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Title: SC47 Presidents and Past Presidents Club Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The Presidents and Past Presidents Club of Greater Kansas City was formed in 1917 with Mrs. George W. Fuller as the first president. Membership was composed entirely of presidents and past presidents of women's clubs in Kansas City. The group did civic philanthropic work in Kansas City. This compilation contains typescript pages and illustrations including photographs. It contains signed vignettes and reminiscences concerning Kansas City, Missouri, history.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC2 Kansas City Posse of the Westerners Records Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of records, correspondence, publications, and photographs from the Kansas City Posse of Westerners, the local chapter of a national social organization interested in preserving the history and heritage of the American West. The Kansas City Posse was formed in 1955 and the originally male-only membership included hobby scholars and prominent local historians like A. Theodore Brown and Kenneth LaBudde, PhD. The group held monthly dinner meetings that included speakers on a range of Western history and culture topics; membership dues also sponsored several publications that are referred to and/or present in the collection.
Date: 1955/1998
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC8-1 Local Clubs Collection Finding Aid
Description: Collections consisting of various rosters, programs, notes, membership cards, etc., of Kansas City area clubs.
Date: 1870/1990
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC172 Kansas City Advertising Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Kansas City Advertising Club Collection contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rosters, publications, and newsletters relating to the organization.
Date: 1915/1996
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC100 Kansas City Guards Record Book Finding Aid
Description: Special collection for a local independent military group called the Kansas City Guards, later the Jackson County National Guard, Company A. Includes a one-volume, handwritten record of their meetings, 1876-1878. Prominent Kansas City names listed on the membership rolls include Fred Chouteau, L. B. Bullene, and Frank Wornall.
Date: 1876/1878
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC183 Annie Besant Study Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Annie Besant Study Club Collection contains one yearbook detailing the club members and activities for 1912-1913.
Date: 1912/1913
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC192 Round Robin Study Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1901/2015
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC176 Althea Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Althea Club Collection contains newspaper clippings related to the club and three of the organization's yearbooks.
Date: 1914/1918
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC174 Allegro Music Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Allegro Music Club Collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings related to the club, a music performance program, and two annual lists of performances and club officers.
Date: 1903/1960
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC220 Knife and Fork Club Program Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains the program to the 43rd dinner of the Knife and Fork Club at the Midland Hotel on February 25, 1904.
Date: 1904-02-25
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC184 Apollo Club of Kansas City Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Apollo Club of Kansas City Collection consists of four concert programs from 1897 to 1899, as well as a photocopy of a newspaper clipping from the Kansas City World with pictures and names of club members from 1897.
Date: 1897/1899
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC98 Old Men's Association Records Finding Aid
Description: The Old Men's Association was a social organization that met for 25 years in Kansas City beginning in 1893 up to 1918. Men had to be 60 years old or older in order to qualify for membership. Prominent names associated with the group include Alexander Holland, Judge Stephen Twiss, S. M. Philbrook, Frank Holsinger, Edward L. Dimmitt, Thomas Lewis, Judge W. R. Brown, W. F. Cloud, and many others. The collection contains the records of the Association and includes two record books (1893-1918) which contain the organization's minutes, membership rolls, financial accounts, newspaper clippings, and some ephemeral items. Programs included local speakers although Ezra Meeker of Oregon Trail fame also appeared at a meeting in 1908.
Date: 1893/1918
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC177 American Association of University Women Collection Finding Aid
Description: The American Association of University Women Collection contains newspaper clippings, membership lists, monthly event programs, book and author dinner materials, and publications relating to the organization.
Date: 1931/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC181 Americana Study Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Americana Study Club Collection contains one publication listing club member names and addresses, as well as dates and program titles for the years, 1951-1952.
Date: 1951/1952
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC175 Alternate Tuesday Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Alternate Tuesday Club Collection contains a copy of the organization's constitution and by-laws and a history of the club written near the time of its 90th anniversary in 1974.
Date: 1899/1974~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC180 American War Mothers Collection Finding Aid
Description: The American War Mothers Collection contains the program for the fourth national convention held in Kansas City, Missouri, from September 29 to October 5, 1923.
Date: 1923-09-29/1923-10-05
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC178 American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers Collection Finding Aid
Description: The American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers Collection contains a pre-registration and supplemental roster for the South Central Regional Appraisal Conference in March 1951, and a membership roster for the Kansas City Chapter for 1956.
Date: 1951/1956
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC185 Archaeological Institute of America Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of photocopies of newspaper clippings, a yearbook from 1905-1906, and a card advertising a lecture sponsored by the club.
Date: 1905/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC173 Agnes Ward Amberg Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Agnes Ward Amberg Club Collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings, a pamphlet, and two annual reports relating to the organization.
Date: 1919/1944
Object Type: Finding Aid

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