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.”

In 1906 the National Association of Collegiate Alumnae granted a charter to Springfield to form a branch. They had their first meeting in 1907. The organization became the American Association of University Women in 1921.

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

Collection includes local chapter rosters, photos, programs, charter booklets, meeting minutes, and scrapbooks.

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

The collection includes photos of Mary Bradish Call, S. Leigh Call, Mary Leigh Call Smart, Jack Scott Smart, Ethelwyn Coventry Bradish, William Hardin, and William Hardin’s parents. Also paintings and a “The Fat Man” performance on disc by Jack Scott Smart, correspondence from Mary Bradish Call to her daughter Mary Leigh Call Smart 1954-1955, a family history, and a small piece of wood from the Lincoln Home.

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

The collection contains materials from the Church Women United in Springfield, their projects, and earlier interdenominational groups.

Elizabeth Weir became the matron of the King’s Daughters Home in May 1973 and served for that year.