Summary Information

Title: Patrons of Husbandry. Tibbets Grange No. 762: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1947-1994

Creator:

• Patrons of Husbandry. Tibbets Grange No. 762 (Walworth County, Wis.)

Call Number: Whitewater Mss BX

Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (1 record center carton and 9 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a Walworth County, Wis. agricultural and social organization that sponsored educational and social events and promoted legislation beneficial to farmers. Organized in 1947 under the sponsorship of the Fairfield Grange, the Tibbets Grange held its meetings at the Sugar Creek Town Hall. The collection includes a complete set of record books containing meeting minutes; scrapbooks (containing photographs, clippings, and ephemeral items) documenting community service activities; reports of the Home Economics Committee; Women's Activity reports; lecturer's bulletins and project books; a dues account book; newsletters; quarterly reports to the Wisconsin State Grange; information about rituals; membership participation records; and other miscellaneous material.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-whit00bx

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