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Handicraft Club Records Providence, R.I. Records, 1904-1982 Size: 2.25 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 477 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, July 1986 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Scope and content:
This collection includes complete minutes from 1904 to 1958; scrapbooks from 1929-1982; and other records. An additional folder of papers kept by a club member from 1917 to 1939 can be found in the Julia Lippitt Mauran Family Papers.
Provenance:
The scrapbooks and guest register were donated by the club in 1986. One folder on the 1962-1965 endowment drive was donated by Mrs. Philip Batchelder in 1979. The provenance of the remainder of the collection is unknown. That earlier portion ends in 1958, and was cataloged in late 1960s, placing the gift at a point in between. Careful examination of the club scrapbooks might yield additional clues.
Inventory:
Secretary's record books (in box 1)
1904-1906
1906-1914
1915-1921
1921-1926
1927-1931
1931-1933
1933-1935
1935-1937
1937-1938
1938-1939
1939-1942
1942-1944
Executive Board minute books (in box 1)
1945-1951
1951-1953
1953-1955
1955-1958
Miscellaneous
Box 1. Committee reports, 1940-1944
Box 1. Purchase of #42 College Street, 1925
Box 1. Officers, 1904-1928
Box 1. 1920 snuff box exhibit - owners
Box 1. Audit reports, 1941, 1957, 1965
Box 1. Endowment fund drive, 1962-1965
Unboxed: Guest register, 1929-1932
Unboxed: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, programs, etc., 1929-1982. 12 volumes.
Subjects:
Clubs - Rhode Island - Providence
Handicraft - Rhode Island - Providence
Manual training - Rhode Island - Providence
Providence Handicraft Club
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