urn:taro:twu:00012p2 Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Collection Series 1: Historical Writings Finding aid prepared by Ann Barton, 2007 Texas Woman's University, The Woman's Collection
P.O.. Box 425528 Denton, TX 76204-5528 Phone: 940-898-3751 Email: Womansc@twu.edu
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 1: Historical Writings

TFWC has published three histories: Vol. I (1897- 1917), Vol. II (1918-1938), and Vol. III (1938 - 1988). These and other publications produced by the organization may be found through the TWU online catalog.

 1.1 Brochures, Fact Sheets, short articles, and drafts of TFWC History, Vol. III.

1.2 Articles written by TFWC Historian Decca Lamar West (1911-1921) and by Ida Durand Redmond (1920).