Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth Collection

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Woman's Wednesday Club is one of the oldest continuously functioning clubs in Fort Worth. If Fort Worth is known as the city of "Cowboys and Culture," this group can be greatly credited with the fostering and development of the "Culture" for which Fort Worth is so famous. Founded in 1889 as a group which encouraged the arts and literature, members were key original sponsors of the Fort Worth Library Association, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the Fort Worth Art Association, which later became the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

PROVENANCE AND COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

This collection was stored in a closet in the Club's rooms at 1316 Pennsylvania Avenue for many decades. Recognizing the importance of the Club to the overall history of the city, county and region, the membership donated their historical materials to the Tarrant County Archives in September, 2013. The Club archive, covering some 125 years, is amazingly complete -- particularly in terms of minutes of meetings, yearbooks and other records since the groups founding. The Club has expressed its plans to donate records to the Tarrant County Archives every five years in order to continue to update their named collection.

DIGITAL CONTENT

Digitization of the minutes, scrapbooks and other records by the Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas: Portal to Texas History.
Club's Constitution: 1893 Constitution. Transcription of 1889 Constitution from February 27, 1889 Minutes. Transcription of 1894 Handwritten Addendum to 1893 Constitution.
Texas Time Travel video regarding the Club’s involvement in World War I: WWC WWI.

IMAGES SHOWN

Items representative of the collection (left to right) First page of Minutes dated February 11, 1889; Cover of 1901-1902 Yearbook; Letter to member and artist Mrs. Homer ("Sweetie") Ladd from Tarrant County Probation Department, dated December 15, 1944.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Minutes of meetings, yearbooks, treasurers records, committee reports, awards, record books, library accession books, lists of members, roll books, files covering the history of the Club, papers given by guests, inventories and appraisals of art and furnishings, buildings and Federation of Women's Clubs.

CONTAINER LIST (24 boxes)

    Minutes of Meetings in bound or ringed volumes (43) unless otherwise noted, 1889-2004

        1. 1889-1890
        2. 1891-1893
        3. 1893-1894
        4. 1895-1896
        5. 1896-1897
        6. 1897-1898
        7. 1898-1899
        8. 1899-1900
        9. 1900-1901
        10. 1901-1902
        11. 1902-1903
        12. 1903-1905
        13. 1905-1906
        14. 1907-1908
        15. 1908-1909
        16. 1909-1910
        17. 1910-1911
        18. 1911-1912
        19. 1912-1913
        20. 1913-1915
        21. 1915-1916 (envelope)
        22. 1916-1917
        23. 1918-1919
        24. 1920-1921
        25. 1921-1923
        26. 1923-1925
        27. 1925-1926
        28. 1927 (significant water damage)
        29. 1929-1930
        30. 1929-1931
        31. 1930-1933
        32. 1933-1935
        33. 1935-1936
        34. 1937-1940
        35. 1941-1946
        36. 1946-1952
        37. 1950
        38. 1952-1961
        39. 1961-1972
        40. 1972-1988
        41. 1988-2008
        42. Board Minutes 1970-1992
        43. 2002-2004 (blue folder)

    Yearbooks, bound (Lists Officers, Committees, Programs for Year)

        1. 1895-1896
        2. 1896-1897 (2)
        3. 1897-1898 (2)
        4. 1898-1899 (2)
        5. 1899-1900 (2)
        6. 1900-1901 (2)
        7. Constitution and By-Laws, 1901 (2)
        8. 1901-1902
        9. 1903-1904 (2)
        10. 1904-1905 (2)
        11. 1905-1906 (2)
        12. 1906-1907 (2)
        13. 1907-1908 (2)
        14. 1908-1909 (2)
        15. 1909-1910 (2)
        16. 1910-1911 (2)
        17. 1911-1912 (2)
        18. 1912-1913 (2)
        19. 1913-1914 (2)
        20. 1914-1915 (2)
        21. 1915-1916
        22. 1915-1916 Drama (2)
        23. 1916-1917 (2)
        24. 1917-1918 (2)
        25. 1918-1919 (2)
        26. 1919-1920 (2)
        27. 1920-1921 (2)
        28. 1921-1922 (2)
        29. 1922-1923 (2)
        30. 1923-1924 (2)
        31. 1924-1925 (2)
        32. 1925-1926: Essays and Essayists (2)
        33. 1926-1927: Essays and Essayists (2)
        34. 1927-1928: The Great Capitals of the World (2)
        35. 1928-1929: The Great Capitals of the World (2)
        36. 1929-1930: American Collectors and their Collections (2)
        37. 1930-1931: American Art and Artists (2)
        38. 1931-1932: This Changing Age (2)
        39. 1932-1933: Studies in Current Literature (2)
        40. 1933-1934: Studies of Unrelated Subjects (2)
        41. 1934-1935: Archaeology: The Mirror of the Ages (2)
        42. 1935-1936: Biography: The Literature of Personality (2)
        43. 1936-1937: The World Today: Aspects of Modern Culture (2)
        44. 1937-1938: History of Grand Opera and Ballet; New National Governments (2)
        45. 1938-1939: Modern Plays and Playwrights (2)
        46. 1939-1940: The Americas Today (2)
        47. 1940-1941: The United states (2)
        48. 1941-1942: A Year of Research (2)
        49. 1942-1943: Efforts in International Understanding (2)
        50. 1943-1944: The United States in a New World (2)
        51. 1944-1945: The American Periodical (2)
        52. 1945-1946: Contemporary American Literature (2)
        53. 1946-1947: The Epic of America: A Study of Men and Events
        54. 1947-1948: Eighteenth Century England
        55. 1948-1949: South America
        56. 1949-1950: Canada and Alaska
        57. 1951-1952: Great Books (2)
        58. 1952-1953: Contemporary America (2)
        59. 1954-1955
        60. 1955-1956
        61. 1956-1957
        62. 1957-1958 (2)
        63. 1958-1959
        64. 1959-1960
        65. 1960-1961
        66. 1961-1962: Culture of our Latin American Neighbors (2)
        67. 1962-1963: Books to Remember (2)
        68. 1963-1964: Mirror to Nature: Facts and Fiction (2)
        69. 1964-1965: The Middle East Traditions, Trends Tensions
        70. 1965-1966: Showcase of American Culture: A New Look at Sociology
        71. 1966-1967: American History: The History of a Free People (2)
        72. 1967-1968: Brief Glimpses of our Time in Science, Literature, and Drama (2)
        73. 1968-1969: The Philosophy and Background of Eastern People (2)
        74. 1969-1970: Makers of the Modern World (2)
        75. 1970-1971: Frontiers for America - Areas of Change and Opportunity
        76. 1971-1972: Great Landmarks of the World
        77. 1972-1973: Something Old, Something New (2)
        78. 1973-1974: Women - Channels of Change
        79. 1974-1975: The Chinese Looking Glass (2)
        80. 1975-1976: American Revolution Bicentennial - Heritage and Horizon (2)
        81. 1976-1977 (2)
        82. 1977-1978 (2)
        83. 1978-1979 (2)
        84. 1979-1980 (2)
        85. 1980-1981
        86. 1981-1982
        87. 1982-1983
        88. 1983-1984
        89. 1984-1985
        90. 1985-1986
        91. 1986-1987
        92. 1987-1988
        93. 1988-1989
        94. 1989-1990
        95. 1990-1991
        96. 1993-1994
        97. 1994-1995
        98. 1995-1996
        99. 1996-1997
        100. 1998-1999 (2)
        101. 1999-2000 (2)
        102. 2000-2001 (2)
        103. 2001-2002 (2)
        104. 2002-2003 (2)
        105. 2004-2005
        106. 2005-2006
        107. 2006-2007
        108. 2007-2008
        109. 2009-2010
        110. 1975-1985, bound yearbooks
        111. 1985-1995, bound yearbooks
        112. Third copies of various yearbooks

Treasurer's Record Books in Accounting Ledgers, bound (5)

        1. 1941-1944
        2. 1945-1951
        3. 1951-1955
        4. 1955-1967
        5. 1967-1990

Roll Books, bound (5)

        1. 1899-1917
        2. 1918-1932
        3. 1935-1950
        4. 1950-1966
        5. 1968-2000

·        Scrapbooks: Volume I: 1889-1954; Volume II: 1948-1953; Volume III: 1941-1953; Volume IV: 1961-1978; 1978-1984; 1987-1997; 1994; various

· Scholarship Committee Annual Report 1939-1940, Cash Book, bound

· Treasurers Books for Annual Report 1930-1931, 1932-1933 bound Record Book for Safety Deposit Box, bound

· Mutual Savings and Loan Pass Book, "Closed July 1966"

· Library Accession Books (3) Ledgers (Volume I, II, III) Listing books owned by the Club Alphabetical by Author and Title,

· Typed Alphabetical Index of Members, 1889-1952, double sided on legal length onionskin paper; includes name of member, by whom proposed, date of election, date of resignation and date of death

· Awards Committee Reports, Materials from Creative Writing Awards

· Files: Papers Given by Men Guests February 1924 Part, Newspaper Article Covering Party; History; Art; Buildings; Property Appraisals; Federation; Library Inventory and Appraisal; Equipment

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Accessibility Notice: Due to the age and complexity of the original material, these linked scrapbook PDFs are made up of scanned images. If you need assistance accessing the content in one of the documents, please contact the Archives at 817-884-3272 or archives@tarrantcountytx.gov.

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