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Women's Resources --Women, Social Welfare and Social Movements--


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Manuscripts

MIC 81 Annual Reports and Yearbooks, Junior League Of Columbus     1929-1975
Annual reports and yearbooks of the Junior League of Columbus, Ohio, a women's volunteer service organization.
MIC 107 Temperance and Prohibition    1830-1933
Microfilm edition of papers and publications relating to the temperance and prohibition movement. Provides a comprehensive documentation for the study of the legal, social, religious, economic, and political aspects of the temperance and prohibition movement during the height of its popularity and influence.
MIC 111 Clinton League Memory Books   1912-1953
Memory books of women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus.
MIC 161 Records for Ohio Now    1981-1987
Office files of state and local chapter operations of the Ohio National Organization for Women, documenting their work for Equal Rights Amendment, pay equity, violence against women, pro-choice legislation, and lesbian rights issues. The May 1984 split of the Capitol City NOW from the Columbus Chapter is documented.
MSS 146 Columbus Urban League    ca. 1945-1960
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, administrative, departmental, executive, financial, and research records, records of affiliated organizations, and other records.
MSS 411 Temperance and Prohibition    ca. 1870-1960
Remainder of collection, mostly post-1933, not filmed as part of MIC 107. Includes papers of various temperance and prohibition societies and leaders.
MSS 414 Woman’s State Committee of Ohio Public Welfare, Health, and Education    1944-1974
Correspondence, minutes, programs, clippings, and 25th anniversary material, of an organization of women's club leaders. Topics include prison reform, juvenile institutions, and mental health care.
MSS 423 Altrusa Club of Columbus    1919-1974
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, recommendations, membership lists, meeting schedules, programs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, of a professional women's service organization.
MSS 431 Gladys Hamilton Mohler    1916-1963
Civil leader of Columbus. Annual reports, constitution, convention proceedings, membership lists, plays, programs, scripts and other institutional records, of the Junior League of Columbus.
MSS 443 Present Day Club    1896-1975
Columbus women's topical study group. Records re. membership, minute books, poems, President's reports, programs, questionnaires, photographs; and printed material.
MSS 445 Altruian Club of Columbus    1897-1975
Columbus women's literary and service club. Records include institutional records (clippings, club histories, constitutions, photographs, programs, sketches of club presidents, yearbooks, etc.) and printed material.
MSS 450 Women’s Equity Action League    1971-1975
Institutional and organizational records. Topics include WEAL's work in the areas of affirmative action, careers for women, divorce reform, employment and education opportunities for women and the ERA.
MSS 453 Women’s Equity Action League    1868-1974
Correspondence and papers related to early days of organization.
MSS 455 Hannah Neil Home for Children Inc.   1858-1971
Columbus women's charitable organization founded in 1868 to serve the needs of homeless children. Minutes, financial records, register, reports, rosters and other records concerning the home and its operation.
MSS 473 Junior League of Columbus, Inc.    1926- 1975
Columbus, Ohio, chapter of a women's volunteer service organization designed to foster interest among its members in community affairs. Columbus Junior League Board minutes, Junior League Topics, program files, scrapbooks, etc.
MSS 474 Delia Thompson     1884-1887
Columbus Women's Christian Temperance Union missionary, 1884-1888 and founder of the Sunday school that grew into the Union Grove Baptist Church of Columbus. Missionary reports.
MSS 478 West Side and Ohio Avenue Day Care Centers    1897-1971
Columbus nurseries for the children of working mothers. Annual reports, Board of Trustee minutes, constitutions, correspondence files, financial records, histories of day nurseries, photographs, programs, scrapbooks, etc.
MSS 481 Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus    1908-1940
Columbus service organization that provided shelter and care for unmarried mothers and their children. Institutional records.
MSS 488 Big Sister Association, Columbus    1913-1951
Constitution; by-laws; minutes; committee, supervisors' and field workers' reports.
MSS 528 Columbus Federation of Women’s Clubs    1898-1976
Records includes club minutes, financial accounts, directories, yearbooks, programs and subscription lists.
MSS 529 National Organization for Women, Ohio    1972-1982
Ohio chapter of the National Organization for Women, campaign for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in Ohio; headquarters in Columbus.
MSS 530 Women’s Action Collective    1972-1974
Working files, by-laws, minutes, newsletters and financial records of a group at OSU formed to experiment in creating task force groups of women working on action projects in the community.
MSS 557 Clinton League, Columbus    1912-1968
Women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus. Minutes, financial records and scattered correspondence.
MSS 709 Ohio Girls Club of Washington, D.C.   1918-1982
Social club organized in 1918 and disbanded in 1982. Notebooks kept by club historians containing correspondence, minutes, financial reports and newspaper clippings; notebooks of the club's Welfare Committee and newsletter "Buckeye Briefs."
MSS 788 Research Club     1897-1966
Women's club founded in 1897. Correspondence, yearbooks and constitutions of the club and pamphlets collected by that club. Mostly minute books and yearbooks.
MSS 806 Daughters of the American Colonists, Ohio Society 1935-1949
Material on the society and eighteen of its local chapters: minutes, correspondence, bulletins, reports of the state historian and yearbooks. Of note is an index of colonial services of American patriots in Ohio.
MSS 830 Columbus Woman’s Club    1918-1991
Formed in 1918; club's records consist of minutes, financial records, yearbooks and publications, including several issues of the club's newsletter "Club Echoes" and the newsletter of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs.
MSS 837 Columbus Female Benevolent Society    1808-1981
Collection consists of administrative and financial records of the Columbus Female Benevolent Society and its Deshler-Hunter and Kate Deshler Hunter trust funds.
MSS 906 Women’s Centennial Association of Washington County, Ohio    1888-1957
Records of the association, founded in Nov. 1886 to help celebrate the centennial of Marietta and the Northwest Ordinance. The collection consists of constitutions, minute books, a treasurer's book, scrapbooks, yearbooks, programs, and miscellaneous correspondence and notes documenting the association’s interest in Washington County's history.
MSS 916 Ohio Federation of Women’s Club    1912-1986
Minutes, correspondence, reports, project records, conference programs.
MSS 960 Women Against Rape    1972-1991
Minutes, reports, subject files, publications, conference materials, speeches.
MSS 1100 Ohio Alpha Delta Kappa    1956-1988
Three notebooks of the sorority's executive board and council, regional and international meeting minutes. Statewide service organization composed of Ohio women.
MSS 1117 Reserve Officers Association Ladies    1950-1980
Correspondence, minutes, photographs, scrapbooks of activities of group.
MSS 1150 Stonewall Union    1981-1992
Newsletters, brochures, fliers, news releases, and publications produced by the lesbian and gay community in Columbus and the gay rights organization, Stonewall Union.
VFM 382 Records of the Female Benevolent Society,Columbus, Ohio
Sketch of the work of the Female Benevolent Society of Columbus also called the Woman's Work of Charity in Columbus, Ohio, organized January 5, 1835.
VFM 562 Frances Elizabeth Willard Papers   1864 - 1873
Letters, 1864 and 1873, of Frances E. Willard, Evanston, Ill., relating mostly to publishing articles in "The Ladies' Repository," Cincinnati, O.
VFM 946 Mrs. R. Conrad Papers   1874 - 1878
Letters, Feb. 23, 1874, and Aug. 1, 1878, from Mrs. R. Conrad, Philadelphia, Pa., to Mattie Stewart, Springfield, (O.), dealing with the temperance movement in Springfield and Dayton, O.
VFM 1031 Catherine Fay Ewing Papers Jan. 1 - Sept. 12, 1866
Typed copy of the diary, Jan. 1-Sept. 12, 1866 of Catherine Fay Ewing telling of her work in the Washington County (Ohio) Children's Home.
VFM 2700 Records of the Zanesville Federation of Women's Clubs   1925 - 1939
Organization records including a 1925 Constitution; meeting minutes 1938-1939, and the Call and Program for the 41st annual convention of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs (1937.)
VFM 2888 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Papers   ca. 1880
Typescript of "Missionary Journeys In the Interest of the Cause -- In the Lecture Field," an account of the life of E.M. Chandler, writer, abolitionist and feminist.
VFM 3037 Records of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs 1929 - 1938
Radio talks sponsored by OFWC, the majority on station WLW in Cincinnati, and organized by OFWC radio chairman Mrs. Myers Y. Cooper. Themes include patriotism, social awareness, civic responsibilities, history, and women. Also contains poetry readings, program schedules, and scattered letters.
VFM 3078 Mrs. J. L. Boardman Papers   January 31, 1874
Summons and notice to Boardman et al., that W.H.H. Dunn and David Johnson have filed an injunction against their demonstrations in front of Dunn's drug store. Pertains to the temperance movement and beginning of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Hillsboro, Ohio.
VFM 3145 Francis Ensign Fuller Papers   April 22, 1912
Letter from Fuller, State Headquarters, Ohio W. C. T. U. (Woman's Christian Temperance Union), Madison, O., to Comrades, re. support of campaign for woman suffrage vote organized through local "unions." Envelope addressed to Laura P. York, Good Hope, Fayette Co., O.
VOL 87 Minute Book of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Maplewood   
Minutes of meetings of the Maplewood, Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union. Includes lists of readings, elected officers, and attendance record, 1915 - 1921.
VOL 525 Minute Book of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs   1909 - 1915
Minute book of the executive board of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs includes minutes of annual conventions and meetings.
VOL 910 "Over the Sea" by Sarah Clinton Perkins   1895
"Over the sea, journal for John C. Pearson of Cooperstown, New York U.S.A., kept by Mrs. Sarah Clinton Perkins, June 4, 1895" records her ocean voyage from New York to London for the world's Women's Christian Temperance Union convention. Also describes travels through Switzerland and France, and her return home to Cleveland, Ohio.
VOL 1021 Scrapbook of Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson   1816 - 1905

Scrapbook of Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson (1816-1905), also known as "Mother Thompson," includes letters, pictures, pamphlets, and news clippings of the Woman's Temperance Union movement.

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Audiovisuals

SC 239 Literary Club, Urbana, Ohio    1895
Group portrait of female members of the Literary Club standing in front of the home of Seely Wood.
SC 652 Leading Abolitionists from Ripley, Ohio    ca. 1910
Photographs of key figures of the Underground Railroad, including Lindsay Jackson, M.M. Murphy, Chambers Legget, and Aunt Polly Jackson. Also photographs of the dedication of a landing monument to the heroes of the Underground Railroad and a parade down Main Street.
SC 1102 Prohibition and Whiskey Crusade   1873 - [193-]
Views of prohibition and the whiskey crusade, including sketches of crusading women of New Vienna, Ohio, "Van Pelt's Surrender" and picket scenes in Mount Vernon.
SC 1337 Temperance      1873-1874
Photographs, illustrations and postcards documenting the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874, which began in Hillsboro, Ohio.
SC 1493 Woman's Christian Temperance Union   1873 - 1912
Photographs documenting members and activities of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) including the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874, which began in Hillsboro, Ohio and (W.C.T.U.) postcards with temperance messages.
SC 3875 Eliza Jane Trimble "Mother" Thompson   c. 1900s
Photographs of Eliza Jane Trimble "Mother" Thompson, national and local leader of the Temperance movement.
SC 5354 Temperance Crusade    1873-1874
Stereographs of temperance crusaders in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, by Fred S. Crowell.
A 12 Columbus Junior League, "Columbus Discovers" 1973
Cassette tapes of panel interviews conducted to provide background for the 50th Commemorative Publication of the Columbus Junior League.
P 30 Godman Guild     ca. 1900-1950
Views of the Flytown neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, social welfare programs sponsored by the Godman Guild such as community gardens, domestic education and summer camps for children.
P 78 Temperance and Prohibition (unprocessed)
Collection of photographs of the temperance and prohibition movement during the height of its popularity and influence. Included are various temperance and prohibition societies and leaders.
P 167 Gladden Community House     ca. 1930-1970
Activities provided by the settlement house for people living near west side area of Columbus, Ohio, including baby care, neighborhood clean-up projects, citizenship classes, and Peach Blow Camp.
P 177 Daughters of America, National Council    ca. 1920-1950
Group meetings, individual portraits, historic photographs of famous people.
P 210 Junior League (unprocessed)     ca. 1970-1979
Photographs of the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of a women’s volunteer service organization designed to foster interest among its members in community affairs.
P 285 Clinton League       1912-1968
Photographs of women’s group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus.
T 66 Junior League (unprocessed)    ca. 1970-1979
Transparencies of Ohio politicians, the 1959 Flood, the Citizen-Journal, landmarks, Nixon and Reagan’s visits to Columbus, miscellaneous sites and events in Columbus.

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Published Materials

178.06 W58h A History of the Ohio Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920 by Francis Myron Whitaker. 1971.
178.09771 St49m Memories of the Crusade by Mrs. Eliza Daniel Stewart. 1889.
305.406 K842 Lighting the Way: the Woman’s City Club of Cincinnati, 1915-1965 by Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh. 1986.
305.40977178 B 625w Women’s Culture and Urban Culture: Cincinnati Benevolent Women’s Activities and the Invention of the "New Woman," 1815-1895 by Carol Jean Blum. 1987.
324.305 Oh3 Bulletin of the Ohio League of Women Voters
366.009771 P11p Proceedings of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Ohio State Chapter, Annual Convention
367.9177178 C49 The Cincinnati Woman’s Club: Historical Sketch in Honor of the 75thAnniversary of the Founding of the Club: 1894-1969 by Margaret H. Pease. 1969.
367.9771815 M744 Monday Club History: A Century of Achievements. 2000.
369.1 D265p Proceedings of Annual Session of the State Council of Ohio, Daughters of America. ca. 189_.
374.2 Oh 3 History of the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1894-1994 edited by Annie Laws. 1925.
396.06 C49 Cincinnati Clubwoman’s Register.Ca. 1938
396.06 C168y The Yearbook of the Canton’s Woman’s Club.
396.06 C492h Historical Sketch in Honor of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Cincinnati Woman’s Club, 1894-1919. 1919.
396.06 D337y Yearbook of the Dayton’s Woman’s Club
396.06 Oh4b The Buckeye by Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs.
396.06 Oh4d Directory of Ohio Federation of Women’s Club
396.06 Oh4o Official Report of the Annual Convention of Ohio Federation of Women’s Club
396.06 Sa84c Looking Backward: Written by Request of Saturday Club by Ida M. Cahoon. 1910.
PA Box 52 17 Annual Report. Women's Exchange of Columbus.
PA Box 108 14 Constitution, By-laws and Rules and Regulations of the Home for Aged Women, Salem, Ohio, With the Terms of Admission and Discharge, 1903.
PA Box 441 64 Miss Georgia Hopley: journalist, special commissioner to examine the conditions under which Ohio women work in factories, 1901.
PA Box 29 1 The Ohio Council of Church Women; A history, 1924-1951.
PA Box 52 4 Official Directory: City Federation of Women’s Club (Columbus, Ohio)
PA Box 152 13 Official Directory: Akron and Summit County Federation of Women’s Club
PA Box 152, 1 Annual Report of the Managers of the Widows' Home, and Asylum for Aged Women
PA Box 172 20 Directory of the Women's Clubs of Cleveland.
PA Box 242, 3 Annual Convention Program of Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
PA Box 440 1 Pride in the Past; Promise for the Future, 1920-1970
PA Box 468 18 Constitution, Revised 1925 of Zanesville Federation of Women’s Clubs
PA Box 592 3 Young Women's League of Dayton Record
PA Box 622 33 The Cincinnati Woman's Club: Historical Sketch of the Last Thirty-nine Years, in Honor of the Sixty-fourth Anniversary of the Founding of the Club, 1894-1958

 

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