Senior Literary & Lyric Society (North Baltimore, Ohio) records

The records of the Senior Literary and Lyric Society illustrate aspects of the social development of women in northwest Ohio from 1898 to 1980. The collection includes minutes, club histories, Circle Study papers, programs, and yearbooks.

The minutes, which are complete from 1922 to 1960 (scattered prior to 1922), provide the researcher with information on organizational activities. In addition, they reveal the concerns of the women in northwest Ohio which are expressed through club entertainment and the topics presented in study groups. This also is evident in the club histories written between 1898 and 1948. The collection includes several examples of the Circle Study papers which were presented during the meetings.

Printed material in the collection consists of programs for scattered dates from 1922 to 1958, which contain information on club meetings and social events, and yearbooks, complete form 1900 to 1980, except for one small gap from 1904 to 1906, which include agendas of each meeting as well as titles of speeches and a list of the speakers.