Women--Societies and clubs.

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The records of the DeKalb County Home Economists date from January 1983 to June 1999 and contains bylaws, membership lists, meeting minutes and organization mailings.

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The DeKalb Daughters of Veterans Records document the history of an organization formed to perpetuate the memories of the men who fought in the Civil War (1897-1909). Minutes, semi-annual reports, correspondence, membership and financial records reveal the Organization’s concerns with helping the widows and orphans of Civil War heroes throughout their history. A report of-the Fifth Annual Convention, National and State General Orders, and General Information complete the collection.

Scope and Contents The DeKalb Drama Club records date from 1914 to 2014 with the majority of the records consisting of minutes and yearbooks. Within the minutes are constitutions and by-laws, treasurer reports, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and theater programs. Included in the addenda are folders labeled club activities containing meeting minutes, programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings. The two folders entitled “Red Book” include historical information pertaining to the Drama Club. Also...

Scope and Contents The DeKalb League of Women Voters, organized soon after the formation of the national League, educated the first women voters of DeKalb County on the mechanics and policies of government. These records document the League’s efforts towards securing legislation of special interest to women, wiping out legal discrimination against women, and educating the general public on city, county, state, and national politics. Information is available on the League’s work to save the DeKalb city park...

Scope and Contents The DeKalb Woman's Club records contain meeting minutes dating from May 29, 1896 to May 3, 1996 with the minutes for 1907 to 1910 and 1922 to 1933 missing.  Minutes for the Club's earlier organization, The Young People's Literary Circle, are included in the records and date December 23, 1889 to May 20, 1891.  The annual calendars (yearbooks)  included in the collection contain the constitution and by-laws, a membership list, and a schedule of the club’s programs and projects.  There is a...

Scope and Contents The records for the Delta Kappa Gamma (ΔΚΓ), Alpha Chapter date from 1936 to 2009. Alpha Chapter records make up the bulk of this collection and include the society’s scrapbooks, yearbooks, meeting minutes, newsletters, programs from events, correspondence between members, treasurer and budget reports as well as reports from chairmen. The yearbooks range from 1936 to 2006.  The scrapbooks contain news clippings of various members, photographs, programs from events, newsletter clippings and...

Scope and Contents The district includes nurses from DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties. Administrative records comprise the largest series and contain constitutions and by-laws, regular and board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, committee and section records, and histories of the association and hospitals and nursing education programs within the district. The section records document specific nursing divisions within the association such as general duty or mental health...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of District VI from its formation in 1945 through 1982.  There is a nearly complete run of meeting minutes which include reports from clubs in the area.  Also included are presidents’ council minutes (1973-1980), correspondence (l972-l980), and treasurer’s reports (1946-1981).  Files on club chartering document the formation of the Rochelle and McHenry B.P.W. Clubs.  Other records include club and district reports, club of the year awards, meeting...

Scope and Contents The records of the DuPage Area Older Women’s League (OWL) date from 1965 to 2010 and include material from Hyde Park and Fox Valley Older Women’s League. The collection also contains a scrapbook of the Lombard YWCA. Included in series I, DuPage Branch, are the group’s materials, most of which are subdivided by year: meeting minutes, agendas, program handouts, flyers, correspondence, newspaper articles, publications, by-laws, photographs, directories, convention material, grant applications,...

Scope and Contents The records for the League of Women Voters of Elgin date from 1929-2001 and contain meeting minutes, monthly bulletins, annual reports, correspondence, topical files, state and national files, and scrapbooks. The collection contains a wide variety of information on League programs and projects during the 1960's. In particular, topical files describe the League's work in welfare, housing discrimination, equal opportunity, the development of human resources, the Kane County food stamp...