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Scope and content: Includes yearbooks, bylaws, rosters, brochures, publications, programs, publicity and recruitment materials, annual reports, minutes, and related items about a wide variety of Nashville and Tennessee organizations and clubs. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders.
Types of organizations, divided into series as follows, include: advocacy organizations; civic and charity groups; educational groups; environmental...
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Scope and content: The Optimistic Study Club Records consist of yearbooks, programs, agendas, announcements, and member profiles, including written recollections, obituaries, and news articles. About half of the collection is yearbooks (1992-2019), which typically include a brief history of the organization (written for the fiftieth anniversary of the club and reprinted); theme for the year and scheduled meetings, with topics to be discussed; by-laws;...
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Scope and content: Yearbooks of the South Carolina Club of Nashville, Tenn. containing lists of officers; meetings, hostesses and topics; and membership rosters. Yearbooks are self-published and are usually decorated with artwork depicting South Carolina symbols or scenes.
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Scope and content: Yearbooks, spanning from 1943 to 1994, with only a few gaps, for the Browning Study Club of Nashville, Tennessee. Information in each yearbook generally includes: overall theme and individual programs for the year; names of hostesses, speakers, officers, and a roster of members; by-laws; committees; and related matters. Some yearbooks have notes or annotations, usually showing changes in programs or participants, luncheon reminders,...
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Scope and content: Yearbooks of the Tyne-Meade Garden Club of Nashville, Tenn. containing constitution and by-laws; lists of officers; membership rosters; meeting schedules, topics, and hostesses; exhibit guidelines and criteria; and related information.
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Scope and content: Annual membership booklets and letters for the Monday Book Review Club, founded at St. John's Episcopal Church (Old Hickory, Tennessee) in 1959. Materials span the years 1963 through 1995 and document the title of the book read and the hostess' name for each monthly meeting.
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Scope and content: The documentary sources of the collection consist of minute book records, yearbooks, handwritten narratives, correspondence, photographs, and various receipts and financial statements. The thirteen illustrated yearbooks are published booklets, spanning 1909-1911; 1914-1918; 1919-1923; 1924-1926; 1927-1928, with detailed information about the literary programs, officers, and membership. Several pages of handwritten notes provide...
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Abstract: Research papers compiled by Hutchison on Nashville architects and men's clubs at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and documents relating to Hutchison's involvement and leadership at Belle Meade Country Club in the early 1970s, especially its golf course.
Scope and content: Series I. Research files consist predominently of photocopies and hand-written notes relating to architects Herman Justi and W. C. Smith, especially...
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Scope and content: Lists of Nashville area organizations including officers, contact information, and meeting times and locations, compiled and distributed by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Directories are for particular types of organizations and titled as follows: business and professional organizations; civic organizations; service and luncheon clubs; state, regional, and national associations headquartered in Nashville; and women's organizations....
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Scope and content: Records of the Woodmont Garden Club of Nashville, Tenn., including a minute book (Jan. 1960-June 1973), a 1973-1974 yearbook, and 35mm color photographic negatives of a meeting held on July 10, 1967 at the home of Mrs. Wade (Rebecca) Young. Minutes include date and location of meeting; reports from committees; program topic and speaker; notices of prizes, competitions, and shows; and other club business. Occasional social news...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of records and ephemera from 1973-2007 (bulk 1994-2006) created by Gaiete de Coeur Art and Study Club members. Club yearbooks, printed every two years, are found for every year from 1975-2007 except 1999-2001. The years 1979-1981 and 1983-1985 are represented with a copy or draft. Minutes from monthly meetings held during 1975-2007 include meeting-related items such as programs, meditations, financial...
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Scope and Content: The records consist of minute books, programs, photographs, and newspaper articles created by the Piano Study Club between 1930 and 2012 (bulk 1942-2006). The Club's activities were well documented in the minute books which begin in 1942. The Club hand-made programs (also called yearbooks) that listed the songs performed at each gathering. These programs begin in 1930 and are organized by year. Some programs were taped or glued...
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of the West Nashville Digest community newspaper, starting with volume 1 no. 3 (Nov. 1988) to volume 6 no. 3 (June 1993), with numerous gaps in between. The paper covered the west side of Nashville, Tenn. including the communities of Sylvan Park, West Nashville, Richland Park, and the thoroughfares of Charlotte Pike, White Bridge Road, and the region of Richland Creek. Multiple pages were routinely devoted to local...
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Scope and content: This collection consists of scripts and programs for the Gridiron Show, an annual roast of Tennessee politicians and headline makers. The show was sponsored by the Nashville chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The collection is arranged in chronological order and features materials from 1964-1983. The collection is incomplete and is missing the years 1967 and 1977-1981. The bulk of the collection consists of...
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Scope and content: A collection of two scrapbook documenting the Nashville Junior Riding Club, spanning the dates ca. 1958-ca. 1967. Includes newspaper clippings, annual horse show programs, photographs, and ephemera. Topical coverage includes, but is not limited to, officers and membership, community service, annual horse shows, honorees, holiday parties, and horsemanship. Includes several articles by Margaret Lindsley Warden, the author of the "Horse...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 9th and 13th of February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Avery discusses the first automobile built in Nashville by George Preston Dorris and his subsequent manufacture of the St. Louis Car and the Dorris Car in St. Louis, Mo.; traveling and transportation...
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Scope and content: The records of the Nashville (Tenn.) Branch of the English Speaking Union of the United States, 1957-1978, include financial records, administrative data, membership rosters, newsletters, clippings, and materials about visiting speakers. Many speakers were from overseas. Among the speakers were Margaret (Mrs. Denis) Thatcher (1969) and retired General Maxwell Taylor (1976). Clippings and rosters mention such Nashville members as:...