Collections

The collection includes meeting minutes, photographs, clippings, publications, correspondence, and anniversary materials.

The collection includes records of monthly meetings of the LWV-MPA and organizational elections of league presidents and board membership roles. The collection is comprised of papers, pamphlets, board minutes, and meeting minutes. Folders within the collection hold photographs and newspaper clippings (copies) of LWV-MPA events and membership activity from the provisional grant in 1969 to 2012. Also included within the LWV-MPA collection are pamphlets and booklets published by the organization as well as correspondence from local and state politicians. Additions added beginning at the end of Box 4, 50th Anniversary Materials, 2019, and Meeting Minutes, 2010-. The collection is ongoing.

Processing Note: According to the donor agreement, all duplicates (.5 cubic ft.) were returned to the League of Women Voters.

The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, publications, miscellaneous, lists of officers, newspaper clippings (copies), convention programs, and other materials.

The collection includes Bulletins (newsletters) of the Saginaw chapter, 1921-1933, and Michigan chapter, 1923-1926; By-laws, undated; correspondence between the state and Saginaw chapters, 1922-1935, undated; miscellaneous; information on various topics of interest to the chapter, 1919-1930s, undated; lists of officers, undated, and activities, 1928-29 and 1932; meeting minutes, mostly of the Executive Board, November 1, 1925-April 26, 1935; newspaper clippings (photocopies of individual clippings and scrapbook pages), 1924-1945. A few photographs are also in the scrapbooks.

A few LWV Michigan items are also included, such as Annual Convention Programs, 1926, 1938, and 1942; miscellaneous; list of officers, undated; and scattered meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, 1933-1935 and 1941.

Processing Note: Duplicates and publications of the LWV (U.S.) were withdrawn. The Scrapbook on Suffrage was extremely acidic and nearly its entire contents were loose and brittle. All clippings were photocopied and the contents were removed from the volume and placed into folders. Other loose newspaper clippings from other scrapbooks were also photocopied.