urn:taro:twu:00012p17 Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Collection Series 6: Membership (State Divisions - Districts and Juniors) Texas Woman's University, The Woman's Collection
P.O.. Box 425528 Denton, TX 76204-5528 Phone: 940-898-3751 Email: Womansc@twu.edu
2007 Finding aid written in English Description based on DACS Collection Summary Texas Woman's University, the Woman's Collection Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Collection 1897 - . Mss. 32 493 boxes. Constitution and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, reports, and published material created by the state organization, the districts, and over 2,200 individual member clubs. Also includes graphic material such as photographs and scrapbooks. Material documents the founding meeting in 1897 through the organization's growth in the twentieth century into the largest women's volunteer association in Texas.

Arrangement of the Collection

The records are arranged into nine series:

Series 1: Historical Writings

Series 2: Legal and Financial Documents

Series 3a-j: Administrations - Correspondence and Reports

Series 4: Education Assistance

Series 5: Headquarters Building

Series 6a-c: Membership

Series 7: Printed Material

Series 8: Graphic Material

Series 9: General Federation of Women's Clubs and South Central Region

 Access to the Collection:

Open for research.

 Publication and Copyright Statements:

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Coordinator for Special Collections. Where copyright is unclear, all responsibility must be assumed by the user.

Provenance

Material was collected and housed at the TFWC Headquarters until the organization designated the Woman's Collection as the repository for its archives in 1985. Material has been added on a continuing basis since that time.

 Processed by

Ann McGuffin Barton, Morgan Davis, and Barbara Hotinski, 1997-2007.

 Encoded by:

Ranu Singhvi, 2008

 Series 6: Membership (State Divisions - Districts and Juniors) 6.12 - 6.82 State Divisions: Districts and Juniors

TFWC divided the state into five numbered districts in 1901 which were eventually expanded into eight districts. A complete redistricting in 1960 assigned names to the fourteen new districts: Alamo, Capitol, Caprock, Heart of Texas, Key, Magnolia, Mesquite, Pioneer, San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, South Texas, Top of Texas, Trinity and Western. After further redistricting in 2005-2006, clubs in Heart of Texas and Santa Rosa were moved into neighboring districts and those district names retired.

A state-wide Junior division has functioned intermitantly.

Material on the Junior organization precedes the district records which are arranged in numberical order through 1960 and in alphabetical order for the named districts.

Records include minutes, newsletters, meeting programs, and club and district reports. Also included are documents related to various projects such as scholarships.

 6.12 Junior Club Records –

Junior Clubs History

Handbook: 1929, 1960-1962, 1972-1974

Club Presidents List: 1950, 1962

Club Lists: 1946-1947

Newsletter 1982

 6.13 District Boundaries

Past District Presidents – 1901-1960

By-Laws

District Surveys

Club Directory 1924-1925

 6.14 First District – 1903-1934

Convention Reports: 1920, 1923, 1927, 1932, 1933, 1934

6.15 First District – 1935-1949 6.16 First District – 1951-1960

Scholarship Information

Annual Report – 1956-1957

 6.17 Second District – 1903-1945 6.18 Second District – 1942-1949 6.19 Second District – 1949-1960

Annual Report – 1959-1960

Photographs

 6.20 Third District

Minutes – 1922-1942-(Bound)

Minutes – 1943-1953 (Bound)

 6.21 Third District – 1906-1970

Hughes Correspondence – 1912-1915

Reports:

1939 - 1949

1956 -1959

District Procedure Manual 1968-1970

 6.22 Fourth District – 1928-1936

Bound Records:

Record Book 1928-1936

Galveston Convention-1953

Houston Convention- 1934

First Woman’s Day Project - 1934

Bound Reports:

Bryan Convention 1931

List of 4th District Clubs – 1931-1932

Waco Convention 1932

Official Letters – 1931-1932

Port Arthur Convention 1935

List of 4th District Clubs 1935

Board of Directors List 1935

 6.23 Fourth District

Records

1917-1927

1937-1946

Reports: District Clubs, Club Officers, and Chairmen

 6.24 Fourth District 1933-1936

Letters – Mrs. Fred White –District President 1933-1936

Reports: District Clubs, Club Officers, and Chairmen 1936-1938

Temple Convention Report 1936

Board of Directors List 1936

 6.25 Fourth District 1901-1947

Correspondence to Mrs. Hughes 1906-1914

Correspondence: Hughes, Hertzberger

Guest Registry 1913

 6.26 Fourth District

Convention Brochures 1920-1959 (not all inclusive)

Reports 1950’s – 1960’s

Patti Simms Scholarship Fund

 6.27 Fifth District

History of State and GFWC Scholarships

Ledger- Randall – Scholarship Records

 6.28 Fifth District

Bound District Information Book 1908-1923

Convention Brochures

Bulletins 1940-1942

Minutes 1925-1942 (not inclusive)

 6.29 Fifth District

Reports – 1922-1967

50th Anniversary Meeting Brochure

Minutes 1934-1940

 6.30 Fifth District

Outstanding Club Program 1956-1957

Reports /Records 1939,1941,1942,1950

Club Institutes – Bound- 1938-1940

 6.31 Sixth District 1939-1959 6.32 Seventh District

1943 Convention Report

American Home Department Report 1937-1938

 6.33 Seventh District

Ledger- Records 1930-1931

Ledger – Records 1936-1927

Ledger – Board Meetings –1935-1938

Records 1929

 6.34 Eighth District

District Reports 1915,1958

Annual Report 1959-1960

Bank Records – Receipt Books 1950’s

1949 Convention Report

 6.35 Alamo- 1959-1966

Reports/ Clubs

Brochures/Reports –1st -5th Conventions

 6.36 Alamo- 1970-1998

Alamograms 1976-1988 (not all inclusive)

Spring Convention 1986

 6.37 Capitol- 1959-1966

Board Meeting Minutes

Bound Minutes 1961-1962

 6.38 Capitol - 1978-1989

Secretary Minutes- 1984-1986

Reports, Board Meeting Minutes 1980-1989

 6.39 Capitol - 1982-1992

Board Meeting Minutes

 6.40 Capitol- 1992-1994 6.41 Capitol- 1996-1999

District History

Convention 1996

Reports/Minutes 1996-1999

 6.42 Caprock - 1960-1992

District History

Newsletters, minutes, reports 1976-1992

 6.43 Caprock 1960-1972 6.44 Caprock- Reports 1960-1979 6.45 Caprock - 1970’s 6.46 Caprock – History 1900-1978

Reports 1960-1961

 6.47 Caprock – 1970 6.48 Caprock- 1972-1980 6.49 Caprock - 1981-1986 6.50 Caprock - 1981-1986 6.51 Caprock - 1990-1992 6.52 Caprock - 1992-2002 6.53 Heart of Texas - 1942-1972

Art Loan Fund 1942, 1952, 1954

Brochures, Reports 1962-1972(not all inclusive)

 6.54 Heart of Texas – 1971-1990

Bound Minutes

6.55 Heart of Texas – 1970-1990

District Minutes

 6.56 Heart of Texas – 1980’s – 2004 6.57 Heart of Texas -1988-2000 6.58 Heart of Texas -2001-2005

Scholarship Applicants

Scholarship Distribution

 6.59 Key 6.60 Magnolia - 1976-1980 6.61 Magnolia - 1978-1980 6.62 Magnolia - 1980-1990 6.63 Magnolia - 1960 - 1978 6.64 Magnolia - 1990-2000 6.65 Magnolia - 1992-1999 6.66 Magnolia - 1980-1987 6.67 Magnolia - 1992-2000 6.68 Magnolia - 1960-2006 6.69 Pioneer - 1960-1979

Poetry Binder

Convention Brochures

 6.70 Pioneer - 1961-1998 6.71 Pioneer - 1986-1994

Amity Study Club – Weatherford

Ft. Worth, 20th Century Club 1992-1994

 6.72 Pioneer - 1990-1995

Fort Worth Club Reports

Jewel Hurst, Correspondence

 6.73 Pioneer - 1992-1994

Ft. Worth – Lewisville

District Chairman/Miscellaneous Reports

 6.74 Pioneer - 1995-2006 6.75 San Jacinto 6.76 Santa Rosa – 1960-2000 6.77 South Texas - 1970-1990 6.78 Top of Texas 6.79 Trinity – 1958-1976

District History

 6.80 Trinity – 1975-1990

Tidbits - 1997

 6.81 Western – 1958-2000 6.82 Western – 1958-2000

Western – 1949-1988)

Bound Minutes