Collection #
SC 1101
MONDAY CLUB (
RECORDS, 1895–1975
Processed by
Charles Latham
Updated
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 8 folders
COLLECTION DATES: 1895-1975
PROVENANCE: Lucille Stewart, 5241 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208, 1970-1975
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: pam HS 2725 .I55 M6 1910 Yearbook for 1910
ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1970.0713, 1975.005, 1994.0568x
The Monday Club was founded in February 1895 as an auxiliary of Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. It began in the home of Mrs. Patrick H. Jameson as the “Zerelda Wallace Conversation Club,” in honor of a pioneer Indiana temperance leader. The name changed, first to Monday Afternoon Club, and then, about 1900, to Monday Club.
The club began by emphasizing extemporaneous conversation, sometimes based on a year-long study of a general subject like Russia or Germany or the English novel. There was sometimes music after the study hour. Later there were guest speakers, notably travel lecturer Mrs. Demarchus Brown.
The club met twice a month, first in private homes, then, as it grew, in the first Propylaeum on North Street and then in the Caroline Scott Harrison D. A. R. chapter house on Pennsylvania Street. It survived to celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary.
This collection, filling eight folders, contains papers, minutes, and clippings dating ca 1895-1975. It is arranged chronologically.
Folder 1 contains a carbon copy of a seven-page history of the club by Lucille Stewart, who was president in the 1950s. In Folders 2 and 6 are clippings from 1930 to 1965. In Folders 3-5 are minutes and notes from the years 1951-1956. The minutes are pasted and clipped into Week-At-A-Glance books. Folders 7-8 contain undated (early) club papers, one on the life of Edward Eggleston, one untitled.
1 History of club by Lucille Stewart ca 1970
2 Clippings 1930-1951
3 Correspondence and notes 1951-1957
4 Minutes 1955
5 Minutes 1956
6 Clippings 1956-1965
7 Paper-- Life of Edward Eggleston-- n.d
8 Untitled paper-- n.d.
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