Women's Organizations

Agassiz Garden Club (N.D.), 1954-1991 (Mss 270)
Club located northeastern North Dakota and devoted to garden interests, especially the Pioneer Memorial Gardens at Homme Recreation Area in Walsh County, N.D.

American Association of University Women, Fargo Branch Records, 1922-1987 (Mss 157)
The Fargo Branch was formed in 1922.  The purpose, as stated in the constitution, was to be "the uniting of college alumnae for the purpose of carrying on work suggested by the American Association of University Women, and such local work as is deemed desirable."

Country Homemakers' Club (Cass County, N.D.) Records, 1913-1966 (Mss 181)
It was considered unusual for the time because it was the only one in Cass County that had two meetings a month- "one a social and one a business." 

Daughters of Dakota Pioneers Records, 1936-1998 (Mss 207)
Local organization founded to honor the memory and spirit of the women pioneers in North Dakota, to perpetuate and preserve the history of North Dakota and to promote interest in the resources and activities of North Dakota.

Fargo Fortnightly Club Records, 1895-1982 (Mss 35 and Mss 1560)
The Fortniqhtly Club has taken part in civic and educational affairs in the community as well as carrying out it's own study programs, ususally concerning foreign nations.

Fine Arts Club (Fargo, N.D.) Records, 1911-1979 (Mss 34)
The Fine Arts Club of Fargo had its origins in the Fargo Amateur Music Club.  In the spring of 1911, Mrs. Frank J. Thompson consented to assume the presidency of the Music Club on condition that it be merged into a new organization consisting of several sections.

Fine Arts Club (Fargo, N. D.) Records, 1917-1998 (Mss 248)
These Fine Arts Club records reflect later donations by the club including papers from the club and its various sections.

Gardar Homemakers Club (Gardar, N.D.), 1926-1985 (Mss 269)
The Gardar Homemakers Club was organized in 1926 at Gardar, N.D. and continued as an active club until 1985.

Happy Hour Homemakers Club (Bonsack, N.D.) Records, 1930-1979 (Mss 59)
The Happy Hour Homemakers Club was organized in the fall of 1928 in Bohnsack Township, Traill County at the home of Nora Bohnsack.

International Association of Rebekah Assemblies, IOOF, Ivy Lodge, no. 1 (Fargo, N.D.) Records, 1890-1981 (Mss 150)
The Ivy Lodge of the Rebekah Assembly is the women's auxiliary to the fraternal lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

National League of American Pen Women, Fargo Branch Records, 1938-1960(Mss 180)
The Fargo Branch was formed in 1938 with the writing of the bylaws.  The formal organizing of the branch did not occur, however, until February 14, 1942.

National Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.), John F. Reynolds Corps No. 1 (Fargo, N.D.) Records, 1885-1965(Mss 242)
Organization founded 1890 and provided entertainment for troops stationed in North Dakota.

North Dakota Cattle Women - Unprocessed (Acc. 2846)
Current accession includes the scrapbooks of the Border Belles CattleWomen division (northwest N.D.) covering the years 1982-1983, 1987-1988, 1992-1996. Scrapbooks document the activities of the division, the state association, and the North Dakota Stockmen's Association of which the Cattle Women is the auxiliary.

North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council Records, 1941-1986 (Mss 275)
Organized in 1942 to assist individual homemakers' clubs at the local level.

North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council. Oral History Project. Memories of North Dakota Homemakers Records, 1985-1990. (Mss 262 & Tapes 361-513)
Oral history and publication project done to preserve the memories of the North Dakota homemakers.

North Dakota Hereford Auxiliary Scrapbooks 1976-1984 - Unprocessed (Acc. 2847)
Three scrapbooks (1976-1984) documenting the activities of women's auxiliary related to the raising and promotion of Herford cattle in North Dakota.

North Dakota Homemakers Club Histories Collection, 1979 (Mss 164)
he North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council in 1979, as a statewide project, encouraged all homemaker Clubs in the state to write a club history.  This collection is the result of that project. 

North Dakota State Federation of Garden Clubs (Mss 271)
Records of state organization devoted to gardens and gardening.

Orestes Brownson Study Club No. 3 Records, 1933-1977(Mss 25)
Study group founded by the women of three Catholic parishes so they could study subjects pertaining to Catholic beliefs and intelligently discuss topics from a Catholic viewpoint.

Professional Secretaries International, Red River Chapter Records, 1957-1984 (Mss 141)
The main purpose of the organization is to recognize the need for continuing education for today's secretary.  It encourages secretaries to become a Certified Professional Secretary, referred to as a CPS.

Rich Valley Homemakers Club (Esmond, N.D.) Records, 1929-1969 (Mss 58)
The organization of the Rich Valley Homemakers Club was part of a movement across North Dakota by the Home Demonstration Department of the Cooperative Extension Service located at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo.

The Round Table Records, 1897-1992 (Mss 170)
It was a study group that provided women with an opportunity to come together and explore various historical subjects.  The purpose of the club, as stated in the constitution, was to widen women's outlooks, to keep them in touch with the present and to make them more familiar with the past.

Study Club of Fargo Records, 1897-1992 (Mss 175)
Motto of the club, adopted in 1902 when the first constitution was approved, is "To be rather than to seem." 

Votes for Women League of North Dakota, Fargo Branch Records, 1912-1919(Mss 49)
The Fargo group remained active into World War I and the rise of the Nonpartisan League, helping enact limited suffrage in North Dakota in 1917.

Woman's Club of Fargo Records (Mss 47)
Founded in 1884, the oldest club in North Dakota, it is a study club and involved in community improvement projects.

Women's Literary Club of Carrington Records, 1897-1954 (Mss 182)
The club was organized by a group of pioneer women as a study club with regular courses in literature and history.

Women's Society of Christian Service (Hunter United Methodist Church (Hunter, N.D.) Records, 1918-1989 (Mss 202)
Women's church group who used chicken pie suppers to pay off the debt incurred during the construction of their church.

Young Women's Christian Association of Fargo-Moorhead Records, 1931-1983(Mss 67)
The Fargo Y.W.C.A. was organized in 1906 and affiliated with the National YWCA in 1907. It activities are documented through a series of scrapbooks, as well for the later years in minutes, newsletters and annual reports.
 

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