The historical/foundation file includes three booklets which contain the constitutions and bylaws of the LLC. These booklets are dated 1935,1966 and 1980. Earlier constitutions can be found in the Regular Meeting Minute Books for these dates: Sept. 1894, Sept. 1900, June, 1901 and Sept. 1903. Also found in this series are several articles and various speeches from 1896 to 1953 which present an overview of the development of the LLC.
6 linear feet (in 7 boxes)
The Ladies Literary Club of Ypsilanti (LLC) Records (1882-2008) documents the development and changes of the activities of the LLC for more than a century. The record group consists of Historical/foundational documents, Regular Meeting Minute Books, Board of Trustees papers, Membership and Program books, Financial Records, Presidents' Files, History of building addition, LLC Magazines, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous files.
The Regular Meeting Minute Books series makes up the bulk of this record group. These handwritten record books document the meetings of the members from 1882 until 2005. Various speeches in the collection allude to the existence of record books from the first meetings which took place in 1878. Unfortunately, the collection as it stands today only encompasses minutes from the meetings of Sept. 1894 and forward to January 1989. Earlier small notebooks from 1882-1890 contain notes about some of the topics discussed at these meetings. They are not however meeting minutes. As the focus of the organization changed so did the format and records of its meetings. In April of 1943, some minutes of the executive board meetings, some treasury reports and some miscellaneous business meetings, began to appear in the same notebooks as the regular meeting minutes.