Preliminary Guide to the New Century Club [of Dothan, AL] Records, 1908-198

Record Group 168

Date Span:  1913-1980

Extent:  27 file folders plus 3 oversized items

Organizational History:  Many communities formed "New Century Clubs" after 1900.  Dothan's New Century Club began as the informal Embroidery Club.  When card-playing and other entertainments were added to the sewing and conversation, the women began calling the group the "As You Like It Club."  Mrs. Ellison had been a part of the "Nineteenth Century Club" in Troy, Alabama, and upon moving to Dothan proposed to form a similar group.  In 1907, the women adopted their "New Century Club" constitution and by-laws.

Twelve women of the "As You Like It Club" formed a small library that later became George Houston Memorial Library.  Several of these women later joined the New Century Club. The New Century Club made the library a project.

Scope/Content Note:  Collection documents club activities, projects, and history.  Contains operating and governing documents such as annual programs (with member rosters and constitutions) financial records, correspondence, and meeting minutes; and curated historical assemblies such as scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and an anonymous poem about club members (no date).

Organization:  Three Series

1. Series 1: Operating Documents, 1913-1980, 25 files plus 2 bound minute books - Includes annual programs; constitutions and by-laws; meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence.
   
   
2. Series 2: Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook - Newspaper clippings, a poem about members, and a scrapbook.
   
   
3. Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1 file, n.d.

Provenance:  Housed at Dothan's Houston-Love Memorial Library until that facility moved into a new building.  Houston-Love Library discarded all local club collections, sending those left unclaimed to the Wiregrass Archives.  This is one of the unclaimed collections.

Processing Note:  Wiregrass Archives staff imposed order.

Cite as:  New Century Club [Dothan, AL] Records, RG 168, Wiregrass Archives, Troy University Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL

Processed: 08/13/2015

 

Inventory

 

Series 1.  Operating Documents, 1913-1980, 25 files plus 2 bound minute books - Includes annual programs; constitutions and by-laws; meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence.

File I.D.                             File Label

168-14-0729-001-001     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1910

168-14-0729-001-002     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920  [1 of 2]

168-14-0729-001-003     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920  [2 of 2]

168-14-0729-001-004     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1920-1930

168-14-0729-001-005     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1930-1940

168-14-0729-001-006     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1940-1950

168-14-0729-001-007     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1950-1960

168-14-0729-001-008     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1960-1970

168-14-0729-001-009     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1970-1980

168-14-0729-001-010     Annual  Program / Directory / Constitution, 1980-82

168-14-0729-001-011     Constitution & By-laws

168-14-0729-001-013     Financial Records

168-14-0729-001-014     Correspondence, 1945-1953, 1980

168-14-0729-001-016     Handwritten notes for Meeting Minutes, 1913-1955

168-14-0729-001-018     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1913-1915

168-14-0729-001-019     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1915-1917

168-14-0729-001-020     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1918-1921

168-14-0729-001-021     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1921-1923

168-14-0729-001-022     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1923-1926

168-14-0729-001-023     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1931-1935

168-14-0729-001-024     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1935-1938

168-14-0729-001-025     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1938-1942

168-14-0729-001-026     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1942-1948

168-14-0729-001-027     Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1948-1953

168-14-0729-OS-002       Meeting Minutes, 1955-1970, wooden cover bound w/ leather cord

168-14-0729-OS-003       Meeting Minutes 1913-1955, red leather volume, gold embossing

 

Series 2. Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook- Newspaper clippings, a poem about members, and a scrapbook.

File I.D.                             File Label

168-14-0729-001-012     Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1957-1965

168-14-0729-001-015     Poem about club members, author unknown

168-14-0729-OS-001       Scrapbook, 1964-1965  [2 pgs of newspaper clippings], red cover bound w/ red cord, mostly blank pages

 

Series 3. Miscellaneous, 1 file, n.d.

File I.D.                             File Label

168-14-0729-001-017     Miscellaneous

 

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