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Title: |
Altrusa Club of Cleveland Records |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
Altrusa Club of Cleveland |
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Dates: |
1921-1986 |
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Quantity: |
1.20 linear feet (3 containers) |
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Abstract: |
The Altrusa Club of Cleveland, Ohio, is a chapter of the oldest classified service club for executive business and professional women in the U.S. Since its organization in 1921, the Cleveland branch has supported a wide range of charitable and service projects. The collection consists of by-laws, clippings, correspondence, membership materials, rosters, yearbooks, and a scrapbook. |
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Identification: |
MS 4121 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
The Altrusa Club of Cleveland (f. 1921) was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, four years after the establishment of the national organization in Nashville, Tennessee. the oldest classified service club for executive business and professional women in the United States, the name was derived from the word "altruism" to encourage a collective devotion to the interests of others. The Cleveland club adopted such projects as supplying a poor family with milk for one year and providing doll clothes for children's toys. By mid-century, members of the Cleveland club had become involved in the international organization's grants-in-aid project for foreign women graduate students and the Founders Fund Vocational Aid awards to enable women of all ages to become self-supporting. the club continued to maintain a variety of local projects, including regular visits to rest homes, and volunteer tutoring for the local literacy project through the 1980s.
The Altrusa Club of Cleveland Records, 1930-1986 and undated, consist of bylaws, newspaper clippings, correspondence, membership materials, rosters, yearbooks, and a scrapbook.
These records pertain to the activities of Greater Cleveland, Ohio, women within the context of area business and professional women's clubs. These activities ranged from volunteer projects such as the collection of paper products for needy organizations in the Cleveland area to participation in the international organization's program of monetary aid for women. These records also provide an understanding of the ways in which women banded together in the middle of the twentieth century to address their common concerns and improve the conditions within their community.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4121 Altrusa Club of Cleveland Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Joan K. Butler, 1985 and 1986.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1987.