Archival
Collections
Organizations,
Clubs and Research Collections
Alabama Citizens
for the Equal Rights Amendment
Records,
1971-1981
(AR 253)
This collection contains
correspondence, minutes of meetings, publications,
by-laws and financial statements.
Size: 1 box
Alabama
Committee on the Observance of International
Women’s Year Report
(AR 153)
Report submitted by the Alabama
International Women’s Year
Committee to the National
Commission on the Observance of
International Women’s Year.
Size: 1 box
Alabama Equal
Suffrage Association
Scrapbook,
1914-1918
(AR 487)
Newspaper clippings relating to
the suffrage movement in Alabama.
Size: 1 reel microfilm
Alabama
Federation of Business and Professional Women’s
Clubs
Records,
1919-1981
(AR 244)
The Alabama Federation of Business
and Professional Women’s Clubs was founded in
1919 at a meeting in Birmingham by representatives of
women’s clubs from Birmingham, Anniston, Mobile
and Montgomery. The organization’s member clubs
encouraged vocational training and education for women,
supported legislation such as national unemployment
insurance, encouraged female participation in politics
and women running for political office, and supported
women in business. During World War II, clubs offered
first aid classes and sponsored programs for victory
gardens, blood drives and other home front efforts.
This collection contains minutes of meetings,
membership records, histories, publications, files on
scholarships offered by the organization and
presidential files.
Size: 18 boxes
Alabama
Women’s Anti-Ratification League
Scrapbook,
1919-1920
(AR 489)
Newspaper clippings relating to
efforts opposing women’s suffrage in Alabama.
Size: 1 reel microfilm
Alabama
Women’s Political Caucus
Records,
1972-1981
(AR 214)
By-laws, correspondence,
conventional materials, newsletters, minutes of
meetings, membership lists,
subject files and a scrapbook relating to efforts to
pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
Size: 1 box
Alabama
Writers’ Conclave
Records and
Publications, 1923-1975
(AR 1396)
The Alabama Writer's Conclave was
founded in 1923 at Alabama College in Montevallo as a
women's club, but it quickly opened the membership to
include men and "all people in Alabama interested
in writing." By 1930 the Conclave was composed of
Alabama historians, playwrights, fiction writers,
poets, and newspaper writers. The purpose of the
conclave is to promote fellowship, to provide an
opportunity for improvement of craft, and to support
Alabama writers. The Conclave meets for four days every
summer, usually at the University of Montevallo,
although the conference has been held at Samford
University and, during the years of the Second World
War, at the Birmingham Public Library. In 1931 the
Alabama State Legislature created the honorary office
of Poet Laureate of Alabama. Poet laureates are
designated by the Alabama Writer's Conclave. The
collection is largely comprised of Conclave programs
from 1923 to 1975 with some missing. Also included are
a brief history of the AWC and other literary clubs in
Alabama, the constitution and by-laws of the AWC, a
roster of members, and a bulletin from 1962.
Size: 1 box
Amaranth Club of
Birmingham
Records, 1898-
(AR 216)
Established in 1897, The Amaranth
Club is a women’s study club created, in the
words of the group’s constitution, “to
encourage intellectual development and to strengthen
individual effort by organization.” The
club’s meetings, generally held monthly from
spring to autumn, feature speakers and group
discussions on topics such as literature, history,
travel, current events and the arts. The collection
contains the club’s constitution, minutes of
meetings, roster of charter members, yearbooks,
correspondence, a biographical tribute to club
president Nellie Kimball Murdoch (an Alabama suffragist
and child welfare advocate) and material relating to
the club’s centennial celebration.
Size: 2 boxes
American
Association of University Women. Birmingham Branch
Papers,
1907-1986
(AR 164)
The American Association of
University Women is a national organization advocating
equality for women through research, scholarships and
other means. This collection contains minutes of
meetings, financial files, subject files, presidential
files and scrapbooks relating to the Birmingham Branch.
Size: 22 boxes
American Society
of Women Accountants. Birmingham Chapter #47
Records, 1967-
(AR 794)
This collection includes minutes
of meetings, yearbooks, publicity reports,
administrative files and chapter
newsletters.
Size: 18 boxes
Argus Club
Records,
1928-1980
(AR 188)
The Argus Club was formed in 1928
by ten Birmingham women who decided to turn their
sewing club into a literary club. The collection
contains two brief histories of the club, minutes of
meetings, and yearbooks.
Size: 1 box
Armantine Club
Records,
1933-1993
(AR 1840)
The Armantine Club is a
women’s study and social club founded in
Birmingham in 1931 as the Junior Arcadia Study Club.
According to the group’s constitution, the
“object of the club shall be cultural development
of the members including a wider knowledge of
literature.” The collection contains yearbooks,
correspondence, newspaper clippings relating to the
club and individual members, photographs and three
scrapbooks.
Size: 2 boxes
Belvedere Study
Club
Records,
1949-1986
(AR 1710)
The Belvedere Study Club is a
women’s club established in Birmingham in 1948.
Its members hold meetings to discuss literature and
other topics and engage in philanthropic activities.
The collection contains minutes of meetings,
scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, yearbooks and
correspondence.
Size: 4 boxes
Birmingham Home
Arts Club
Records
(AR 788)
The Home Arts Club was organized
in 1913 to raise the ideals of American home making and
to give mutual helpfulness and provide self-improvement
for its members. The club provided the "Betty
Molton" loan scholarship for college students and
provided a scholarship to make it possible for young
women to study in France. This collection includes
minutes of meetings, yearbooks, receipts, a brief
history, two scrapbooks and programs.
Size: 6 boxes
