Manuscripts

The Athens Twentieth Century Club was organized November 1904 and joined the state federation in 1906. The object of the Twentieth Century Club was “literary research and social enjoyment.” (1908 Constitution) It became the Athens Woman’s Club in 1922.The object of the Athens Woman’s Club was “mutual improvement and promotion of the higher social and moral conditions.” (1928 Constitution) The 2001-2002 year booklet named the object of the organization as “education, elucidation and entertaining the community and ourselves.”

The collection includes information about the April 6th celebration including logistics, call for and certificates of appreciation from Mayor Ossie Langfelder to the photographers for the 150 Capital Years book, submission/description forms for the photographs, newspaper, newsletter, and magazine articles about the Sesquicentennial, correspondence with the US Postal Service and envelopes, Springfield history research, the official logo, commissioned artwork, and finances.

This collection includes materials from the Capital Bicentennial Commission in Springfield, the Illinois Bicentennial Commission, and the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.

The collection is composed of items related to the Springfield chapter of the Anti-Rust Club from 1900 to the 2010s.  

The collection includes meeting minutes, membership yearbooks, photos, articles, scrapbooks, and more.

Documents, newspaper clippings, carillon programs, memoranda and photographs from the collection of Mrs. Violet Touch.

Materials related to the activities of author Carl G. Hodges

Poems written and compiled by Helen Carson Janssen and poems and sermons by Rev. David Gibson Carson, DD

The Dancing Improvement Assembly collection includes club histories, bylaws, financials, correspondence, invitations and programs, board meeting materials, membership lists, photos, and newspaper articles.