Title: Business and Professional Women's Club of Kenosha Records
Inclusive Dates: 1928-1980

Creator:

• Business and Professional Women's Club of Kenosha (Wis.)

Call Number: Parkside Mss 88; PH Parkside Mss 88; EA 066(R)

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 25 photographs, and 1 film reel (8mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; 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-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Minutes, annual reports, scrapbooks, yearbooks (directories), history, articles of incorporation and bylaws of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, social, cultural, and community service organization made up of working and retired woman business owners, professionals, managers, civil servants, and office staff. Founded in 1928, the BPW of Kenosha affiliated with the Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (Southeastern District No, 9) and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club, Inc., in 1931. The collection primarily documents club meetings and activities. Scrapbook material includes newspaper clippings; programs from Kenosha, neighboring group, and district meetings; and photographs. Photographs depict officers, members, and events such as the 1970 March of Dimes radio auction and a 1968 “Fashions in Nonsense” fashion show. There is a short home movie segment from an unidentified meeting, circa 1966. Summaries of members' vocations or job titles and places of employment can be found in scattered yearbooks, membership lists, and membership committee annual reports. A year-by-year history of the group to 1956 is included in the collection, as well as an abridged history which appears at the beginning of the 1952-53 yearbook.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0088

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Jane D. Nelson, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1981-1982. Accession Number: M81-652, M82-401

Processing Information

Processed by Lisa Pfaff, 1997.

Parkside Mss 88 Box   1 Folder   1	Anniversary Banquet Programs, 1938-1979
Box   1 Folder   2-3	Annual Reports, 1928-1977
Box   1 Folder   4	Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, 1939-1966
Box   1 Folder   5	Escrow Agreement, Kenosha County Historical Society, 1962, 1966
Box   1 Folder   6	History, 1928-1956
Box   1 Folder   7	Membership and Professions Lists, 1928-1953
	Minutes
Box   1 Folder   8-9	1928-1938
Box   2 Folder   1-7	1939-1965
Box   3 Folder   1	1966-1969
	Photographs, 1933-1977
Box   3 Folder   2	Photocopiesb
PH Parkside Mss 88	Originalsb
EA 066(R)	Film of meeting, circa 1966
Parkside Mss 88	Scrapbook Materialb
Box   5	1928-1940
Box   3 Folder   3-10	1940-1967
Box   4 Folder   1-3	1966-1979
Box   4 Folder   4-6	Year Books [Directories], 1931-1980