Woman's City Club records, 1922-1973.

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Woman's City Club records, 1922-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192017821

The Woman's City Club records are chiefly financial records and meeting minutes. Both the financial records and meeting minutes span the entire life of the club, from 1923 to 1973, but include some gaps in the chronology. Other records for the collection include a small number of photographs and programs, as well as a collection of correspondence (1924-1942), some reports written by club members, a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about the club (1941-1945), and other records relating to the club and its involvement in the community.

2 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6962617

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Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943

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Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organizations, she was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1922 and became council president in 1924. Born Bertha Ethel Knight in Ware, Massachusetts, she attended Dix Street School and Classical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts before moving to Bloomingt...

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The Woman's City Club of Seattle was organized in 1922 by former Seattle mayor Bertha K. Landes. The club was originally known as "The Woman's Civic League," but the name changed to the Woman's City Club in Dec. 1923. The purpose of the club was to educate women about local, state, national, and world politics, and in cooperation with other organizations, to work towards securing the welfare of the city and improving civic conditions. The club was non-partisan and did not endorse particular cand...