Records, 1888-1997.

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Records, 1888-1997.

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Business records, correspondence, and organizational materials of the Indianapolis Propylaeum. Included are minutes, annual reports, yearbooks and membership rosters, publications, organizational histories, newsclippings, stockholder information, program committee materials, and daily diaries of activities. Financial and legal materials include treasurers' reports, building rental records, tax records, bank statements, leases, and building operation and maintenance records. Also included are records of several clubs that met there, including the Indianapolis Woman's Club, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the Fortnightly Literary Club. Also included are photographs and artifacts.

64 boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 14 bound volumes, 1 reel microfilm, 1 cassette tape, and 3 boxes of photographs.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920

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Sewall was an educator, co-founder of the Girls' Classical School of Indiana, writer, lecturer, reformer, and pacifist. She was president of the National Council of Women of the United States, 1897-1899; president of the International Council of Women, 1899-1904; Chair of the Committee for Peace and Arbitration, 1904; Chair of the Executive Committee of the Women's Suffrage Association, 1882-1890; and co-founder of the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878. For more biographical information ...

Indianapolis Caledonian Quoting Club.

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Fortnightly Literary Club (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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Indianapolis Propylaeum

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The Indianapolis Propylaeum, founded in 1888, began as a stock company to build and maintain a building for the use of women's clubs. The first building, opened in 1891, was torn down to build the War Memorial Plaza and the Propylaeum moved to the Schmidt-Schaf House in 1923. A cultural and social haven for Indianapolis women, a number of groups continue to meet there, including the Indianapolis Woman's Club and the Fortnightly Literary Club. From the description of Records, 1888-199...

Kappa Kappa Gamma

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Indianapolis Woman's Club

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Founded in 1875 to "form an organized center for the mental and social culture of its members..." and to encourage "a liberal exchange of thought by papers and discussion upon all subjects pertaining to its objects." Religious and political topics are excluded, however, as the founders represented a variety of opinions. Founders and later members participated in public causes, including women's suffrage. A haven for free-thinking women, the club is the oldest of its kind in Indiana and is still ...

Charity Circle (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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