Women's Club of Boulder Records

I. ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS are found at the beginning of the collection. They contain the club motto, colors, member pledge, meeting times, the club collect, the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, the federation officers, the local officers, the club schedule and the schedule of the federation meetings, the annual report of the club treasurer, club projects and activities, the updated constitution and bylaws of the club, a list of former presidents, the current membership list, and a list of club members deceased. The annual announcements are organized chronologically by year. There are two different sets of annual announcements. There is a bound set for the years 1901-1935. The researcher may look at this bound set, but they are not to be photocopied. There is a copy of the bound annual announcements on bond paper for the years 1901-1935. These annual announcements should be used to obtain photocopies. The second set of annual announcements is for the years 1936-2000. They are not bound and may be used for photocopying. II. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MINUTES are placed after the annual announcements. The minutes are incomplete with several years missing. The collection does contain the minutes for the years 1901-1941, 1945- 1949, 1950-1976, and 1987-1994. III. CLUB MINUTES contains minutes for the years 1910-1938, 1947-1976, and 1987-1991. Club Minutes also contains notes from various Club and Board Meetings for the years 1972-1974 and accounts of Club Meetings for the years 1914-1917. The remaining Club Minutes are missing from the collection. IV. COMMITTEE AND CLUB REPORTS contains annual reports of Woman’s Club of Boulder different committees and reports that the Woman’s Club of Boulder made to the State and General Federations of Women’s Clubs. It contains a Treasurer’s Report for every year the Club was active except for the years 1901-1922, 1943, 1944, 1984, 1985, 1998, and 2000. In place of the Treasurer’s Reports for the years 1984 and 1985 are financial records from those years. V. HISTORIES contain numerous histories of the Woman’s Club of Boulder that were written by various Club members throughout the active years of the Club VI. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES contain numerous clippings from The Boulder Daily Camera of Woman’s Club of Boulder events and meetings, press releases that the Club wrote for The Boulder Daily Camera, and photocopies of newspaper articles pertaining to the Club activities. It also contains a copy of The Record, a newspaper published in 1920 that details the Clubs activities and the events that surround this date. VII. MEMBERSHIP LISTS AND DOCUMENTS contains lists of Club members, Club presidents, and members who paid their dues. It also contains documents that pertain to Club membership. VIII. CORRESPONDENCE contains the Corresponding Secretary Notes from the year 1901 and newspaper articles for the years 1901-1926. Newspaper articles are placed here because they are part of the book that has the corresponding secretary notes for the year 1901. Correspondence also contains donation thank you letters, general club correspondence to and from various individuals and organizations, invitations to Club and community events, newsletters that were written by the Club presidents and sent out to members, letters requesting donations from the Club, correspondence from scholarship recipients, and thank you cards written to the Club. IX. DOCUMENTS contain numerous papers that pertain to the Club activities and the community service the Club participated in. There are also legal documents, such as loan agreements and deeds. Documents also contain topics of interest at the Club meetings and possible community service activities. X. AWARDS contain the awards that the Woman’s Club of Boulder received at Colorado State Federation conventions and at General Federation conventions. Verna Hamm’s individual awards are also placed here. XI. TREASURER’S BOOKS contain the treasurer’s record books for the years 1901-1915, 1961-1989, and 1995-1998. Treasurer’s records for the State & Central districts including Moffat, Northeast, Pikes Peak, South Central, Southeast, South West, Western Slope are also included in these record books. Club disbursements, receipts, income, and expenses are also recorded in the treasurer books. Due to the size of the record books, the treasurer books for the years 1919-1923, 1921-1945, 1945-1968, and 1961-1974 are contained in the XV. OVERSIZE. XII. COLORADO FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS contains documents, programs, yearbooks, copies of the publication The Colorado Clubwoman, handbooks, Centennials, community service ideas and projects, and newsletters distributed by the Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs. XIII. GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS contains correspondence, programs, guidelines for individual clubs belonging to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, pamphlets, plays and skits, project suggestions for individual clubs, books published about and by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, handbooks, convention papers, and papers on the history of the GFWC. XIV. MEMORABILIA contains memorabilia of the Woman’s Club of Boulder. It includes at United States Flag, gavels, a gavel block made from the U.S. Frigate Constitution, and stamps with the Woman’s Club of Boulder seal, as well as other designs. The flag and some miscellaneous memorabilia are in folders. The remaining memorabilia has been labeled with tags, which detail what the item is, the box it is housed in, and the item number. The memorabilia has been labeled in this way due to the awkward size and shape of the it. XV. OVERSIZE contains scrapbooks and treasurer books from the Woman’s Club of Boulder. The scrapbooks contain committee reports, photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, awards and certificates the club won at state and national competitions, programs the club hosted, community service projects the club sponsored or created, and events that the club participated in for the specified year, such as luncheons, lectures, and theatrical performances. The scrapbooks are chronologically organized in the oversized boxes. Due to the size of two scrapbooks and the treasurer’s books, the GFWC CFWC Northern District Scrapbook for the year 1989-1990 and the GFWC CFWC Northern District Scrapbook for the year 1990-1991, they are not organized chronologically. Rather, a Treasurer’s Book for the years 1921-1945 has been placed with the 1989-1990 GFWC CFWC Northern District Scrapbook and a Treasurer’s Book for the years 1961-1974 has been organized with the 1990-1991 GFWC CFWC Northern District Scrapbook. The Treasurer’s Books for the years 1945-1968 and 1919-1923 have been organized into the last oversized box.