Preliminary Guide to the New Century Club [of Dothan, AL] Records, 1908-198
Record Group 168
Date Span: 1913-1980
Extent: 27 file folders plus 3 oversized items
Organizational History: Many communities formed "New Century Clubs" after 1900. Dothan's New Century Club began as the informal Embroidery Club. When card-playing and other entertainments were added to the sewing and conversation, the women began calling the group the "As You Like It Club." Mrs. Ellison had been a part of the "Nineteenth Century Club" in Troy, Alabama, and upon moving to Dothan proposed to form a similar group. In 1907, the women adopted their "New Century Club" constitution and by-laws.
Twelve women of the "As You Like It Club" formed a small library that later became George Houston Memorial Library. Several of these women later joined the New Century Club. The New Century Club made the library a project.
Scope/Content Note: Collection documents club activities, projects, and history. Contains operating and governing documents such as annual programs (with member rosters and constitutions) financial records, correspondence, and meeting minutes; and curated historical assemblies such as scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and an anonymous poem about club members (no date).
Organization: Three Series
- Series 1: Operating Documents, 1913-1980, 25 files plus 2 bound minute books - Includes annual programs; constitutions and by-laws; meeting minutes, financial
records, correspondence.
- Series 2: Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook - Newspaper clippings, a poem about members, and a scrapbook.
- Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1 file, n.d.
Provenance: Housed at Dothan's Houston-Love Memorial Library until that facility moved into a new building. Houston-Love Library discarded all local club collections, sending those left unclaimed to the Wiregrass Archives. This is one of the unclaimed collections.
Processing Note: Wiregrass Archives staff imposed order.
Cite as: New Century Club [Dothan, AL] Records, RG 168, Wiregrass Archives, 快猫成版视频 Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL
Processed: 08/13/2015
Inventory
Series 1. Operating Documents, 1913-1980, 25 files plus 2 bound minute books - Includes annual programs; constitutions and by-laws; meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence.
File I.D. File Label
168-14-0729-001-001 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1910
168-14-0729-001-002 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920 [1 of 2]
168-14-0729-001-003 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920 [2 of 2]
168-14-0729-001-004 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1920-1930
168-14-0729-001-005 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1930-1940
168-14-0729-001-006 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1940-1950
168-14-0729-001-007 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1950-1960
168-14-0729-001-008 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1960-1970
168-14-0729-001-009 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1970-1980
168-14-0729-001-010 Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1980-82
168-14-0729-001-011 Constitution & By-laws
168-14-0729-001-013 Financial Records
168-14-0729-001-014 Correspondence, 1945-1953, 1980
168-14-0729-001-016 Handwritten notes for Meeting Minutes, 1913-1955
168-14-0729-001-018 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1913-1915
168-14-0729-001-019 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1915-1917
168-14-0729-001-020 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1918-1921
168-14-0729-001-021 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1921-1923
168-14-0729-001-022 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1923-1926
168-14-0729-001-023 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1931-1935
168-14-0729-001-024 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1935-1938
168-14-0729-001-025 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1938-1942
168-14-0729-001-026 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1942-1948
168-14-0729-001-027 Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1948-1953
168-14-0729-OS-002 Meeting Minutes, 1955-1970, wooden cover bound w/ leather cord
168-14-0729-OS-003 Meeting Minutes 1913-1955, red leather volume, gold embossing
Series 2. Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook- Newspaper clippings, a poem about members, and a scrapbook.
File I.D. File Label
168-14-0729-001-012 Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1957-1965
168-14-0729-001-015 Poem about club members, author unknown
168-14-0729-OS-001 Scrapbook, 1964-1965 [2 pgs of newspaper clippings], red cover bound w/ red cord, mostly blank pages
Series 3. Miscellaneous, 1 file, n.d.
File I.D. File Label
168-14-0729-001-017 Miscellaneous
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