Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club Records
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Scope and Content Note
The Club's scrapbooks contain yearbooks with information, such as objectives, names of the officers and the committees, membership, and monthly meeting schedules; bylaws; minutes of the meetings; letters; greeting and thank you cards; pamphlets; brochures; newsletters; announcements; programs; proclamations; surveys; reports; expense records; certificates; awards; newspaper clippings; black and white and color photographs; memorabilia; and other material pertaining to the Club's activities and endeavors. The collection also includes one folder which contains a 1951 yearbook; newsletters; 1974-1975 and 1977-1978 budgets; 1973 treasurer's report; material on the Equal Rights Amendment; by-laws; 1972-1973 membership list; newspaper clippings; pamphlets; and three issues, 1972 and 1973, of Widening Horizons, the official publication of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.
Dates
- 1959-1989
Creator
- Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club (Ark.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
The Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club was first chartered in the 1940s. The first meeting, organized by Lillian White and Nadene Vaughn, was held in the Fall of 1958. The purpose and aim of the Club is to promote the interests of business and professional women, support their cooperation, and extend their opportunities through education in a form of industrial, scientific, and vocational activities.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Acquisition Information
The Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club Records were donated to the Special Collections Division by Lois Carlson, Bentonville, Arkansas, on May 15, 1992.
Processing Information
Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in September 1998 .
Creator
- Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club (Ark.) (Organization)
Source
- Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club (Ark.) (Donor, Organization)
- Title
- Bentonville Business and Professional Women's Club Records
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu