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Title
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SC135 Longan Study Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Longan Study Club Collection contains materials relating to the purpose, function, and activities of the club. This collection includes minutes of meetings, financial records, the club constitution and articles of incorporation, correspondence, photographs, and other materials.
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Date
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1900/1983
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC81 Friends In Council Minute Books Preliminary Inventory
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Description
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The collection consists of five bound volumes and a few pieces of additional ephemera. The volumes contain minutes of the club, lists of members and their addresses, some limited records of financial activity, and volume three includes the club's constitution. The span of coverage for each volume is as follows: vol.1 - June 24,1880-January 27, 1885; vol.2 - February 3, 1885-December 15, 1891; vol.3 - January 5, 1892-April 14, 1896; vol.4 - April 21, 1896-June 3, 1902; vol.5 - October 14, 1901-April 28, 1908. The first volume includes notes from meetings which were held prior to the formal organization of the Kansas City chapter of Friends in Council (the first official meeting was held September 21, 1880). The miscellaneous ephemera include sympathy correspondence from the Kansas City Athenaeum and the Quincy chapter of Friends in Council; a 25th anniversary program; and a report of club activities from 1880-1889.
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Date
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1880/1908
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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SC192 Round Robin Study Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Round Robin Study Club is a women's club organized in 1901 to provide its members with opportunities for social interaction and enriching study. This collection includes minutes of meetings, club histories, constitution, newspaper articles, correspondence, essays, poems, programs, and photographs.
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Date
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1901/2015
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC130 Woman's Relief Corps Ledger Book Finding Aid
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Description
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The Woman's Relief Corps was the women's auxiliary group of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was established in 1883 as a social, civic, and patriotic organization to foster social improvements and to generate and sustain community appreciation for the sacrifice of those patriots who had died to preserve the Union. Among the Corps' activities were: child welfare work, such as school shoe drives; receptions for GAR dignitaries; and flag presentations to schools, clubs, and Old Soldiers' Homes.
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Date
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1909/1918
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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P31 Nelly Don Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Nelly Don Collection contains 35 black and white photographic prints donated to the Missouri Valley Special Collections in August 2001. The donor's aunt had been an employee of the Donnelly Garment Company and had collected these photographs. Few of the individuals in the photographs are identified, and many images are not dated. The photographs largely consist of Donnelly Garment Company employee group portraits on holiday and otherwise festive occasions.Nell Donnelly Reed was born Ellen Quinlan in Parsons, Kansas, 1889, and moved to Kansas City in 1906. She began designing and sewing her own housedresses, several of which she offered for sale to the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company in 1916. By 1931 she owned the Donnelly Garment Company, which manufactured the widely known "Nelly Don" line of women's apparel. Reed retired in 1956, and the organization's name was changed to Nelly Don, Inc. The company evolved throughout the 1960s and 70s, although the changing economic climate of the nation eventually brought its demise. The selling of fabrics was a sustaining innovation of the 1970s, but Nelly Don, Inc., filed for Chapter 10 bankruptcy in 1978.
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Date
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1920~/1950~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
