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Archives at Cornell

Women -- Societies and clubs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Matthew T. Scott papers

 Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract

A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.

Dates: 1831-1930.

Melita Hamilton Skillen papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947736]
Identifier: 41-4-836
Scope and content Autobiographical sketches, certificates, and newspaper clippings (1932-58) concerning Miss Skillen's life and her work as director of drama at Senn High School in Chicago, from which she retired in 1952. Also, items relating to the Cornell Women's Club of Chicago, of which Miss Skillen was a member and officer, including a sketch (4 pp., 1960) of the club, which was founded in 1911, and of some of the club's members, incomplete lists of officers and activities (1916-44), and a directory,...
Dates: 1932-1967.

New York State Federation of Home Bureaus records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-17-853
Abstract

New York State Federation of Home Bureaus records including minutes, programs, reports, clippings, and photos.

Dates: 1915-1991.

New York State Veterinary Medical Society Auxiliary records

 Collection
Identifier: 6600
Abstract

Scrapbooks and subject files kept by the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Auxiliary from 1948-2000.

Dates: 1948-2007.

Patriotic Order of Americans records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065094215]
Identifier: 4807
Scope and content

Secretary's minute book for a patriotic women's organization, presumably allied with the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America.

Dates: 1925-1931.

Phillips Hall Women's Club records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230132]
Identifier: 11-8-2333
Scope and content

Minutes, treasurer's reports, schedules, membership rosters, and correspondence of the Phillips Hall Women's Club, an association of faculty wives in the Cornell University Department of Electrical Engineering.

Dates: 1955-1964.

Salem Monday Club records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065448759]
Identifier: 4345
Scope and content

Programs, scrapbook, record books, constitution, photographs, menus, and miscellany of a women's discussion group from Salem, Washington County, N.Y. Fannie Fairchild Fairley Dillon was a member.

Dates: 1905-1939.

Salem village papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065448742]
Identifier: 4347
Scope and content Manuscript materials include a Village map (ca. 1780), instructions for the celebration of the Fourth of July on the heights of Saratoga (1808), anti-British and anti-Federalist doggerel (1818), political speeches, fair copies of surveyors' notes taken from Commissioners of Highways records (1782-1819), notations concerning common school instruction and attendance (ca. 1850); also scattered letters, accounts, legal documents, and other papers of Laura B. Crane, Isaac Getty, C.W. Larmon, and...
Dates: [ca. 1780-1959]

Sibley Wives' Society records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064936119]
Identifier: 11-8-920
Scope and content

Included are news bulletins, announcements, programs, reports, membership lists, minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Sibley Wives' Society. Also, questionnaires and a tally sheet recording members' responses regarding termination of the society in 1966.

Dates: 1947-1966.

Sigma Delta Epsilon, Alpha Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-835
Abstract

Records pertain to the organization and functioning of Sigma Delta Epsilon, Graduate Women In Science.

Dates: 1921-1990.