Subject Files, 1913-2021, Undated

Extent:: 7.16 cubic ft.
Scope and content:: Documents in subject files include materials relating to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) and its New York subsidiary (those not used in the Club’s regular administrative procedures); awards, certificates, and citations awarded to the Club by its two parent organizations and outside groups; materials such as biographical documents and newspaper clippings about prominent Club officers; newspaper materials about the election and installation of Club officers; materials relating to the Club’s longstanding relationship with the Bethlehem Public Library; newspaper clippings about the Club’s involvement in Bethlehem and Delmar, New York; Bethlehem Board of Education and town board meeting minutes and Club reports on those meetings; Club environmental initiatives and projects, notably the Home Energy Check Scrapbook and the Club’s recycling project in Bethlehem; Club histories compiled and written by various Club members; the records of the Club Travel Group (such materials include thank you cards from Club members for trips, correspondence with hotels and travel companies, event tickets, reports on sites of interest, trip itineraries, lists of Club members going on trips and lists of roommates, photo albums, photographs, and financial information about trips); and records relating to the Club’s charity work with local programs, including the Bethlehem school backpack program and Bethlehem Senior Projects, and outside charitable organizations, including Canine Companions, HOBY, and the March of Dimes. This series also includes various scrapbooks chronicling Club activities compiled by members from 1929 to 2016; these contain issues of the Club newsletter, copies of the Club yearbook, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, Club spring and fall banquet programs, invitations, programs, and registration forms for other events, intra-Club and extra-Club correspondence, certificates and citations from the Club’s parent organizations and outside groups, contest prizes, proposed amendments to the Club’s by-laws, Club reports, Club schedules, brochures from and maps of places the Travel Group visited, and additional materials from the Club’s parent organizations. In addition, this series contains a family directory of Delmar, New York compiled by the Club in June 1913. Finally, the series contains an audio cassette tape, CDs, DVDs, and various artifacts used by the Club and its members. Please note that the New York division of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs is known by a few names in the series, including General Federation of Women’s Clubs - New York, General Federation of Women’s Clubs - New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs, and simply the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Language:: English
Arrangement:: Arranged alphabetically.

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