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Members of the Social Union pose with baskets and boxes of items for the
poor and needy, December 20, 1950.
The scrapbooks include clippings, invitations to meetings, photographs,
and thank you cards for assistance received from the Social Union.
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Collection
Overview
Creator: Denver Women's Social Union
Club (Colo.)
Title: The Denver Women's Social Union
Club records
Inclusive Dates: 1908-1973
Size: 2.5 linear ft.
Processed By: Finding
aid and Web version prepared by Robin Beran, July 2000; revised
October 2003
Scope and Content
The Denver Women's Social Union Club, a club for poor and working-class
women, was founded as a mutual-aid society in 1898 by members of the social
science department of the Women's Club of Denver for the benefit of women
in the Delgany neighborhood. It continued to function as a philanthropic
and social club until 1973. The collection includes the minutes of most
general meetings from 1908 to 1973, which detail both the business and
social aspects of the organization. Scrapbooks covering the years from
1932 to 1958 contain clippings concerning individual club members as well
as the meetings, invitations to meetings, photographs, and thank you notes
for assistance received from the Social Union. Other bound volumes include
receipt books from 1950 to 1968, minutes from the board meetings (1934-1935
and 1942-1947), treasurers' records (1927-1935, 1947-1951), and a membership
book (1947-1958). A few miscellaneous items such as applications for admission,
cards, clippings, and poetry are included, as well as information on the
Barnum Women's Club, an organization also founded and initially overseen
by the Women's Club of Denver.
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