Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth Collection

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Woman's Wednesday Club is one of the oldest continuously functioning clubs in Fort Worth. Founded in 1889 as a group which encouraged the arts and literature, members were key original sponsors of the Fort Worth Library Association, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, and the Fort Worth Art Association which later became the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

The Woman's Wednesday Club first met in a room in the Spring Palace (1889-1890), establishing the first Woman's Club Room in Fort Worth. They later met at Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in the Neil Anderson Building, Hendrick Building, and the Art Gallery of the Carnegie Library before moving to its present location in 1923. In 1923, the Woman's Club of Fort Worth was established and the Wednesday Club was named as one of the original charter clubs, and began meeting at the Woman's Club building located at 1316 Pennsylvania Ave. In 2013, the Woman's Wednesday Club donated their historical materials to the Tarrant County Archives.

The '62 Club was a charter club of the Woman's Club of Fort Worth, founded in 1962 with the objective of studying cultural and scientific subjects. The club was active in hosting speakers and outings to educate its members on specific topics. The '62 Club disbanded around 2020.

Scope and Contents

The Woman's Wednesday Club Collection features materials from the title club and the '62 Club. Materials include records such as agendas, meeting minutes, reports, and member rosters, as well as other documents, yearbooks, programs, photographs, and numerous scrapbooks detailing the activities of each club over the years. Materials in this collection date from 1889 to 2020.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Woman's Wednesday Club Materials

All scrapbooks, meeting minutes, and other ledgers from the Woman's Wednesday Club are available to view on The Portal to Texas History. This digitization was completed as part of a Rescuing Texas History Grant.

A digitized PDF of the Club's 1893 Constitution is available to view, as well as a transcription of 1889 Constitution from February 27, 1889 Minutes and a transcription of 1894 Handwritten Addendum to 1893 Constitution.

Accessibility Notice: Due to the age and complexity of the original material, these linked PDFs are made up of scanned images. If you need assistance accessing the content in the documents, please contact the Archives at 817-884-3272 or archives@tarrantcountytx.gov.

• 35th Anniversary Meeting documents (where men ran the meeting), 1924, undated
• Ad hoc Committee on Book and Cabinets documents, 2018-2019
• Annual Report books, 1930-1933
• Annual Scholarship report book, 1939-1947
• Awards Committee Reports, 1972-1994
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation information, 2014
• Bookkeeping / Treasurer's record books, 1920-1990
• Buchanan Study Club booklets, 1966-1980
• Business documents, 2007-2019, undated
• Clippings and local news documents, 1891-1999, undated
• Constitution and Bylaws, 1901-1902
• Correspondence related to Creative Writing Award, 1993-2003, undated
• Course of Study Committee documents, 2015-2017
• Document related to gift to Tarrant County Probation Department, 1944
• Documents related to art at local museums and owned by the Wednesday and Woman's Clubs, 1900-1956
• Documents related to the history of the Woman's Wednesday Club, 1898-2011, undated
• Document related to the Fort Worth Woman's Club land and buildings, 1929-2010, undated
• Documents related to the Library Committee and book information, 1914-1980
• Engraver's plate for award certificates, undated
• Library of the Woman's Wednesday Club catalog, undated
• Library record ledger by title, undated
• The Magazine of the Woman's Club of Fort Worth, 2013-2020
• The Massie Trials, a paper by the Woman's Wednesday Club, 2020
• Materials related to the TCU Creative Writing Contest, 1938-2011
• Meeting Minutes, 1889-2004
• Membership roll books, 1899-2000
• Mutual Savings and Loan Association account passbook, 1956-1966
• New member information, 2013-2014,  undated
• Property appraisals (books, furniture), 1930-1972, undated
• Safety deposit box record book, 1941-1986
• Scrapbooks, 1941-2011
• Texas Federation of Woman's Clubs documents and publications, 1907-1944, undated
• Timeline of Texas Women's History, 2016
• Various ephemera, programs, and documents, 2013-2017, undated
• Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas Time Travel Tours digital video focused on the Club in World War I, 2018
• Yearbooks, 1895-2021

'62 Club Materials

• Binders of documents related to the club including agendas, minutes, event information, member rosters, executive board information, and more, 1965-2019
• Charts showing positions and committee of members, 1962-1986
• Event and meeting photographs, 2009
• Scrapbooks, 1962-2015
• Woman's Club Courier newsletter, September 1987-October 1988 (additional issues in scrapbooks)
• Woman's Club of Fort Worth Magnolia Luncheon programs, 1998-1999 (additional programs in scrapbooks)
• Yearbooks, 1971-2020