Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association collection, 1854-1982.

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Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association collection, 1854-1982.

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Records include board minutes and annual reports, 1859-1962, secretary's minutes, 1856-1949, treasurer's books, 1854-1949, membership lists, 1854-1941. Also includes programs/yearbooks, 1888-to date, accession book, constitutions, by-laws, historical sketches, and scrapbooks. Photographs of members. Architectural drawings of Association building by Henry Lord Gay of Chicago, 1878 and specifications for subsequent additions and renovations to the building. Women with a Vision, by Grace J. Potts and Cheryl Lyon-Jenness, 1997, a history of the association. Two 16mm films, "Industry on Parade, Design for Highway Safety," and "General Federations of Women's Club Convention, 1967." Women's Service League materials, ca. 1970-1982.

18.25 cu. ft.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8190017

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Gay, Henry Lord, 1844-1921

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Women's Service League (Kalamazoo, Mich.)

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Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl

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Potts, Grace,

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Ladies' Library Association (Kalamazoo, Mich.)

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Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association was the first women's club organized in Michigan, and the third in the United States. The organization met in various places beginning in 1852, and in 1879 they began meeting in the present Ladies' Library Association building. The Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association is affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs. From the description of Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association collection, 1854-1982. (Western Michigan University). Worl...