
Program: October, Victory Day Committee discharged.
Politics: December, Program Committee discharged.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: February, after study of the payroll and comparison of wages and salary rates with similar organizations, pay increases authorized; November, special report with respect to pension plan for employees with recommendation that present system of Contingent Relief be continued, but that steps be taken to bring about orderly adaptation of a formal guaranteed pension plan.
Operations: March, Restaurant Department accepts order for most foods to be taken from the house except items made with sugar and certain oils due to continued rationing; May, due to coal crisis coal storage bin filled and use of power cut whenever possible.
Member: April, hearing concerning circulation of postcards.
Finance: December, additional revenues to cover budget deficit should come through increased house charges.
Program: December, no gifts to Community Chest or Red Cross.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January, private dining room charges raised.
Employee: April, May, salary increases.
Building: May, remove election sign due to poor condition.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, February, Library Nights to be resumed on a more modest basis.
Politics: April, possible change in By-Laws to establish a political committee--tabled.
Finance: May, December, recommendation that auditors' office be independent and report to president rejected in favor of spot checking by controller (but possibly first step to changes in auditing procedures); September, recommendation that additional revenues be gained by either raising dues or increasing membership, with latter chosen; efforts to add to revenue through loans and bond sale.
Privileges: June, Bulletin discontinued.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: February special meeting, March, requested resignation of Arthur H. Kinsley in regard to Thomas Walter Fitzpatrick incident changed to suspension.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: March, June, deficit due to electric and steam conversion, every department except Billards & Pool show profit; October, salary increase to be covered by increased rates for sleeping rooms, food and beverage, and other services.
Library: June, W. Kirkland Dwier bequest for library.
By-Laws: November special meeting to consider extensive amendments with recommendation that no changes be taken at present time.
Archives: Committee on Membership recommendation that records after 20 years be destroyed requires further study.
Employee: November, employee Christmas Fund established.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: January, independent review of Boys' Dinner event showed the value of the program.
Operations: March, national mobilization program and supply situation necessitate increase in liquor reserve.
Politics/local: March, decline to participate in Philadelphia Republican Citizens Committee.
Art: June November, appropriation for J. William Hardt portrait increased from $2,500 to $5,000.
Finance: October, coming year's budget balance dependent on approval of dues raise by $25.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, how to compensate for difference in $10 dues income; December, review of finances if air conditioning program is undertaken.
Politics/national: September, various activities of Temporary Action Committee.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics: January, February, call for special meeting to be held to consider the matter of the League's activities and participation in the future of the Republican Party--national, state, and local; committee appointed.
Program: March, Committee on Boys' Work request to make $1,000 contribution to welfare program rejected by Board in favor of League program to be developed.
Art: March, Paul Trebilcock engaged to paint C. Brewster Rhoads portrait; November, Temple University president Dr. Robert L. Johnson offer of gift of Tyler School of Art faculty Dr. Finck's portrait of Eisenhower accepted.
Public relations: April, committee appointed to explore improved public relations.
Operations: September, necessary to collection Pennsylvania sales tax on certain items.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: March, new dining room named Oak Room.
Finance: March, very little leeway for expenditures.
Politics: November, in relation to recent election, President to send a letter to membership to obtain ideas as to what position the League should take and what its future activities should be to improve the situation as to Republicanism in the city and State.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, March, permanent fund with only $1,963.78, increases.
Event: February, no Lincoln Day in order to cooperate with Republican committees.
Politics: March, Committee on Political Questionnaire report in hands of President for his action.
Art: March, possible gift of Samuel F. duPont portrait.
Member: March, William A. Martin suspended, guest's name place on list so that he should never be admitted; December, Dr. Thomas Conway, Jr., expelled for poor behaviour.
Privileges: June, remarried widows who subsequently divorce are not entitled to privileges.
Program: July, Committee on Scholarships plan of operation.
Employee: October, retirement fund of $480,000 impossible, as is $65,000 annually, recommend continue current practice with allocation of $25,000 to begin building to $4,000,000.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: April, at request of L. Alan Passmore, his name is removed from Union League of Philadelphia Scholarship; November, full report on Scholarship Committee activities.
Finance: September, Auditors recommend monthly minimum and $1 guest charge to supplement declining revenues; October November, approval of next budget postponed.
Membership: September, recommendation that candidates be proposed in writing as a deterrent to hasty listings, approved despite objection of Membership Committee Chairman; December, Library Committee appointed as new committee to consider reclassification of League memberships.
Privileges: October, use of Interalliee Club appreciated.
Politics: November, Ladies Committee doubled contribution from 1952.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: February, recommendation that Union League presidents' portraits be formally presented at annual meetings.
Politics: April, Griddle Club resolution regarding Union League participation in local and national politics deferred.
Building: April, permit for construction of new elevator requires affidavit of no occupancy on Broad Street third floor; June, 15th Street center handrail installed.
By-Laws: June-October, recommendations by several committees to increase membership, entrance fees, dues, add junior and non-resident memberships (see 1958 Annual Report).
Membership: November, form for membership proposal discontinued.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: January, recommendation for careful disposal of 15 paintings; September, Sully's "Washington" restored subsequent to damage (hole punched through lower right hand corner--see House Committee minutes, June 16, 1958); all presidents' portraits rehung and glass removed as recommended.
Membership: February, resolution to remit dues for active member in full-time government service (once war service) outside of Philadelphia because such service would "normally occur during a Republican administration and such service should be encouraged."
Event: February, chairman of 100th anniversary celebration appointed.
Employee: March, oral histories of employees approved; April, George S. Worth donation to Employee retirement fund raises question of establishing charitable foundation to receive tax deductible contributions.
Politics: following 1958 Republican loss in Gubernatorial race, resolution to appoint permanent committee to raise funds on an annual basis for use of election of Republican candidates.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January, liquor license changed from club to catering; May, replace 15c/person service charge to 10% of food to be given to waitresses (private dining rooms 12% and 8% liquor).
Art: October, Hiram Powers George Washington bust returned to Greer A. Duncan, son of depositor.
Building: October, Harris, Kerr, Fiorster & So. to make recommendations on alterations; November, December, recommendation for new ceiling in Lincoln Hall to improve acoustics withdrawn until further study can be made.
Finance: October, A. Lincoln Steelman Trust use for Employee Retirement Fund rescinded and returned to original designation for dues assistance.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January, judges courtesy cards continued after review; May, Junior and Non-resident memberships not eligible for in 10 year requirement for life or senior member.
Event: March, house tours for members.
Politics: May, resolution prohibiting solicitation of political contributions without approval of Union League president.
Finance: October, part of profit in House budget to be applied to employee retirement fund.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Archives: January, approval for Library Committee to loan material to Gimbels for exhibit commemorating Philadelphia's Civil War Centenary observance ("We were impressed with...the interest and knowledge of Mr. Whiteman regarding the history of the Union League and its contributions to the successful conclusion of the Civil War").
Event: January, Charter flight cancelled; February, resolution to invite United States President (Kennedy) to speak at a Centennial event; Centennial Committee invites Kennedy and General McArthur to attend Lincoln Birthday event.
Employee: January, staff commended for attendance on heavy snowstorm day.
Politics: March, May, suggestion for anti-Communism program; July, Patriotic Action Committee orders 100 copies of "A Business Man Looks at Communism" for distribution and recommends a wider program that may spread throughout the Delaware Valley; September, approval of president's participation in NBC programs on importance of basic beliefs in freedom.
Operations: May, Philadelphia scrapple breakfast served to American Institute of Architects convention (see May 4 House Committee minutes for breakdown of food consumed).
Building: June, building certified as historically significant by Philadelphia Historical Commission.
Privileges: June, House Committee meeting with Juniors to discuss ways to make League more meaningful.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics: January, proposal to use "Hyde Park" form insert with members bills whereby views on political, social and economic issues could be expressed--to be given further consideration; April, Political Activities Committee reports on interviews with candidates for office and endorses slate; July, fund raising committee appointment includes Ladies Committee.
Finances: March, Jacob Erdman Cope bequest.
Building: June, suite 447-449 designated "Eisenhower Suite."
Privileges: October, Juniors dinner theatre party.
Program: November, Frank P. Will bequest for Boys' Work Scholarships.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: January, Grant M. Simon watercolor "Off Shore" donated by artist; Gardner Cox commissioned for McCabe portrait (for $5000, see House Committee minutes, January 3).
Employee: January, staff contributed 108.2% of quota for United Fund Torch Drive.
Operations: July, Lewis & Gilman employed as public relations consultants.
Artifacts: September, report on medals and their recent display at Orders and Medals Society of American convention.
Finance: October, James M. Anderson gift of stock to go to pension fund.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Archives: January, work on archives and qualifications of Maxwell Whiteman, "a Hebrew;" March, Jacob E. Cope fund to defray cost of restoration, cataloging, maintenance, and exhibition of Civil War memorabilia and books; May, presentation by Whiteman and conservator Gale Fields on archives work.
Event: May, Stag Night with former football star George Ratterman.
Member: June, Eisenhower at Union League for Freedoms Foundation lunch; November, resolution on death of Herbert Hoover.
Employee: staff gets 1965 "Torchlighter Award" for United Fund participation.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: March, Committee on Scholarship begins proceedings to separate from Boys' Work.
History: April, Peterman history nearly completed.
Operations: May, public relations agreement with Lewis & Gilman discontinued.
Building: September, Chas. E. Tull, electrical contractors out of business, will use H. B. Frazier.
Employee: Maxwell Whiteman hired for one year.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Archives: January, 25 scrapbooks being disassembled; propose designated area for archives; May, request to publish facsimile of Tanner testimony; June, scrapbooks disassembled, preparation for exhibit.
Operations: February, approve service of oleomargarine when requested; October, Central-Penn to provide computer services for payroll (see April 7, 1967, House Committee minutes for decision to not use service).
Program: February, Alfred E. Pfahler bequest to Boys' Work; June, separate Committee on Scholarship referred to counsel.
Employee: March, police records as part of hiring process.
Finance: March, revised budget reflecting change in dues; May, resolution to establish a common library trust fund.
Event: April, resolution to award Silver Medal to Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (cancelled due to Dirksen injury).
Art: May, "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to Whitney Museum of American Art; October, Rothermel's "Reading the Declaration of Independence" and Heaton's "Washington Presenting Governor Dinwiddies Letter...." returned from loan to Gimbels for Festival of America.
History: May-September, problem with Peterman history resolved by agreement.
Membership: November, December courtesy cards for court judges not issued, but house available on request.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Politics/state: January, special railroad car to take members to Governor Shafer inauguration.
Non-Union League: February, resolution to support City's bid to host Bicentennial celebration.
Operations/archives: March, substitute court reporter for tape recorder at events.
Program: July, Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Newcomb gift to Scholarship Fund.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Program: February, Mrs. George S. Worth additional gift to Scholarship Fund.
Operations: April, bar service discontinued during City's period of emergency.
No minutes, October-December, 1968.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Archives: January, Edwin S. Stuart papers intended to come to Union League
Employee: March, deferred compensation agreement with General Manager Daniel Layman for guaranteed service to 1978.
Public relations: March, retain Lewis & Gilman as consultants.
Program: April, donation to Scholarship Fund from Mrs. George McKay, Jr.
Art: June, "Bombardment of Fort Sumter loaned to American ports and harbors exhibit.
By-Laws: June, report on recommended By-Law changes.
History: October November, History Publishing Committee report concerning contract with Ivan Peterman for publication of Union League history.
Politics: Campaign Fund Raising Committee raises $11,465 for Specter-Gola campaign; proposed letter of support to President Nixon on Viet Nam and other matters declined in favor of individual letters of support (see also May, 1970 Board minutes).
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January, decrease in membership results in $30,000 loss; July, decline of membership candidates.
Event: March, hobby show event for $7,000 approved.
History: March, Ivan Peterman response to Board action on publication of Union League history; October, recommendation to publish bibliography of Union League publications deferred.
Program: June, Charles S. Cole donation to Scholarship Fund; September, contributions to Committee on Boys' Work after Jackson A. Carroll death.
Building: July, Alexander Ewing who was hired to advise on use of Billiard Room to consult on entire building use (see July 8 House Committee minutes for agreement).
Non-Union League: July, will not contribute to Eisenhower Birthday commemoration.
Politics: October, Campaign Fund Raising Committee raises $86,660.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: February, Alexander Ewing presented long range feasibility study, House Committee to develop priorities; May, long range study committee appointed (see August 6, September 9, House Committee minutes for several options for Billiard Room alterations).
Art: July, loss of small oil portrait of Washington donated by James M. Anderson.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: March, J. R. Essig chosen to paint E. John Hesketh portrait for $4000.
Finance: June, October, economic predictions affected by political activities.
Long-range plan: July, report of committee: relaxation of membership political criteria; new membership class to provide for high ranking business men or professional managers who are located temporarily in Philadelphia; need to increase membership; Membership Committee work should be subject to more review by Board; nominating committee should be instituted; change in method of voting on improvements. Committees appointed to consider membership questions, By-Laws, and nominating and election procedures. October, reports of committees missing (see General Managers Files IX.001.Lo).
Building: as part of improvement project Library hallway skylight superstructure removed.
History: September, recommendations for preparation of Union League history with Maxwell Whitman as author.
By-Laws: October, recommend amendments to provide for nominating committee and to rescind requirement of three years' membership for transfer to non-resident membership.
Acquisition: November, flag flown above capitol from William V. Grier, returned to him with expectation of flying it at White House and getting Nixon signature.
Politics: November, raised $92,000 for campaign.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Employee: March, United States Department of Labor investigation completed with violations corrected; payment for absenteeism permitted for pregnancy.
Building: April, Lincoln Hall ceiling acoustical cloth torn, replacement difficult; November, frequent inspections by government departments call for designation of Assistant Manager as responsible for compliance with regulations.
By-Laws: May, consideration of membership requirements under consideration; June, existing By-Law on membership requirements reaffirmed; September, previous Board approval of amendments relating to membership rescinded pending further study; October, changes made regarding qualifications, nominations, and election of candidates for membership; November (special meeting), actions rescinded, other proposed amendment.
Public relations: June, inquiries from the media to be referred to Lewis & Gilman.
Acquisition: June, bequest of fine early American furniture acknowledged (not included).
Membership: July, Board advises Membership Committee that "present Republican voting record of a candidate...is of more significance than his past voting record, and that registration...as an Independent should not be considered as a deterrent."
Finance: deficits, critical cash position.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: January, policy statement on election of William T. Coleman, Jr.
Art: February, stolen Sully sketch of equestrian Washington portrait recovered, with books, silver, and china from employees home.
Tables: March, meetings to emphasize importance of club tables.
Operations: March, April, trash strike requires refuse storage, with particular problem with oyster and clam shells, special extermination service at end of strike; June, December, contract with Arthur E. Iredell to review management structure (new plan not included).
Politics: May, July, on advice of counsel Board approves position that neither Union League nor any committee should be registered for political fund raising purposes; October, question as to whether campaign funds should be solicited in the future.
Membership: June consideration of procedures for processing candidates, political qualifications, and building candidate list.
Event: June, September November, plans for Bi-Centennial program.
Finance: July, recommend tournament activities be self-sustaining and one annual sports dinner; October, no delinquent house accounts through improvement in collection procedures.
Acquisition: August, accept Mrs. E. Marjorie Fisher library by her will.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Rules: January, female family members allowed visits to residents in afternoon and early evening.
Operations: January, staff restructuring progressing.
Finance: January, restrictive operating budget suggests charge for member lunch and bar service at meetings; restructure financial practices to give General Manager more responsibility; May, reduced wage expense, looking at minimum house charge, assessment, dues increase, expenses of club parties (New Year's day), question of art and objects; November, $5/guest at New Year's reception, number limit withdrawn.
Tables: January, club table revitalization.
Membership: February, April, May, June, Membership Planning Committee recommends political affiliation no longer be criteria for admission; candidate interview precede circulation of name; November, recommendations; December, letter on membership crisis.
Event: March, Bi-Centennial Committee plans.
Employee: April, staff maintains good attendance during SEPTA strike.
Politics: April, in lieu of Political Activities Committee and Policy Review Committee [?], reintroduce Political Affairs Committee to cooperate and assist in national, state, local undertakings of a civic or political nature; October, support of city Republican Party urged.
Building: May, squash courts structurally feasible, for consideration at later date.
By-Laws: July, active dues increase from 500 to $550, and junior, non-resident, armed services, consular from $250 to $275 (passed October); nominating procedures revisions (defeated, October).
Art: October, sale of 5 portraits recommended, full list of additional disposals to come.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Member: January, resolutions of appreciation to John W. Cornell, Jr., Boyd T. Barnard.
Art: February, sale of Edward C. Knight portrait to Collingswood Public Library ($300); May, presidential portrait to be painted by Slayton Underhill ($4500); sale of sculpture (see May 1976 House minutes for list); October, proceed with recovery of loaned art, sale of art, determine use of realized funds from sales, recommend budget for art care.
Employee: March, October, changes to pension plan.
By-Laws: law firm cancels reservation because of Union League regulations regarding females; amendments on nominating procedures (approved in May); July, additional age level dues payments for juniors, delete limit on number of members elected a month, change budget approval to organizational meeting (present practice), change Membership Committee election procedures (approved December, not specific); December, "priority of consideration" not approved (not specified).
Event: January, lunch with Canadian Ambassador to United States Jack Hamilton Warren; March, Business Week Panel of Editors; April, Dora Khyatt oil painting exhibit; May, member Laurence LePage photographs.
Privileges: May, June, September, reciprocal arrangements with Street James Club, Montreal, Missouri Athletic Club, Street Louis, Union League Club of Chicago.
Building: May, display of state flags on Broad Street building roof.
Operations: November, mention of impact of Bellevue Stratford Hotel closing.
Membership: November, mention of "problem of Life Membership;" resolution to Membership Committee to not discriminate on basis of race, creed, color or national origin, and to not recommend candidates with 4 or more negative votes.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: January, on History and Art changed to Committee on Art, Archives and History; February, report of sale of paintings with hope that money will be used for art care, request for Information from Valley Forge Military Academy regarding missing items, Civil War flags to Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Collection for restoration; May, $5,200 of $32,000 realized from art sale allocated for immediate art restoration need; art catalog in preparation; September November, considering tax free foundation to encourage donations.
Employee: January, employment of Maxwell Whiteman; February, resolution of appreciation to employees for Academy Ball effort; Drexel Burnham & Co. Incorporated to manage pension fund; September, search committee for Daniel Layman successor.
Operations: February, agreement with Lewis & Gilman for public relations; copyright infringement settled [?]; June, ladies can enter from any door.
Acquisition: February, shelf clock from H. Sheridan Baketel, Jr.
Finance: February, considering charge for New Year's day reception; May, possible $100,000 deficit; July, Edison Electrical Institute convention helps finances.
Event: March, Lincoln Day address by Lincoln National Life Foundation Director Mark E. Neely; October, House Tour.
Politics: April, IRS examining Political Action Committee activities.
By-Laws: February, considering women members; September, discussion on eliminating citizenship requirement, allowing juniors to vote, eliminating entrance fee for re-elected members, admitting 21 year old sons with limited inquiry, reduced dues for students (October approved, not specific).
Membership: July, Reginald Beauchamp consultant to recruit prominent business men as members; effort to simplify admission process; December, illustrated brochure planned.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January, committee organization chart [curious].
Program: January, Boys' Work request to solicit corporate and foundation support tabled; June, establish fund for legal counsel to investigate non-profit foundation.
Event: March, luncheons for Senator Heinz, Mr. Marston, Clement Conger address.
Art: March, "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to National Gallery of Art.
Privileges: April, reciprocal clubs Cosmos Club, Washington D. C., Gresham Club, London.
Employee: April, Kathlean Dennis files anti-discrimination charges; May, resolution giving complimentary Life Membership to Daniel Layman; June, two receptions for Layman; July, telephone operator Ruth Smith complaint dismissed by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Dennis still pending (but see June House Committee minutes on Dennis promotion to vegetable cook; see also August House Committee minutes for dismissal of suit).
By-Laws: April, women membership to be kept under consideration; October, dues and initiation fee increase.
Membership: April, applicant recruitment focus on doctors and lawyers; suggest hereditary membership; June-August, Midday Club closing provides new member opportunities; June, revised admission procedure (not specified).
Building: May, athletic [squash] facilities deferred.
Table: October, effort to enlarge Club Table membership.
Archives: October, $1,000 for document conservation.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: February, Edward Moran's "Marine" loaned to Delaware Art Museum; June, October, funds for conservation of Clay and Meade portraits.
Event: February, resolution on gold Medal to Gerald R. Ford; October, recommend participation in 300th anniversary of founding of Pennsylvania.
Employee: April, personnel organization chart drawn up; September, Richard S. Breth resigned, Layman to consult in interim (see September House Committee minutes for Breth's termination).
By-Laws: May, amendments to "update" current By-Laws (most passed in June, unspecified. Hereditary Roll?); September, review to avoid discriminatory sections; October, committee appointed to consider admission of women; November, amendments for approval (not specified), but women members deferred for future.
Finance: July, recommend meeting deficit by sale of art objects, dues increase, or quarterly assessment for improvements; September, 1980 budget will require capital improvement charge, dues increase, possible life membership fee increase.
Member: July, resolution on death of William J. Fuchs.
Building: July, National Historic Register designation.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Art: January, $51,000 need for conservation; possible purchase of Gerald Ford portrait; March, $5,000 approved; August, various Presidential portraits loaned to Philadelphia College of Art; further sales approved; October, loan of Neagle's Henry Clay portrait to Los Angeles County Museum approved subject to proper insurance.
Membership: January, member transfers accepted any month but are not effective until next fiscal year; April, suggestions for getting new members; June, Membership Development Committee reappointed.
Event: February, Good Friday services eliminated; request return of Founders Day; May, Business Week Magazine Editors luncheon; July, Loyalty Day luncheon.
Library: February, recataloging project by Drexel student (August, delayed); July, Simpson Trust Fund established.
Operations: February, computer will assist in pilferage problem (May, study to be conducted); December, first computer print-out of balance sheet.
Finance: August, serious economic condition of Union League; September, financial report unsatisfactory.
Archives: April, Union League has tapes of proceedings from 1960 (June, reported lost).
Building: July, billiard and pool tables to be sold at auction.
Program: May, Foundation Committee appointed.
By-Laws: June, August, September (Special), discussion of admission of women, Board in favor, committee appointed; September (Special) dues changes not subject to member approval, election vote by mail; December, Philadelphia city Council resolution on women membership to be contested.
Table: July, August, Tables to be monitored, those without enough activity must expand, merge, or dissolve.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, yellow ribbon hung on Broad Street honoring returned Iran hostages; October November, frosted glass of security door distasteful, replaced; November, 5 year Replacement Program for equipment and materials $1.6-$2 million, 1/2 for air conditioning.
Employee: March, April, August, former employee (Dennis, see February House Committee minutes) takes case to Human Relations Commission.
Art: March, Committee resistant to art sale, wants income to be used only for improving collection or major building repairs; May, issue of capital gains taxes with art sale; October, clocks sold with approval after; November, print "Impeachment of Andrew Jackson" approved for sale; December, criticism of art sale.
Committees: May, new Armed Forces Committee report and program agenda.
By-Laws: June, Human Relations Commission questionnaire submitted to Union League; August, members opinion poll shows majority in favor of admitting women.
Operations: September, New Year's Day charge of $10, similar menu in Boker Room for women.
Member: December, status of C. Everett Koop in question.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, plan to draw up 5-year financial plan; April, alarm at number of delinquent accounts; June, no financial reports for rest of year; August, temporary loan necessary to cover September payroll.
Art: January, ad-hoc committee for art fund discontinued, Root to advise; February, $11,300 for art conservation; April, September, resolution that Art Fund income and principal be used for restoration, maintenance or improvement of the esthetic, educational, or environmental qualities; October, Clay portrait conservation.
Event: January, New Year's reception lost money, consider inviting women next year; April, Century IV Committee (Union League?) arrange for tapestry on Broad Street porch.
Building: January, comprehensive safety report to be made; February, consultant to advise on converting Meredith Room into 1, 2, or 3 separate rooms; March, Broad Street parking problems; March, September, priority list of House projects for Art Fund proceeds to be made.
Table: January, March, Club Table Committee to be appointed.
Member: January, C. Everett Koop and Andrew L. Lewis status in question.
Employee: February, testimonial to Maxwell Whiteman for responsible manner in which he acted for art sale.
Operations: February, letter and organizational chart to be mailed to Board; March, committee to be formed for restructure of Board; July, propose closing dining facilities on Saturdays and Sundays except for parties and functions; September, long range plan acknowledged but not included; December, Long Range Planning Committee reappointed.
By-Laws: April, amendments under consideration are vote by mail and dues adjustments by Board action only; June, a plan for the admission of women "should be in effect before a Government Agency will force action;" September, October, revisions and admission of women mentioned but not specified; November, Board favors "housekeeping" and women membership amendments but not Maser; December, By-Laws Committee reappointed.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
By-Laws: January-April, number of parties cancelled and resignations due to vote against women admission under investigation.
Art: February, Clay portrait to be preserved for $6,000; February, intend to hold $250,000 for Permanent Fund-Art, taxes on art sale covered by $600,000 Capital Expenditures; November, sale of Knight's "Moonlight Summer Evening" and Wood's "When We Were Boys Together."
Operations: February, will not charge Bellevue Stratford for rescue of guests during fire; June, Long Range Planning Committee reappointed; August, study of drop-off in members' dining room business attributed in part to shift of place of business westward.
Finance: March, transfer Pension Plan management from House to Finance Committee; $1,000,000,000 in Permanent Funds held in reserve; April, financially very bad month in March with cancellations due to women's vote.
Building: April, issues under consideration by Long Range Planning include selling air rights and parking problems.
Activities: May, Sailing Club being formed.
Privileges: July, rosettes available for sale.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, budget approved with surplus of $7,000; February, income $20,000 below budget; March, year loss to date $110,000; April, projected deficit of $133,000; $90,000 allocated from Permanent Fund for general maintenance; proposed endowment fund; August, October, Permanent Fund loan to cover cash shortfall; September, Fiscal year 1985 budget shows $395,000 deficit, with dues raise and economies to $76,000 deficit--Board requests balanced budget.
Operations: January, Library hours restricted to 9-5 for security reasons; stricter drunken driving laws has unfavorable impact on Club revenues and women's vote has had unfavorable impact on private parties; February, private party dinners down 1,400; June, Library considering computerization.
Event: January, Lincoln Day Luncheon with Secretary of the Navy John Lehman; May-August, suggestion that New Year's Day reception be changed to brunch, remains traditional with wife and children welcome; October, Founder's Day postponed.
Membership: February, proposed temporary membership for prospective candidates; December, resolution to study suburban membership classification.
Art: sale of Commarano's "Sack of Altamura" declined.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
(February, April, July, August, October minutes found in flat files)
By-Laws: March, Board approves broadened qualifications for Hereditary membership; May, June, proposed City Ordinance of Councilwoman Specter discussed.
Operations: February, Marketing Committee recommendations; March, September, Promotion Committee report.
Program: March, participating agencies in Boys' Work requesting that girls be included.
Finance: April, Hilger Report on financial statements?; July, fiscal year ended June 30.
Tables: April, committee of Club Tables to be formed, with suggestions for ways for further development.
Event: July, trip to London via Concorde; September, change in annual meeting format suggested to attract more members.
Employee: Union League will cooperate in providing information on pension plan if Kathlean Dennis ends picketing.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Event: January, October, Travel Committee formed, eliminated.
Member: January, video of rebuttal of Mrs. J. Permar Richards to television editorial.
Employee: January, February, March, problem with former employee Kathlean Dennis settled.
By-Laws: February-April, Ad Hoc Committee to determine Union League position required by city ordinance of Augusta A. Clark, with resolution to amend By-Laws to include women.
Program: November, Boys' Work Foundation amended to include girls.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, $34,000 short of budget, problem with food department; Finance Committee to take responsibility for Steelman and Common Library Funds; May, formula for maintaining 15% income from outside business.
Employee: January, 5% salary increase; James G. Mundy appointed Archivist; December, expect new General Manager to replace "weaker" employees.
Operations: January, Theodore Martin (retired from Louis T. Klauder & Association) to consult on facilities; March, no new outside functions through June; request to re-establish Long Range Planning Committee; Laventhol & Horwath Organizational Assessment recommends new General Manager.
Art: January, $6,000 for conservation; February, $10,000 for President Wilder portrait; April, May November, "Fort Sumter" suit dismissed; December, "Monitor and the Merrimac" loan to Philadelphia Maritime Museum; search for suitable portrait of President Reagan.
Building: January, canopy over Boker entrance installed in November, removed at Easter.
Library: April, recommend establishing Heritage Club.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No minutes May-June, August
Finance: March, in next year staff will provide budgets to Committees rather than vice-versa.
Operations: April, separate catering office considered.
Building: September, architects Bower Lewis & Thrower retained for space planning.
Program: September, Anti-Drug Committee Statement.
Event: November, miniature bronze Lincoln statue to be presented to distinguished visitors.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No Minutes for November
Archives: February, Emancipation Proclamation on loan to Civil War Museum.
Membership: March, possible formation of new clubs (Antique Car, Gun, Angler's, Skiing, Food and Wine; August, sub-committee to review consultants for marketing consultants for membership development.
Employees: March, Employees Benefits Committee appointed.
Library: April, computer equipment purchased for cataloging project; July, oral histories continue; member survey indicates Library had #1 positive response; October, Museum Trust under consideration.
Program: May, Russell P. Heuer, Jr., bequest to Youth Work.
Operations: May, June, General Manager's operating plan adopted.
Building: June, Dr. Winkler contract to study Banquet Room, stairway and adjacent areas, and to serve as consultant on as-need basis approved; September, squash courts still under consideration.
Finance: June, 1989/1990 budget on break even basis, includes dues increases, Birthday program, marketing research study, deferred compensation plan, Membership Director.
Politics/national: June, communique in support of President Bush's position on respect for the American Flag.
Event: August, Members Art Exhibit plans.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No minutes January November.
Building: February, architects Bower, Lewis, Thrower contracted for Phase I contract and Cornell & Son, Inc., contracted for Broad Street facade project.
Finance: February, projected loss of $170,500 compared to zero balanced budget.
Art: February, General Meade portrait restored; March, Louis T. Klauder portrait to be copied for LTK Associates.
Sculpture: April, plans to purchase President Bush bust.
Membership: April, "moving calendar" mailed to members; June, ad hoc committee to review various membership categories.
Employee: May, Personnel Manager position eliminated, Payroll/Benefits Administration to assume duties.
Privileges: May, recommendation to not expand reciprocal agreements because of IRS and other governmental agencies.
Objects: May, medallions loaned to Library Company of Philadelphia; negotiations to purchase Admiral Farragut medallion by Simmons authorized to help complete set.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: March, Facilities Marketing Sub-Committee appointed; May, organizational realignment to re-establish Membership Director position, merge Catering and Activities Departments, create Youth Work/Scholarship secretary, and relocate front desk and use area for Recreational Room (pool, darts, etc.); June, business papers allowed in Sheridan Grille West; July, lunch in honor of individuals who helped apprehend two burglars; October, new format for Bulletin and largely written by staff; Boker Room gratuity increased to 18%.
Program: May, support for petition to include a portion of Camp William Penn in the National Park System.
Finance: July, Fiscal year ending June 1991 shows higher deficit than previous year due to decrease in food and beverage sales, lodging and dues and increase in employee benefits (wages declined).
Privileges: September, luncheon parking discounts.
Building: September, Sheridan Grill West renamed Gettysburg Room.
Tables: November, new Conley-Jordan Club Table.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: January, Bulletin changed to Banner; March, non-member Wedding Policy; organization chart; December, strategic plan to consider Presentation Center/Business use of House, real estate including air space, suburban outpost, symposia with local universities and cultural organizations, Avenue of the Arts, better government relations.
Employee: January, memorandum on staff changes due to closing of Sheridan Grille.
Event: January, Special Celebrations Committee appointed to be responsible for Lincoln Birthday, Flag Day, and Open House and Activities Fair; July, Hall of Fame approved.
Finance: March, goal to have balanced budget for Fiscal year 1994/1995.
Program: March, $25,000 to Scholarship Fund in memory of George C. McFarland.
By-Laws: June, quarterly dues payments subject to additional charge.
Building: June, report on air conditioning system.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: March, dues increase (and assessment); objection to proposals affecting the federal tax deductibility of club dues; June, Fiscal year 1993/1994 assumes personnel reductions in restaurant and administration and postponed major capital expenditures for first 6 months.
Event: March, Jack Kemp Lincoln Award luncheon.
Operations: April, new Hospitality Supervisor will hopefully act as concierge and promote Business Center use; discussion over operating second floor as a business; June November Special Meetings, report on Strategic Planning sub committees; June, Total Quality Management Committee; July, Boker Room closed on Mondays.
Membership: May, collection agency engaged to address delinquent accounts over $500; May, June, admission procedure changed to require two/four written recommendations and two/four telephone calls; June, Junior Committee member attends Board meetings as guest; September, tax law changes notification with recommendation that those who are eligible transfer to Life Membership.
Employee: June, 4% raise; July staff restructuring.
Building: November, Library a non-smoking area.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No April, September November minutes.
Privileges: January, Raquet and Locust Club members to be invited to certain events (see February House Committee minutes on "Inter-Club Activity promotions"); March, suburban privileges with Eagle Lodge requires 125 Union League members to join.
Program: March, Abraham Lincoln Foundation ready to start; possible contribution for bell on Avenue of the Arts; December, Union League to be major player in Avenue of the Arts and special committee will be appointed.
Operations: March, ticker tape machine discontinued (but see 1992 House Committee minutes); June, new Public Relations/Marketing Committee; October, request from Jefferson Faculty Club for daily luncheon service denied.
Building: May, June, Fiscal year 1994/1995 budget includes capital expenditures for priority projects (sleeping room renovations, water pump replacement, and Catering Computer System) but defers other projects (see May, June 1994 House Committee minutes for complete report on capital projects).
Finance: May, Investment Committee will replace Investment Advisors, Inc.; October, $225,958 deficit but no need to change budget yet.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No August, September November minutes.
Building: January, expense for moving President and General Manager offices to third floor to replace Old Cafe renovations.
Operations: April, May, summer services, including casual dress test; July, $525,000 lost in ala carte dining; October, Health Baths and Fitness Center designated non-smoking.
Art: June, Rothermel's "Reading the Declaration of Independence" loaned to Brandywine Museum.
Membership: July, Data Base Subcommittee gathering information on new member usage; October, Admissions Committee investigating candidate spouses "where appropriate."
Program: July, New Era contribution to Youth Work to be returned tout suite.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No April minutes.
Membership: March, dues payments can be made monthly with 7% surcharge.
Finance: May, expected year's loss of $20,000 to $30,000 instead of surplus of $50,000; July, Fiscal year 1995/1996 profit due to increase in lodgings and expense savings; Fiscal year 1997/1998 will be break even budget; December, most serious budget problem is with a la carte revenues.
Operations: May, Communications Committee appointed.
Art: June, "Washington Presenting Governor Dinwiddies's Letter..." loan to Virginia Historical Society; Xanthus Russel Smith painting "the Monitor and the Merrimac" and "The Kearsage and the Alabama" loan to Ursinus College; December, James Reid Lambdin portrait of General John F. Hartranft loan to Pennsylvania State Museum.
Event: July, first Continuing Education Committee event will be "Will We Like Designer Genes?"; August, Union League will have tours for Avenue of the Arts Festival and participate in Food Fair with proceeds to Abraham Lincoln Foundation; purchase of Carillon Bell referred to Finance Committee.
Building: October, Business Center on first floor authorized.
Program: October, Republican Women of Pennsylvania to donate $75,000 to Abraham Lincoln Foundation.
Membership: November, employ consultant to develop members.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No November minutes.
Employee: February, Foundations Director appointed.
By-Laws: March, amendments proposed to remove Hereditary age restrictions, increase Juniors' age to 39, membership and dues classifications removed from By-Laws to approval by Board resolution, remove Permanent Fund minimum, allow members to resign at any time of year with three monthly payments (passed, June).
Finance: June, Fiscal year 1997/1998 budget with no raise in dues, 10% assessment; July, $2 million loan.
Art: July, President Bush portrait commissioned by Abraham Lincoln Foundation.
Membership: September, Passport Program will have entrance fee renamed "Building Preservation Fund" and will be lowered to $750, also benefits package to encourage use of Union League; December, investigation into group petition for Union League membership from Locust Club and Rittenhouse Club.
Operations: September, business casual attire in Boker Room extended indefinitely.
Event: October, Founders Day Dinner with Gold Medal to Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Building: October, lodging fire incident.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Building: January, February, issues concerning asbestos removal.
Art: January, "The Coachman" loaned to University of South Carolina; April, Xanthus Smith's "The Kearsage and the Alabama," Edward D. Marchant's "Abraham Lincoln," and Augustus Heaton's "Washington Presenting Governor Dinwiddie's Letter" loan.
Program: January, Scholarship Fund changed to Scholarship Foundation.
Operations: January, after review of computer systems consultant's report, further study needed, with recommendation that full-time computer staff be hired; April, Summer Operations Schedule with 1st floor rooms closed and Club Tables in Boker Lounge and other meals in Boker Room; May, June, tecnology expert hired to set up information systems and train staff; September, dining room closing did not show any savings; October, Banner will include first corporate sponsor Rittenhouse Trust; November, month's Food and Beverage revenue highest in history.
Event: Lincoln Statue luncheon in honor of Cardinal Atnhony Bevilacqua.
Finance: February, income incentive for Management Team tied into annual budget; consideration of Union League tax status with respect to Inn at the League and its marketing; April, 5-7 Year Budget being developed; June, July, $492,306 ($521,988) loss due to lower revenue in dues, food and beverage and higher cost for food and beverage and membership programs, also asbestos removal; July, Defined Benefit Plan termination causes accounting adjustment resulting in net income of $102,000.
Membership: June, Passport Program brought in over 500 new members; July, dues and assessments continued Employee: April, drug testing for employees established.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No April, May, June minutes
Election: January, violation of Code of Ethics in past election; July, change in Code; November, December (special meeting), member suspended for violation of Code.
Event: February, Abraham Lincoln Award to General Zinni.
Building: February, Abraham Lincoln Foundation will raise funds for archive relocation project to Broad Street third floor; Artifacts: March, Board approval required before anything of historical significance is sold.
Finance: July, Fiscal year 1998/1999 $672,552 loss, with Food and Beverage ahead of budget and lodging substantially behind; March, estimated year loss of $200,000 because of higher expenses, finances to become biggest priority, chief financial officer needed to reenergize the accounting department; May, Fiscal year 2000/2001 budget with $170,684 profit.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: March, increased resignations due to garage assessment; April, dues increased 7%; December, committee chair appointed to find ways to increase women membership.
Program: June, capital campaign to raise $10 million for Lincoln Foundation, consultant to be hired.
Operations: August, casual dress code extended through Fall.
Library: August, $80,000 loan from Library fund for Library refurbishment.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Finance: January, Wilmington Trust garage construction loan; November, refinancing completed. Membership: February, special meeting to discuss ways to encourage proposals for new members.
Building: February, Facility Master Plan being prepared, energy saving proposal approved for purchasing software for more efficient management of energy consumption; September, working on revised Master Plan; November, sprinkler system 90% complete, lease signed for Chestnut Street retail space in garage.
Program: January, February, revised Abraham Lincoln By-Laws approved; November, membership survey report.
Event: September, "Love of Country Leads" assembly to be held to honor victims and heroes of September 11 attack.
Sculpture, art: September, 2 sculptures and a painting on loan to Philadelphia Sketch Club; 6 Russell Civil War canvas posters acquired through Abraham Lincoln Foundation.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Membership: January, half of garage assessment credited to members successfully proposing new members.
Library/archives: January, Union League to accept books, documents, and manuscripts, but not artifacts.
Art: February, discussions of acquisition of portraits of Presidents Ford and Carter; "The Gate at the Fortress of Agra on loan to Vance Jordan Fine Arts Gallery; July, George H. Boker portrait loaned.
Finance: May, Fiscal year 2002/2003 includes dues and food minimum raises.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Operations: March, security an important issue; May Union League receives 5 star Platinum award as one of top 25 city clubs; settlement with OSHA.
Finance: March, proposal for one entity to oversee fund raising of all foundations; May, entrance fee raised; June, Life Membership raised.
Artifacts: April, Lincoln funeral car horse reins loan to Atwater Kent Museum.
Building: June, new business center to be named after Thomas N. Pappas; September, October November, Master Plan showing structural requirements, funded by loan and assessment approved by members.
Event: June, considering guidelines and procedures for co-sponsored events.
By-Laws: September November, proposed changes in size of Admissions Committee and increasing number of signatures for floor nominations, matters relating to Life Members and the permanent fund.
Library: October, Court decision on Civil War Library and Museum give Union League 60% of books, documents, etc.
Program: December, $25,000 donation to Daniel J. Layman Endowed Scholarship Fund at Widener University Hospitality School.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
No February meeting, two March meetings
Building: January, Exterior Restoration and Interior Restoration sub-committees appointed, latter to identify "member only" spaces; March 23, April, exterior work to begin in May and take 12 to fifteen months, interior to be completed in 8 years.
Operations: March 1, concierge services in question.
Finance: June, Life Member fees go to Board designated fund; investment of Board Designated Fund given to Wilmington Trust.
Program: June, Lincoln Foundation receives $341,630 grant from William Penn Foundation for due diligence of Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum collections.
Collection: Board of Directors. Minutes.
Annual Report series include the transcript of the annual meeting held in December of that year. The annual meeting business consists primarily of pro forma approval of previous the previous year's minutes, the annual reports of the Treasurer and Auditors, expressions of appreciation to retiring Officers and Directors. New business consists of consideration of proposed amendments to By-Laws and the report of the Tellers in the election of Officers and Directors. The annual meeting concludes with remarks by the outgoing and incoming Presidents.
The series also has the minutes of any special meetings of the members that may have been called during the year to consider By-Law amendments or major capital improvements. From 1947 to transcripts of the nomination meeting held in November are printed but are not cataloged.
The annual report itself, identified in these records as Secretary's Report gives a summary of activity of the Board for the year from the December annual meeting through November. It begins with the organization meeting and the appointment of various standing and special committees. There is a tabulation of members on various rolls. Resolutions passed during the year are reported, included memorials on the deaths of former Directors and other members who have served in special capacities. In election years the activities of the League in support of the Republican candidates is described. With initiation of new member receptions in 1946, the formation of the Committee on Boys' Work program in 1947 and the employees Twenty-five Year Club in 1948, these three activities are reported on by the Secretary.
Mention is made of the annual reports of the Standing Committees that are printed fully later. The changes in the membership list deceased, resigned, and transferred members. Treasurer and Auditors' Reports follow.
The House Committee annual report is usually the fullest. It reports on most addresses, concerts, and other events held at the League. The records do not include the routine events of the New Year's day receptions, poll and billiard exhibitions, and recreational tournaments. Improvements to the building and grounds, new furniture, restaurant supplies, and changes in operations in the dining and beverage services are given, but only significant changes are noted in this catalog. Changes in staff and employment policies are noted, again with only major events cataloged. Information on, and donations of, art, sculpture, artifacts, archives, are provided.
The Guest Committee usually reiterates the events reported by the House Committee. Only when it's report is fuller or adds to the House report is it mentioned in the catalog. Annual reports from to 1942 included transcripts of the major addresses of guest speakers. Some later addresses, although printed for distribution, were not included in the annual report.
Finance Committee report give an overview of the year's finance. This committee's information in cataloged only when there has been some unusual activity.
The Library reports list donors to the Library and give a summary of its activities that include Library Hours held. These too are mentioned in the catalog only in special cases.
History: founding as a social institution, a refuge, where influence would be felt by example and fellowship, and not by bold declaration and combined action.
Program: requests for information leads to printed circular with plans for organizing Leagues; Board of Publication established and subscription of over $35,000 raised; over one million publications issued and a great number more of others circulated; appointed a Committee for Obtaining Employment for Disabled Soldiers and Seamen not as successful as hoped due to selfishness of employers; cancelled Fourth of July celebration and used funds and subscription of $80,000 to organize three regiments, equipping another, and working to raise a three-year regiment; Gold and Silver medals presented to President Lincoln, his cabinet, military and naval commanders, and to certain friends in England and France.
Non-Union League: members involved with Soldiers' Claim and Pension Agency, Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Troops, the Sanitary Commission, Christian Commission, and National Union Club; visits from the Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Building: lot purchased for construction of League House for $120,000, originally to be leased but proposed to be owned following charter.
Collections: charts, plans, and books from Alexander Dallas Bache (United States Coast Survey), Colonel Bache (Topical Engineers, and Heads of Departments at Washington; Washington by Sully from "the liberal gentleman" (Board approves $150 for purchase, F. J. Dreer presents Sully's picture to Union League, see October 14 and November 9 Board minutes); many interesting war relics.
Membership: 968 members, urge each member to bring in another.
-Politics: Union League renominates Mr. Lincoln for Presidency and appoints Committee of Seventy-six to campaign; leased hall for speeches; Committee on Public Meetings; 560,000 copies of Union League Gazette distributed; caution against small groups speaking for.
Program: with end of War, Union League should not become a mere social club, but strive to bring about a harmonious state of national affairs, guard against machinations that are stealthily advanced, and support the President in his actions against treason; publications comparatively light with 56,380 copies of documents printed; three regiments raised, Committee of Enlistments closed (report appended).
Politics: active in State election.
Collections: Library intended to be "an ornament of interest to the Institution, and if possible a collection worthy of the city," but contributions are disappointing and request a "more liberal" response; Committee on Fine Arts and Trophies decorating the House and invite individual subscriptions to procure pictures of a patriotic and national character and other articles; bronze copy of Kiss'Amazon from General Hector Tyndale; General Fremont portrait from Mrs. Joseph R. Fry; bronze medallions of distinguished statesmen and soldiers from a gentleman.
Membership: 1760 members.
Building: cost, including furnishings, $176,387; silver plate presented to contractor John Crump for service despite his own losses.
Finances: reduced cash surplus due to house expenses.
Member: regret Treasurer James L. Claghorn's departure from the country.
Event: reception for Lieutenant General Grant; Lincoln's funeral; fourth of July (with oration by Charles Gibbons at Academy of Music, fireworks, and illumination, with proceedings printed--see June 13, July 11 Board minutes).
Politics: Andrew Johnson's treachery in going against the principles of the Union Party that were reaffirmed in success of recent elections; Union League aid in the Convention of Southern Unionists in Philadelphia and subsequent letters asking for advice in establishing Southern leagues which must remain secret because of risk; committee of seventy-six to aid in campaign, with Board of Publications distributing 876, 058 documents on Union doctrine; duty of Union League to stand with Congress against the Executive.
Building: fire and subsequent rebuilding include previously identified improvements and fire-proofing.
Collections: great losses in Library and art; English Liberal Richard Cobden bust from James McHenry; Thaddeus Stevens portrait from donors.
Membership: 1970 members.
Finances: cost of fire requires increase in dues.
Politics: despite recent election losses, the Union Party is still the superior political organization; effort to organize the Republican Club in Virginia with the Loyal League Club of New York and the Reconstruction Club of Boston; committee of fifty appointed for campaign; $1100 donation for essay prizes on subject of nomination for public offices; 31,882 publications circulated, with greater effort held in reserve for the Presidential campaign for which it endorses Grant.
Event: reception for Major Gen P. H. Sheridan and Major General Sickles.
Building: fire repairs completed; properties on [1412] Sansom and [1419] Moravian Streets purchased, with Moravian Street used for laundry.
Finance: no debt other than mortgage allows decrease in dues.
Membership: 1805 members, showing decline.
Politics: Union League first public body to nominate Grant for President who accepted the principles of the Republican Party; Committee of Fifty is particularly energized for the Presidential campaign following the loss of the City in October; urge legislation to prevent future election fraud; prize essays on nominating procedure give no solutions but provide for future exploration; 1,416,906 published documents distributed.
Event: reception to Edwin M. Stanton; private reception for President elect Grant.
Collections: $2000 for laying the foundation of the Library so that it will be "something more than a mere heterogeneous assemblage of volumes" (see June 11, 1867, Board minutes for earlier unsuccessful effort to secure appropriation).
Membership: 1765 members.
Politics: Registry Law passage due mainly to Union League committee; committee of twenty-five appointed for state and local campaigns which for Secretary of the Treasury gave an influential address.
Program: protest new stamp design to Postmaster General, and its change is expected.
Collections: Library still establishing its holdings.
Membership: 1858 members.
Politics: effort to bring about Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention; ready to advocate for better plan for nominating candidates.
Collections: George H. Thomas portrait.
Membership: 1746 members.
Event: death of Edwin M. Stanton; reception for members and their wives (on anniversary of the opening of the Union League House, see March 8 Board minutes); Art Reception.
Member: deaths of Horace Binney, Jr. and Major-General George H. Thomas.
Politics: support President Grant for another term; Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention being planned; ready to advocate for better plan for nominating candidates; will not enter into local politics because there is too much dissent within Union League, but will be concerned in national issues.
Member: deaths of James H. Orne.
Event: art reception.
Membership. 1740 members.
Addendum: Extract from Annual Meeting minutes
Member; addendum with resolutions on appointment of George H. Boker as minister resident at the Court of the Sultan.
Collections: addendum with bronze bust of Eduard Laboulaye from members.
Politics: committee of thirty appointed for Presidential and gubernatorial (Hartranft) campaigns
Event: reception to George H. Boker, Minister Resident at Constantinople (December 1971); meeting of Commissioners of the International Centennial Exposition allowed Union League to encourage its progress; Washington's Birthday; National Convention; October elections.
Member: General Meade's death.
Building: thorough renovation planned to be funded by increase of dues to $35.
By-Laws: entrance fee raised from $25 to $100 with limit of 2000 members.
Membership: 1800 members.
Politics: continue to refrain from participation in local partisan politics; will not take a position on State constitutional reform.
Event: Washington's birthday, Art Reception included engravings.
Member: William M. Meredith's death.
Non-Union League: House open to Centennial Commissioners and recommendation that Congress make an appropriation.
Membership: 1861 members.
Building: renovation more extensive than thought, dues to remain at $35.
Politics: losses of the Republican Party due to depression and incompetence of candidates induces appointment of committee of fifty-eight to secure respectable candidates in coming city election; committee of twenty appointed to prepare drafts of legislation for the reorganization of city government under new State constitution.
Non-Union League: committee to urge Congress to provide funds for the Centennial unsuccessful.
Membership: 1666 members.
Operations: restaurant account typically shows losses.
Finances: dues reduced to $25.
By-Laws: economic depression causes reconsideration of initiation fee.
Politics: committee of fifty-eight causes replacement of two objectionable candidates in 1874 elections; Committee of Sixty-two appointed for same purpose and strongly endorses some candidates and declines to endorse others, an action approved by membership by vote of 644 to 451 [incorrectly printed 551]; endorsed candidates win by larger margin than unendorsed; three options for future political activity--withdraw from all politics and continue as a social club only, participate only in National and State politics, or prescribe restraints on political activity.
Membership: 1558 members.
Operations: Restaurant loses $3094.81, $2000 less than previous year.
Finance: dues raised from $25 to $40 in order to pay debt and make improvements on house; need to entertain during Centennial year will require additional funds by subscription or other means.
Event: resolution on death of Vice President Henry Wilson.
Politics: lengthy discourse on Presidential election, the Electoral College, and the danger of fraud, and the duty of the Union League to support ultimate winner.
Event: reception for George H. Boker, United States Minister to Russia, on his short leave of absence to attend Centennial; Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes reception on Centennial's Ohio day
Membership: 1434 members; also Centennial Associates and honorary members for the year 1876; new rule allowing members who are away from the city for at least one year may pay half dues and retain membership.
Operations: Restaurant loses $1,041.39, 1/3 less than previous year.
Building: repainted and walls and ceiling of larger part refrescoed, other repairs so that no extraordinary expenses will be necessary for several years; although Union League continues as patriotic organization, maintaining comforts of home is of highest importance.
Finance: continued debt requires dues at $30.
Politics: special meeting endorses President Hayes' actions; "Southern Policy" a necessity; Union League must strive for success of civil service reform
Membership: 1181 members, with largest loss by resignation since 1867, due in part to stagnation in business.
By-Laws: proposed to allow reinstatement of resigned members without repayment of entrance fee.
Building: new heating system changing from hot water to steam.
Finance: decrease in membership requires $40 dues.
Membership: 874 members.
Member: deaths of J. Gillingham Fell and Henry Armitt Brown.
Event: reception for President and Mrs. Hayes as part of three day visit that acquainted the President with the city (see May 7 House Committee minutes for bills).
Operations: Restaurant loss $3622.02 making the expense the least of any year except one.
Finance: recommend borrowing on mortgage $75,000 to paying off debts; dues at $40.
Library: appended report on periodicals subscribed.
Politics: pledge to stand firm for principles in coming Presidential year.
Event: reception for General Grant to take place in December; reception for Governor Henry M. Hoyt.
Membership: 851 members.
Member: death of Morton McMichael.
Operations: Restaurant leased to Nunzio Finelli who also will perform as steward, saving Union League annual losses and Steward's salary (see 1890 Annual Report).
Member: deaths of Adolph E. Borie and J. Frailey Smith.
Membership: 938 members
Finance: floating debt and 131 S. 15th Street mortgage paid off, with remaining debt on $75,000 loan.
Event: Seventeenth Anniversary reception.
Politics: Union League assumed victory of Republican Party until Election Day in Maine after which it threw its energy into campaign and influenced other states, with money placed in closely contested districts, members joined September 25th procession for first time since the war.
Building: renovations, including refrescoed rooms, $1000 from a member (Edwin N. Benson, see October Board minutes) for stained glass window commemorating past presidents for staircase landing; annex built from proceeds of sale of 15th Street property and subscription, including bowling alley, billiard room, and assembly-room, the increase cost of care to be covered by $40 dues.
Operations: revised House Rules.
Event: February 21 and May 5 evening receptions; death of President Garfield.
Program: a number of members are providing aid for Southern schools.
History: George P. Lathrop to write a history of Union League.
Membership: 978 members.
Membership: 1081 members, and suggest that limit be reduced from 2000.
Event: Pennsylvania Bi-centennial reception.
Collections: Art Association formed to oversee the adornment of Union League; Edmund de Pratere painting "Dogs in the Wood."
Politics: Republican Party in disarray, responsibility of Union League to uphold party principles.
Building: improvements begun in 1881 are completed with Assembly Hall and Billiard Room frescoing (by George Herzog, see March Board minutes).
By-Laws: membership limit lowered to 1250, correspondents to 250.
Membership: 1153 members; recommend that qualification time be reduced from 90 to 30 days.
Collections: M. Pegnot bronze "A Cavalier of the Time of Louis XIV"; onyx vases.
Operations: establish limits on directors' terms of office.
Politics: Republican Party is recovering and the 1884 election must continue the Party's administration.
Membership: 1213 members.
Collections: library entirely cataloged by experienced librarian; marble and bronze pedestal, Hernandez Rome watercolor "A Whiff of Comfort," Charles Linford painting "A June Day in the Woods," Richards painting "Brigantine Beach."
Politics: reception for Republican Presidential candidate James G. Blaine; Republican defeat, but Union League must forward the party causes, especially honest elections.
Member: deaths of James L. Claghorn and Samuel B. Thomas; voluntary retirement of George H. Boker from presidency.
Membership: 1250 members, a full roll.
Collections: Charles Gibbons portrait (copied) from Charles Gibbons, Jr. (see February Board minutes) and Daniel Smith, Jr., by Mr. Waugh, from William Harvey Merritt (see February Board minutes); George H. Boker portrait from Edwin Benson, James L. Claghorn at direction of Board; antique mahogany clock, M. Simons painting "Caught in a Shower," Szernier painting "Georgian Soldiers" from the Art Association.
Event: billiard, chess and bowling tournaments; Art Reception and Loan Exhibition; death of General Grant; United States Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks.
Member: death of Charles K. Ide.
Building: new Cafe, Secretary's office extended to Sansom Street with decorations painted by Union League member (George Herzog, see November 29 House Committee minutes) for free, second floor meeting room allowing for private dining room on 1st floor (Chandler, architect, Tout & McLaughlin, builder, see House Committee minutes, April 13, June 29, 1886).
Membership: 1250 members.
Collections: paintings of a zither player by Maccari (purchased from the collection of the late Governor E. D. Morgan), Gate of the Fortress at Agra by E. L. Weeks, bronze statuette of Diogenes from Art Association.
Event: deaths of Major General W. S. Hancock and John Welsh, ex-President Chester A. Arthur.
Politics: Union League must continue to support protective tariff and be active in finding a fit nominee for Mayor through a committee, a publication, and other such actions as necessary.
Also includes Acts of Incorporation, By-Laws, Rules of the Board of Directors and House, Report of the Special Committee on the Status of Correspondents, February 9, 1886, Rules Concerning Fourteen-day Cards, List of Members, and List of Those Who Have Been Specially Honored by the League.
Building: Restaurant refrescoed; 1416 Sansom and 1423 Moravian purchased; members' petition to raise dues to $50 in order to consider substituting electricity for gas lighting.
Membership: full limit of members and because of value of membership, everyone is behaving; proposed By-Law amendments to increase limit should be carefully considered; Board resolution establishing The Army, Navy and Consular Roll; revised Rule XIX clarifying absentee membership.
By-Laws: proposed extinction of Correspondent class is recommended; other proposals should wait a year for deliberated decision; change in payment of dues worthy of consideration.
Collections: Russian bronze group (see Notes) of horsemen and a bronze group of runners from Art Association.
Event: reception for Mayor and member Edwin H. Fitler; Constitutional Centennial with reception for military officers; Meade Memorial Reception; reception for Peace Association of London and endorsement of efforts to establish treaty to settle international disputes; reception for officers of French naval vessel Minerve; reception for Edwin N. Benson.
Politics: committee working with other organizations succeeded in nominating and electing Edwin H. Fitler for mayor; Pennsylvania vote on prohibition of deep interest to Union League members; conviction that Republican Party will win 1888 Presidential election if there is a clean ticket and a platform "which shall proclaim in manly tones" economic principles and moral ideas.
Building: porch from Billiard Room enclosed as a sun-parlor with removable partitions; second floor private dining room ready for use; new tin roof; wiring for electricity and lighting fixtures altered for both gas and electric, awaiting completion of Edison Electric Company plant; smoking room woodwork replaced with mahogany.
By-Laws: changes have decided advantage; Correspondents will be eliminated; two amendments being proposed with regard to fixed limit on membership; proposed by-law regulating office rotation (see October November 1887 Board minutes).
Membership: 1250 members.
Member: notes of appreciation for three retiring Directors Edwin N. Benson, Edward C. Knight, and Hamilton Disston; General Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton elected honorary members; addendum list of members.
Event: twenty-fifth anniversary ceremonies with address by George H. Boker (December 1887); death of General Philip H. Sheridan; parade and informal reception for Vice-President-elect Morton, General Alger, ex-Senators Miller and Platt.
Politics: lengthy analysis of Presidential contest and issues of Civil Service Reform, Foreign Relations, the Tariff; Union League should "have a recognized influence.."
Building: three rooms specially designed with wainscoting in sycamore and oak, with parlor done in French style, blue-room in Flemish, and former Directors' room in colonial style, now used as private dining room; 56 wardrobes in basement; steel beams replace weakened wood joists; electric lighting commenced.
Membership: 1322 members, being full number allowed which stands at 1250 with the addition of the 72 correspondents who transferred to active.
By-Laws: proposed amendment to increase limit on membership to 1500.
Collections: Flameng painting "Affair of Honor."
Member: notes on retiring Directors Joel J. Baily, Samuel S. Sharp, Thomas McKean, and John R. Fell.
Event: receptions for Postmaster-General John Wanamaker, International American Congress.
Privileges: reciprocal arrangements with Grosvenor Club, London.
Secretary's Report
Building: extension of billiard room to be known as "Benson Annex;" needle bath and swimming pool in basement.
Operations: Board resumes control of restaurant department after leasing to caterer for 12 years, resulting in reduced charges.
By-Laws: membership increased to 1400.
Library: "a number of very valuable documents" presented by Charles O'Neill and Henry H. Bingham; George Stevens' Shakespeare edition, once owned by David Paul Brown, from Robert Eden Brown; George S. Pepper estate gift and anticipated residual estate gift.
Collections: Matthew Wilson's portrait of William C. Houston from artist; John P. Veree (from James V. Watson on behalf of colleagues and friends, see June Board minutes), Charles E. Smith portraits (from Smith, September Board minutes), completing ex-presidents portraits.
Member: Supreme Court decision in favor of Union League in suit by member to gain reinstatement.
Non-Union League: Military Order of the Loyal Legion 25th anniversary.
Event: receptions for George W. Delamater and James G. Blaine.
Politics/national: loss of Congressional seats to Democrats due to McKinley Bill and agricultural discontent, but time will prove Republicans are right.
Secretary's Report
Building: floors reinforced; servants to be moved to other quarters and transpose third floor servants quarters into member sleeping rooms; George Herzog thanked for donating his decoration in Flemish Renaissance Room (formerly Blue Room).
Collections: 1866 General George Gordon Meade Gold Medal from Meade's son (deposited, see November Board minutes); Astronomical Clock from Art Association.
Event: dinner for Edwin H. Fitler on retirement as Mayor; reception for Mayor Edwin S. Stuart; Decoration Day guests include President Harrison, Secretary of the Navy and Postmaster General.
Politics: review of recent State elections, especially Republican victory in Ohio.
Miscellaneous
Building: Gutekunst plate of building exterior, looking southwest.
Former officers, Charter, record of those specially honored.
List of deceased members.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: proposal to appoint committee to consider admission requirement to sign pledge of allegiance to Republican Party--passed; resolution to appoint committee to recommend change in electing Directors in different classes--passed.
Politics/national: resolution condemning Republican party nomination of a Democrat for Third Congressional District.
Secretary's Report:
Building: many improvements, a major part of which is the electric light plant.
Event: reception for Minister to Italy William Potter.
Politics/national: reflections on presidential campaign, that Democrats won not because of their policies of free trade and state banking, but as Cleveland's personal triumph; Union League's responsibility for strengthening the Republican Party and educating the public on its programs; appreciation of President Harrison's administration.
Library:
Finance: George S. Pepper bequest of $5000 from which purchases will be made with the guidance of a list of appropriate works made by National Library librarian Ainsworth R. Spofford.
Miscellaneous also includes officers since founding, Charter, By-Laws, Board and House Rules.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: admission requirement to sign pledge of allegiance to Republican Party--lost; election of directors to provide for a system of rotation--passed; creation of non-resident status--tabled; restrict admissions per month to 15--passed; increase membership for financial benefit--tabled; increase entrance fee from $100 to $200--passed.
Politics/national: resolution that Union League is Republican organization and applicants not affiliated with Republican Party ought not to be admitted--passed.
Finance: authorization to issue bonds of $150,000--passed.
History: resolution to have John Russell Young prepare history of Union League--passed; resolutions to prepare histories of Soldiers' Union and Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloons and a photograph album of all member from founding to present--lost.
Secretary's Report:
Event: reception for Robert Lincoln, with ladies attending for first time; reception to Clement A. Griscom (member) and the International Navigation Company (in appreciation for "restoring the American flag to American commerce," see March Board minutes); Art Exhibition drew 23,595.
Collections: Japanese bronze from William Penn Brock (see House Committee minutes, January 30, 1894, March 13, 21, 1894, accounts re. erecting bronze); M. Rico painting; four black and white drawings by Life illustrator C. D. Gibson.
Building: 12 rooms for use of members; installation of cold storage and ice plant.
Politics/national: review of past Presidential election caused by ignoble alliances, success of Republicans in recent elections, Cleveland's irresponsible act with regard to Hawaii and free trade policies.
Library:
Operations: works of fiction that have stood the test of a generation or more acquired, not modern fiction; special effort to strengthen Civil War holdings, including publications of Southern Historical Society; librarian appointed. Miscellaneous also includes officers since founding, Charter, By-Laws, Board and House Rules.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: increase membership from 1500 to 1700, in order to bring in additional revenue and to further Republican cause--defeated; change required meetings to optional--passed; require $30 dues for clergy--tabled.
Operations: resolution to allow card playing, but no gambling--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national/state: meeting resolution of protest against Wilson Bill; meeting for election of Galusha A. Grow; call to support state Republican ticket (and creation of Campaign Committee, see October Board minutes); diatribe against Democratic Party's tariffs, Sugar Trust, loss of opportunity to gain Hawaii and Samoa, and inability to be of any influence in conflict between China and Japan; Republican victory means responsibility in which Union League must take part.
Member: George F. Edmunds elected honorary member; resolution on death of Andrew G. Curtin.
Collection: George W. Petit copy of Uhle's portrait of George S. Pepper (original in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, see October minutes); Edward C. Knight portrait (see December 23, 1893, House Committee minutes) and Charlemagne Tower bronze from respective families; portraits of John W. Forney, Anthony J. Drexel, and James H. Orne in preparation; Edwin H. Fitler portrait.
Event: reception to Ex-President Harrison and Admiral A. E. K. Benham, recipient of Gold Medal.
History: John Russell Young to write history.
Building: danger of bridge across Sansom Street connecting two buildings (see November, adjourned December Board minutes).
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: active life membership established to provide for increased expenses (see Secretary's report); increase limit to 1600 members, with limit on 25 elected per month--passed; allow passage of amendments by ballot ten days after proposal--lost; increase quorum from 50 to 200 members; resolution to form committee to review By-Laws--passed; duty of Union League to enter upon State and municipal political campaigns--lost.
Rule to limit annual meeting speeches to 10 minutes--passed.
Membership: eliminate clergy privileges--lost.
Resolution against pardon for John Bardsley--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national/state: resolution against the silver standard (see June Board minutes for petition opposed to meeting).
Building: property on Sansom and Moravian Streets purchased (from Baptist Publication Society for $75,000, see Board minutes).
Event: receptions for Pennsylvania Governor General Daniel H. Hastings, Philadelphia Mayor Charles F. Warwick, International League of Press Clubs delegates, Postmaster-General Wilson; address by George F. Edmunds "Our Commercial Relations with Central and South America."
Collections: Clairin's "La Pierette," Berkeley' s "Napoleon's Cuirassiers at Waterloo" from Art Association; Vonnoh's portrait of John Russell Young (for $600, see May Board minutes); Royal Worcester plaque of President Garfield from James L. Claghorn's widow; library donations from George F. Edmunds ($100 donation, see June Board minutes) and Charles O. Baird.
Building: stained glass window in memory of General John W. Geary in Cafe dome from H. Ernest Goodman.
Politics/national: the Democratic Party's "absolute incapacity to govern," the "Solid South" has been broken, the promising future of the Republican Party.
Miscellaneous also includes officers since founding, Charter, By-Laws, Board and House Rules, list of members.
Annual Meeting:
Building: proposed building and ladies' restaurant improvements--to be considered at adjourned meeting.
Finance: proposal to issue $25,000 in bonds--to be considered at adjourned meeting.
By-Laws: statement of support for the Federal government--passed; amount and method of establishing dues--passed; method of nominating and electing officers--tabled; organization of new Board--passed; duties of officers--passed; membership limited to 1800' and other sections on admission--passed; meetings of the corporation--passed. See October Board minutes.
Adjourned meeting:
Building: Advisory Real Estate Board created in order to assure continuity.
Finance: authority given to Board to issue $25,000 in bonds.
By-Laws: governance of Guest Committee--lost; to participate in national, state, local, and municipal politics--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Member: notes on deceased members H. Earnest Goodman, William C. Houston, Edwin H. Fitler, Joseph B. Townsend.
Finance: two accounts established, one for operating, the other for capital funds; with Board to consider all other expenses be approved by the Board.
Building: steam pump installed for extinguishing fires (requiring excavation under Sansom Street--see March, April Board minutes); enlarged refrigeration plant; diffusive glass in dome of new cafe (see House Committee minutes, September 5 accounts, Kramer $1288 paid to Kramer); electric illumination for Presidential campaign, portions available for future use (see House Committee minutes July 2 accounts); properties on 15th street purchased; rentals of various properties; proposal to build 3 story building (full description) on Sansom Street side with Moravian Street property as a garden; proposal to create ladies' restaurant in current barber shop; space for card playing established in banquet room, with better space to be found.
Event: reception to Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang; Mark Hanna entertained.
Politics/national: resolution to National Convention of the Republican Party to include maintenance of gold standard in platform; ratification of nomination of William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart, and appointment of campaign committee that raised money, prepared, edited, and distributed 12 pamphlets, and participated in veterans' campaign meetings.
House:
Employee: question on how to manage Christmas bonuses.
Library and Publications
Request for more space and other improvements.
Annual Meeting:
Operations: protest, explanation, and resolution regarding House Committee indebtedness.
By-Laws: increase limit on life membership from 100 to 150--passed; require candidate entry to include a proposer and endorser, both of whom are personally acquainted with candidate--passed; acceptance of Pennsylvania 1874 constitution--defeated; that Union League participate in national, state, and municipal politics--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Building: adjourned meeting approves $25,000 for improvements and creation of Advisory Real Estate Board.
Operations: table d'hote lunches discontinued due to expense.
Collections: military painting by P. Grolleron purchased; James W. Paul portrait from James W. Paul, Jr.; J. Frailey Smith portrait from Mrs. J. Frailey Smith; P. F. Rothermel's "Cortez' Invasion of Mexico" from Samuel H. Rothermel.
Member: notes on deceased members William B. Bement, William S. Baker, William H. Pancoast, Peter D. Keyser; President McKinley elected honorary member.
Event: reception to Boies Penrose in honor of his selection to Senate; reception to President William McKinley and his Cabinet (see also House).; addresses by Charlemagne Tower, Jr. on Siege of Yorktown (Washington's Birthday), Hampton L. Carson on law.
Privileges: House Rules changed to permit guests four times a year.
Politics/national: Union League should only express itself on major issues, but when it does it should be influential.
House:
Building: bronze handrail placed on Broad Street stairway.
Employee: note on deceased hallman Alexander W. Gilchrist, and financial arrangements with him and his widow.
Finance:
steps needed to reduce indebtedness
Library and Publications:
Collections: Boydell Shakespeare from Robert Eden Brown estate; Annals of Congress and Congressional Debates, 1789-1837 (71 Volume), from George F. Edmunds.
Building: need fire-proof room for "books and papers of all kinds appertaining to the office."
Operations: catalogue ready for printer.
Real Estate Advisory Board:
Building: 1420. 1422, 1424, 1426 Sansom Street and 1427, 1429, 1431, 1433 Moravian Street removed, with 15th Street properties remaining and 1418 Sansom Street rented to Union League for Steward's residence and 1425 Moravian occupied as laundry; invitation to architects to design new club house in preparation.
Annual Meeting:
Member: resolution expressing sympathy for Joseph Storm Patterson now confined to his house due to serious illness ("he is today a physical wreck").
By-Laws: active member for 30 years may become life members with $200 payment--lost; members who resigned in good standing may be restored with approved application--lost; members in good standing for 25 years who cannot pay dues may remain members on vote of Board--lost; eliminate three year restriction on serving as Director, provide of deciding election ties--lost; resolution to appoint committee to examine By-Laws and publish report--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national: meeting to consider Monetary Commission report adopts resolution in favor of gold standard, in support of the President, in appreciation of C. Stuart Patterson as member of Commission; resolutions supporting President McKinley and congratulating him on Spanish-American war victory.
Event: address by United States Civil Service Commission president John W. Proctor on Nicaraguan Canal; address on victory in Santiago by Charles Emory Smith and electrical light display; Peace Jubilee and dinner and reception for President McKinley and Army and Navy Officers.
Collections: Ridgeway Knight painting purchased with help of John H. Converse ("Le Soir"--see August 1897 minutes); subscription for memorial tablet to victims of Maine sinking transferred to memorial to Union League Civil War regiments.
Politics/international: the Spanish-American war and the manifest destiny of the "anglicized" United States and Union League's responsibility for sound money and other issues.
House:
Operations: examination of restaurant finances; book-keeping system introduced; new organization system (see 1899 Annual Report).
Building: creation of garden and porch (designed by architect Addison Hutton), with room for bicycles, showers, and lockers.
Real Estate Advisory Board:
Building: Board disapproves plan to employ architects assistance in planning improvements.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: multiple amendments, introduced by extensive review of financial condition over recent years, with discussion on whether or not to increase membership in order to raise money for improvements and increase influence of Union League--tabled, with proposed non-resident membership; Army, Navy, and Consular roll, Clerical roll--passed; special meeting provisions--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Event: reception for [newly appointed Postmaster General] Charles Emory Smith (November 1898); banquet for United States Peace Commissioners; Abraham Lincoln birthday dinner snowed out, with Albert J. Beveridge address given several days later; addresses by Adam Everly on Edwin Forrest, Nebraska Senator John M. Thurston on foreign policy; President McKinley guest of member; reception for Rear Admiral William T. Sampson; Art Loan Exhibition attracts 47,434, with acknowledgment of services of C. F. Haseltine; resolution to hold Founders' Day Annual Dinner (see March Board minutes for initial proposal).
Member: resolutions on deaths of Lindley Smyth (November 1898), John Russell Young; resolution on Charlemagne Tower appointment as Russian ambassador; Admiral George Dewey elected honorary member.
Collection: committee on memorial to Union League regiments appointed.
History: committee to prepare Union League history appointed.
Non-Union League: Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment for which house was decorated and courtesies extended.
Politics/international: United States responsibilities in the Phillippines and the manifest destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race.
House:
Building: electrical plant in need of major repair; storage room constructed over Benson annex.
Operations: description of organization into several departments reporting to Superintendent (see also 1898 Annual Report).
Guest: See Secretary's report
Library:
Collections: special effort to obtain works on Spanish-American conflict and history and geography of newly acquired possessions of the Hawaiian Islands, West Indies and Philippine Archipelago
Miscellaneous also includes Charter, By-Laws, Board of Directors and House Rules.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: dues increased from $200 to $300--passed; require clergy members to have salary under $2000 and by Republican in politics--tabled.
Secretary's Report
History: Union League history almost ready for printer.
Politics/national: resolution on death of Vice President Garret A. Hobart; Republican National Convention in Philadelphia (see July minutes for report) with dinner for Republican National Committee chairman Marcus A. Hanna; ratification meeting for nominations of McKinley and Roosevelt and appointment of National Campaign Committee that organized a public meeting; questions on foreign possessions.
Event: first Founders' Day dinner (November 1899) with Navy Secretary John D. Long and Philippine Commission and Cornell University president J. G. Schurman; addresses by Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith on the Philippines, Maine Senator and Senate President William P. Frye on territory and trade expansion, Treasury Secretary Lyman J. Gage on business history, Ohio Senator Joseph B. Foraker on the Puerto Rico Bill; dinner for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice and Associate Justices.
Member: resolution on death of Charles E. Smith.
House:
Building: barber shop and enlarged oyster cafe in basement (see May minutes for plans to convert pool and baths).
Guest: See Secretary's report
Library:
Archives: Committee on Enlistments records handsomely bound and stored in safe.
Miscellaneous:
Event: transcript of proceeding of 1900 Founders' Day with addresses by President McKinley, Vice President-elect Theodore Roosevelt, Colorado Senator Edward O. Wolcott, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to increase membership limit from 1800 to 2000--defeated; prevent filling of life member vacancies--tabled out of respect for proposer who had died; require clergy to pay dues--defeated; remove ability of Army, Navy, and Consular members automatic transfer to active roll--passed; changing dues collection date to November 1 to coincide with fiscal year; change time of mailing of amendment notices--passed.
Secretary's Report
Event: addresses by First Assistant Secretary of State David J. Hill "Our Place Among the Nations," Brigadier General James H. Wilson "Our Commercial Relations with China."
Politics/national: resolutions on deaths of former President Benjamin Harrison, President William McKinley, and in support of President Theodore Roosevelt; the Republican Party's successful dealing with "our Colonial possessions, urging expansion of ship-building industry.
House:
Building: exterior renovations, etc.; door replaces window between Flemish and Billiard Rooms.
Library:
Collections: special attention to works relating to Commonwealth and country.
Special Committee on the History of the Union League:
History: delays in publishing, but ready by end of year.
Special Committee on Memorial to Union League Regiments:
Sculpture: Henry Bush-Brown contracted, model almost finished; soliciting funds.
Miscellaneous:
Event: transcript of memorial meeting on death of President McKinley; transcript of proceedings of Founders' Day, including addresses by ex-Attorney General John W. Griggs on President McKinley, Maine Senator William P. Frye on shipping; Solicitor General John K. Richards on legislation to prevent anarchists in the country; Governor of Puerto Rico William H. Hunt on progress in Puerto Rico.
Annual Meeting: election only
Secretary's Report:
History: Chronicle of The Union League finished and published.
Sculpture: Memorial to Union League Regiments finished and ready to be put in place; members not as generous as expected and balance paid out of Treasury.
Event: luncheons for Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, Ambassador to France General Horace Porter, and new Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw.
Member: Major-General John R. Brooke elected honorary member.
Collections: J. Crawford Thom's "Returning from the Fields" by Colonel Samuel Goodman.
Politics/national: Republican Party's success in elections, tackling problems, administering foreign territories, development of commerce and industry, and addressing tariff questions.
House:
Building: 1425 Moravian Street demolished, new building used as a filter room, housekeeper residence, female servants' dormitory and store-room.
Collections: portraits hung in main hall; President McKinley portrait painted for Union League.
Operations: accounting system altered to show expenses for each sub-department.
Guest:
Event: luncheon for Prince Henry of Prussia; transcript of Founders' Day proceedings with President of the United States and his Cabinet, including addresses by Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Pennsylvania Congressman John Dalzell.
Art Association:
Collections: "A Portrait of a Lady" purchased.
Annual Meeting:
Building: resolution to provide separate room with private entrance for ladies so they will not come into the club house--passed; resolution to submit report on additions or improvements to special meeting--passed
Secretary's Report:
Collections: Memorial to the Union League Regiments tablet placed in main hall; purchased Madrazo's "Morning News," Hamman Fils "Cows," and Matthew Wilson's portrait of James G. Blaine.
Event: dinner to Charlemagne Tower.
Member: resolution on death of Henry Erben Garsed.
Politics: strength of Republican Party; relations with Cuba, currency issue,
House:
Building: New Cafe redecorated; Old Cafe rewired and old decoration reproduced.
Operations: new rules for reserving sleeping rooms and dining rooms (see May 1903 minutes).
Finance:
Operations: Use of auditors circumscribes duties of committee.
Library:
Collections: donations from United States Government and University of Pennsylvania.
Miscellaneous:
Event: transcript of Founders' Day proceedings, including addresses by Lieutenant Gen Samuel B. M. Young on "The Army of the United States," Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee on "The Navy of the United States," New York Governor Frank S. Black tribute to Abraham Lincoln, California Senator George C. Perkins on "The Progress of the Pacific Coast under the Republican Regime.."
Annual Meeting:
Building: architects plans for improvement of entire property not recommended by Board of Directors, Advisory Real Estate Board, and Finance Committee, with matter referred back to the Board for further consideration to be reported on at adjourned meeting.
By-Laws: amendment to eliminate filling vacancies in life roll--defeated, after much discussion; increase membership limit from 1800 to 2000 in order to help with increased taxes--passed; restore Board's power to determine annual dues instead of by vote of members--defeated; changing payment of dues for Army, Navy and Consular roll and to move roll into Article1 classification as members instead of guests--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Collections: bronze busts of replica of Houdon's Washington and George E. Bissell's Lincoln.
Event: dinner for Merchant Marine Commission.
Building: special meeting to consider proposed changes to League house, referred back to Board of Directors (See Board minutes, April special meeting, and May meeting).
Politics/national: ratifying meeting for Republican nominations of Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks; appointment of Campaign Committee; campaign meeting at Academy of Music; description of abysmal campaign of Democratic Party.
House:
Building: due to increase in expenses, only absolutely necessary improvements made; Library and Banquet Room improved and decorated due to ceiling collapses.
Collections: Civil War relics displayed in Library Hall.
Finance:
Operations: tax increase causes deficit and prevents decrease in mortgage debt.
Library:
Collections: bronze medallion portraits "renovated;" donations from State Library of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Henry H. Bingham, George D. McCreary, Henry F. Walton, Lewis E. Beitler and especially "Niles Register" from George F. Edmunds.
Operations: overcrowding relieved by establishing separate storeroom for less used books.
Miscellaneous:
Privileges: notice of reciprocal agreements with Grosvenor Club, London, and Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C.
Event: transcript of Founders' Day proceedings (January 1905), including address by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Special Meeting:
Politics/local: resolutions declaring that Committee of Twenty-one and other political committees do not represent or act for the Union League and that policy of non-participation in municipal politics be strictly adhered to. Adjourned Annual Meeting (from December 1904)
Building: resolution to build on Section C (Benson Annex, 1418 Sansom, porch and garden) and make alterations to rest of building, and to fund construction through bonds secured by mortgage--passed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment concerning Life Member roll--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Membership: Admissions Committee responsible for adding 200 additional members.
House:
Building: sleeping rooms required for fans, call-bells, telephones and lights and refurbished; crystal chandelier cleaned, rewired, silver-plated; gas jets replaced with lamps.
Guest Committee:
Event: postponed 1904 Founders' Day to suit President Roosevelt (see 1904 Annual Report); reception and dinner in honor of Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks; League House 40th anniversary observance with transcript of addresses by New York Senator Chauncey M. Depew on founding of Republican Party and Abraham Barker and William H. Armstrong on their Civil War activities.
Library:
Collections: Joseph B. Robinson estate books; purchase through $500 donation.
Art Association:
Collections: purchased Xanthus Smith's "The Kearsage and Alabama"; prints for room decoration.
Special Meeting:
Member: appeal from suspension by E. B. Showell Myers and John B. Myers for non-payment of accounts--adjourned over question over what constitutes majority vote on E. B. S. Myers case.
Special Meeting:
Building: resolution to construct Sections C and B--postponed to Annual Meeting.
Annual Meeting:
Member: appeal from suspension by E. B. Showell Myers and John B. Myers for non-payment of accounts--suspensions upheld.
Building: resolution to construct Sections C and B--postponed to adjourned annual meeting, to also consider erection of 15th Street buildings.
By-Laws: amendment to add Revenue cutter line officers to Army, Navy or Marine Corps membership--passed; to allow Army, Navy, and Consular members to introduce visitors--passed; raise life membership from $500 to $1000--passed; increase in dues and number of members--postponed to adjourned annual meeting. Adjourned Annual Meeting
Building: resolution to construct Sections C and B--defeated; resolution to erect 6 commercial buildings on 15th Street--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of Abraham Barker
House:
Building: two telephone switchboards installed.
Guest Committee:
Event: dedication of "Kearsage and Alabama" with transcript of address by only surviving officer of Kearsage Rear-Admiral Joseph Adams Smith; reception and transcript of address by House of Representatives Speaker Joseph G. Cannon; reception for Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox.
Library:
Building: no more shelf space for books--stored in other parts of the house where they are not readily accessible.
Art Association:
Collections: purchased Xanthus Smith's "The Kearsage and Alabama"; prints for room decoration.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to allow applicants who had been members who resigned in good standing to be at top of applicant list--passed.
Building: resolution to authorize Board to improve 15th Street property, subject to member approval, and to finance it through bond issue--passed, after much debate.
Secretary's Report:
Building: resolution to build commercial buildings on 15th Street deferred.
Art: Edwin S. Stuart portrait hung.
House:
Collections: mounted animal heads in billiard room cleaned; portraits and other paintings renovated, classified, labeled, and cataloged.
Operations: large number of automobiles, special officer will direct traffic at Broad Street.
Membership: program to have photographic portraits of all members.
Guest Committee:
Event: reception for Governor Edwin S. Stuart, former Union League president; transcripts of Founders' Day address by Major-General Oliver Otis Howard "George H. Thomas--The Rock of Chickamauga," and Lincoln Birthday (1908) address by Major-General Grenville M. Dodge on General William T. Sherman
Art Association:
Collections: purchased Rembrandt Peale's copy of Stuart portrait of Washington and Lincoln portrait by Bechtel; Leon Comerre's "The Moorish Dancing Girl" and Gabriel DeColl's "The Old Miner" from Edward T. Stotesbury; John Faulkner's "The Coming Storm" from Edwin C. Weaver estate (see October minutes); caribou head from Louis A. Flanagan.
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: ratification meeting for nomination of Republican candidates for William Howard Taft for President and James Schoolcraft Sherman for Vice-President.
Adjourned Annual Meeting:
Building: resolutions authorizing improvements at $533,000--passed.
Program: resolution to provide $1,200 for Lincoln and Civil War Section of the Philadelphia Historical Pageant--passed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to raise limit on membership from 2,000 to 2,300--passed; raise dues from $60 to $75--defeated; change number of election tellers from 15 to "the necessary number"--passed.
Politics/national: resolution to support salary increases for United States Circuit Judges--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of Joseph G. Darlington.
House:
Operations: new silverware purchased but stored in J. E. Caldwell vaults until opening of new building.
Collections: Henry Clay, George Washington, and George Gordon Meade portraits restored.
Guest Committee:
Event: address by Major General Grenville M. Dodge (see 1907 Annual Report).
Politics/national: transcript of proceedings of Republican campaign mass meeting with addresses by Philander C. Knox, James S. Sherman, Lieutenant General O. O. Howard, Brigadier General Horatio C. King.
Finance:
Union League free of any bonded or mortgage indebtedness.
Library:
large number of regimental histories for Civil War collection.
Art Association:
Collections: Paul Eschbach "Le Mousquetaire" from William J. McClary, William Didier-Pouget "Moonrise on the Pond" from Edward T. Stotesbury; watercolors of American yachts from William G. Freedley; mastodon tusk from Albert C. Engard; baldhead eagle from W. Worrell Wagner; purchase of photographs of General Grant and Staff, General Sherman and Staff, Major General Meade and Staff.
Adjourned Annual Meeting
By-Laws: amendment to raise dues from $60 to $75--passed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to extend Army, Navy, and Consular Roll to within 50 miles of Philadelphia--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on deaths of Silas W. Petit, Edwin N. Benson, Major General Oliver Otis; General Oliver Otis Howard, William H. Taft elected honorary members.
Building: see Building Committee.
Membership: increase from 2000 to 2300 made an arduous year for Committee on Membership.
Collections: silver trowel commemorating laying of cornerstone from James G. Doak & Co.
House:
Collections: 1887 Union League photographs from Frederick J. Beates; elk head from Kettle Club.
Guest Committee:
Event (see also House Committee): dinner and reception to Charlemagne Tower; dinner and transcript of address by Major William H. Lambert (Lincoln Birthday); Ulysses S. Grant 87th Birthday banquet, guest of honor President Taft, with transcript of proceedings.
Finance:
Member: opinion of counsel that payments for services of architect and contractor may be made despite By-Law prohibiting it [?].
Library:
Civil War collection additions of over 60 volumes.
Building Committee:
New Building: first bids too high; after revised bids contract awarded to James G. Doak & Co. for $527,600; minor changes in plans include finishing roof as for roof garden but not provide service to it (likely not enough use), setback from 15th Street greater, face building in limestone instead of brick and stone to bring greater harmony when Broad Street building is rebuilt; corner-stone laying ceremony proceedings.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to add Clergy to Army, Navy and Consular Roll and charge dues--tabled; increase membership from 2300 to 2600--passed--or to increase dues from $75 to $90--withdrawn; eligibility of annual election votes--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of M. Riebenack
House:
nothing of note
Guest Committee:
Event: transcript of Lincoln Birthday address by Pennsylvania United States Senator Boies Penrose; transcript of proceedings of luncheon for First Defenders Association of Pennsylvania; transcript of farewell remarks at last meeting in Old Assembly Hall.
Library:
Civil War collection additions of 89 volumes.
beginning made to collect complete history of Republican Party.
permanent file of Public Ledger as the most representative paper for that purpose.
Building Committee:
Fifteenth Street building completion delayed due to strikes, but some sleeping rooms occupied; furniture manufacturing plant fire causes loss of Union League furniture; expected to be ready by November 30.
Middle Building contract to Cramp & Company for $310,520.
Art Association
Collections: bronze elephant from William J. McClary; with completion of 15th Street Building large sums will be necessary to fill it with art and decorations.
Annual Meeting
Building: formal opening of new Assembly Hall.
By-Laws: amendment to raise dues from $75 to $100--passed--and to raise active membership limit from 2600 to 2900--withdrawn; several amendments including suspension procedures (not given, see October minutes)--passed; excluding purchase of wines and liquors to members only (to comply with laws, see February minutes), and prohibit subscription dinners and entertainments to members with the exception of several Civil War organizations--passed; appended with By-Laws.
Building: resolution to continue Building Committee members until work is completed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: Major General David McMurtrie Gregg and Major General Galusha Pennypacker elected Honorary Members.
Event: construction of Middle Section prevented usual number of social occasions.
House:
Building: ladies reception and dining room put into service after improvements ("This service...remove[s], from the main floor of the League house, all ladies and children...."
Collections (see also Art Association report): marble plaque of Abraham Lincoln from James F. Hope; picture "Hesitation" from Edward T. Stotesbury; "Charge of the French Hussars..." from J. Albert Caldwell; First Regiment Infantry (Gray Reserves) from the Veterans Corps.
Guest Committee:
Event: reception for former Governor Edwin S. Stuart.
Library:
Building: move from old quarters to new.
Operations: preparing Catalogue of Current Fiction.
Civil War collection additions of 47 volumes; work on Gems and Precious Stones (36 Volumes) from Frederic Shaw; increase in activity necessitated increase in subscriptions.
Building Committee:
Middle Section contract awarded to Cramp & Co. for $310,520; delayed by bricklayers and marble men strikes, but still on schedule.
Changing old oyster bar and barbers shop into Ladies Restaurant designed by architect Horace Trumbauer, contract awarded to Hale & Kilburn for $20,692.25.
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: resolution to support nomination of President Taft for reelection as United States President--passed; ratification of nominations of Taft for reelection; Republican Mass Meeting under auspices of Union League
Annual Meeting:
no news
Secretary's Report:
Event: Art Loan Exhibition Committee arranges for spring exhibition postponed due to "Titanic" sinking and deaths in families involved, including George D. Widener.
House:
Collections: Moran pastoral painting from Thomas E. Baird; J. John's "Harvest Home when the War was Over" from Alexander M. Fox estate; photographs of original Union League building from George F. Root, M. Ashbrook Griffith and William S. Grant estate; hand carved oak furniture (4 pieces) from Mrs. Henry L. Townsend; 4 paintings, 2 shields from Mrs. John F. Combs; James H. Orne portrait from Benjamin Orne; polar bear skin from Frank L. Thomson; 1844 political campaign banner from Robert Smith (see Notes).
Guest Committee:
Event: dinner and transcript of address by Massachusetts United States Congressman John W. Weeks ("The Currency Question"); dinner to Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener, Philadelphia Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg; Ulysses S. Grant Birthday with guest of honor President Taft and transcript of proceedings.
Annual Meeting:
Event: resolution requesting Board to make provisions for addresses of large national interest and importance--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Program: Fiftieth Anniversary souvenir booklet printed and sent to every Public High School boy in Philadelphia.
Member: resolution on death of James F. Hope.
House:
Building: unsatisfactory condition in Marble Rooms causes installation of iron and glass partitions; on petition of members, bowling alleys installed on 15th Street ground floor (see Notes).
Non-Union League: National Association of Amateur Billiard Players championship of the United States held at Union League.
Collection: sculpture "Esmeralda" from Winthrop Smith; General Henry H. Bingham portrait from his sister Mrs. Thomas G. Hood; Ulysses S. Grant, Edward Shippen, William S. Stokley portraits gift of Mrs. E. D. Evans.
Guest Committee:
Event: Fiftieth Anniversary on Lincoln Birthday with President Taft and his Cabinet, with transcript of proceedings.
Library:
40 volumes added to Civil War collection.
Building Committee:
unexpended balance $13,908.27.
Special Meeting
Building: proposal to tear down Broad Street building and replace it with fireproof building indefinitely postponed, with Governor Edwin Stuart speech in favor of retaining building (and closing third floor if fire hazard is so great).
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to allow semi-annual payment of dues defeated.
Event: resolution requesting Board to make provisions for addresses of large national interest and importance.
Secretary's Report:
Event: Republican years 1908-1912 saw numerous events, but under current administration work of the Guest Committee has been muted.
Politics/national: Democratic taxes and legislative attack criticized.
House:
Art/artifacts: General Sherman portrait from Henry C. Moore; Colonel Francis Wister portrait from Jones Wister; clock from Battleship Maine port-hole from George F. Hoffman; Broad Street pictures cleaned and glass placed over them where necessary.
Building: old restaurant woodwork and fireplace repaired, new lighting fixtures provided; Broad Street third floor work, including moving 75 wooden lockers.
Event: motion picture showing "The Story of David Copperfield" for members and later ladies
Guest Committee:
Event: dinner and transcription of address by Argentina Ambassador Don Romulo S. Naon.
Finance:
recommend dues increases because of house maintenance demands, reduction of dues with armed forces remittances, higher property assessment, even though entertainments have been significantly reduced.
Annual Meeting
By-Laws: amendment to allow Civil War veterans names placed at head of applicant list--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of William T. Tilden.
Event: new practice to hold receptions for new members.
Politics/national: no political statement made in view of world crisis (see notes).
House:
Art/artifacts: Philip H. Sheridan portrait from Mrs. Adelaide Paris Spang; mounted trout from Henry H. Roelofs.
Guest Committee:
Event: receptions and transcripts of transactions for former Union League Secretary George P. Morgan (including Edwin S. Stuart proposal for Lincoln memorial room and presentation of Morgan portrait--see notes), former New York Senator Elihu Root, recipient of Gold Medal, including addresses of Root, Utah Senator Reed Smoot, Pennsylvania Senator George T. Oliver, and 50th anniversary of opening of Union League house with guest of honor former President William Howard Taft, with addresses by Taft, Mayor Blankenburg, C. Stuart Patterson, and former Governor Edwin S. Stuart.
Library:
special attention to European War and Civil War.
Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns facsimile from John Gribbel; documents relating to Panama Canal in 25 volumes from James B. Bonner.
Special Meeting and Mass Meeting
Politics/national: ratification and campaign meeting for Republican candidates Charles Evans Hughes for President and Charles Warren Fairbanks for Vice President, including campaign address by Hughes.
Annual Meeting:
Building: $20,000 authorized for conversion of north library wing into Memorial Room to members serving in Civil War.
Program: resolution to urge Fairmount Park Commissioners to preserve Grant's Cabin.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on deaths of W. Atlee Burpee, Brevit Major-General David Gregg, General Galusha Pennypacker.House:
Archives/sculpture: Marshall's steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln from S. Emlen Meigs; marble statue and pedestal from Florence Fox; marble bust from R. Edey Clay; bust and pedestal from J. Haseltine Carstairs.
Guest:
Event: Founders' Day reception (November 1916) to Philander C. Knox, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, and Corporal James Tanner; reception and transcript of address by former United States Assistant Attorney General James M. Beck, "The Republican Party and the Foreign Relations of the United States;" illustrated lecture on transportation of wounded soldiers by John H. McFadden, Jr.; reception and transcript of address by Massachusetts Senator John W. Weeks, "The Finances of the United States."
Building: new service corridor and other changes to improve sanitary conditions; Cashier's Office moved to Flemish Room and space renovated as office for Union League officers; Cigar Desk moved; Broad Street members coat and wash rooms remodeled.
Employee: painter, upholsterer and plumber added.
Guest Committee:
see House events
Library:
Additions include 42 on subject of recent conditions in Europe with military maps of Europe and Mexico.
Special Meeting, February 8
Politics/national: resolution to support President in the international crisis, with much patriotic oratory
Annual Meeting
Operations: resolution to economize in Union League management in order to support the Federal Government (in part an opposition to proposed dues increase in order to "maintain a standard of comfort").By-Laws: amendment to raise dues to $125 and life membership to $1,250--tabled
Member: resolution on death of William T. Elliott
Secretary's Report:
Program: Special Committee of Officers and former Presidents plan for The Soldiers and Sailors annex, building obtained (see also House report); advisory committee to the Mayor with respect to preparedness work; First and Second Liberty Loan subscriptions.
Member: minute on death of Admiral George Dewey.
Membership: dues of men serving in military service remitted.
Sculpture/art: $20,000 for memorial tablets; life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln and George Dewey portrait from Art Association.
House:
Event: addresses by Edward J. Cattell, J. A. Macdonald (Lincoln's Birthday), Frank Yeigh, and motion pictures of Antarctic region.
Artifacts: reins to Lincoln's hearse from Albert LaRue.
Operations: as a result of the abnormal advance of all character of supplies and in addition thereto a material increase in taxes and wages, necessary to cut down on many established expenditures.
Guest Committee:
Event: dinner commemorating R. Dale Benson Golden Anniversary of membership.
Finance:
recommend dues increases because of house maintenance demands, reduction of dues with armed forces remittances, higher property assessment, even though entertainments have been significantly reduced.
Library:
Building: changes in North and South Rooms diminished shelf space and North Room volumes are stored on fifth floor; additional shelving and a store-room or annex needs consideration.
Secretary's Report:
Program: summary of Liberty Loan subscriptions.
Member: memorial on death of Theodore Roosevelt.
House Committee:
Operations: wines and liquors disposed of due to Prohibition.
Building; new service elevator from kitchen to second floor; new cigar desk; new air washing machine; new hot water system; roof and balustrade repair; improved lighting and cleaned paintings; Moravian Street curb repair.
Event: armistice celebration.
Artifacts: sailfish by H. A. Lehman; German brass shell case by Dr. John A. McKenna.
Program: Annex closed, with special report of Annex Committee giving account of operations.
Non-Union League event: Conclave of the Knights Templar.
Guest Committee:
Event: United States Naval Training Station Glee Club performance; movie "The Spirit of Lafayette" regarding book written and presented by James Mott Hallowell; address by James M. Beck "The League of Nations;" reception for Governor William C. Sproul; reception for and address by Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury; reception for General John J. Pershing; address by Frederic William Wile; transcript of Founders' Day transactions November 1919, and address of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler on "The Republican Party--Its Present Duty and Opportunity."
Library Committee:
Building: New electric reading lamps.
Collections: John Wanamaker gift of over 100 books.
Secretary's Report:
Member: Memorial to General R. Dale Benson.
House:
Building: Radical changed to heating system; no longer an expectation that the Broad Street Building would be rebuilt, so exterior and interior cleaned and painted; refurbished and refurnished rooms, hallways, sleeping rooms; electric display sign on front of building rebuilt.
Events: Motion pictures.
Art: 10 oil paintings from John F. Smith collection by Mrs. John F. Combs.
Guest:
Event: Reception for and addresses by Philadelphia Mayor J. Hampton Moore, transcription of Founder's Day address by Henry Cabot Lodge, on past campaign and Republican agenda ahead.
Politics/national: Ratification meeting for Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge and campaign rally with Coolidge; transcription of address by George Wharton Pepper on the League of Nations.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: Amendments concerning liquor, number of members admitted each month, male-only membership, restrictions on use of the Ladies' rooms, candidate ticket position procedure, terms for president, expenses for building improvements, use of entrance fees, suspension for offenses, timing for By-Law amendments--passed.
House:
Operations: New doors and windows; many rooms repainted; repairs to washrooms; appraisal made of building contents and equipment.
Employee: Temporary layoffs during summer.
Events: "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" repeated; various motion pictures.
Art: General William T. Sherman portrait by Newhall Post Number 7, G. A. R.
Guest:
Event: Dinner for and transcripts of addresses by Job E. Hedges "The Contract of Citizenship," United States Senator from Indiana James E. Watson on Republican Party accomplishments since taking office (Founders' Day).
House:
Building: Barber shop and Turkish baths moved to bowling alley, bowling alley moved to floor below; Mazer Acoustile System installed in Lincoln Hall and dining rooms.
Event: Motion pictures including "The Shadows of the West," "Theodora," "The Count of Monte Cristo;" illustrated lectures "The Depths of the Sea," by Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, "Secrets of Red Rule in Russia," by Sir Paul Dukes; Fortnightly Club concert.
Guest:
Event: Dinner for and transcripts of address by Senator George Wharton Pepper on foreign and domestic affairs, with transcript of proceedings, Senator David A. Reed on government regulation, enforcement of prohibition (and its affects in the slums), and Anglo-Saxon values (Founders' Day).
Library:
Collections: 126 volumes from W. M. Sterrett; 18 illustrated volumes of Goethe, Schiller and others from John L. Heineman; 'Mr. Vanderbilt's House and Collection" from Edward Cadwallader; volumes from George W. Bremer estate; signatures of Senators voting for Johnson impeachment from Edward A. Stockton.
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: Resolutions to Congress regarding Mellon tax reduction plan.
Secretary's Report:
Member: Memorial on death of Charlemagne Tower
House:
Event: Concerts by the Fortnightly Club and Marguerite Sylva; Illustrated lectures "Big Game Hunting in the Canadian Rockies" by Dr. William H. Moore, "My Northern Exposure" (humorous) by George S. Chappell, Washington Birthday address by Arthur Branscombe; various motion pictures.
Building: Grass plots on sides of 15th Street entrance cemented over; Lincoln Hall chandelier chrystals cleaned, rewired and replaced, reducing weight.
Sculpture/artifacts: "The Bathing Girl" from S. S. Wenzell; moose head from J. D. Watkins; elk head from D. E. Dallam; marble statues of Washington and Franklin and three paintings from Joseph Trotter.
Library:
Collections: 155 volumes from W. M Sterrett; Sir J. G. Frazer works from H. C. Thiselton; books from Board of Education; Violet Oakley's "Holy Experiment" from G. A. Bisler.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: Amendment to require applicants for membership be 21 years old, with one argument being that as a "Republican Club" for which each candidate is asked if he has voted always for the Republican candidate, candidates under 21 will not have voted ever; another argument that young men have not yet demonstrated a business reputation to be judged. Amendment amended to raise age to 25. Passed.
Politics/national: Campaign Committee report.
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: Ratification of nomination of Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes.
House:
Event: Guest Ambassador to Japan Cyrus E. Woods event cancelled; concerts by Fortnightly Club, Women's Symphony Orchestra; addresses by Major Vivian Gilbert "The Romance of the Last Crusade," Frank Branch Riley "The Lure of the Great Northwest" (illustrated); motion picture "Pioneer Trails;" Pueblo Indian entertainment in costume.
Building: New Sansom Street pavement with posts; new ventilating system for Card Room, new lighting fixtures, rewired window screens, floors refinished with purchase of resurfacing machine; new motion picture machine.
Sculpture: Bronze bust of General George H. Thomas loaned by Mr. George Thomas Lambert.
Employee: Death of head of Billiard and Pool Rooms James S. Rawlings.
Guest:
Event: Dinner for and address "Abraham Lincoln" by Ohio Senator Simeon D. Fess; dinner and reception for Philadelphia Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick and his Cabinet; transcript of campaign addresses by former Kansas Governor Henry J. Allen, Pennsylvania Senator David A. Reed, United States Attorney General Harlan F. Stone; transcript of Founders Day address by former Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge on proposed Constitutional amendments.
Library:
Collections: 133 volumes from W. M. Sterrett.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: Approval of wording of amendment regarding minimum age of applicant depending on date of proposal; amendment to add 26 Civil War Veterans to life membership.
Secretary's Report:
Member: Resolutions on deaths of C. Stuart Patterson, J., Warner Hutchins, James E. Mitchell, John W. Hamer.
Building: Bronze tablet memorial to those who served in the World War.
House:
Event: Concerts by Fortnightly Club, Choral Art Society, Women's Symphony Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Building: Rooms repainted; Ladies' Dining Room enlarged; cigar desk and humidor room moved.
Artifacts/archives/art/ sculpture: Silver cup from Mrs. Thomas S. Dando won by and in memory of her husband (see July Board minutes); book of photographs of original League building from Mrs. John Frisbee Keator; Henry C. Carey portrait from Howard Evans; F. O. C. Darley drawing "Sherman's March to the Sea," loaned by George T. Lambert; clock by F. L. Thomson, Jr.; B. F. Gilmore telegraph key and bulletins issued at time of Lee's surrender from H. Gilmore (see July Board minutes, attributed to W. G. Gilmore, but endorsement on manuscript appears to be B. F.); bronze statuary from Frank Samuel in memory of Colonel A. Louden Snowden (see October Board minutes, gift attributed to Mrs. Samuel in annual report, but to Mr. Samuel in minute book).
Guest:
Event: Transcripts of addresses by Missouri Senator Selden P. Spencer (Lincoln Day), Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, Massachusetts Senator William M. Butler, Montaville Flowers "America Looking Ahead," Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis (Founders' Day).
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on the deaths of George P. Morgan, Walter P. Sharp, Bayard Henry.
House:
Event: addresses by Joseph Fort Newton (Lincoln Day), Gene Lamb "Tibet--the Forbidding Forbidden Land" (with motion picture); Flag Day luncheon for Governors and other officials of thirteen original states and the Mayor of Philadelphia, followed by march to the Sesqui-Centennial; concerts by the Fortnightly Club, Choral Art Society, Boys of Seventy-Six drum and bugle corps; exhibition billiard matches.
Employee: life and disability insurance for employees in service for over a year.
Artifacts/archives: hall clock, mantel clock, candelabra (2) from R. Edey Clay (all placed in Library, see February Board minutes); George H. Boker letter, 1864, to Major General George H. Thomas tendering silver medal from Joseph G. Lester; gavel from Independence Square elm from William H. Kingsley; John P. Nicholson table noted for 1878 gathering from Mrs. George R. Stull; picture "The Monk's Rehearsal" from Major Frank H. Rosengarten; picture of Abraham Lincoln from James N. Stetston (October Board minutes attribute gift to Mr. Stetson, annual report gives Mrs. Stetson); Washington's Prayer illumination from Mrs. Charles F. Griffith.
Guest:
Event: receptions for and transcripts of addresses by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon (also address by George Wharton Pepper), former Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden (Grant's Birthday), Speaker of the House of Representatives Nicholas Longworth, Governor-elect John S. Fisher (with Pennsylvania Chief Justice Robert Von Moschzisker); transcript of proceedings of reception to the Governors of the Thirteen Original States.
Library:
Collection: 37 volumes on Napolean and French history from H. Bartol Brazier.
Artifacts: appreciation of hall clock from Clay (see House).
Secretary's Report:
Member: Calvin Coolidge elected honorary member; resolution on death of Charles Robert Miller.
House:
Event: motion pictures "Tell it to the Marines" (with Lon Chaney, see May Board minutes) "Service for Ladies;" concert by Women's Symphony Orchestra.
Non-Union League event: Military Order of Foreign Wars, Pennsylvania Commandery annual meeting.
Building: former waitress locker and rest room (on second floor) renovated as Grant Room; Broad Street subway will not greatly interfere with entrance
Art/sculpture/artifacts/archives: painting "Breaking Up of the Party" and picture "The Baths of Caracalla" by Edwin F. Keen; Emancipation Proclamation with signatures from John Gribbel and Edwin F. Keen; Rogers' group statuette "Council of War" from William C. Sproul; elk's head from Mrs. Samuel J. Magarge; Union League Silver Medal to John McDowell, Jr., from Mrs. F. Buck McDowell; Civil War cartridge box by James McMullan; engraving "Speech of Henry Clay in the United States Senate" by Mrs. Charles Mortimore; War of the Rebellion scrapbook from Emerson R. Sausser, D. D. S.
Guest:
Event: dinner for and transcript of addresses by Pennsylvania governor John S. Fisher and United States Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan (Lincoln's Birthday); transcript of Founders' Day addresses by William C. Sproul and President Calvin Coolidge.
Library:
Walter T. Bradley Perpetual Library Fund ($10,000) for repair or purchase of books established by Colonel Bradley.
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: ratification of nomination of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to increase membership limit from 3,300 to 3,100. No quorum.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on deaths of E. Pusey Passmore, William C. L. Eglin, William C. Sproul.
Politics/national: four campaign luncheons with transcript of addresses by Pennsylvania Congressman George S. Graham, former Kansas Governor Henry J. Allen, Connecticut Senator Hiram Bingham, Maine Congressman Carroll L. Beedy; Ladies of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania reception for Mrs. Herbert Hoover.
Operations: presentation of Bibles for guest rooms by The Gideons.
House:
Event: concerts by the Combined Music Clubs of Princeton University; motion picture "The Patsy;" billiard exhibition match.
Building: Broad Street subway engineers agreement on condition of building; Smoking Room renovation following fire. Artifacts: antique iron chest from David E. Dallam (used for fine tapestry storage, see April Board minutes); gavel made from Revolutionary War Frigate "Augusta" from G. Gerald Evans.
Guest:
Event: dinner for, presentation of Gold Medal to, and transcript of address by General John J. Pershing; dinner for and transcript of address by Philadelphia Mayor Harry A. Mackey; transcript of campaign address by Pennsylvania Governor John S. Fisher.
Library:
Event: new feature "Library Nights" with various musical and speaking entertainments.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendments to increase membership to 3,300--tabled; lower age of eligibility for membership to 21--tabled; the marking of ballots--passed; form a committee of seven to codify existing by-laws and submit new ones--tabled.
Employee: noted that there are 362 employees.
Secretary's Report:
Operations: added office of Controller.
House:
Event: illustrated lectures by Carveth Wells "My Six Years in the Jungles in Malay," Captain Donald B. MacMillan "Under the Northern Lights;" concert by Gene and Kathleen Lockhart.
Building: Broad Street subway construction effects including Old Restaurant repairs to make 'a very handsome Old English Restaurant; Sun Ray room added to Turkish Baths; special committee survey of mechanical department with recommended repairs being made.
Employee: C. A. Bigler, Jr., M.D. named House Employee Physician.
Sculpture/artifacts: statuary from W. W. Harrison estate; 1892 Chicago Columbia Exposition prize winning replica of "The Dying Gaul," with console and bronze urn from Edward I. Smith; silver urn given by the Whig women of Tennessee to Henry Clay from Louis J. Kolb (see also Minutes).
Guest:
Event: transcript of Founders' Day address by former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy Henry P. Fletcher on freedom of the seas (with introductory comment that Vare should have been allowed to take Senate seat).
Library:
Collections: books relating to Civil War from William A. Paton library from Mrs. Martha Paton; stereopticon views of World War and of foreign countries.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to provide a successor to the President in case of death--no quorum.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on deaths of Melville G. Baker, William Howard Taft, Dimner Beeber.
House:
Event: dinner and entertainment by "Uncle" Bob Sherwood, last of Barnum's clowns; billiard exhibitions by Otto Reiselt, Isidro Ribas, Albert G. Gutler.
Employee: death of Dr. C. A. Bigler, Jr., replaced by Dr. Charles J. Jones.
Building: Ladies Room redesigned, increasing capacity, by architects Ritter and Shay.
Privileges: new rules for admission to Ladies Dining Room.
Archives/artifacts/art: "A" Company Republican Invincibles minute book and roster from Annabel V. Thomas; American Bald Eagle in glass case from William P. Kemp Estate (minutes, see Notes); Civil War musket and belt from Warner J. Steel; Benjamin Gerhard portrait from Albert P. Gerhard; Senator Boies Penrose chair from Samuel McCreery and Kennard G. Keen.
Guest:
Event: Lincoln Day dinner and transcript of addresses by Lincoln Club President Howard Benton Lewis, Reverend S. Parkes Cadman and United States Assistant Attorney General Seth W. Richardson.
Library:
Employee: resolution on death of librarian William Patton Elwell.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: procedures for call for Special Meetings--passed; quorums for nomination and annual and special meetings--passed; printing of ballots and tickets--passed; provision replacement in absence or death of President--passed; notification of members regarding policy decisions--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of Charles E. Roberts.
House:
Event: films "Buried Sunshine" and "The Battle Song of the Cities" with music by Lanin's Orchestra; speech by Carl Weagant "The Cruise of the Carlshark from Ithaca, New York, to Ithaca, Greece."
Art/artifacts/archives: reception to President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover and presentation of Pilides Costa portrait (transcript of brief remarks by Hoover); carved moosehead from Walter E. Hering; two urns, marble statue on ebony base, signed photograph of John Sergeant from Henry C. Brown Estate; record made by Libbey Prison prisoner (reproduction, see June Board minutes) from E. E. Brownell; moosehead from John M. Harper.
Building: Benson, Farragut, and Grant rooms completely redecorated and repainted; doorway from Benson Room into main corridor; Colonial Room restored.
Guest:
Event: dinners and transcripts of addresses by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein "Present Economic Situation in Europe" (see March Board minutes), Pennsylvania United States Congressman James M. Beck, Pennsylvania Senator David A. Reed "Financial and Economic Problems of the next Congress" (Founders' Day, see October Board minutes).
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national: special meeting to ratify nomination of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, with address by Connecticut Congressman John Q. Tilson; transcript of campaign address by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson "Foreign Relations;" two campaign luncheons with transcripts of addresses by former United States Solicitor General Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and General James G. Harbord; Campaign Committee raises $37,800 from 848 members.
History: printed condensed, updated historical handbook.
Member: memorial resolution on death of Franklin R. Maxwell.
House:
Event: Strawbridge & Clothier Chorus concert; with Library, Library Night address by D. Arthur Hobson Quinn "Contemporary American Drama;" luncheon for Hawaii Territory Governor Lawrence M. Judd.
Employee: 306 employees donate over $2,500 to United Campaign.
Artifacts: Philadelphia Brigade flag and history from Colonel Charles H. Banes (family, see February 2 House Committee minutes); deer head, bear head, goat's horns from Ada V. Compton estate; mounted sail fish from William M. Francis; Joseph G. Darlington President's Cup from Louis A. Flanagan.
Guest:
Event: dinner and addresses by Philadelphia Mayor J. Hampton Moore, transcript of address of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke in defense of President Hoover (Lincoln Day).
Library:
Operations: innovation to allow members to take books out.
Committee of Public Affairs:
Politics/national: committee appointed; called meeting with address by political observer and United States Daily editor David Lawrence and passing resolution calling for National, State and City budget reductions, disapproving of appropriations by National government to state governments on "so-called '50-50' basis," supporting "wise and constructive leadership of President Hoover....."
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of J. Henry Radey Acker, Calvin Coolidge.
Politics/national: resolution in support of "Roosevelt Economy Bill."
House:
Building: former locker and store rooms renovated for private dining, name Sheridan Room; Grant Room completely renovated for private dining.
Operations: cooling equipment purchased on legalization of beer.
Non-Union League event: Salvation Army luncheon and use of portico as reviewing stand.
Artifacts/archives: 12th New Jersey Volunteers Regimental flag and other Civil War trophies loaned by L. Howell Davis; Fairmount Park Lincoln statue photograph from Wall and Ochs.
Guest:
Event: "Due to the unusual times and the desire of the Board of Directors to economize to as large an extent as possible, the Union League held no reception during the year...."
Committee on Public Affairs:
Event: dinner and transcript of address by Nation's Business editor Merle Thorpe on economic and business conditions.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: resigned members may come back without entrance fee payment--passed.
Secretary's Report
Politics/state: campaign luncheons with addresses by Chicago Daily News editor Colonel Frank Knox, Theodore J. Grayson, Pennsylvania United States
Senator and candidate for re-election David A. Reed, Pennsylvania Attorney General and candidate for Governor William A. Schnader.
House:
Event: concert by Orpheus Club; luncheon and reception to Vice Admiral Harris Laning and officers of the United States Fleet visiting Philadelphia.
Privileges: arrangements for car storage and valet service with Pullman Garage; open table in Benson Room for members lunching alone.
Employee: manager William F. Homiller elected President of Club Managers' Association of America.
Artifacts. President's Cup for Chess won by late William M. Baldwin from Mrs. William M. Baldwin.
Guest:
Event: Grant's birthday dinner and transcript of address by National Industrial Conference Board President Dr. Virgil Jordan on the "New Deal."
Library:
Employee: John J. Moraski succeeds Dr. A. C. Carty.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: amendments to strike provision for no liquor service (with discussion of where bar might be installed)--passed; updating existing By-Law--passed; more modern payment of dues--passed; new method of determining seniority among vice presidents--passed; use of Permanent Fund solely for use of building, rebuilding, or other improvements to real property--defeated.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: restrict spending of Permanent fund to 50% (25%?) for building projects and remainder available for unrestricted use--passed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: extension of deadline for readmission of former members.
House:
Event: Joseph C. Dunninger exhibition of concentration and mind reading; luncheon for Vice Admiral Dir Matthew Best and officers of HMS "York."
Privileges: interchange of club courtesies with Union League Club of New York.
Operations: liquor service restored.
Building: cold water lines replaced.
Objects: two American flags from Mrs. Charles D. Gill; 2 elk head and 2 moose head from John R. Reese.
Guest:
Event: with Committee on Public Affairs, special meeting address by United States Senator from Delaware Daniel O. Hastings on direction of national affairs, particularly relating to violations of the Constitution, and ending with a warning that colored men have been bribed by jobs given by Democrats to vote against the Republican Party that "has been fighting for a place in the sun for the colored man.."
Special Meeting:
Politics/national: meeting to ratify Republican Presidential and Vice Presidential Alf M. Landon and Frank Knox, with transcript of address by former Senator from Connecticut Hiram Bingham.
Secretary's Report:
Program: resolution donating $1,000 to the United Campaign for flood relief and requesting individual members to make contributions.
Member: resolution on death of John Gribbel.
Politics/national: Campaign Committee raised $73,550.
House:
Event: various tournaments, dinner dances, chess exhibitions; Orpheus Club concert.
Building: open club luncheon table in Benson Room; Lincoln Memorial Room furnished for use as a conference of conversation room.
Art/artifacts/archives: frames throughout the house requilded; C. Stuart Patterson Civil War sword and scabbard from George Stuart Patterson; one of 21 original copies of Declaration of Independence with picture of signing from Mrs. J. D. Farrar and Mrs. Charles S. Boyer; written order to Dr. H. D. McLean, 106th Infantry, at Gettysburg to remain until sick and wounded were removed from Dr. John D. McLean.
Guest:
Event: Committee of Public Affairs luncheons and club nights; National Campaign Committee meeting with transcript of address by George Wharton Pepper "Saving the Union" (see October Board minutes), followed by Prize Essay Contest awards for "Why I Support the Republican Party" by Republican Men of Pennsylvania.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment regarding extension of eligibility for readmission of resigned members--passed.
Charter: amendment to omit restriction on income from investments to bring conformity with non-profit laws--passed.
Membership: resolution to periodically mail list of candidates for membership--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of Edwin S. Stuart.
Program: The Union League Prize Essay Contest for young men on "The American Idea in Government" (see March Board minutes for announcement)
Art: Art Association renewed activities.
House:
Event: humorous and inspirational address by James E. Gheen; illustrated lecture by Jay V. Hare and his wife "Spain and Its Gardens; Fortnightly Club concert; Constitution 150th Anniversary meeting with The Union League Prize Essay Contest awards.
Building: Library completely renovated and refurnished; Lincoln Memorial Room redenominated the "Conference Room."
Program: donations to American Red Cross ($500, for flood relief, see February Board minutes) and United Campaign ($1,250)
Employee: William F. Homiller retired and replaced by William H. Stauffer, Jr.
Artifacts: Colonel Robert G. March uniform buckle and cuff links and portrait from G. Walter Bates; Union League Honor Medal presented by Frank H. Sykes to the Lincoln Table from the Lincoln Table; cane made from S. S. Kearsage from Joseph G. Rittenhouse, Jr.; Lincoln Medal from Alonzo Bates; rug from Samuel P. Carmel.
Guest:
Event: transcript of Founders' Day address by former Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby "Some Aspects of Constitutional Government in the United States.."
Annual Meeting:
Building: ratification of purchase of property at 1418 Sansom Street
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on the deaths of Edward T. Stotesbury, Henry Clay Butcher, on election to honorary membership of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Owen J. Roberts.
Politics/national: Special Committee on Registration appointed to work within membership to register voters.
Operations:
Joseph F. Stockwell designed club flag.
House:
Event: Lincoln birthday celebration reintroduced with transcript of address by Reverend Joseph Fort Newton; Jose R. Capablanca chess exhibition.
History: 73rd anniversary of Broad Street building celebrated with exhibits of interest.
Non-Union League event: United States Steel Corporation premiere showing of Technicolor, sound motion picture "Steel--Man's Servant."
Art/artifacts/archives: William McGregor Paxton's portrait of Calvin Coolidge from Committee of the Art Association ($1,000, see May Board minutes); Leopold Seyffert portrait of former president Otto Robert Heiligman hung; Police Pension Fund Association bronze statue given to Abraham M. Beitler from Harold B. I. Beitler; Police Pension Fund sevres vase given to Abraham M. Beitler from Mrs. Franklin S. Edmonds; 1863 Union League medal from J. Howard Brown; Barton Green 1865 tax receipt from Barton Green Lester; confederate currency from Alonzo Bates; United States Sanitary Commission book showing records of work from George Stuart Patterson; 1866 member and officer list from D. Webster Bell; Richard L. Ashhurst; 1863 admission card from George Stuart Patterson
Building: cigar stand and humidor renovated, service bar in place of humidor, glass washing pantry in place of service bar; Marble Room ceiling sound conditioned.
Guest:
Event: 75th Anniversary of founding with address by President Wilson's Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby (see 1937 Annual Report for transcript).
Library:
Event: Library Night with speaker
Saturday Evening Post Associate Editor and "The Hurricane" Associate Producer Merritt Hulburd.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: extension of readmission provisions; substitute "annual dues" for "annual tax;" change in hours of voting; placing of asterisks with candidates name--passed.
President's Report:
Event: Gold Medal to Vice-President and Chairman of the House Committee Frank van Roden.
Secretary's Report:
Art: Committee of the Art Association has paintings and portraits restored by Arthur Edwin Bye.
House:
Event: table tennis demonstration; supper and program with entertainment by Cornelia Otis Skinner; intra-club bowling league formed.
Building: Third floor of Broad Street building altered for two golf courts, table tennis equipment, and washroom and locker facilities; new kitchen ventilating system.
Art/artifacts: Leopold Seyffert portrait of Otto Rober Heiligman loaned to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Albert Bierstadt painting "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1862 Union League medal from Hugh D. Scott, Jr.; Daniel Shuster badge worn during Lincoln's first campaign from Dr. J. Torrance Rugh; bowling trophy from Theodore G. Alteneder; Centennial opening exercises program from Sidney E. Smith.
Guest:
Event: Lincoln birthday with transcript of address by Governor of Ohio John W. Bricker.
Finance:
Building: purchase of 1418 Sansom Street.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to establish junior membership, with extensive debate--tabled.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of J. Grey Emmons and Davis L. Lewis.
Art: Committee of the Art Association dissolved, Art Committee of the Union League appointed, contract with Dr. Arthur Edwin Bye to publish an art catalog.
Politics/national: National Campaign Committee raises $120,966.
House:
Event: reception for Mayor-elect Robert E. Lamberton; reception for and transcript of addresses by Robert T. McCracken on city finances and Mayor Robert E. Lamberton (president's introduction notes that Union League's fall in political clout); two entertainments by mind-reader and illusionist Joseph Dunninger; transcripts of addresses by Governor Arthur H. James and Senatorial candidate Jay Cooke, with Wilkie campaign newsreel.
Politics/national: Philco Radio and Television Corporation install two televisions for viewing Republican National Convention.
Art/archives: John Neagle portrait of Henry Clay and Albert Bierstadt's painting "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to Carnegie Institute; William M. Paxton portrait of Allen M. Stearne hung; Publication Committee record book and Sunday use of restaurant facilities vote record book from Morris L. Parrish.
Special Meeting
By-Laws: amendment to reduce initiation fee to $100 from $300--passed.
Annual Meeting:
Program: resolution to support the President of the United States in protecting the country and to recommend Union League actions.
By-Laws: members who have been active for 50 years be granted honorary membership, retroactive to 1939--passed (despite lack of support from the Board); omitting date--passed; omitting article on readmission--passed; changing grace period for dues payment from eight months to three months--passed; allow clergymen from the suburbs with religious activities in city into clerical role--passed; provision for candidates with same number of votes--passed; allow Board to elect its President--passed; giving Board power to employ public accountants--passed; regarding the Permanent Fund--passed; regarding default in payment of dues--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on the death of Otto Robert Heiligman.
Membership: resolution on remission of dues for members serving in armed forces--passed.
Program: campaign to raise funds for Pennsylvania Nation Guard recruitment in Philadelphia.
Art: Dr. Arthur Edwin Bye art catalog completed.
House:
Politics/national: election night returns exhibited with other entertainment.
Event: Pennsylvania-Cornell football game televised; dinner and transcript of address by special envoy to Europe Colonel William J. Donovan; luncheon meetings with transcripts of addresses by Colonel Franklin D'Olier, Ambassador to France and Russia William C. Bullitt.
Sculpture/artifacts: Napoleon bust from Mrs. Thomas J. Jeffries; "Republican Invincibles" 1860 badge from Clifford M. Gaw.
Library:
Event: Library Night address by Evening Bulletin foreign correspondent Melvin K. Whiteleather.
Annual Meeting:
Program: donation of $15,000 to United Charities and $10,000 to American Red Cross (see also Secretary's Report)
By-Laws: amendment to procedure for appointing committee members and chairmen--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolution on death of Frank van Roden.
Finance: Union League investments should be in United States Government securities in so far as is practicable.
House:
Building: illuminated sign with Lincoln quote on Broad Street portico; blackout facilities arranged.
Employee: one month's salary given to employees serving in armed forces; employees participating in War Bond purchases.
Non-Union League: Philadelphia Chapter, Military Order of the World War dinner.
Event: Lincoln birthday address transcript by Lafayette College President Dr. William Mather Lewis; lunch with address transcript by former Under Secretary of the Treasury John W. Hanes on "Taxation."
Operations: ."..difficult due to the increased cost of raw materials and wages. The labor problem is acute and becoming increasingly so."
Artifacts: hand carved mantel clock from Mrs. Jonathan Jenks.
Library:
Event: luncheon with address by former Flight Leader of the American Volunteer Group in China Peter Wright.
War Emergency Committee:
Program: United States Navy League booth on Broad Street for sale of War Savings Bonds and Stamps; cards for residents' windows "having to do with members of families in combat and the other with those who are prepared from the standpoint of defense" (at request of Civilian Defense Committee, May Board minutes); guest cards to armed forces officers sponsored by members; Broad Street third floor given to United States Coast Guard Reserves officers as meeting place and dressing quarters.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to extend number of visits allowed by visitors from four to twelve (remarks include observation that it is difficult for members to get accommodations because of crowds of officers, and that there are severe shortages of food and particularly liquor--with statistics on liquor consumption)--defeated.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of Joseph F. Stockwell, George Stuart Patterson, E. Lawrence Fell.
Program: donations of $20,000 to United War Chest, $15,000 to American Red Cross War Fund.
House:
Event: luncheon address by wife of Director of the Economic Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece Kaity A. Argyropoulo.
Operations: meatless days inaugurated; Union League designated "essential and 'locally needed,'" in return for which numerous "luxury" items and services were eliminated (June Board minutes: "The Philadelphia Hotel Association group has been given this classification, and it has been found that it makes operations much easier and that their labor turnover is greatly reduced."). -Building: emergency stairway installed from Broad Street third floor (March Board minutes, so that Coast Guard can use room for sleeping).
Art/sculpture/archives: Abraham Lincoln bas relief from Courtland P. Morris; painting "A Toast to the Bride" from Mrs. John C. Chaffe; 1887 Gilbert and Bacon Union League photographs in bound leather from Wilkins J. Perkins; hall clock from Mrs. G. A. Van Lennep, Jr., and David Stockwell; George H. Boker, Union League Secretary, to William McGowan praising McGowan's service at burning of League, 1866, from John W. Benson; H. M. S. "Royal Sovereign" picture from Captain Peter Skelton, R. N., and Commander Kenneth Langmaid, R. N., 75th Grant Banquet anniversary booklet from Frank J. Smith.
Guest:
Event: Constitution Day dinner and address transcript by Ohio Governor John W. Bricker; address transcript by Pennsylvania Governor Edward Martin.
Library:
Event: illustrated lecture by Dr. Michael M. Dorizas "A Journey through War-Time Russia" (see Secretary's report).
Secretary's Report:
Program: $20,000 donation to American Red Cross.
Employee: resolution on completion of 50 years of service by William A. Cloak, Restaurant Manager.
Event: Governor Martin proclaims celebration of 300th anniversary of William Penn's birth for which Union League holds club night with address by Haverford College President Emeritus Dr. William Wistar Comfort.
Politics/national: ratifying meeting for nomination of Thomas E. Dewey for United States President and John W. Bricker for United States Vice President, with address by Pennsylvania State Senator G. Mason Owlett; Campaign and Finance Committees raise $252,950.
Building: appointment of committee to formulate plans for improvements.
House:
Event: pocket billiards exhibition by "Willie" Mosconi; "Good Neighbor Night--Mexico" with presentation by Mexican Ambassador Sr. Dr. Don Francesco Castillo Najera to City of Philadelphia, with address by Princeton University Director of the School of Public and International Affairs Dr. Dana Munro (February Board minutes); Orpheus Club concert; Smoker for United States Naval Reserve trainees by Society of Alumni of Pennsylvania and Union League; "Whims and Hobbies show, with list of exhibitors and their hobbies.
Artifacts/art/archives: hall clock from John D. Johnson and T. Arthur Johnson; Broad Street building "portrait" from Edward Hoopes; autographed portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover from J. William Hardt; subscription books (2) to create capital stock to build League house and for Civil War pamphlet preparation from Benjamin Eshleman; 1904 Union League group at Gettysburg photograph from Carl Chafee; anniversary menus, 1896-1904, from R. Dale Benson, Jr.; 1856 Fremont and Dayton badge from Harry S. McDevitt.
Privileges: monthly publication of "The Union League Bulletin.
Operations: shortages on whiskies and gins so sales restricted.
Guest:
Event: lengthy list of men and women entertained.
Program Committee established in January to "offer recommendations...as to what the Union League could do, or should do, to maintain its traditions in keeping with the principles of it Founders, all of the foregoing to be considered from a political viewpoint."
Event: Republican leader addresses by Indiana Congressman Charles A. Halleck (Lincoln Day), Maine Senator Owen Brewster, New Jersey Senator Albert W. Hawkes; Connecticut Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce; newspaperman, economist, radio commentator and author Henry J. Taylor; dinner to Governors (including Democrats) attending a conference at Hershey.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to allow games on Sunday--defeated.
Secretary's Report:
Program: donation to American Red Cross of $20,000; appointment of War Veterans' Committee to supplement and cooperate with existing veterans' agencies; committee appointed to solicit subscriptions to the Seventh War Bond Drive, selling $1,786,350 worth of bonds.
Library: bequest for Joseph H. Taulane Book Fund (November 1944 Board minutes);
Politics/international/national: Union League endorses effort being made to make Philadelphia the meeting place of the Council of the United Nations; appointment of Committee on Public Affairs to cooperate and assist in national, state, and local undertakings of a civic or political nature.
History: University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. William P. Harbison contracted to bring "Chronicles" up to date (November 1944 Board minutes).
Event: Victory Day committee appointed (October 1944 Board minutes)
House:
Art/artifacts/archives: James Reid Lambdin portraits of Sherman, Grant, Sheridan, Farragut, Read loaned to John Wanamaker store in furtherance of bond drive; William Greatbache steel engraving "Testimonial dinner given to the Duke of Wellington..." from Ernest G. Weber; Lincoln funeral badge from Robert J. Nyce; Philip Weber oil painting "Moonlight oft the Coast of Grand Manan" from Dr. Paul J. Sartain bequest; Major Walter Howard Cooke and General William D. Whipple objects and papers from Mrs. George W. Jacobs; Abraham Lincoln statuette from Lieutenant Com. J. Bennett Nolan, USCGR; 1904 Roosevelt and Fairbanks badge and Union League Campaign Committee badge, and Union League Medal from R. Dale Benson, Jr.; 1865 Broad Street building photograph from Mrs. Alice Baxter; 1879 General Grant reception program from George B. Gold; C. V. Leitch Civil War musket from George V. B. Leitch; President William Howard Taft autographed photograph from Mrs. David Luke Hopkins.
Employee: head coatroom attendant George T. Bibbins recognized for 50 years' service with "suitable honorarium."
Privileges: reciprocal relations with Union League Club of New York discontinued at instance of New York.
Building: Broad Street third floor renovated with sleeping rooms by architect Ralph B. Benker.
Guest:
Event: list of prominent men entertained during meetings.
Program Committee:
Event: dinners and addresses by Armstrong Cork Company president and former National Association of Manufacturers president H. W. Prentis, Jr. "The Price of Freedom;" Rutgers University president Dr. Robert C. Clothier (Lincoln birthday); Massachusetts Representative and minority leader Joseph W. Martin; columnist, radio commentator and authority of Far East Upton Close. Property Improvement Committee
Building: retained Ralph B. Bencker to draw plans for recommended improvements to kitchen, health baths, dining rooms, second floor pantry space, bowling alleys, employees dining rooms, etc.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to restore initiation fee to $300 (from $100)--passed.
Building: vote to submit for ratification Project A, improvements to kitchen--passed, with discussion of economic advantages and disadvantages of undertaking improvements, and later approved by membership; vote to submit Project B, to install drinking, snack and oyster bars, and other changes--defeated, with remarks against establishing a bar.
Secretary's Report:
Program: donation to United War Chest of $5,000 and to American Red Cross of $5,000; committee appointed to consider memorial to Union League members serving in armed services; Youth Committee appointed to investigate some work with the youth.
Sculpture: The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States offers a memorial commemorating the fraternal relationship between it and Union League and subsequent presentation of bronze tablet.
Event: committee appointed to plan receptions for new members
Politics/national: permanent Union League Division, Republican Finance Committee of Pennsylvania appointed to raise funds on annual basis, rather than every four years, for Republican Party ($112,965 for 1946, see also Public Affairs).
House (organized into four subcommittees):
Building: Broad Street third floor sleeping rooms completed (see also Property Improvement Committee); small bar installed in the Old Cafe; bowling alley and other spaces required for storage during alterations.
Art/artifacts/archives: Samuel T. Freeman Company appraisal; Union Club decanter from Charles F. Derby; Photostats of 1865 New York Medical Journal editorials reporting on deaths of Abraham Lincoln and Valentine Mott from Dr. John O. Bower; Henry B. Benners (incorrectly given as Colonel George Washington Benners, see House Committee minutes, August 18, and list of early members) Civil War swords from Kate O. Benners; reproduction of photograph of Abraham Lincoln funeral car from Robert McCay Green; Joseph Harrison Brazier photograph from E. Josephine Brazier.
Operations: rationing discontinued with the exception of sugar, but in cooperation with famine relief program wheat and other certain products were reduced.
Guest:
Event: reception and address by Wyoming Senator Edward V. Robertson; address by Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall; address by National Industrial Conference Board president Dr. Virgil Jordan (Lincoln birthday); dinner and address by former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen
Public Affairs:
Event: luncheons and addresses by American Airlines head Ralph S. Damonh, Port Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade head George E. Bartol, Jr., Pennsylvania Railroad President M. W. Clement, City Planning Commission Chairman Edward Hopkinson, Jr., Los Angeles clergyman Dr. James W. Fifield, Jr., Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft.
Politics/local: letter urging members assistance to local Republican committeemen.
Property Improvement Committee:
Building: kitchen improvements; plan to eliminate Union League direct current generating plant and transfer to Philadelphia Electric Company's energy.
War Veterans Committee:
Program: raised $7,405, 232 veteran applications, 113 applicants placed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to raise annual dues from $125 to $150--passed.
Building: full report on new kitchen progress.
Secretary's Report:
Member: gold honorary memberships to George Wharton Pepper and Owen J. Roberts.
Program: War Veterans' Committee discontinued, 1,215 veterans placed; Boys' Work Committee report of first dinner for teen-age Boys' Citizenship Award Dinner.
Sculpture: Committee for World War II veterans' bronze tablet appointed.
Event: Committee on Receptions to newly elected members arranged five meetings.
Employee: appreciation for cooperation of kitchen staff and waitresses during renovations.
House (organized into five subcommittees):
Event: addresses by Coleman Company Vice President Ralph W. Carney, Franklin and Marshall College President Dr. Theodore A. Distler (Lincoln's Birthday); Philadelphia Inquirer and WFIL demonstration of the "Newspaper of Tomorrow" consisting of facsimile broadcasting.
Non-Union League: City Troop of Philadelphia preparedness meeting; Pennsylvania Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States with address by Chicago Tribune editor Colonel Robert R. McCormick.
Building: kitchen renovations; Health Baths renovation.
Artifacts: Abraham Lincoln campaign flag from John M. Lowe.
Guest:
Event: entertainments curtailed due to kitchen renovations.
Finance:
Finance: 1947 fiscal year in deficit of $22,613; 1948 budget show deficit, with suggestions for increasing revenue.
Library:
History: preparation of updated history nearing completion.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to clerical roll eligibility to restrict membership to those serving churches at which Union League members are communicants--tabled, after debate over eligibility definition and limitation on number of clerical members.
Privileges: request to have reciprocal privileges with Union League Club of New York restored, and some complaint that New York can use Philadelphia and not vice-versa.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolution on death of Raymond M. Remick.
Employee: authorization of employee Twenty-five Year Club, with appropriate insignias awarded, annual dinner held, additional week's vacation awarded; resolution on fifty years service of Comptroller Thomas H. Jones.
Event: Gold Medal award to Philadelphia Orchestra chairman and former University of Pennsylvania president Thomas Sovreign Gates, with concert by Eugene Ormandy led orchestra; newly elected member receptions.
Program: second annual Boy's Work Dinner report.
Politics/national: ratification of nomination of Thomas E. Dewey for President and Earl Warren for Vice President; Republican Finance Committee raises $230,000.
House:
Sculpture: bronze plaque with names of members serving in World War II armed forces erected.
Event: dinner and address by Pennsylvania Governor James Duff (Lincoln's Birthday); concert by Philadelphia Orchestra; program in honor of Girard College Centennial Anniversary and Ulysses S. Grant birthday anniversary; campaign addresses by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft and former Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen.
Building: Health Baths reconstruction; rewiring of Broad Street building using AC current purchased from Philadelphia Electric; new laundry equipment.
Artifacts: May 5, 1865, Daily Evening Bulletin framed from Richard L. Austin; medals worn at Union League reception for Abraham Lincoln and National Union Club badge worn at Lincoln Funeral procession from William B. Goodall.
Library:
Event: address by Librarian of Congress Dr. Luther H. Evans.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment concerning election procedures referred to special committee.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolution on death of Frank M. Hardt.
By-Laws: special committee appointed to consider revisions.
Privileges: reciprocal arrangements with Union League Club of New York restored.
Program: Committee on Boys Work report.
Politics/national: resolution supporting work of Hoover Commission in reorganizing Executive branch and urging Congress to act promptly on recommendations.
Finance: expense of $608,546.32 over ordinary maintenance cost.
House:
Event: dinner and address by New York Governor Alfred E. Driscoll (Lincoln's Birthday); concert by Curtis Institute of Music artists, Philadelphia Orchestra with dinner and reception for Dr. Eugene Ormandy; lunches and addresses by English publisher, author, and journalist Cecil Palmer "What Socialism is Doing to British Freedom," Republican National Committee Chairman Guy George Gabrielson.
Employee: resolution on paymaster and assistant comptroller Clayton Morris' 50th anniversary.
Library:
History: second Chronicle soon to be published with list of members 1901-1949.
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: committee considered revisions for future but not yet (November Board minutes)
Employee: committee to study question of employee retirement and pension funds recommends continuing Contingent Relief Roll.
Membership: courtesies of Union League extended to members of the Pennsylvania Judiciary.
Program: Committee on Boys Work report, will conduct survey to see if work is of "material benefit," and if it should be enlarged in scope (June Board minutes).
Politics/state: committee appointed to secure contributions of campaign funds ($83,386.50 December Board minutes)
House:
Event: concert by Orpheus Club; dinner and address by Manhattan Project head Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves; entertainment by actress, writer and monologist Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Employee: Manager William H. Stauffer resigns (at request of House Committee, June Board minutes), replaced by Daniel M. Layman; salaries raised across the board for first time.
Privileges: Union League Club of Chicago extends courtesies for period of Chicago Fair; four televisions installed in Lincoln Hall by Philco to view World Series.
Art: John Neagle portrait of Henry Clay loaned to National Gallery of Art, Albert Bierstadt "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter loaned to Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Politics/state: dinner and addresses by Governor James H. Duff, candidate for Senate, and Judge John S. Fine, candidate for Governor.
Building: conversion of electric and steam supplies to Philadelphia Electric Company and Philadelphia Steam Company.
Operations: retained consultants to advise on improved operations.
Artifact: electric mantle clock from A. Taylor Hall, Jr.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to assure that a member is responsible and will make payment for outside entertainments--passed; amendment to raise dues from $150 to $175-defeated, then reconsidered and raise to $165 passed, after much debate; amendment to wording for 50-year membership--passed; amendment to raise life membership fee from $1,000 to $1,750--passed; amendment to wording for Army, Navy, and Consular members--passed; amendment to allow limit of clerical members--passed; amendment to replace statement on government taxes--passed; amendment to permit members to invite guests 12 times annually instead of four--passed; amendment to increase maximum annual ladies room visits from 4 to 6--passed; amendment in wording concerning distinguished strangers--passed; amendment to provide meeting notices 7 days before meeting instead of 3--passed; amendment to limit terms of Vice President to 4 terms--passed; amendment to change in wording regarding loss of property rights--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Employee: 25 Year Club report.
Program: Boys Citizenship Award Dinner report.
House:
Recreation: contract bridge match with Union League Club of New York.
Event: dinners and addresses by Marble Collegiate Reformed Church (N.Y.C.) pastor Reverend Norman Vincent Peale (Lincoln's Birthday), Pennsylvania Senator James H. Duff; concert by The Savoy Company; Philco television sets installed to view General Douglas MacArthur address to Congress and for World Series, WCAU-TV color television installed for Navy-Princeton football game.
Finance: savings through conversion to public heat and power
Building: ladies department redecorated; master television antenna installed (television outlets installed in several resident rooms); ice house in Middle Section basement converted to wine cellar; Broad Street third floor sleeping rooms withdrawn from service.
Artifacts/sculpture: Grandfather's clock from Mrs. J. Hampton Moore; bronze statuette of Abraham Lincoln from Mrs. Frederick McOwen bequest; chess board from Joseph P. Manypenny; Charles P. Blinn billiard cue from Charles P. Blinn, Jr., new Philco television set from Philco Corporation.
Privileges: parking facilities at Eglin garage, 15th and Sansom.
Library:
Finance: Board of Directors authorized annual appropriation of $1,000 to be used in the purchase of rare items which may enhance the interest of the Library to the collector.
Special Meeting:
Building: proposal for installation of new dining facilities in former south pool room, changes to current restaurant office, and possibly alter portion of Writing Room for bar, including heating, ventilating, and air conditioning ducts--passed; resolution that Board bring to members' vote an additional expenditure for air conditioning of public rooms--passed. (See October Board minutes for fuller explanation)
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national: ratification meeting for nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower for President of the United States and Richard M. Nixon for Vice President; committee appointed to raise funds ($323,110.17); appointment of Temporary Action Committee of younger members to obtain maximum registration and voter turn-out (September Board minutes).
House:
Event: Lincoln Birthday address by George Wharton Pepper;
Politics/national: dinner, trip to Dwight D. Eisenhower's address at Convention Hall, and political rally; campaign addresses by New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll and Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft (telecast and radio broadcast).
Employee: Wage Stabilization Board approves wage increases (4 cents/hour for 324 employees, February Board minutes) and Blue Cross Hospitalization benefits.
Art: maintenance and additions to art collection to be done from operating funds on advice of Art Committee; work completed on "Head of a Young Girl," "The Goose Girl," "Le Mousquetiare," "George Gordon Meade," "Breaking Up the Sleighing Party," "George Washington," "Church of the Salute, Venice," "Andrew Gregg Curtin."
Archives: Abraham Lincoln signature and Edwin M. Stanton signatures, March 12, 1863, from Samuel William Harrison.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: increase annual dues from $165 to $200, in order to cover increased wages and salaries to avoid becoming a "union shop" and some for contingencies--passed; increase initiation fee from $300 to $400 to build back Permanent Fund for capital improvements--passed.
Building: resolution to go forward with air conditioning of certain rooms--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of D. Webster Bell, W. Merritt Hurlburt, James M. Skinner.
Program: Boys' Citizenship Award Dinner.
House:
Event: Lincoln's Birthday addresses by Pennsylvania Congressman Hugh D. Scott and California Congressman John Phillips; address by Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey.
Employee: with elimination of Salary and Wage Stabilization Board, payroll increase made.
Artifacts/archives: from Spanish War prisoner's Spanish-American War battalion flag and Manual of Arms in bandanna from James Bacon Douglas; George E. Webb military papers and Civil War veterans medal from Ralph B. Ashenfelter.
Building: work on new dining room nearing completion; plans for air conditioning prepared.
Finance: due to wage increases other costs curtailed and dues raised for coming year.
Secretary's Report:
Event: Major General William G. Price, past League president, awarded Gold Medal
Politics/state: Union League Division of state Republican Finance Committee raised $179, 177.87.
Program: surplus from Committee on Boys' Work account to be used for scholarship fund.
House:
Event: Ladies' Night with address by Indiana Senator Homer E. Capehart, candidates for other state and local offices as special guests, and award of Gold Medal to Price; reception for Vice President and Mrs. Nixon preceding Republican Centennial Dinner. (Lincoln Day cancelled due to construction).
Building: new dining room facilities completed; air conditioning project completed.
Art/artifacts/archives: President C. Brewster Rhoads portrait in Lincoln Hall; plaques identifying portraits added; President Eisenhower birthday commemorative plate, 1953, from William Welsh Harrison, Jr.; etched portrait of Abraham Lincoln framed in wood from rail split by Lincoln from A. Neville. DeCamp.
Secretary's Report:
Program: creation of Union League of Philadelphia Scholarship fund from surplus Committee on Boys' Work funds, available to recipients of Citizenship Award (July Board minutes).
Politics: Union League Division of Republican Finance Committee of Pennsylvania raises $74,227.93.
Employee: Committee on Pensions appointed.
House:
Event: address by author and lecturer William L. Shirer "The World -Today;" television installed for World Series games.
Employee: retirement reserve fund allocated from operating budget--property improvements have been made in recent years, now time to build reserve from operating budget allocation; five-day work week schedules against seven day; standard holiday policy.
Art/artifacts: Joseph Pennell lithograph of the Union League from Walter A. Newman of Newman Galleries; Admiral George Dewey's "Olympia" flagstaff emblem at Spanish-American War Battle of Manilla from Gilbert C. Fry; 1860 Lincoln-Hamlin campaign button from Daniel R. Goodwin; James F. Hope silver loving cup presented on his retirement as House Committee Chair from Charles A. Patterson bequest, to be used Individual Contract Bridge trophy.
Library:
Event: Library Hour address by member John R. Camp "What Made the Look on Lincoln's Face."
Archives: improved exhibition of historical memorabilia.
Annual Meeting:
Building: Christmas decorations on exterior, not solely interior; campaign illumination on both sides of exterior.
Event: New Year's celebration to be restricted (2 male guests, not relatives, December Board minutes).
By-Laws: amendment to raise entry fee from $400 to $500 and annual dues from $200 to $250--passed with long introductions on need to take better care of employees and building improvements, and debate that recommends a junior and non-resident membership categories; amendment to raise life member fee from $1,500 to $2,500.
Secretary's Report:
Event: General Jacob L. Devers, USA, Retired, awarded Silver Medal (November 1955).
Art: Dr. Furman J. Finck portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower presented by Temple University President Dr. Robert L. Johnson.
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of Allen M. Stearne, John S. Clement.
Politics/national: Union League Fund Raising Campaign Committee raises $327.901.75; ratification of nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon, with address by Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see also Guest).
Privileges: revised rules for widow's courtesies.
Elections: revised rules of election of Officers and Directors.
Program: first Union League of Philadelphia Scholarship awarded to Thomas J. Corrigan.
Membership: new procedure for proposing candidates by filing written application.
House:
Event: Lincoln Day with guest Governor of Massachusetts Christian A. Herter.
Art/archives/artifacts: Roy F. Speeter portrait of President L. Alan Passmore in Lincoln Hall; two etchings by Frank H. Taylor of first League House, 1118 Chestnut Street and Broad and Sansom when purchased for League House from Joseph W. Henderson and J. Welles Henderson; photographic copy of 1900 wintry scene on Broad Street from Atwater Kent Museum; Grant M. Simon print of 1929 League fire from painting of Alfred E. Williams from Grant M. Simon; Charles Gibbons small carved settee from Edward L. Davis; Grandfather clock from James H. Glenn; Eisenhower portrait..
History: display of views of League house during early years of building.
Guest:
Politics/national: list of attendees at ratification meeting.
Library:
Event: Library Hour addresses by Rector of Valley Forge Washington Memorial Chapel rector Reverend John R. Hart "Washington--Then and Now" and Franklin Institute Director of Museum Research "Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin."
History: publication of Bulletin featuring historical background by Ivan H. Peterman, and a chronological review being printed.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendments to add junior membership--rejected; amendment to add non-resident membership--passed. Lengthy explanation for both categories, including falling use of facilities due to suburbanization.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of Z. Taylor Hall, Jr., Joseph W. Henderson, Colonel Millard D. Brown.
Politics/local: Fund Raising Campaign Committee raises $50,835.
House:
Politics/national: 1956 pre-election rally for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Presidential election party; party and bus service supplied to special performance of Ice Capades as Republican fund raiser.
Employee: general wage increase.
Sculpture/artifacts/ archives: Eisenhower/Nixon silver inaugural medal mounted on wood from original White House timbers; Royal Air Force 139th Jamaica Squadron mounted crest from T. H. Barr; piece of Rogers statuary from William J. Meinel; two Fifteenth Street building architects' renderings from The Crickets Club Table; 1887 League photographs portfolio from Barclay White.
Guest:
Event: Lincoln Birthday entertainment including Senor Wences and others.
Library:
Event: Library Hour address by author Richard Powell "Cities and Their Personalities.."
Secretary's Report:
Building: Committee on Architects appointed to act as advisors on proposed alterations and improvements.
Politics/state: Fund Raising Committee raises $35,860; gubernatorial campaign funds raises $84,943.
House:
Event: 1957 Barney Berlinger with his motion picture "African Safari;" renewed custom of Thanksgiving dinner, with similar arrangements for Easter and Mother's Day; Army-Navy football game party; first Family Christmas Party (1957); Lincoln's Birthday address by Secretary of Treasury Robert B. Anderson; formal dinner dance (first in over 20 years); two baseball parties; first Father & Son Night; Sub-Committee on Entertainment; West Virginia Governor Cecil H. Underwood dinner speaker (intended to "increase the political efforts of the membership during the Presidential election year," April Board minutes).
Election/state: club night for Hugh D. Scott, Senate candidate, and Arthur T. McGonigle, gubernatorial candidate.
Employee: new Blue Cross health coverage.
Art: Art Committee recommendations for proper care and display of certain pictures; financial gift from George S. Worth; Robert Brackman portrait of Joseph W. Henderson and Edward Lis portrait of David B. James, Jr., placed in Lincoln Hall.
Operations: consultants hired to review dining room operations.
Building: Broad Street exterior restored.
Artifacts/archives: Grandfather's clock from Richard D. Thomson; Frederick W. Weber sketch of Broad Street Building from 1863 architect's drawing from Frederick W. Weber; "USS Nautilus" autographed picture from Commander William R. Anderson.
Library:
Event: guest speakers University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost Dr. Roy F. Nichols "The Civil War Era" and Philadelphia Orchestra manager Donald L. Engle.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to establish Junior Membership--passed.
Special Meeting:
Building: resolution to proceed with air conditioning of additional rooms--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on deaths of Charles S. Redding, L. Alan Passmore.
Politics: Political Activities Committee appointed and arranged six luncheons with nationally prominent Republicans Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton; New Jersey Congressman William T. Cahill, Special Counsel to the President David W. Kendall, Pennsylvania Senator Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Superior Court Judge Blair F. Gunther and Pennsylvania House Minority Leader Albert W. Johnson, Republican candidate for Philadelphia Mayor Harold E. Stassen.
House:
Event: formal dinner dances (November 1 1958 and April 1959); Thanksgiving dinner; Army-Navy football game party; Family Christmas; special dinner preceding 102d Academy of Music anniversary concert; Lincoln's Birthday address by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; John Biddle movie and lecture "America's Cup Defense, 1958;" first Father and Daughter "Date with Dad" dinner; baseball parties; Father and Son night; club night with card detective Michael (Mickey) MacDougall; Good Friday service.
Privileges: 1959 illustrated engagement calendar.
Program: cash prizes to Mummers.
Employee: wage increase; rule against tipping dining and coat room employees.
Art: several historically important paintings rehung; Joseph W. Henderson portrait loaned; Roy F. Spreter portrait of James M. Anderson completed; lighting for Sully's equestrian portrait of Washington; oil painting of Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Memorial Room painted by and gift of G. MacDonald Dengler; sketch of Gray Reserves statue sketched by and gift of Herbert H. Middleton; sketch of T. V. corner of Reception Room sketched by and gift of Lyle F. Boulware; Henry Harrison Bingham medals, epaulets, sword and scabbard from Thomas Hood Latta, with books; bronze elephant from Mrs. John Alden Towers.
Library:
Event: address by Temple University Provost and Vice President Dr. Millard E. Gladfelter "Culture and Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch;" Major and Resident Governor of H. M. Tower of London Brigadier L. F. E. Wieler.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to establish special assessment of $40 to be segregated for a Centennial Fund--passed, following lengthy explanation of tentative plans for celebration; amendment to provide a method of paying entrance fees which will be exempt from Federal dues tax and place responsibility for Permanent Fund with Board of Directors.
Membership: in order to change public misunderstanding of Union League, recommendation that Board of Directors conduct membership survey of business association and other facts pertaining to community standing--defeated.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of William G. Price, Jr., J. William Hardt, Harry F. Richards, Frank P. Will, David Bushrod James, Jr.
Politics: Campaign Fund Raising Committee raises $371,689.92 for Richard Milhous Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge campaign.
House:
Event: Fall and Spring dinner dances; Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day; Army-Navy football; Family Christmas; Academy of Music 103rd anniversary dinner; Lincoln's Birthday address by Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon (on foreign affairs especially Central and South America, March Board minutes); Date with Dad; baseball parties; Father and Son; "day at the races at Garden State Track; first Stag Football Dinner with United States Steel Assistant to Vice President Harry A. Stuhldreher, followed by Navy-Notre Dame football game; Good Friday service; Charter Flight and tour to Europe.
Politics/national: reception for Vice President Richard M. Nixon preceding "Baseball with Dick" fund raiser; dinner and bus service for pre-election rally for Nixon; political fund-raiser luncheon address by Delaware Senator John J. Williams.
Privileges: second Engagement Calendar; parking privileges at three garages.
Program: Mummers prizes.
Building: refurbishment of sleeping rooms; air conditioning completed; agreement with Vincent G. Kling for planning future work; Meredith Room (formerly Old Restaurant) completed for additional luncheon facilities.
Artifacts/archives: Grandfather's clock and two mantel clocks from Marion D. Fort estate; George H. Boker desk at which were written Union League constitution and By-Laws from Mrs. James Fry (Olga Sinexon, February 1961 Board minutes) Strong; watercolor of Admiral's flagship "The Hartford" with Admiral David G. Farragut comment, piece of ship's lumber, and collection of prints from a member (in Farragut Room); library magazine racks from a member; Gideon Bibles from The Gideons; autographed President Theodore Roosevelt photograph from Howard E. Sullivan O. D.; ivory billiard balls from Robert C. Linck.
Library:
Event: Library Hour address by columnist and member Ivan H. Peterman "The Eisenhower and Khrushchev Travels.."
Secretary's Report:
Employee: resolution on 50th anniversary of assistant manager Eli C. Schmidt.
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of George Wharton Pepper, Charles E. Dearnley, Archie D. Swift.
Politics: appointment of Committee for Patriotic Action to inform and alert membership to threats to individual liberty and national security; two showings of "Operation Abolition" distributed by Committee on UnAmerican Activities.
House:
Event: Lincoln's Birthday address by Civil War Centennial chairman Major General (Retired) Ulysses S. Grant III; stag night address by FBI Assistant Director C. D. DeLoach.
Building: Old Cafe restored to former Victorian splendor.
Employee: wage increase.
Archives/artifact: steel engravings of George G. Meade, George B. McClellan from A. F. Haas; prints of the Philadelphia area during the Civil War from J. Arthur Ewing; Civil War flag from Frederick G. Higham; album of photographs assembled during Civil War by the Jellison family from Robert C. Landon; Grandfather's clock from Edward H. Ellis, Jr.
Guest:
Event: Ladies' Night with Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Library:
Event: member George Orr spoke on his and other hobbies with violinist Toshiya Eto playing violin made by Orr.
Annual Meeting, 100th Anniversary, Founders' Day Celebration:
Sculpture: presentation of "The Spirit of 1861" from The Veterans Corp, First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania.
Employee: housemaid Kathlean Alves sings spirituals.
Politics: speech celebrating return of Pennsylvania to Republican power, Union League as host to Republican Presidents and other office holders, campaign successes, youthfulness of Governor William Scranton, State Attorney General Walter Alessandroni, State Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Roberts, Lieutenant Governor Raymond Shafer, short addresses by Ohio Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Scranton.
By-Laws: Armed Services and Consular members prohibited from engaging in business.
Archives: film made with television commentator Gunnar Back of Union League for archives.
Secretary's Report:
Politics: Political Activities and Campaign Fund Raising Committee chairs appointed, raised $207,552; Committee on Patriotic Action appointed and arranged speakers (see Guest)
Member: General Dwight D. Eisenhower elected Honorary Member.
Event: Gold Medal to Eisenhower.
House:
Event: Lincoln Day with address by Admiral Felix B. Stump and dramatic narration by Basil Rathbone; Military Day with Eisenhower as guest of honor for military parade; two evenings with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.
Employee: special dinner to staff in thanks for service during Centennial year; wage increase; vacation benefits increased.
Art: Agnes Yarnall sculpture exhibit; member Edmund L. Zalinski's collection of Winslow Homer drawings exhibit; prints and drawings selected for Grant and Meade Rooms; Bierstadt's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" and John's "Harvest Home" loaned to Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Operations: reduced use of Health Baths, Barber Shop (due to illness of barbers), Cigar Desk (due to the Havana tobacco situation and changes in smoking habits), Sleeping Rooms (due to deaths of 5 permanent residents, June Board minutes).
Building: air conditioning installed in Broad Street building; partitions on second, 3rd, 4th floor 15th Street building stairway for smoke and fire control.
Artifacts/archives: 1862 34 star American flag from Reverend Gibson Bell; Civil War badges by A. V. Bohn; Broad Street building photograph
on glass from J. Welles Henderson; bronze Indian elephant from B. Hubert Cooper; Lieutenant Colonel Jacob M. Davis papers and foot locker from Warren E. Davis.
Guest:
Event: Ladies' Night with neurologist Margaret Ruth Adams.
Politics: Committee for Patriotic Action meetings with speakers former Berlin commandant Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dood, Temple University Vice President Dr. William W. Tomlinson, radio-television commentator Martha Rountree, World War I ace Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker.
Finance:
Serious problems to investors and managers of funds necessitates conservative course of action; consideration of combination of funds into common trust fund.
Library:
Finance: W. Kirkland Dwier bequest of $10,000.
Gift: Centenary Anniversary gift of $100 worth of books from Leary's Book Store.
Event: concerts by Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet and Curtis String Quartet.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to raise dues from $250 to $270 in order to help finance operations and pension fund--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Politics: Political Activities Committee sponsors meetings with addresses by Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton, Pennsylvania Superior Court candidates for re-election Harold L. Ervin and J. Colvin Wright; Committee for Patriotic Action holds meetings with speakers Texas Senator John G. Tower, New York Senator Kenneth B. Keating, Cuban resistance leader Joaquin Godoy.
Archives: WFIL-TV presents film "Citadel of Courage" produced during Centennial celebration.
Employee: pension plan established.
House:
Event: Lincoln's Birthday with satirist Vaughn Meader; program with address by Ohio Congressman Robert Taft, Jr.; Kathlean A. Dennis singing spirituals at two events; staff dinner with address by Submarine Service officer Vice Admiral Elton W. Grenfell; Junior Committee programs.
Art: exhibition of water colors and lithographs by members and architect Grant M. Simon; Daniel Clarke Wharton portrait from Ellen Clifton Wharton.
Operations: "Sauna" dry heat baths installed.
Building: Smoke/Fire Control Program Second Phase provides additional fire exits from 4th and 5th floors in Middle Building; Ladies Lounge rebuilt and redecorated; fall-out shelter designation by Philadelphia Civil Defense Council.
Employee: resolution thanking staff for performance during Philadelphia Transportation Company strike; Blue Shield insurance authorized.
Archives/artifacts: Republican Party founder William G. Lane photograph from Mrs. John Irwin Bright; Lincoln deathbed painting photographic copy from Samuel A. Crozer; ivory billiard balls from Price G. Righter.
Finance:
Operations: conversion of books to system in accordance with Uniform System of Accounts for Clubs, with new bookkeeping machinery.
Library:
Event: Teresa Vannin violin recital.
Secretary's Report:
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of David A. Jones, S. Lloyd Moore.
Politics/national: resolution on death of President John F. Kennedy; resolution in support of President Lyndon B. Johnson; Committee for Patriotic Action programs with speakers Tulsa, Oklahoma "Tribune" editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones, war correspondent Marguerite Higgins on Vietnam; Political Activities Committee hosts five-county area Republican Congressional representatives, Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott, Republican candidate for Vice President Congressman William E. Miller, Republican candidate for President Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, Congressman Richard S. Schweiker; brochure issued of voting registration information; Campaign Fund Raising Committee raises $259,926.96.
Employee: Pension Plan adopted (see January Board minutes).
Event: luncheon for Congressional Medal of Honor holders; Silver Medal to USMC Commandant General Wallace M. Greene, Jr.
House:
Event: Lincoln's Birthday with "Salute to The Union League by Valley Forge Military Academy musical organizations; Junior members activities; address by University of Pennsylvania Director Foreign Policy Research Institute D. Robert Strausz-Hupe.
Recreation: 1st Union League Golf Tournament.
Building: renovation of Marble Dining Rooms and Benson Room; employee cafeteria and staff dining room.
Art/archives: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" loaned to Santa Barbara Museum of Art; selected Civil War memorabilia loaned to Friends Central School Library; April 15, 1865, "The New York Herald" announcing Lincoln assassination and last issue of "The Daily Citizen," Vicksburg July 2, 1863, from Bruce R. Allen; 1st Union League Regiment Commander General William Denison Wipple photograph; 1917 Union League Subscriber list to Liberty Loan from Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Day; October 12, 1863 League House at 1118 Chestnut Street photograph from Mrs. John C. Gilpin; 32 Regiment, P. M., Company F Gray Reserves roll from Harry L. Engolf, Jr.; Library of Congress folio "Long Remembered" from Richard A. Thornburgh.
Guest:
Event: New York Congresswoman Katharine Street George (not mentioned in either Secretary's or House reports.
Library:
Archives: program to restore and catalogue Civil War records and artifacts; purchase of exhibition cases.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendments to put entrance fee at $600, raise life member fee from $2,500 to $3,000, and provisions for Permanent Fund (due to change in IRS laws)--passed without debate.
Special Meeting:
Building: approval of capital expenditure for construction of two new passenger elevators in 15th Street building--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Art: President Wynne presents J. R. Essig portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of George W. Elkins, Jr., Frank G. Sayre.
House:
Event: reception marking 100th anniversary of League house; Valley Forge Military Academy cadets military review; see Guest.
Recreation: second Union League Golf Tournament
Art: survey of paintings for Winterthur catalog; gift to Winterthur of 1887 portfolio of Union League photographs; gold leaf applied to Gettysburg panels in Memorial Room (by Lewis Ewald, July Board minutes).
Building: bowling alleys rehabilitated.
Finance: William Welsh Harrison, Jr. bequest for Pension Fund; Pension Fund rulings by IRS permit gifts and change to match Union League fiscal year.
Artifacts: Thirteen star American Flag from William S. Maddox; 1892 Harrison and Cleveland campaign badges from William A. Nickert.
Guest Event: unusually descriptive reports on Lincoln Day address by historian Bruce Catton; evenings with House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford and SACLANT/NATO Briefing Team; address by former Congressman and American Conservative Union National Chairman Donald C. Bruce.
Library:
Archives: basic restoration and cataloging completed; Civil War materials exhibited at Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Confederate and Union material gift/loan from Mr. and Mrs. Birchall Hammer; Schedule for train with the remains of President Lincoln from Mrs. J. E. Zollinger; Edgar Marshall engraved portrait of Lincoln from Edward J. Dwyer.
Event: Library Evenings with Shakespearean scholar Dr. Matthew W. Black and De Pasquale String Quartet.
Annual Meeting:
By-Laws: amendment to reduce requirement for non-resident members from 10 to 5 years active membership--passed; amendment to change wording concerning auditors--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Art: Art and Architecture Committee appointed to advise when proposed art, decoration, or architectural work is contemplated.
Politics/state: Campaign Fund Raising Committee (further election of Gubernatorial candidate) raises $250,000.
Event: Silver Medal to Governor William Warren Scranton.
Finance: Common Library Trust Fund established.
House:
Event: Family Movie Night initiated with "Mutiny on the Bounty;" two Bavarian Festivals; Lincoln Day with Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer.
Politics: Fund Raising Committee meetings with Colorado Senator Peter H. Dominick, Republican National Committee Chairman Ray C. Bliss, Republican candidate for Governor Raymond P. Shafer (also a guest at Ladies' Campaign Committee luncheon; Junior activities; third golf tournament; Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia premiere private concert.
Building: Lincoln Hall work including new floor, regraining walls, etc.; new passenger elevators in 15th Street building.
Employee: blood donor club organized to provide backlog of blood for employees and families.
Archives: Abraham Lincoln and his son sepia portrait from Miss Olivia Christophersen.
Guest:
Event: inspirational address by former Olympian Bob Richards; address by National Association of Manufacturers President W. P. Gullander.
Library:
Archives: report on organization and discovery of new Civil War documents, exhibition at William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, and at the League; gift of Young Republicans records from Mrs. Robert Twining, World War I posters from Robert Hesse
Library: Civil War collection rebound; special section of works written by members.
Event: Library Hour with Mrs. Edward Marshall Boehm on porcelain art of Boehm's Birds.
Special meeting:
Building: resolution to authorize installation of equipment to improve ventilation and air conditioning of Lincoln Hall and for air conditioning equipment emergencies--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Event: Silver Medal to Illinois Senator Edward McKinley Dirksen.
Politics/local: Political Activities Committee appointed to develop interest in Mayoralty election (first time participation in local election, "being cognizant of the national political overtones surrounding the Philadelphia election"), host Republican candidate for Mayor Arlen Specter at luncheon and Ladies' Luncheon, raising $71,350.32.
History/archives: Committee on History and Memorabilia with responsibility to preserve and make available for academic use the material pertaining to the origins of the League; to develop information concerning the work accomplished during the Civil War and the following years; to provide for the preservation and display of the documents, manuscripts and artifacts. Displays arranged, material loaned to William Penn Memorial Museum.
Program: Irrevocable and Charitable Trust created for Scholarship Program (February Board Special Meeting minutes).
Election: Code of Ethics adopted; procedures for nominations amended to include candidate photographs and more concise biographies.
House:
Building: ladies room constructed east of Lincoln Hall.
Archives/artifacts: display cases built; Civil War military chair from Howard H. Weaner; United States Centennial Committee Medal from Mrs. Florence Woolverton Koons; Lincoln Funeral Circular and 1790 document from Automatic Retailers of America; Bean sword, muskets, artifacts and Civil War documents from Harold J. Bean; General United States Grant engraved portrait from Calvert Hall; 1927 Coolidge Commemorative Medal from Joseph C. Chapman; James Polk administration autograph album, Grover Cleveland, Samuel W. Pennypacker letters and miscellaneous items from Bronte Greenwood; Civil War hospital letter from Helen I. Harris; Civil War surgical instruments from Dr. S. Creadick Rhoads; David H. Lane 1909 dinner menus from Charles Sessler, Inc.; Lincoln philatelic items from Clifford Harmon Vallone; 1889 member election notice from Dorothy Willing; Chess book collection from William A. Ruth.
Event: stag dinner with ABC News Year End Tour panel of correspondents; reception for Governor Raymond P. Shafer.
Employee: Blue Cross Major Medical plan available; long-term disability available to key personnel; wage increases provided for in Federal legislation; Blood Donor Club continued, employees exceed United Fund Campaign assigned quota; amendments to Pension Plan submitted (September Board minutes).
Art: Bierstadt's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter loaned to Whitney Museum and Montreal Museum of Art; photograph exhibit "A Boy Visits the Port" courtesy of Philadelphia Maritime Museum ("boy" is son of member J. Welles Henderson, see July 7 House Committee minutes).
Recreation: Glee Club organized (see June 2 House Committee minutes for arrangements for accompanist); first annual golf tournament with Union League of New York.
Guest:
Event: Ingrid Bjoner concert; Lincoln Day address by member and Lincoln Scholar John R. Camp; addresses by stock market analyst Eliot Janeway, United Business Service of Boston President David R. Sargent; films on Vietnam with "Ronald Reagan: The Myth of the Great Society" (July Board minutes) and "While Brave Men Die;" Father and Son Night with Astronaut Owen K. Garriott.
Library:
Operation: program to cull books and renewed emphasis on American history collections, mentioning notable items found.
Event: Library Hour speakers consultant Maxwell Whiteman, Free Library of Philadelphia director Emerson Greenaway on banned books, Princeton University Sculptor-in-Residence Joseph Brown.
Employee: Maxwell Whiteman overseeing library during prolonged illness of librarian John J. Moraski.
Annual Meeting:
Announcement of pin with diamond chip presented to past presidents.
Secretary's Report:
Politics/national: Political Activities Committee programs in Presidential election year (see Guest); issued brochure on voting registration information; ratification meeting for Republican candidates Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew and party platform; Campaign Fund Raising Committee raises $396,879.90.
Archives/art/artifacts: awards from Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and American Association of State and Local History for preservation and displays of documents; Committee on History and Art appointed to administer archives, rare books and books written by Union League members, art and artifacts, encourage use of collections
House
Building: Lincoln Hall air conditioning improvement and related work.
Event: illustrated film lecture on Italy by member William E. G. Miller; concert by Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians with Silver Plate to Waring for more than 50 years of service to Pennsylvania and the Republican Party.
Non-Union League: handkerchief Club Managers Association of America conference reception.
Privileges: new membership pin designed; color postcards of Broad Street building available.
Employee: amendments to Pension Plan (March Board minutes); gift to billiard head attendant LeRoy Holmes on 50 year's service; United Fund Campaign Torch Award; wage adjustments; Blood Donor Club.
Art: Tissot's "Cafe Royale" loan to Rhode Island School of Design and Art Gallery of Ontario; Joseph W. Henderson portrait at Civic Center for American Bar Association conference; Rutherford B. Hayes portrait to National Portrait Gallery.
Archives: Abraham Lincoln photographs and mementoes from Mrs. Fred C. Newcombe; League house color print from Joseph F. Lagerman, Jr.
Guest:
Politics/national: series of speakers including Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr., Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Raymond J. Broderick, Rhode Island Governor John H. Chafee, Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn, Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton, Congressman Richard S. Schweiker and other state candidates.
Event: Lincoln Day address by Library of Congress Reference Section Director Dr. Roy P. Basler; address by widow of General Chennault, Claire Lee Chennault, on Vietnam; Ladies' Luncheon address by candidate Nixon's New York headquarters staff Mrs. Dorothy A. Elston.
Finance:
Finance: investments based in part on expectation that Government would create best possible climate in election year and the hope of a Republican victory.
Library:
Rebinding project required more money than available in trust funds; Frederick W. Purdum Estate gift.
Building: Library Lounge and Lincoln Memorial Room shelving revision.
Event: Library Hours with Temple University President and member Dr. Paul Anderson.
Committee on History and Art:
Archives/art/artifacts: cataloging and inventory of collections; small exhibit for American Bar Association meeting; guide brochure to League house printed; Tanner testimony to be printed.
Gifts: past president L. Alan Passmore papers from L. Alan Passmore, Jr.; Civil War period sheet music lithographs from Arthur A. Houser; Civil War sheet music volume from Joseph S. Riebel; Philadelphia Nautical College diploma from Wilson Whiting; Alfred R. Potter's Lincoln funeral mourning badge from Shelton Potter, 3rd; Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural invitation from J. Permar Richards.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: amendments to increase entrance fee from $600 to $750, annual dues from $300 to $425, and life membership from $3,000 to $5,000--passed, after attempt to lower increases; raising the minimum Junior Membership from 150 to 250, reducing non-resident eligibility from 5 to 3 years active membership, establishing clerical membership dues at $75, redefining requirements for ladies' guest card, new procedures for nominations, new section of election (providing for classes of directors) and removal from office, and board of directors procedures--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Event: Gold Medal to General William C. Westmoreland and Silver Medal to Lieutenant General Milton G. Baker; Lincoln birthday ceremonial wreath.
Employee: Pension Plan amendments to provide $300 minimum benefit.
Member: resolutions on deaths of Dwight David Eisenhower, Henry L. Schimpf.
Politics: Political Activities Committee hold luncheon with District Attorney Arlen Specter, City Controller candidate Thomas J. Gola, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate Thomas W. Pomeroy, Jr. and address by Maryland Congressman and Republican National Committee Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton (see Guest report).
House:
Building: refurbishment of Oak Room and second floor Banquet Suite; rehabilitation of Broad Street building exterior.
Event: luncheon with Business Week editors; evening program with panel of Apollo Space Program participants.
Archives/artifacts: Howard A. Stevenson Civil War diary from William H. Barwig; pocket billiards trophy from F. Clyde Michel; Robert B. Beath memorabilia from Elizabeth Beath; Lincoln funeral morning badge from Lynmar Brock; 15th Street building dedication trowel from Clayton Morris; 1907 Union League photograph from Clifford Harmon Vallone; 1908 Lincoln portrait, July 2, 1963 Vicksburg Daily Citizen, 1862 Amos B. Mott Commission signed by Lincoln from Mrs. James P. Junkin.
Guest:
Event: Address by British statesman Lord Hartley Shawcross; panel interview with Senator Richard S. Schweiker; address by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas H. Moorer defending the military-industrial complex.
Library:
Collections: new sections in Memorial Room for Civil War and books by members and about the Union League for which a descriptive list is being prepared (see also History and Art).
Event: Library Hour addresses by member E. Paul Gangewere on fore-edge paintings and American Philosophical Society scholar Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
History and Art:
Archives: James Tanner testimony facsimile published; Lincoln philatelic collection, 1866-1967, acquired.
Acquisitions list and their disposition being compiled.
Bibliography of Union League publications in preparation.
Room for archives and artifacts under consideration.
Special Meeting:
Building: resolution to install new electrical service--passed.
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: proposed amendment providing for senior membership not passed due to lack of quorum at two Special Meetings, then tabled.
Non-Union League: resolution congratulating Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science on winning basketball championship.
Politics/state: Political Activities Committee raises $130,000 for Gubernatorial campaign; Political Activities Committee reception and luncheon for Lieutenant Governor Raymond J. Broderick.
Operations: payments accepted only in cash or personal check.
Program: Scholarship Fund in separate report.
House:
Event: Lincoln's birthday address by Temple University Chancellor Dr. Millard E. Gladfelter.
Building: pipe break causes extensive damage in two bedrooms, Lincoln Memorial Room, Billiard Room and Barber Shop.
Employee: dues increase allows wage increases providing more stable staff; employee program to contribute money to Salvation Army; staff profile column included in "Bulletin."
Art: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" by Bierstadt loaned to New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Guest:
Event: Silver Medal to Astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., with Mrs. Conrad's dress described; Economic Forecast Luncheon; address by
Internal Revenue Commissioner Randolph W. Thrower.
Finance:
dues increase eased fiscal problems, reserve account established to address deferred maintenance.
Library:
Collections: water damage to books, pamphlets, documents and pictorial items; catalogues consolidated into one; long range plan calls for emphasis on American history collection, basic research collection and satisfy current reading tastes.
Event: Library Hour addresses by member Richard D. Thomson on roses, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Director Edgar P. Richardson on Charles Willson Peale, Historical Society of Pennsylvania curator on genealogy.
History and Art:
Acquisition list and art and artifact inventory complete.
Bibliography of Union League publications being prepared
Acquisitions: "The Pilgrims" photographs (9 items), Spottsylvania Court House artifacts (2 items) and Richard T. McCarter, Jr., documents through Casimir A. Sienkiewicz; Colonel George P. Maclean oil portrait, water color escutcheon detailing Civil War campaigns, Bowie knife and presentation from Maclean's estate; Alexander M. Fox 1861 military pass from Holstein DeHaven Fox; scrapbook of portraits of many Union League members from A. I. P. Garverick; Lincoln engraved portrait.
No Annual Meeting minutes
Secretary's Report:
Politics: Political Activities Committee host luncheon for Mayoral candidate Thacher Longstreth, Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidates Alexander F. Barbieri and George C. Eppinger.
Program: tax exempt Boys' Work Foundation to take place of Committee on Boys' Work.
Building: resolutions to authorize house improvements to provide air conditioning in certain areas, alterations to Billiard Room, and ground floor.
House:
Building: challenges with refitting 5th floor laundry room; offices outfitted in west 15th Street 5th floor.
Event: Ladies' Nights with "Up With People" concert, William E. G. Miller slide show on Japan, music and commentary by concert pianist Leonid Hambro, entertainment by mentalist Kreskin.
Employee: minimal absenteeism during SEPTA strike.
Operations: IRS regulations require record keeping for groups of more than eight.
Guest:
Event: economic forecasts by "Editors of Business Week" and financial consultant Pierre Andre Rinfret.
Library:
Event: address by Archivist of the United States James B. Rhoads; first function outside of League house with tour of Independence Hall and performance of "1776."
Collections: books donated by John R. Wanamaker.
Art and History:
History: seeking publisher for bibliography of publications; biographical sketches of founders and original clerical roll being prepared.
Building: work begun on fire-proof, temperature controlled vault for storage.
Archives: Tanner testimony reprinted.
Acquisitions: printed announcement on President McKinley assassination from James E. Heckel; 1927 Calvin Coolidge Honorary League Member medal from James W. Gibbs; 1864 United States Sanitary Commission medal from Charles H. Howson, Jr.; Grand Army of the Republic pin and Pilgrims pin from Mrs. C. A. Sienkiewicz; League lapel emblem and Wendell Wilkie pin from Mrs. George S. Wilson; Civil War letters (6 items) and watch case from John J. Herd; 1879 Grant reception program and menu from Mr. and Mrs. William J. Landherr; Mayor B. Samuels and associates photograph from Dr. John B. Reddy; copies of E. D. Marchant letters on his portrait of Lincoln from Concord, Mass., Free Library; 1865 receipt for military horse from George W. Miller, 3rd.
Annual Meeting
By-Laws: multiple unidentified amendments--passed.
Art: Richard Nixon portrait.
Secretary's Report:
Politics: Political Activities Committee luncheons with guests State Senator Robert D. Fleming, State Representative Kenneth B. Lee, Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker.
Member: memorial resolution on death of Henry B. Bryans.
House:
Building: improvements underway including air conditioning for Library, Library Lounge, Lincoln Memorial Room, Billiard Room alterations to provide dining, and Barber Shop alteration to provide dining preparation space.
Event: Lincoln's birthday address by Norman Vincent Peale; Gold Medal to Bob Hope.
Employee: changes to pension plan to include earned commissions and overtime pay, death benefit payment in place of life insurance, and other.
Art: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" on loan to travelling exhibit on Bierstadt; T. Buchanan Reed painting "Sheridan's Ride" loaned to Chester County Historical Society.
Guest:
Event: luncheon speaker Secretary of the Treasury George P. Schultz.
Finance:
loan secured for building improvements.
Library:
Acquisitions: Numismatic and Antiquarian Society publications made possible by Mrs. Elizabeth Mills; natural history set from William W. Conrad; Civil War books and pamphlets (and Lincoln election and memorial badges) from Mrs. Edward L. Davis.
Event: "The Far East as Seen by Philadelphia Authors" with Elizabeth Gray Vining and James A. Michener, moderated by member Harold D. Saylor; tour of Fairmount Park houses and lecture by Martin P. Snyder.
History and Art:
Artifacts: discovered canes: presented by Lincoln to Charles Marshall, made from United States S. Kearsage hull, made from Independence Hall timbers, carried in Civil War battles.
Acquisitions: mantle clock used in Chestnut Street League house from Mrs. Joseph B. McCall; presidential commissions from Mrs. Richard C. duPont and Mrs. M. C. McKinley; Civil War newspapers from Mrs. William E. Krewson III; [R. Dale] Benson oil portrait by M. H. Kevorkian from the Misses Meriweather; oil painting "Timons of Athens" by Peter Rothermel from Ruth Allen; photograph of Robert Lee MacCameron with portrait of President McKinley from MacCameron's son; photograph of Joseph John's "The Harvest Home" from Mrs. Harry M. Bell; 1912 Grant birthday photograph from E. Allan Ginkinger; copper plaque from anonymous; Union League silver Civil War medals from David R. Albright and Thomas N. McLean.
Annual Meeting
By-Laws: amendments to raise entrance fee to $900 from $750 and dues to $500 from $425, new class of Senior Membership, reduce mileage on non-resident membership from 125 to 50 and other non-resident issues, raise clerical dues to $90 from $75, change of date for annual meeting to day after election at time to be determined (difficulties of commuting to Union League for night meetings and easier ballot counting)--all passed.
Politics/national: letter of support sent to President Nixon.
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolutions on deaths of Mark E. Lefever, Earl R. Yeomans, C. Brewster Rhoads.
Rules: amendments to rules of Board of Directors.
History: contract with Maxwell Whitman to write Union League history.
Politics/state: Political Action Committee initiates Century Club of Pennsylvania and raises $16,000 for gubernatorial campaign; dinner with lawmakers and luncheon with Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush.
House:
Operations: particularly difficult year due to inflation.
Guest:
Event: luncheon with The United Business Service, Boston, publisher David R. Sargent.
Finance:
acute cash flow problem, borrowed from Permanent Fund.
Library:
Operations: reference center being developed.
water damage resulted in loss of 55 books
Acquisitions: Heritage Press classics (250 volumes) from Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr.; 200 books authored by members.
Event: address by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Director Thomas W. Armstrong, Jr.; tour of American Philosophical Society ant Athenaeum of Philadelphia with illustrated talk by Independence National Park restoration architect Penelope Hartshorne Batchelor.
History and Art:
all statuary, clocks and artifacts being photographed.
Acquisitions: various archival items; 1952 Eisenhower campaign handkerchief from Burton H. Etherington, Jr.; sterling silver 1901 souvenir tray from Frank B. Murdoch; piece of walnut wood from Lincoln grist mill from Wallis C. Westflaufer.
Special Meeting:
Charter: new charter to comply with Pennsylvania statutes--passed.
By-Laws: minor wording amendments--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Committee on History and Art established as committee of the Board.
Event: special committee for the Bi-Centennial appointed; Gold Medal to Philadelphia Orchestra Musical Director and Conductor Eugene Ormandy.
Politics: special "Lewis for Governor Committee" appointed ($32,119.50 November Board minutes).
Member: memorial resolutions on deaths of Casimir A. Sienkiewicz, John S. Peake.
Membership: new Membership Planning Committee appointed.
House:
Operations: drastic impact of inflation; data processing equipment and new accounting system.
Building: security concerns require mesh screening for ground floor windows.
Privileges: "Bulletin" to be sent on regular basis.
Event: cruises to Caribbean and Mediterranean; theatre evening added to entertainments.
Guest:
Event: Editors from Business Week panel; addresses by The Middle East Institute President Lucius D. Battle and Fulton Lewis.
Library:
Event: address by Professor of History James H. Billington, tour of Philadelphia Museum of Art and address by museum director Evan Turner, tour of historic churches and address by retired United Methodist Church Bishop Fred Pierce Corson.
History and Art:
recommendations for disposition of duplicate, irrelevant, or damaged art, sculpture, and artifacts.
inventories of clocks, Civil War books and Lincolniana, manuscripts, etc.
Acquisitions: Civil War newspapers from Mrs. J. Aubury Fleitas; G. A. R. encampment medal from William R. Wilson; 28th Division medal from E. John Hesketh; 1833 French sword used in Civil War from John Henry Reiners, Jr.; Co. D. second Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Pennsylvania silk guidon with 1861 document from Ralph E. Hendee; replica bronze Lincoln bust after Volk from John R. Wanamaker; 9 drawings for extending and revising Union League House by purchase.
Annual Meeting--no report
Secretary's Report:
Member: resolution on death of William V. Grier.
Employee: luncheon in honor of and resolution of gratitude to Daniel M. Layman.
House:
Operations: anticipate increased use in Bicentennial year.
Privileges: reciprocal agreements with Algonquin and Commerce Clubs (others decline agreements, October Board minutes).
Event: informal "Sheridan Quad" themed buffet and dances introduced; "Night at the Opera" with dinner for Joan Sutherland and other LaTraviata cast members; "evening at Pops Concert;" stag night in honor of 1974 Stanley Cup winners Philadelphia Flyers.
Acquisitions: Lester grand piano from Mrs. Charles G. Mueller; Bi-Centennial crystal vase from Mrs. Mark E. Lefever.
Guest:
Event: address by American Petroleum Institute Chief Executive Officer Frank N. Ikard.
Library:
Event: address and slide presentation on the Philadelphia Orchestra in China; trip to Franklin Institute and Fels Planetarium.
History and Art:
History: publication of "Gentlemen in Crisis" by Maxwell Whiteman.
Event: David Coolidge watercolor exhibit.
Acquisition: Lincoln medallion mounted on wood from ship "Constitution" from Mrs. Helen Clegg Peake.
President's Report:
Operations: inflation necessitated adjustments in restaurant and food costs and prices.
Event: Bicentennial programs including celebration honoring three original states, address by former United Nations Representative Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Donald Jackson on George Washington diaries, Jose Ferrer reading Declaration of Independence, Salute to the Military; League House Tour.
Membership: "we are not interested in political thought control, although we are concerned with a certain homogeneity in our membership."
By-Laws: revised nomination procedures revoked.
President's Report:
Finance: balanced budget with operating departments operating at a profit; slight assessment required.
Membership: membership trends reversed.
President's Report:
Employee: Daniel Layman retired, replaced by Richard S. Breth.
Finance: balanced budget with assessments and projected dues increase.
Membership: new admission procedure forthcoming.
Building: applying for National Register of Historic Places.
Art: seeking tax-free status; art catalog published.
Event: Gold Medal to member Thomas B. McCabe.
President's Report:
no report of substance.
No report--see 1981 Annual Report.
Two year summary, 1980, 1981
Forward:
Event: Lincoln Birthday developed as major event, with character actor Will Stuts, 1980, Reverend Robert A. Peoples tribute to Iranian hostages and address by Vermont Governor Richard A. Snelling, 1981; Founders Day reactivated with Gold Medal to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., 1980, and dedication of Korean War and Vietnam Conflict tribute plaques.
Finance: 1980 deficit, 1981 surplus.
Building: Broad Street Building copper roof.
Program: Foundation not feasible because it would open Union League to public.
Art: fund for protection of collections created from sale of four paintings and five clocks.
By-Laws: consideration of admission of women, under threat of Federal and City regulations and with respect to "changing times," with analysis of members survey to be done.
Secretary's Report:
Politics: 1979 resolution supporting President regarding Iranian situation.
Finance: 1980 fuel assessment.
Building: 1980 Ladies Dining Room renamed Boker Room.
Employee: 1980 James R. Lafferty appointed General Manager.
By-Laws: 1980 dues and initiation fees increased; 1981 questionnaire on admission of women.
Art: sale of 4 painting authorized with committee appointed to make guidelines for future use of income.
House:
Building: study of energy costs, review of security; renovation of guest rooms to take place over 3 years.
Operations: computer installed; study of dining room use.
Guest (suggest change to "Program Committee")
Event: dinner dances, theater/ballet, cruises; speakers Federal Reserve Bank President David P. Eastburn, Mayor William J. Green,
Arizona Representative John J. Rhodes, United States Navy Captain Ray E. Pierce, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Chairman James H. Binns,
University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney; sub-Committee on Armed Forces established.
Finance:
dues increase eliminated need for previous years' assessments
computer improve efficiency and cash flow.
Permanent Art Fund established $1,282,000.
Library:
new card catalogue with Library of Congress cataloging for non-fiction started
Building: doors added to Pennsylvania and Philadelphia shelving; two water leaks with consequent damage.
Event: address by James C. Humes; concert by F. William Sunderman and others; author Nathaniel Burt; Lincoln Day address by Vermont Governor Richard Snelling.
Art, Archives and History:
Henry Clay by John Neagle loaned to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; "Market Scene in Cairo" by Signorini loaned to Governor's House, Harrisburg; "Theodore Roosevelt" by Adriaan DeGroot loaned to Edwin Meese office in White House.
exhibition of Victorian memorabilia.
Acquisitions: political and Union League ephemera from Stanley and John Root.
Building: archives moved to third floor
Deaccession: sale of "the Harvest of Seaweeds" by Thomas Worthington Wittredge, "Cafe Royal" by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, "Breaking Up the Sleighing Party" by Cornelius Krieghoff, "Fort Sumter" by Albert Bierstadt.
Tiffany stained window repaired.
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: Board votes in favor of admitting women 16-2, committee appointed, new By-Laws approved for membership vote; dues raise.
Finance: $70,000 deficit requires assessment; Glenmede Trust to administer investment funds.
Operations: Boker Room to close if attendance does not improve.
Art: 11 paintings to be sold.
House:
Long Range Planning Committee to address questions of membership, finance, air-use over Union League house, and "never-ending" legislation and tax consequences (see September House Committee minutes).
Guest:
Event: speakers, Federal Reserve President Ed Boehne, United States Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Phillies General Manager Bill Giles, SmithKline Beckman CEO Henry Wendt, Fund Chair John Templeton, Business Week Panel, Temple University President Peter Liacouras.
Finance:
$50,000 tax liability for investment and non-member income (to be appealed)
substantial capital improvements ($1,200,000, see November House Committee minutes) to be funded by... and Permanent Fund-Art ($6000,000, see November House Committee minutes).
Library:
Building: rest of Library Lounge glass doors installed.
Event: 10 Library Hours.
Art, Archives and History:
portrait of Grant in uniform, "Psyche and the Butterfly" cleaned; clocks cleaned and repaired.
Drafts for a 1984 Annual Report in Board of Directors Box. Report not published.
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: women members defeated; dues increase.
Operations: Boker Room closed on weekends; Long Range Planning Committee reappointed; Audio-Visual rooms available.
Membership: initiation fees payable in 2 installments.
Financial: deficit of $53,481, lower than budgeted.
House:
Building: Capital Improvement Program completed with funds from art sale, including new copper roof on Broad Street, refurbishing of North Marble, Meredith, Binney, and Fell Rooms, repair of top three floors of 15th Street windows, rebuilding of air conditioning units, changes to steam heat system, renovation of health baths.
Operations: effort to encourage use of Health Baths.
Membership: new procedures for minimize delinquent payments (see March Board minutes).
Guest:
Event: Flag Day luncheon; luncheon speakers Federal Reserve President Edward Boehne, Sun Company CEO Theodore A. Burtis, Phillies General Manager William Giles, United States Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, Business Week Magazine panel, Ambassador Faith Wittlesey
Finance:
Employee: changes to Pension Plan
Permanent Funds maintained at $1,100,000.
Debt due to decline in membership, decline in food business due to exclusion of women, rail strike Library
Building: improvements including glass doors that aids in security.
Event: 10 Library Hours.
Acquisitions: E. Monroe Fisher library (300 volumes) from his widow.
Finance: Everett M. Jones Library Fund.
Art, Archives, History:
Conservation: $10,000 for conservation in addition to Clay portrait restoration; Thomas Barker's "Sheep" cleaned; 8 marble sculptures cleaned.
Loans: J. Crawford Thom's "Returning from the Field" to East Brunswick Museum Corporation; Marchant's Lincoln to Gettysburg College and travel; Robert Vonnoh's John Russell Young to Library of Congress; Peale's Washington portrait after Stuart to Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Acquisitions: acting edition of Richelieu with marginal notes by John Wilkes Booth and Unites States Colored Infantry Lieutenant James E. Harkins diary from Zachary Wobensmith; 1909 membership roster from John Philip Crampton; May 5, 1865 Evening bulletin from Samuel E. Fulton; National Union Club Articles of Association and Union League memorabilia from Stanley W. Root, Jr.; Union League Articles of Association with marginal additions of members names from Meyer P. Potamkin; Vrooman family genealogy from L. Alan Passmore; Civil War newspapers from Reginald Beauchamp; GAR badges, ribbons, and medals from W. Edward Frazer, Jr.
Employee: Maxwell Whitman departure, with addendum that he is retained as committee consultant.
Drafts for a 1984 Annual Report in Board of Directors Box. Report not published.
Secretary's Report:
Operations: continued decline of private parties; quarterly minimum house charge of $50; Boker Room opened for weekend service; Oak Room closed.
Finance: $50 assessment.
By-Laws: dues and initiation fee increase.
House:
no report on file
Guest:
no report on file
Finance:
no report on file
Library:
Operations: examining feasibility of obtaining non-profit status.
Activities: effort to establish literary award.
Event: nine Library Hours.
Finance: $455 received for Everet M. Jones Fund; growth of Charles G. Simpson Fund.
Acquisitions: Everett M. Jones library from his widow; annual reports and other Union League publications from Maxwell Whiteman; ophthalmology books by and from author Dr. George M. Spaeth.
Art, Archives, History:
no report on file.
Draft for 1985 Secretary's Report of the Annual Report in Board of Directors Box. Report not published.
Secretary's Report:
Membership: member sponsoring private party may have amount applied to minimum house charge.
Building: new steam boilers; canopy at Broad Street entrance courtesy of Ladies Luncheon Committee.
Program: honorarium for Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund; appeal for contribution to Revelle Brown Youth Center Project.
Event: Literary Award approved; Founders Day with Silver Medal to Marine Corps Commandant General Paul X. Kelly.
Finance: increase of member income instead of outside income required to meet I. R. S. guidelines.
Membership: delinquent fees changed to 1.5%/month.
By-Laws: amendment to provide for election of officers by absentee ballot; restructure of Senior Active dues.
Operations: Reginald E. Beauchamp to act as Consultant and Director of Public Relations for 6 months.
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: women admitted to membership.
Operations: One-on-One Sports Training Center in Health Bath complex.
Art: $15,000 for restoration; suit over sale of "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter" painting.
Event: Ladies' Luncheon with Barbara Bush, wife of United States Vice President; Founders Day with Gold Medal to Chief Justice Warren Burger; 125th Anniversary Committee appointed.
House:
Building: new carpet in first floor hallway, Broad Street stairway, second floor Broad Street hallway, and elsewhere; crystal chandelier in Boker Room.
Finance:
Membership: members who had resigned between votes on admission of women invited to return (16 out of 406).
excellent year, no need for dues raise.
Activities:
Event: Public Affairs speakers Willard Rouse, Secretary of Education William J. Bennet, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President
Edward G. Boehne, Sun Co. CEO Robert McClements, University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney.
Library:
Archives: videotapes made of member activities for archives and member viewing.
Finance: budget for first time.
Art, Archives, and History:
Program: history cal bibliographical study of Union League publications ready for publication; material on Union League's involvement with Statue of Liberty used in preparation for statue's Centennial.
Member Services:
new committee to acclimate new members to Union League
Event: breakfasts, receptions.
Tables: Open Club Table established; Club Table Committee held discussions on ramifications of admission of women; first annual Club Table Hop.
Membership: prospective member receptions; expedited proposal process.
Ladies' Luncheon:
Building: chandelier for Broad Street entrance purchased.
Program: $500 to Laubach Literacy Incorporated in honor of Mrs. George Bush.
Armed Services:
Event: visits to United States Military Academy at West Point, United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, United States Marine Corps Barracks in Washington D. C.; luncheon with Sons of the Revolution with speakers Vice-Admiral Steele and Ambassador Sullivan; luncheon with United States Air Force chief of Staff General Larry D. Welch.
Special Meeting:
By-Laws: change in dues structure--passed; changes in Nominating Committee, Terms of Office, Officers meeting schedule, and fifth Vice President (Member Relations)--passed.
Secretary's Report:
Employee: archivist Max Whiteman resigns.
Art, Archives and History Committee placed in Library Committee.
Finance: I. R. S. regulations cause restriction on non-member functions.
Operations: Laventhol and Horwath conduct Organizational Study.
Event: Founders Day 125th Anniversary with Gold Medal to Vice President Bush; Founders Day with Silver Medal to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
Art: suit over Fort Sumter painting dismissed.
House
Employee: General Manager (Lafferty) resigns, former House Committee member Victor Mauck Acting General Manager; personnel matters adjusted to regain control of the operations.
Building: study of kitchen facilities made.
Activities:
Event: Public Affairs speakers Cigna CEO Robert D. Kirkpatrick, FBI Director Judge William H. Webster, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Business Week Panel, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Chairman William Purves, E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. Chairman Richard Heckert.
Finance:
new accounting system to allow better management of outside business and compliance with I. R. S. regulations.
hitherto out-of-control expenses trimmed.
budget process improved.
Trustees of Pension Fund appointed.
Library:
Finance: first-time budget for Art, Archives, and History.
Operations: evaluating computer software for recataloging project.
Archives: professional videotaping of activities done on request; first four annual reports published in facsimile; Emancipation
Proclamation conserved and framed.
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Art: "The Monitor and the Merrimac" and "The Kearsage and Alabama" by Xanthus Russell Smith cleaned. and Abraham Lincoln
portrait by Edward D. Marchant restored.
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Building: better lighting for art, sculpture, and architectural features.
Member Services:
first woman committee member, Marjorie Broderick.
Ladies' Luncheon:
Event: guest Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Mrs. Dwight David Eisenhower, II.
Art: purchase Charles Paul Gruppe "Man Driving Sheep Down Country Road; donation toward restoration of unnamed painting for Old Cafe.
Program: gift to Please Touch Museum in name of Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
125th Anniversary
Membership: member directory and handbook published.
Event: Founders Day (two events); Civil War Ball; Yarnall reception; Curator of Diplomatic Reception Room at Department of State Clement Conger slide show; historical exhibitions.
Art: David Coolidge watercolor printed for members.
Program: 125th anniversary history of Union League published.
Armed Services:
Event: luncheon with Commander United States Central Command General George B. Crist; visit to United States Air Force Academy.
1988 Annual Report to June
Annual Meeting (1987):
By-Laws: Board empowered to raise dues by 10% annually without member approval; absentee balloting on all elections; some dues and guest privilege raised; sliding scale dues for Senior membership; Real Estate Advisory Board eliminated; creation of Past Presidents Advisory Board; Board authorized to use all or part of Permanent Fund in emergency; special meetings can be called at request of 200 members.
President's Report:
Program: Drug Awareness Program started.
Secretary's Report:
Employee: Stanley Orr hired as General Manager.
By-Laws: dues increase of $60.
House:
Operations: Orr's "integrated operating plans" involving more formal planning and budgeting process; greater attention to food service, particularly in Boker Room.
Building: Card Room changed to McMichael Room and renovated; Broad Street steps repaired (following previous year's car accident); roof replacement; facilities planning underway.
Employee: hiring of new General Manager.
Activities:
Event: Dick Vermeil roast (1987); Richard Nixon address; World War II battlefields trip; breakfast series initiated;
Program: Civil Affairs Committee of members of both major political parties to consider public matters which may impact upon the interest and welfare of the Union League and its programs.
Tables: exhibit cases for display of Club Table memorabilia.
Finance:
Endowment Fund established.
By-Laws: amendment relating to delinquent dues to be introduced.
Operations: continuing effort to bring outside business within 15% limit required by IRS. Trustees of the Employees' Pension Fund
Library:
Operations: still working on computer software for recataloging project; videotape acquisition target material not found in retail stores.
Art: Sully's Washington to be restored; Nelson Shanks commissioned for Reagan portrait.
Archives: first total inventory completed, preparing for computerization.
Member Relations:
newly formed, to encourage and facilitate growth, assimilate new members, retention, encourage expansion and activities of Club Tables, develop and improve services for all members.
Composed of committees: CEO, Junior, Membership Development (to facilitate proposal process), Admissions, Club Table (established
Independence Table for new members), New Member Services.
Encourage interest-oriented clubs.
Addendum:
Member: resolutions on deaths of Samuel E. Fulton and John Yago.
President's Report:
Event: Silver Medal to Secretary of State George P. Schultz; luncheons with John Templeton and Robert Bork.
Secretary's Report:
Membership: biannual member roster published; member birthday program instituted.
Finance: IRS audit; 1989/1990 budget includes minimal dues increase.
Operations: market research study undertaken.
Employee: deferred compensation plan offered; new position of Membership Director.
Finance:
Endowment Fund at $24,800.
Permanent Fund reduced to $500,000 due to reduction of emergency repairs that will be necessary as a result of Phase I of reconstruction project.
Progress on reducing outside business to 15%.
Delinquent members reduced as result of late dues penalty.
Pension Fund
Employee: larger benefit package.
House
Building: reconstruction Phase I to include infrastructure, Broad Street exterior, electrical systems, additional air conditioning, Broad Street 3rd floor outfitted for archives and fire and other safety concerns, building areas serving members (dining and meeting rooms, pantries, etc.).
Art: Sully's Washington restored.
Services: automated business center on 4th floor..
Non-Union League: Academy Ball.
Membership Relations
Employee: Membership Director hired.
Consultant hired.
Introduced team concept to recruitment to attract more members through competition.
Library:
Archives: moved to 5th floor space that meets professional standards; oral history project to record presidents, members, and employees started.
Conservation: artifacts, muskets, 1863 Union League banner, sculptures "Esmeralda," "Psyche," and "Al Amor Mio," Regimental Memorial, art, Washington by Sully and frame.
Exhibits: exchange of loans with Civil War Library and Museum, Clay by Neagle loan to Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Program: studying non-profit status; automated cataloging underway; excess books on sale to members.
Events: Library Hours.
Activities:
Event: Public Affairs Committee organize lunch, breakfast, and new Anti-Drug programs; first Army-Navy Pep Rally and Dance sponsored by Armed Services Committee.
Ladies Lunch:
Event: honoring Helen Boehm.
Building: donation to Sansom Street entrance improvements.
President's Report:
Building: McMichael Room restored.
Membership: falling, proposal process to be facilitated.
Operations: program to boost food and beverage.
Secretary's Report:
Event: Silver Medal replaced by Lincoln Award; Lincoln Bowl for guests of programs, also available for member purchase.
Finance
Endowment Fund at $28,946
IRS audit finds taxes due.
Deficit in Income Fund.
Budget 1990/1991 calls for dues increase.
Membership and related financial considerations to be considered by Ad Hoc Committee,
Increase in quarterly food and beverage minimum.
Pension Fund
Employee: changes to be approved by IRS.
House:
Building: reconstruction Phase I underway, with second part (cooling system upgrade, archival storage area, sprinkler system and Boker Lounge and Old Cafe remodeling) on hold.
Employee: employee opinion survey conducted due to staff dissatisfaction, resulting in restructuring and improved communication.
Operations: food and beverage continuing decline for both member and non-member business; women's fitness center under consideration.
Library:
Employee: Curator position replaced by Coordinator of Collections.
Operations: books weeded and sold; computer catalog about 25% completed; first issue of Art News published; all paintings and sculpture to be photographed; new subcommittee History and Heritage concerned with research into and programs on Union League history.
Art: "If I Were Pope" loaned to Taft Museum.
Object: Simmons medallions restored.
Acquisitions: August Benzinger portrait of Colonel James Holwell Cummings from William Blakeley.
Events: Library Hours and exhibits.
Activities:
Event: Public Affairs Committee organize lunch and breakfast series; Armed Services Committee, Competitive Sports Committee, Yacht Club, Club Table Committee, Games and Hobbies Committee (Scuba Diving and Shooting Club), Glee Club, Food and Wine Club.
President's Report:
Politics/national: "Operation Desert Shield gave us an opportunity to reaffirm our heritage and support of the President of the United States, our military leaders and the brave men and women who serve in our Armed Forces." Proclamation of support signed by members.
Event: Flag Day parade and first Lincoln Award to Lieutenant General Walter E. Boomer; Gold Medal to Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney (November 1991).
Program: efforts to finds ways in which Union League can be a moving force in the betterment of the City of Philadelphia; public affairs and other special events opened to news media (as public relations tool and to interest potential members).
Secretary's Report:
By-Laws: changes in membership classification.
Finance:
Fiscal year showed deficit due to decrease in food and beverage sales, net lodging income, and dues revenue.
Endowment Fund at $31,071.
Budget 1991/1992 calls for dues increase.
Building: appropriation made for women's "personal care" area.
Changes in categories of membership and dues and entrance fee requirements.
House:
Operations: improvements to quality and service of food and beverage with new personnel, including Marketing Director to develop
business, but underuse of facilities may require closing some dining rooms.
Building: no new projects undertaken, none planned, except air conditioning system is old.
Employee: personnel at entrances given instruction on being welcoming.
Privileges: reduced parking for lunchtime.
Member Relations:
Event: new Activities Fair.
Facilities Usage Committee appointed.
Library:
Sculpture: Washington Grays Monument installed on Broad Street; Abraham Lincoln bust from sculptor Raymond Granville Barger and anonymous member; Simmons medallions conserved.
Acquisition: gift in memory of Mrs. Vaughan Simmons from Francis DeSerio; Rothermel/Sartain print "The Battle of Gettysburg" placed in Sheridan Grill West to be renamed Gettysburg Room.
Operations: art exhibitions reinstituted with New Hope School paintings and genre paintings.
Art: "If I Were Pope" loaned to Taft Museum; "Reading of the Declaration of Independence" loaned to Fraunces Tavern Museum; rearrangement of presidents' portraits in Lincoln Hall.
Event: first Library Hour off premises; address by David Eisenhower; other Library Hours and exhibits.
Artifacts: replica of Union League banner prepared.
Activities:
Event: "Sports Night" honoring Tom Brookshier; Public Affairs Committee organize lunch and breakfast series featuring local and regional CEOs; Armed Services Committee, Competitive Sports Committee, Yacht Club, Club Table Committee, Civil Affairs Committee hold Mayoral Candidates forum, Ladies Luncheon Committee, Games and Hobbies Committee (Food and Wine Group) Shooting Club, Gin Rummy Club, newly formed Aviation Club, and Glee Club.
President's Report:
Program: Union League members contribute $28,000 to help community swimming pools open.
Finance:
Operations: break in three-years of increasing deficits in second half of Fiscal year 1991-1992, due to cost containment program through Sheridan dining closure, staff reductions, capital projects postponement, fiscal prudence; 1992-1993 budget reflects wage freeze and dues increase.
House:
Operations: dining room orders computerized.
Building: completion of previous projects, restoration of elevators and Ladies Dressing Room; front desk moved and Billiards Room created; investigation of air conditioning system (see June, September, 1992 House Committee minutes for report on existing and future systems); Lincoln Hall chandelier cleaned; Farragut Room refurbished through Yacht Club aid.
Member Relations:
Facilities Marketing Committee has Marketing Manager.
Library:
Art: six portraits of early presidents conserved; "The Kearsage and Alabama" loaned to Naval Museum and City of Mobile.
Program: Fine Arts Club launched.
Operations: Maritime paintings exhibit; computerized and saleable bibliography of Civil War collection proceeding slowly
Activities:
Employee: full-time staff person appointed to support activities.
Operations: inauguration of "The Union League Banner;" subcommittees on External Communications and Internal Communications.
Event: first Open house and Activities Fair, to become annual event; Delaware Valley Forum started in effort to expand Union League work into community featured Mayor Rendell and four Southeastern Pennsylvania County Commissions Chairmen; Public Affairs Committee; Armed Services Committee, Competitive Sports Committee, Yacht Club, Club Table Committee, Games and Hobbies Committee, Aviation Club, Scuba Diving Club, Collectible Cars, Glee Club, Special Events Committee, Ladies Luncheon Committee.
Membership: new affinity clubs Ballroom Dancing, Genealogy, Garden, and Fine Arts.
President's Report:
Operations: Strategic Planning Committee appointed, some recommendations already implemented including increasing reciprocal clubs, forming a non-profit foundation for treasures (see June Board Minutes for interim recommendations and actions).
Program: working with civic leaders to promote the Avenue of the Arts.
Finance:
Operations: sharp decrease in annual deficit through efforts of ad hoc Committee on Costs that found a need to control a la carte subsidies and to promote private dining room functions; Building Fund restored through assessment and favorable contract to rejuvenate air conditioning system.
House:
Operations: continuing decline in food and beverage, with net loss of $173,500.
Employee: significantly fewer staff than two years ago.
Building: air conditioning system rebuilt on time and for more than half of estimated cost.
Membership: revised Rules allow business papers at breakfast and lunch in Marble Rooms and children without coat and tie, and give spouses all right and privileges of members except voting (July 1993 Board minutes).
Privileges: new Reciprocal Clubs Committee
Library:
Building: dedication of Meade Room (former Oak Room)
Art: Paul DuSold portrait of President Flood hung; Louis DeMoll's painting of League House arranged.
Sculpture: Reginald Beauchamp's "Signers of the Declaration of Independence" accepted.
Operations: exhibits on Birch prints and artists of the Brandywine Valley; computerized and saleable bibliography of Civil War collection proceeding slowly; League of Honor photographic exhibit; portfolio of Union League presidents being prepared.
Activities:
Public Affairs Committee; Armed Services Committee, Yacht Club, Competitive Sports Committee, Club Table Committee, Games and Hobbies Committee, Collectible Cars, Glee Club, Special Events Committee, Ladies Luncheon Committee.
Public Affairs Committee adds new luncheon series "A League Member Speaks"; Armed Services Committee celebrated 50th anniversary of D-Day, Club Table Committee, Competitive Sports Committee, Affinity Club Committee, Special Events Committee, Ladies Luncheon Committee, Music Committee as subcommittee of Library moved to Activities and held musical evenings to help increase dining and interest new candidates.
President's Report:
Membership: Member Certificate Program continued; survey and strategic plan to be developed..
Finance: Fiscal year 1995/1994 projects $50,000 surplus.
Operations: new committees, Budget and Audit, Human Resources, and Communications, appointed.
Finance:
slight profit with monthly assessment but no dues increase, necessity of using operating income for maintenance due to Certificate Program.
Budget Committee appointed to monitor fluctuations.
House:
Building: report on recommendations for maintenance repairs and improvements submitted (see January 1996 House Committee minutes).
Library:
Operations: exhibits "The Art of Portraiture," "The Art of Broad Street."
Activities:
Public Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee, Affinity Club Committee recognizes Yacht Club's open events, Special Events Committee includes Travel Club trips, Juniors Committee, Ladies Luncheon Committee structure changed to operate under Spousal Committee and will hold more than one annual event.
President's Report:
Operations: membership survey results in Vision 2000 strategic plan.
Program: Abraham Lincoln Foundation established as non-profit organization for maintenance and conservation of art, library, and archives
Finance:
$50,000 surplus.
Membership: credit check as part of admissions process due to increasing number of delinquent accounts (September 1994 minutes); no dues increase and monthly assessment discontinued.
Operations: some in-house maintenance out-sourced for savings.
Library: Library Fund transferred to investment account.
House:
Building: new Business Center; restored Old Cafe and adjacent rooms; exterior repainted; Broad Street hallway restored to 19th century appearance.
Library:
Operations: exhibits "Modernism in Philadelphia;" humidity control system for archives.
Activities:
Affinity Club Committee, Armed Services Committee sponsors Thomas S. Connelly flag exhibition and Army-Navy dinner dance moved to Convention Center, Entertainment Committee, Juniors Committee, Ladies Luncheon Committee, Public Affairs Committee, Special Events Committee.
President's Report (several items reported that do not appear in committee reports):
Event: two Lincoln Awards and a Gold Medal Award.
Finance: $5 million line of credit to fund Vision 2000.
Finance:
$13,000 surplus; real estate tax assessment reduced; new auditors; only club to have credit card payment option; established a $10,000,000 revenue goal.
Employee: Defined Benefit Pension Plan replaced with 401K/Discretionary Contribution Plan.
House:
Operations: policies and procedures manual developed with policies on liquor, capital expenditure, guest speaker security, Union League contributions, and reservations; business casual dining in Boker room; marketing program.
Building: Sansom Street entrance improvements, Old Cafe complex, Hannah Penn Suite, Inn at the League in process.
Employee: HITS (Hospitality, Imagination, Teamwork, Service) program; short and long term disability programs.
Library:
Operations: reinvention due to Abraham Lincoln Foundation; new computer; Pepper Patrons organized; Meet the Author program; Vita Libris newsletter.
Archives: Tanner manuscript conserved; reorganization underway
Activities:
Affinity Club Committee writes guidelines to establish or maintain clubs, Entertainment Committee planning special 1999 New Year's celebration, Juniors Committee, Ladies Committee to sponsor new Festival of Trees to benefit Children's Crisis Center, Public Affairs Committee organizes two luncheon series and hosts Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Mayor Edward G. Rendell, James Earl Jones, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Special Events Committee organizes first annual Children's Halloween Party.
Member Relations:
Operations: restructured committee; Membership Passport Program and planning for Ambassadors' Club; By-Law amendments planned to enhance memberships; computer and communication infrastructure studied in order to monitor usage trends; new Communications Subcommittee for publications and public relations.
President's Report:
Operations: redesigned financial reporting to identify problems.
Events: reinstated Awards and Medals ceremonies with two Gold Medals and four Abraham Lincoln awards; new Business Leadership Award.
Finance:
Operations: a la carte problem continues, Cafe Meredith to provide upscale dining; private dining falls off in summer.
Program: Abraham Lincoln Foundation success, especially Robert G. Wilder contribution.
House:
Vision 2000 programs
Building: Cafe Meredith restoration; total gutting and renovation of sleeping rooms begins; Wilder Executive Health and Fitness Center construction; administrative temporarily moved to Sheridan Grille/Gettysburg Room; engineering study for Foundations, Collections Administration, and archives move to Broad Street 3rd floor; former North Sitting Room to be converted to Smoking/Cigar Lounge, former Smoking Room to be Heritage Room to serve as principal heritage education and interpretation space.
Operations: Inn Marketing Manager hired; computer technology upgrade.
Employee: new General Manager.
Library:
Program: new Civil War round table.
Operations: archives moved.
Activities:
Affinity Club Committee, Entertainment Committee, Juniors Committee, Ladies Committee Festival of Trees raised $7000 for the Children's Crisis Center, Public Affairs Committee, Special Events Committee.
Member Relations:
Membership: Passport Program.
Operations: development of Marketing Plan.
Employee: Private Dining Room incentive plan to reward catering sales staff for exceeding expectations.
President's Report (much for year 1999):
Finance:
Loss of $998,107 result of VISION 2000 capital improvements while many operations were shut down; Fiscal year 1999/2000 budget shows $156,000 profit.
House:
Building: Wilder Executive Health and Fitness Center and Inn at the League completed; sprinkler system installation underway; Meade Room converted to Meade Ballroom; more formal entrances for Marble Rooms; Lincoln Hall ceiling panels replaced.
Operations: business casual through summer; house rules on dress, smoking, cell phones, etc.
Privileges: parking situation being addressed.
Library (much of report is for calendar year 1999):
Program: arrangement with Civil War Library and Museum to create new museum at the former Liberty Building at 124 S. 15th Street Civil War round table; donation to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments restoration; efforts to participate in Avenue of the Arts unable to progress due to preparations for Kimmel Center; Civil War history miniseries (Fall 1999); Major Charles Izard Maceuen Civil War Round Table establish monthly meetings; "Vita Libris" newsletter published; Library Hours; Meet the Author series; Musical Programs featured commemoration of Philadelphia Orchestra's 100th anniversary; Pepper Patrons programs.
Archives: oral history project re-started; Civil War lithographs conserved (also Abraham Lincoln Foundation); Ulysses S. Grant letter acquired through Kurt Dividyan.
Artifacts: Ladies Committee fund Webb flag conservation.
Operations: new technology equipment prohibitive.
Events: Penn State football outing; Open House historical tour revived after 10 years.
Activities:
Affinity Club, Entertainment, Juniors, Ladies Committee Festival of Trees raised $10,000 for the Children's Crisis Center and has first mother/daughter tea and fashion show, Public Affairs Committee, Special Events Committee.
Member Relations:
Membership: Ambassadors help prospects learn about Union League; Locust Club closed, bringing 59 members; give up trying to reconsider resignations and focus on retaining members; analysis underway to enhance membership for women.
Abraham Lincoln Foundation:
Art: General George A. McCall portrait, two William Vonnoh portraits, "Indian Girl" by Isaac L. Williams, and "Harvest Home When the War Was Over" by Joseph W. John restored; commissioned President George Bush portrait with funding from Robert D. McNeil.
Sculpture: conserved Broad Street entrance bronze sculptures
Objects: Persian Gulf War plaque.
Event: Lincoln Day address and parade.
President's Report:
Event: Millenium Gala.
Finance:
Some concern over debt incurred during renovations, but fiscally sound; Fiscal year 2000/2001 forecasts $500,000 profit.
House:
Event: Republican National Convention (August 2000).
Privileges: Sansom Street garage purchased.
Building: Ladies Locker Room renovated; air conditioning chiller replaced.
Employee: new Hospitality and Service Committee to raise hospitality level of staff.
Library (much of report is for calendar year 2000):
Program: arrangement with Civil War Library and Museum to create new museum at the former Liberty Building at 124 S. 15th Street failed.
Building: engineering studies completed for archives move to Broad Street 3rd floor.
Archives and objects: collections cataloging into automated system; General George Gordon Meade medal, World War I era bar of soap, Captain Timothy Cadwallader carte-de-visite, Pvt. George Wilson New Testament purchased; oral history tapes to be digitally re-recorded.
Art: "Harpers Ferry After the War" and William Henry Harrison portrait conserved; Samuel Bell Waugh portrait of Ulysses S. Grant loaned to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Augustus Heaton painting "Washington Presenting Governor Dinwiddie's Letter on travelling exhibit.
Program: contribution to University of the Arts production.
Event: inaugural Civil War Dress Ball; play "While Lincoln Lay Dying; Friday Film Festival (September 2000).
Membership: 450 Pepper Patrons largest interest group in Union League
Activities:
Affinity Club, Entertainment, Juniors, Ladies Committee Festival of Trees raised $7,000 for the Children's Crisis Center, Public Affairs Committee presents Lincoln Statue to Governor Tom Ridge, Special Events Committee.
Member Relations:
Strategic Planning, League Ambassadors, Admissions, Corporate Prospect Group, Juniors Committee, Club Tables, Business Network, Reciprocal Privileges, Marketing with new Marketing Director position.
Abraham Lincoln Foundation:
Event: Lincoln Day address by Marlin Fitzwater and parade.
President's Report: all reported in committee reports
Finance:
Fiscal year 2000/2001 in the black for first time in many years, due to steady growth in daily services, helped by Republican National Convention; refinanced loan and mortgage on house; Fiscal year 2001/2002 bottom up budget to give department heads accountability
House:
Privileges: parking garage opened.
Operations: Boker Room, a major liability, redecorated; developing plans for food and beverage to appeal more to members.
Building: sprinkler project; improvements done by skilled artisan on staff instead of expensive outsourcing.
Employee: "Catch a Star Program" initiated to improve employee service.
Library (much of report is for calendar year 2001):
Program: mission statement includes stewardship, outreach, and partnership; new sub-committee on Library Operations; leader in Philadelphia Civil War History Initiative.
Art: concern with revitalized art collection, recommendation that 20th and 21st century art be acquired; Thomas Sully portrait of William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson portrait, "Moorish Dancing Girl" conserved (see also Abraham Lincoln Foundation).
Sculpture: Lincoln Memorial Room bronzes cleaned (see also Abraham Lincoln Foundation).
Artifacts: campaign handkerchiefs conserved.
Archives: oral histories continued (see also Abraham Lincoln Foundation).
Activities:
Affinity Club, reformed Armed Services, Business Network and Club Tables (shared with Membership), Entertainment hold first Boxing Night at the Blue Horizon, changes formal dance format to Fall, New Year's Eve, and Club Table, and brings back Quad parties, Juniors, Ladies Committee awards first Crystal Award to Leonore Annenberg and donates $10,000 to Library for Gettysburg monuments and Webb flag, new Performing Arts, Public Affairs Committee co-sponsors events with World Affairs Council and Mayor John Street's first State of the City address, Special Events Committee.
Member Relations:
Program: program to bring in new members will recognize proposers with special reception, wine glasses, rosette, formal induction ceremony.
League Ambassadors, Admissions, Membership Retention, Club Tables gives award for table bringing in most new members, Juniors Committee, Business Network, Reciprocal Clubs, new committee to introduce CEO's and other leaders.
Abraham Lincoln Foundation:
Event: Lincoln Day address by Edward G. Rendell and parade.
Art: "Hesitation" conserved.
President's Report:
Finance: total revenues over $14 million; capital campaign for endowment underway, but slow progress.
Finance:
Fiscal year 2001/2002 operating costs show profit due to increase in a la carte and private functions, lodging suffered following September 2001, overall loss of $73,677; Fiscal year 2002/2003 projected surplus of $172,000.
House:
Building: brownstone facade and Broad Street roof work, laundry moved from 5th floor to basement.
Finance: new Insurance Committee.
Library (much of report is for calendar year 2002):
Cleaning of many items with support of Club Tables
Archives: Street Clair Mulholland papers and Joseph G. Darlington scrapbooks purchased by Abraham Lincoln Foundation; William T. Jones letters from family.
Event: Civil War Ball
Program: Philadelphia Civil War History initiative to celebrate Civil War 150th anniversary.
Activities:
Affinity Club, Entertainment, Juniors, Ladies Committee, Performing Arts, Public Affairs Committee responsible for Lincoln Award to "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, Special Events Committee, Travel Committee.
Member Relations:
Program: New Member Initiative.
Admissions, Alumni Receptions, Ambassadors, Business Network, Club Tables, Corporate Initiative, Juniors, Life Membership/Reciprocals, Marketing, Member Retention.
Abraham Lincoln Foundation:
Event: Lincoln Day address by Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham.
Program: see Library.
President's Report:
Building: Master Planning Committee to chart physical improvements to interior and exterior.
Finance:
Fiscal year 2002/2003 surplus of $222,000; Fiscal year 2003/2004 projected surplus of $162,687; Board designated fund to be used to build small endowment.
House:
Maintenance and Capital Improvement, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Concierge and Service, The Inn at the League, Interior Design, Robert G. Wilder Fitness Center.
Library:
Art: anonymous donation of $40,000 through Lincoln Foundation for Civil War portrait restoration; other conservation work supported through club tables, Pepper Patrons.
Artifact: Webb flag loaned to Harrisburg Civil War Museum.
Library: appraisal of Civil War book collection; retrospective conversion of library catalog.
Program: continued leadership and management of Civil War History Consortium.
Activities:
Affinity Club includes new Investment Club, Armed Services, Business Network, Club Tables include Independent and Inglenook merging, Entertainment, Juniors, Ladies Committee presents Willard G. Rouse, III, with Crystal Award, Performing Arts, Public Affairs Committee include Founders Award to Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle, Gold Medal to Director of Homeland Security and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge at 140th Celebration, Lincoln Award to former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh, Special Events Committee.
Member Relations:
Program: New Member Initiative brings membership to 2900.
Admissions, Alumni Reunions, Ambassadors, Business Network, Club Tables, Juniors, Life Membership/Reciprocals tops out Life Memberships at 200 and reaches 144 reciprocal clubs, Marketing, Membership Enhancement.
Abraham Lincoln Foundation:
Art: "The Charge of the Cuirassiers at Waterloo restored; engraving "On March to the Sea" gift from Ralph Hooper and restored through Bruce Hooper; commissioned Gerald R. Ford portrait.
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee.
1. Minute books, 1867-1982
2. General Files, 1866-1988
3. Member Services/Privileges
4. Employee Relations
5. Operations
6. Building.
Collection: Standing Committees. House.
Member services and privileges include: collecting dues and accounts due for food, beverages, and other sales; privileges at reciprocal clubs; bringing guests (no more than ?X annually), restaurant and general services.
Accounts, 1863-1988: notices and forms for account payments, and some postings, includes annual tax payment, Fiscal year 1917 (1 Volume) 40d
Reciprocal Clubs, 1893-1978: brochures, newsletters, privilege information; 1970s includes some correspondence. 40d-e
Guest Registers: 1952-1954 (missing January-March 1954), 1978-1991 (partial) 55d-56a; 1957-1965, 1967 53top; 1968-1977 56b
General minute book, 1880-1904 includes Committee to Consider Delinquent Accounts, 1903-04 56b
Member Directories, 1863-present 70e-f, 71b.
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee.
Employee lists, 1872 (1897-1936) 1936 (4 Volumes) 55a
Miscellaneous announcements re. personnel, forms, notices, etc., 1896-1991 40e, Oversize boxes
Subject files: Blood Donor Club, Christmas Fund, Hospital Notices, Birthday Notices, 1891-1991, Newsletter, 1999 40f
Death Notices, pre 1900-1993 40f
Instructions to Staff for Special Events, 1952-1988 40f
Deceased Pensioners, (with some additional benefit information) 1980s-1990s 41a
25 Year Club dues, accounts, dinner programs, 1947-1998 40f-g
Employee records, 1970s (sample) 41b-c partial folder list available.
Collection: Standing Committees. House Committee.
A very small group of miscellaneous papers relating to repairs and renovations to the building.
Committee to ascertain, adjust and settle with insurance companies for 1866 fire minute book. 55a
Hot Water Readings and Boiler Feed Make Up from City Pipes, 1929/1930
Reconstruction Plans, 1989-1995 (see also Board, General I.2).
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
Records of a wide variety of member activities and programs, including special and annual events, addresses, sports, parties and receptions.
1. Affinity/Recreation, 1865-present
2. Armed Services, 1982-present
3. Entertainment, circa 1898-present
4. Junior Committee, 1962-1991
5. Ladies Luncheon, 1967-present
6. Public Affairs/Guest Speakers, 1965-1991.
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
General Sports, Bowling, Hockey
Aviation Club
Baseball
Billiards/Pool (item list available)
Bridge and other Cards
Business Network
Chess
Food & Wine Club
Football
Genealogy. 1992-1995
Glee Club, 1973-
Golf
Scuba
Shooting
Stamps
Tennis
Yacht/Sailing.
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities.
Box 1: Minutes of General Meeting & Executive Committee, 1983-1991
Box 2: Newsletter, 1983-1989,1998; Membership files, including directories, 1983-1989; Financial files, 1983-1989; Ships Store; Bylaws; History
Box 3: Commodore's Ball, 1983-1993; Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1984-1994.
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
D-Day 50th Anniversary trip, 1994 Union League Veterans oral history interviews, 1997 (Charles Reilly, Jr. files) (see also flat drawers).
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
Largely invitations and programs for events, with some records relating to planning
General files, 1966-1988 with some correspondence, minutes, and miscellaneous. (Folder list available) 48c
Alphabetical series: 48c-49b
Breakfasts
Champagne Brunch
Christmas, 1924 (1952-
Circus
Club Nights
Dinner Dance
Easter
Father & Son/Daughter
Flag Day
Founders Day (see also Medal Awards) (also Oversize Boxes)
Gettysburg Excursion/Pilgrims (item list available)
Lincoln Day (item list available)
Medal Awards (see also Founders Day)
Mothers Day
Motion Pictures
Music: Peter Nero & Philly Pops, annual Philadelphia Orchestra)
New Year's (see also Christmas)
Sheridan Quad (item list available)
Stag Night
Thanksgiving
Theater (Forrest Theatre series, etc.)
Travel Cruises
Trips
Special Events: Union League Centennial, 1962; United States Bicentennial, 1976; Constitutional Bicentennial, 1987; Union League 125 Years, 1987, Union League 140th Anniversary. (49d-e, Oversize Boxes)
Miscellaneous receptions, addresses, and other events: invitations, programs, menus, etc. (chronologically arranged). (50a-b, Oversize Boxes, Flat Drawers).
Collection: Standing Committees. Activities/Guest Committee.
Files of chairwomen and committee members include minutes, memoranda, correspondence, some financial files, invitations, and programs. Luncheons included a fashion show and usually a speaker.
Collection: Standing Committees. Finance Committee.
Minute book, 1893-1910 (54c)
Ledgers, 1913-1963, June 1989-June 1997 (40 Volumes) (72b-73b)
Auditors examinations and reports, 1912-1962 (72c)
[Monthly financial] Reports, 1925-1949 (9 Volumes) (54c)
Beverage supply, 1948-1949 (Room 4)
Survey of Operations, 1950 (Room 4)
Pension Plan and 1956 budget recommendations, 1955 (Room 4)
Miscellaneous: minutes, 1983-1987; financial statements, 1980, 1981; budget, 1995/1996 (38g).
Collection: Standing Committees. Library.
1. Library, 1865-present
2. Art, 1867-1995
3. History and Archives, 1884-1987.
Collection: Standing Committees. Library.
General Files, 1892-1993, bulk 1932-1989: correspondence, notices, some minutes in early files; librarian John J. Moraski files, 1932-1965, Committee Chairman John S. Peake files, 1969-70, Max Whiteman files, 1970s & 1980s, Joan Hendrix files, 1990s, all including variously correspondence on acquisitions, reference inquiries, speakers and other business, minutes, financial reports, etc. Some unprocessed. (46e-47a Oversize Boxes)
Minute books, 1865-1940 (4 Volumes); Letterpress books, 1892-1910 (2 Volumes); Accounts, 1865, 1884-1885, 1905-1918 (1 Volume); Books purchased for members, 1966-1974. (54d)
Library Hours, 1928-1995: announcements and programs, with some planning files, 1991-1995. Library Night included entertainment and/or a speaker. They were suspended during the war and resumed as Library Hours in 1955. (46c-e)
Acquisitions, 1893-1989: accession book, 1893-1994, books purchased, 1916-1924, 1934-1942 (3 Volumes), typed lists, 1917, and periodically printed lists of library acquisitions. (47a-b)
Vita Libris, 1997-present: Library newsletter. (47a)
Catalogs, inventories, appraisals, 1894-1975: Catalogue, 1897, with annotations to 1928; miscellaneous lists of books, 1975 appraisal of rare books. (47b).
Collection: Standing Committees. Library. Art.
General Files, 1867-1989: Notices and circulars, annual reports, exhibition catalogs; Arthur Edwin Bye "Catalog of Paintings" files, 1940; Donations to Art Committee receiptbook, 1948-1951; Maxwell Whiteman files including minutes, reports, correspondence re. reference and acquisitions, 1960s-1980s. See also Library subseries General Files. 45b-d, Oversize Boxes, Flat Drawers Art Association minute book, 1886-1915; Committee of Art Association minute book, 1937-42 (4 meetings). For Union League Regiments Memorial minutes, 1899-1900, see General Minute book, 1899-1909. 54d, 56b
Published catalogs: catalogs, 1908, 1940; research files, galley proofs, etc. for "Paintings and Sculpture," 1978. 45e
Exhibitions, 1870-1872, 1944, 1962-1895: notices, catalogs, general files. Loan Exhibit of Fine Art, 1896, and Art Loan Exhibition Committee, 1899, see General Minute book, 1899-1909. 47c-e
Appraisals, 1937, 1946, 1952, 1974. See also House-General Files. 45d-e
Sale of Albert Bierstadt's "Bombardment of Fort Sumter" lawsuit, 1987. See also Presidents Files (I.7), Robert G. Wilder. 45d, Flat Drawers.
Collection: Standing Committees. Library.
Pamphlets and articles on Union League history, 1913-1975: published histories including 1913 Golden Anniversary, 1915 Golden Anniversary of Union League House, 1931 Handbook, 1956 A Chronological Resume, 1956-57 Peterman "Milestones of Union League History; 1965-1970 files relating to dispute over Ivan H. (Cy) Peterman "A Century of Loyalty and Service";* 1975 files, galley sheets relating to publication of Gentlemen in Crisis by Whiteman; 1987 correspondence, captions, etc. relating to Union League of Philadelphia 125 Years.
While Lincoln Lay Dying: Files relating to publication of Tanner manuscript, 1968
House Tours, 1976-1995
Oral History Project.
Collection: Standing Committees. Member Relations.
1. General, 1988-1998 bulk 1989-1991; 1994-1998
2. Club Tables, 1885-1989
3. Bulletin/Banner, 1944-present.
Collection: Standing Committees. Member Relations.
Notices of candidate and new member receptions, with some minutes and other papers.
Member Directories; inventory of member portraits to 1990s.
Collection: Standing Committees. Member Relations.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous clubs (?list available), lists of clubs and members, Table Hop Night notices, and "Table Talk, " December 1986-March 1988
Table Clubs (alphabetically arranged): Benson, Hearth, Kettle (item list available, see also Oversize Boxes), Kindergarten, Lincoln, Round, Sea Wolves, Windy Corner, Wishbone.
Hearth Club. 1904-present, includes records with By-Laws, minutes, correspondence, member lists, and histories.
Kindergarten Club. Includes biographies and clippings of some members (Harris!!).
Collection: Standing Committees. Board of Publications.
Minute book, 1863-1876
Bylaws, [1863]-1968 (1 Volume)
Publication Distribution, February-June, 1863
Pamphlets published by Union League, 1863-1945.
Collection: Committee on Admissions. Admissions.
Register of Candidates, 1865-[1979], 1988-1989 (14 Volumes). 55a-b
Candidate Rolls, 1959-1991. 53top
*Record of Candidate Introductions, 1905-1945 (14 Volumes): includes variously candidate #, proposer, second, appearance date, occupation, politics, clubs, married, age, impression (brief comment, then numerical ranking); indicates when candidate was withdrawn. 55b-c
Members elected, 1916-1940, 1946-1993: extracted from Board minutes. See also Board Minute books. 42d
Member Signatures, 1865-1968 (3 Volumes). 55c
Elected Members who have not signed: records date of signing, 1865-1975. 55c
Entrance Fee Receipt Book, 1910-1916, 1941-1946, 1954-1974, 1980-1989 (7 Volumes). 55c
Register of Members, 1864-1992 (6 Volumes): alphabetical record of payment of dues/1st dues, left membership. 55c-d
Clerical Roll, [1863]-1984 (3 Volumes). 55d
Army, Navy, and Consular Roll, 1892-1986 (2 Volumes). 55d
Junior Roll Entrance Fee Receipts, 1961-1988 (2 Volumes). 55d
Re-elected Roll, 1908-1951 (1 Volume). 55d.
Collection: Committee on Admissions. Membership Changes.
Record of Changes in Membership, 1915-1936 (1 Volume). 55d
Active Life Membership: Candidates, 1896-1987 (1 Volume, chronological); Roll, 1896-1911 (1 Volume, alphabetical). 55d
Permanent Changes of Address, 1932-1981 (6 Volumes). 55d
Death Notices, 1896-present: separate alphabetical series, 1896-1950, 1951-1980, 1981-2000, 2001-present. 42f-43b, Oversize Boxes
Not cataloged: unsuccessful candidates, resigned/deceased members files, 197[?]-?, includes candidate application, recommendation letters, and resignation letters. 61g-69f, 77d-79c.
Collection: Admissions Committee. Miscellaneous.
Notices of dues, changes in By-laws, lists of committee members, 1863-1894
Biographical files: includes articles by and about members, and miscellaneous biographical notes
Member list compilation, 1901-1949: paper copy; index cards with additions, 1950-1966 A-D, includes notation "dropped" not included on paper copy.
Ladies' Privileges: spouse name index cards, circa 1919-circa 1979; widows and unmarried daughters cards, 1985, 1986.
Collection: Other Entities. Committee on Youth Work/Youth Wor
From 1972 to 1983 the files of the Committee and of the Foundation are interfiled. From 1984 to 1989 there are some separate folders for each entity.
Committee on Youth Work files, 1946-present, include solicitations, invitations, programs, and other printed material, with some minutes, correspondence, financial and other working files reflecting the different subcommittees: activities, dinner arrangements, door prizes, photographs, membership support, letters and notices, agency coordination, special guests, public relations, speaker, and executive committee. There are also award recipient information cards, 1948-61, 1973, 1980-1981, including (variously) name, address, birth date, school, and sponsoring agency.
Foundation files, 1971-1989, include agency applications, acknowledgements, and other correspondence, member appointments, minutes, and financial reports.
Collection: Other Entities. Scholarship Fund Committee/Founda.
Trustees minutes, 1955-1978, 1987-1989 (other minutes in Foundations Office)
Files, 1955-present. These files contain miscellaneous material of varying content that may include information on applicants, preparations for award event, financial reports, annual reports, and form letters.
Scholarship recipients' applications, 1956-2001. Applications include: photograph, name and occupation of parent, family income, home value and mortgage, certificate of agency head, remarks of parent or guardian, certificate of principal or head master, school record and SAT scores.
Unsuccessful applicants, 1956-1965, 1999-2004, 2006 SAMPLE
Auditors Reports, 1977-1994
Additions have been made that are not indicated here--see item listings.
Collection: Other Entities. Political Activities.
1. Presidential Campaigns, 1864-1968
2. United States Presidents, 1872-1991
3. State, Local, General Political Activity, 1865-1979
4. War Activities, 1898, 1917-1921, 1940-1947.
Collection: Other Entities. Political Activities.
General files of forms, meeting announcements, contribution solicitations, committee lists, includes Joseph A. Fisher files, 1960, Campaign Fund Raising Committee Co-Chairman, with responses to solicitations and other correspondence.
National Campaign Committees minutes, 1880-1908 (incomplete), included in general minute book, 1880-1909 (T:4).
Campaign contribution receipt stubs, 1920, 1932, 1936; receipts, 1928, 1932, 1936; pledge cards, 1959/1960; annotated membership lists indicating donations to various campaigns, 1924-1968.
Collection: Other Entities. Poltical Activities.
General files relating to Gubernatorial campaigns, including William Scranton, 1962, and Raymond P. Shafer, 1966, mayoral campaigns, Republican Finance Committee of Pennsylvania, Committee for Patriotic Action, Political Activities Committee, and others. (see also flat drawers).
Collection: Other Entities. Political Activities.
World War I activities including Soldiers and Sailors Annex; World War II activities including the National Defense Fund, National Emergency Committee minutes, 1942, War Veterans Committee, and World War II Memorial. (see also flat drawers).
Collection: Other Entities. Abraham Lincoln Foundation.
Trustee minutes and miscellany, 1996-1997, 2002-2000
Financial records
Collections Committee minutes, 1996-present
Fund Raising Committee, 1996-2005: includes Development Committee, 1996-1997, Ford Portrait, 2004-2005, miscellaneous correspondence, etc.
Outreach Committee, 1996-2000
Lincoln Day, 1999-2005, including arrangements and corporate sponsor information
While Lincoln Lay Dying, 2004: includes planning, script
Art receptions, including Russell Smith Posters, Bush and Ford portraits
JAMCO Films agreement for sponsorship of Civil War Medicine documentary, 2002-2006
Capital Campaign, 1998-2002: includes committee meetings, solicitation material, Civil War Museum and Library stewardship planning, and renovation of Broad Street Third Floor planning.
Collection: General Managers' Files.
Club Managers Association of America, Convention in Philadelphia, 1955, files for Layman as president, 1959, Long Range Plan, 1968-1971, Regional Director, 1973-1974, and other posts, and general files, 1947-1974.
Club Managers Association of Philadelphia and Vicinity general files, 1946-1964.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Correspondence and minutes, primarily 1864, relating to raising troops, proposed bill "to provide for the organizing, arming and disciplining of the militia of the states," resignations of 183rd Pennsylvania Regiment officers, memorial to discourage local bounties for recruiting volunteers; receipts, claims, and certificates for bounty payments, 1863; responses to advertisement for information on former Union League Regiments' officers, 1865.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous. Other Union Leagues.
Black Hawk (Colorado) Union League minutes, May-August 1863, mostly reporting on elected members and officers. Photocopy.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous. Republican Party in.
Republican Club of Philadelphia constitution and member signatures, 1856 (1 Volume, Purchased 1936).
Porter F. Cope papers, including: Young Republican Club minutes, 1880-1903 (2 Volumes); correspondence, 1897-1902, relating to efforts to bring the Republican Convention to Philadelphia in 1900; Cope's application to the post of State Librarian; Belmont Republican Club receipted bills, 1904-1905 (Gift of Mrs. Robert Twining, 1966).
Company A, Republican Invincibles minutes, 1882, 1884, 1888, and member list (Gift of Annabelle V. Williams, 1930).
Collection: Board of Directors. General Files.
Analysis of the present organizational setup, food and beverage operations, payrolls and staffing, accounting system.
Summary of Findings and Conclusions: (1) Mr. Stauffer not qualified to be manager, groom Mr. Layman for position; (2) food compares favorably with other clubs and hotels, recommend more intensified control of food operation based on principles of pre-costing and pre-controlling to reduce costs; (3) train service employees, poll members on oyster bar, sandwich bar and stand-up bar installations; (4) kitchen design improvements; (5) closer control of beverage costs; (6) redecorate sleeping rooms; (7) pension some older employees and eliminate others to reduce salary costs; (8) change some accounting practices; (9) lesser points not mentioned, but institution is a good one but improvements can be made to the efficiency of operations and to "relieve the principal officers of many of the onerous details of management which they now perform.."
Collection: Collections. Other Civil War.
Pasted in Philadelphia newspaper clippings and two tipped in flyers relating to raising the Birney Brigade of the Corps of Veterans. Union League members serving on committees to raise the troops include Frederick Fraley, Morton McMichael, Stephen Caldwell, Charles Knecht, Charles E. Smith, Charles L. Borie.
Collection: Board of Directors. Presidents.
Includes Civil War letters, clippings and other memorabilia relating to the Union League during his presidency, with some photographs of family and residence, obituary notices and condolence letters to his widow; also letters received as Union League president, 1899-1902, from government officials and dignitaries responding to invitations, appreciating hospitality, acknowledging good wishes and gift of "Chronicle of the Union League of Philadelphia."
Collection: Collections. Ephemera.
Sheet music, published by Chas W. A. Trumpler, 7th & Chestnut St.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous.
Detroit Union League Club Stock Certificate to John W. Pilling, Jr.
Collection: Union League Historical Material. Civil War.
Publication subscription circulars with names of subscribers.
Collection: Audio-Visual. Tapes.
1. Audio tapes
2. Video tapes.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
Telegram announcing official report of Robert E. Lee's surrender, with Gilbert Fell note at bottom "Received at Philadelphia April 10 1865 at 9:30 P. M. & brought to the League House...." Telegraph message sent to Forney's Press and retrieved by Mrs. Forney and Louise Claghorn and brought to the League House. Original and facsimile.
Collection: Dreer Collection.
Union League of Philadelphia Member's Ticket, February 22, 1864.
Collection: Union League and the Civil War.
For Anniversary at American Academy of Music.
Collection: Collections. Miscellaneous. Republican Party.
The Golden Age Campaign Tracts. The Philadelphia Failure, Review of Grant's Renomination, by Theodore Tilton. Reprint, New York, 1872. Criticizing the renomination of President Grant at Philadelphia and advocating the principles of the Cincinnati Convention.