Business and Professional Women's Club of Greensboro Records

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0434

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes materials relating to the practices and history of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Greensboro between the years of 1918-1993; yearbooks, scrapbooks, official documents and papers, local correspondence, as well as correspondence at the local, state, national, and interenational levels between chapters of the club make up the bulk of Series 1 in the collection. Series 2 consists more of official information regarding the club on the state level, including North Carolina annual reports, by-laws, handbooks, official brochures, and copies of Tar Heel Woman magazine, published by the Business and Professional Women's Club of North Carolina. Series 3 consists of official materials pertaining to the club on a national level, including an official expansion kit, Revitilization and Growth Program materials, resource manuals, guidelines, brochures, a book of the official national history of the club through 1945, and early copies of Independent Woman magazine, the official magazine of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.

Dates

1918 - 1993
Other: Date acquired: 2015 April 13

Creator

Business and Professional Women's Club of Greensboro (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their decendants, as stipulated by the United States copyright law.

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Please see our Sensitive Materials Statement.

Extent

14.25 Linear Feet (2 record center boxes, 9 scrapbook boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Greensboro chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Club came to be in 1918, and officially became part of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in 1920. Through the years the club grew and gained much notoriety, prompting many changes in the community and affording many oppertunitues for women.

This collection includes materials relating to the practices and history of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Greensboro between the years of 1918 and 1993, including Greensboro local business as well as state and national materials. The collection ranges from materials such as Greensboro yearbooks and scrapbooks to official materials such as resource materials and by-laws relating to national club operations and practices.

Arrangement Note

Collection is arranged in three series: 1. BPW Greensboro; 2. BPW NC; and 3. BPW USA

Materials on paper, including official papers, newspaper articles, brouchures, reports, books, magazines, correspondence, promnotional materials, and miscellaneous papers in boxes 1-2. Proclamation, and membership certificate in box 3, scrapbooks in boxes 3-11. Non-paper materials including emblem trophy and plaque in box 2.

Method of Acquisition

Gift from the Business and Professional Women's Club of the Triad, Inc, 2015

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