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Box 2

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Members A-F

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the File: The files hold printed items about club members that are not related to club activities. Material includes writings by and about members, obituaries and memorial service programs for members and their families, performance invitations and professional career ephemera, and other printed matter. There are not files for all of the members, and what is there is not uniform in coverage or equally weighted in importance.Oversize Box 6 holds additional material on club members Alsop,...
Dates: 1869–2024

Members G-O

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the File: The files hold printed items about club members that are not related to club activities. Material includes writings by and about members, obituaries and memorial service programs for members and their families, performance invitations and professional career ephemera, and other printed matter. There are not files for all of the members, and what is there is not uniform in coverage or equally weighted in importance.Oversize Box 6 holds additional material on club members Alsop,...
Dates: 1869–2024

Members P-Z

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the File: The files hold printed items about club members that are not related to club activities. Material includes writings by and about members, obituaries and memorial service programs for members and their families, performance invitations and professional career ephemera, and other printed matter. There are not files for all of the members, and what is there is not uniform in coverage or equally weighted in importance.Oversize Box 6 holds additional material on club members Alsop,...
Dates: 1869–2024

Friday Morning Club, 1971

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Club history written by Sarah C. Smith, club historian.

Dates: 1971

Gilpin's, 1969, 1991

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Two printed club histories, the first published in 1969 covering the years 1926-1969, the second published in 1991 to cover 1970-1991.

Dates: 1969, 1991

Saturday Morning Club, 2018

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes just a newspaper article from the West Hartford News (dated March 22, 2018) promoting a talk on the Saturday Morning Club being presented at the Mark Twain House & Museum. The following volume was separated and catalogued in the Watkinson Library collection: Aller, Susan, Barbara Donahue, and Polly Zarella, eds. A History of The Saturday Morning Club of Hartford, 1876-2011 (Saturday Morning Club of Hartford, 2011).

Dates: 2018

Twilight Club, 1978–2015

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Present are ephemera, and two printed club histories: The Twilight Club, 1973-1998, by Ellsworth Grant (1998), and Twilight Years by Philip Reynolds (2015). The latter volume consists of papers presented at club meetings by Reynolds.

Dates: 1978–2015

Tell Us a Story: An African American Family in the Heartland, by Shirley Motley Portwood (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000)

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

A copy of this book was given to each club member by John H. Motley; it is a Motley family history written by his sister.

Dates: 1869–2024

General Correspondence, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I, Administrative Records, contains documents related to the organization, administration, and history of the Monday Evening Club, dating from its founding to the current time. The most complete record of the club’s activities appears in the club meeting minutes which begin in 1869. Also present is Correspondence spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, primarily that sent between the club secretary and members; the former is sparse in the earliest years, and the latter...
Dates: undated

Articles which cite the Monday Evening Club records, 2024

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15A
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes a copy of one article: Kristen Levithan, "A Monumental Endeavor: The Bulkeley Bridge," which cites Francis Goodwin II's paper "The Three Great Days" (1967).

Dates: 2024