Scope and Contents: The Oberlin Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union is documented by administrative records, printed material, and miscellaneous items including newspaper clippings and a letter from Mrs. A. D. Olds to the Oberlin Weekly News, 8 March 1888.
The administrative records include secretary’s books, Jan. 5, 1897 - Aug. 20, 1924 (2 vols.), which are mainly minutes of meetings plus a few newspaper clippings. Financial records include a treasurer’s book, 1901-24 (1vol.) and a few receipts.
Printed material consists of a 1902 membership roll and programs from 1897 to 1911. These records also contain a program from the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Nonpartisan Women's Christian Temperance Union; this convention was held at First Congregational Church in Oberlin in November 1895.
INVENTORY
(Note -- box begins with 1; this is a subgroup of 31/6 Women's Organizations)
Box 1
Secretary’s Book, Jan. 5, 1897 - Sept. 9, 1908
Secretary’s Book, Oct. 14, 1908 - Aug. 20, 1924
Treasurer’s Book, 1901-1924
(see miscellaneous file for additional financial records)
Membership Roll, 1902 [2001/94]
Miscellaneous file: receipts (1912-23), and a copy of a letter from Mrs. A.D. Olds
to the Oberlin Weekly News, March 8, 1888
Programs, 1897-99, 1901-03, 1905-11 [2001/94]
Program, National Nonpartisan Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1895
[2001/94]