Collections

Minute book, 1933-1934, 1936-1941 for the Chesterfield County, Virginia 4-H Club. Listed are club officers, club roll, attendance and minutes of monthly meetings. There is also a summary page and a listing of 'general club activities' at the end of the volumes.

Minute book, 1871-1911 of the 28th Brigade, Battery A, (Binghampton, N.Y.), which later became the 6th Battery (3rd and 4th Division).Entries are for regular monthly as well as special meetings and detail resolutions, motions made, changes to bylaws and reports of the finance, entertainment and library committees. Activities included among others concerts, annual dances and receptions and 4th of July celebrations. Recorded are names of members, officers, and the death of members is mentioned in some of the resolutions.

Minute book, 1942, of the Adair's Club of Brooklyn, New York. Includes details of the invitation of new members to the club, induction of new members, planning of events, and events held by the club. Events typically include card games, food, and socializing. There is also discussion of former members and their reasons for leaving the club. Meetings were usually held in the homes of various members.

Minute book, 1832-1837, of the AEOC, a society of Southern students at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. which bears a seal from the AEOC ring, a list of officers and a preamble.

Minute book, 1948-1959 of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Angel of Mt. Shavano Post 3820 (Salida, Col.). Recorded are minutes for 1948-1950, and membership and officers for 1947-1950. Minutes are fairly detailed and give a good impression of the group's activities.

Minute book, 1875-1907, of the North River District School Board, Augusta County, Va. which includes lists of students, lists of teachers, a newspaper clipping containing the population breakdown for Augusta County schools, a list of approved textbooks, records of funds expended, and a letter, 22 November [19]02, from a teacher requesting a pay increase.

Minutebook, 1877-1879 of the Bachelor Club of Middletown, Pa., also including constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations. The constitution states that the object of the club "shall be to have a room or suit of rooms to be open at all times, Sunday excepted, and furnished with books and newspapers of the day, also for the discussion of all questions, except those of a political and religious character, and for the social enjoyment of the members." 67 of the 426 pages are filled in.

Botetourt Lodge No. 7 (Gloucester County, Va.) records contains materieals related to the Botetourt Lodge No. 7. Gloucester County Courthouse in Virginia. The collection includes minute and secretary books from the lodge dating from 1857-1891.

Minute book of the Brotherhood of Local Firemen (U.S.). Lodge # 203 (Gary, Ind.) for the years 1884-1889. The following description was provided by the seller:"This 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" ledger ... represents the start of the Brotherhood of Local Fireman from Garrett, Indiana, March 8, 1884. ... The first page has an embossed circle with a locomotive centered and edge writings which read "Garfield Lodge No. 203 B. of L.F., Garrett, Ind.". Inside the circle is embossed "Organized March 8, 1884". The front cover is missing and the back cover is loose. The first two pages are loose and soiled and starting to turn brittle. An inside section (12 pages connected) which was bound with string is loose. On the first written page at the heading is "Minnet Book" and below this are the minutes from the first meeting when organized by one S.M. Stevens G.Q.& I. from Terre Haute, Ind. and also dated March 8, 1884. These first two pages also have corner damage as well as the next three. After that the remaining 180 pages are in good condition with soiling on some corners. There are no missing pages and the minutes (once a month) read from 1884 through Feb. 1st, 1889. "

Minute book, 1891-1921, of the Central New Hampshire Congregational Club. Meetings were held three times per year at different Congregational Churches throughout New Hampshire, including in Concord, Manchester, and Nashua, and consisted of a social hour, business meeting, dinner, musical entertainment, and a keynote lecture. Keynote speakers include Dartmouth College presidents S.C. Bartlett and W.J. Tucker, University of Vermont president M.H. Buckham, Christian Endeavor Society president F.E. Clark, New Hampshire U.S. Senator T.W. Patterson, and New Hampshire governors H.A. Tuttle and J.B. Smith. There are summaries of their speeches as abstracted by the Club's secretary, N.F. Carter.