Preliminary Guide to the New Century Club [of Dothan, AL] Records, 1908-198
Record Group 168
Preliminarily processed: 08/13/2015
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).
Preliminary Organization: Three 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. Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook - Newspaper clippings, a poem about members, and a scrapbook.
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.
Preliminary Inventory
Series 1. Operating Documents, 1913-1980, 25 files plus 2 bound minute books
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File I.D. |
File Label |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
001 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1910 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
002 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920 [1 of 2] |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
003 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1908-1920 [2 of 2] |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
004 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1920-1930 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
005 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1930-1940 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
006 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1940-1950 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
007 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1950-1960 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
008 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1960-1970 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
009 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1970-1980 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
010 |
Annual Program / Directory / Constitution, 1980-82 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
011 |
Constitution & By-laws |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
013 |
Financial Records |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
014 |
Correspondence, 1945-1953, 1980 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
016 |
Handwritten notes for Meeting Minutes, 1913-1955 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
018 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1913-1915 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
019 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1915-1917 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
020 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1918-1921 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
021 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1921-1923 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
022 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1923-1926 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
023 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1931-1935 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
024 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1935-1938 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
025 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1938-1942 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
026 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1942-1948 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
027 |
Attendance Records & Meeting Minutes, 1948-1953 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
O/S |
002 |
Meeting Minutes, 1955-1970 wooden cover bound w/ leather cord |
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168 |
14-0729 |
O/S |
003 |
Meeting Minutes 1913-1955 red leather volume, gold embossing |
Series 2. Historical Memorabilia, 1957-1965, 2 files plus one scrapbook
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File I.D. |
File Label |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
012 |
Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1957-1965 |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
015 |
Poem about club members, author unknown |
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168 |
14-0729 |
O/S |
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.
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File I.D. |
File Label |
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168 |
14-0729 |
001 |
017 |
Miscellaneous |
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