Navy Mothers, Toledo Club #180 (Toledo, Ohio) records

This collection contains a wide variety of items, but is primarily composed of scrapbooks and photographs reflecting the activities of the Navy Mothers' Clubs of America, Toledo Club #180, its members and their families, and its Drill Team, from 1941 through the late 1990s. These scrapbooks overlap in chronology and although they provide good insight into the local club, the researcher should be aware that many of the photographs are unidentified. Also included are scattered minutes, membership records, correspondence, financial records and news clippings. There are materials relating to the club's official bylaws and procedures, and state conventions and rallies, and artifacts including a complete Drill Team uniform.

Although it primarily focuses on the local club, the collection does contain material documenting the origins, business and activities of the national organization, state chapters and the Northwest Ohio Past Commanders Club. This material is also scattered and consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and rosters of officers. Of particular interest is an incomplete run of the national organization's newsletter, "Navy Mothers' News," roughly covering the years 1951-1968 and 1986-1997.

TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1942-1960, March 1986-March 1994; arranged chronologically. Includes minutes and a history of the Club. Also includes local club bylaws and ritual for 1946 and 1950.

NORTHWEST OHIO PAST COMMANDERS CLUB; 1951-1991; arranged chronologically. Includes minutes, papers documenting the organization and history of the Club, and an anniversary program.

OHIO STATE CLUB, #3; 1949, 1952, 1955-61, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1985, 1997; arranged chronologically. Includes minutes, papers documenting the organization and history of the Club, constitution and bylaws, welfare report, state convention files, and miscellaneous correspondence.

NAVY MOTHERS' CLUB OF AMERICA; 1950-1952, 1954-1955, 1958-1960, 1962-1966; arranged chronologically. Includes minutes from the national conventions of 1950, 1954, 1960, and 1966. Also includes incorporation papers, charter and bylaws, officers' handbook, public relations report, newsletter for Summer 1966, and papers and reports of Helen Stong, who held various state and national offices.

MEMBERSHIP RECORDS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1945-1947, 1950-1957, 1959-1989, 1991-1994; arranged chronologically. Includes handwritten membership records, printed rosters and membership application.

MEMBERSHIP RECORDS, OHIO STATE CLUB, #3; 1954-1962, 1985-1986, 1993-1994; arranged chronologically. Includes typewritten membership records. Note: 1985-86 and 1993-94 lists contain only names of officers and chairpersons.

Includes incoming correspondence regarding the Club's charity work and donations, and both incoming and outgoing correspondence on various topics.

BIRTHDAY/ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1944, 1966; arranged chronologically. Includes news clipping regarding the Toledo Club's second anniversary and a program for the Club's third anniversary. (Note: both the news clipping and program are dated 1944). Also includes a news clipping about the Club's Silver (25th) Anniversary in 1966.

DRILL TEAM, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1944-1955, 1968; arranged chronologically. Contains a chronology of the activities of the Drill Team, its rules and regulations, an officers and bylaws booklet, a notebook including the records of the team and the minutes of the September 19, 1968 meeting.

Includes two financial record books and one file of annual reports sent to the national organization.

SCRAPBOOKS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1942-1973, 1985-1990; arranged chronologically (Please note that much duplication and overlap occurs throughout the scrapbooks. Also there are two oversize scrapbooks which are located at the end of this series of boxes). Includes 26 scrapbooks containing a wide variety of memorabilia including photographs, news clippings, souvenirs, obituaries, bylaws and ritual booklets, programs, greeting cards, certificates, songbooks, postcards and membership rosters, most of which document the activities of the Toledo Club, #180 and its Drill Team. The scrapbooks also document events in the lives of the Toledo Club's members and their families.

NEWS CLIPPINGS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1944, 1946, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1976, 1981-92, 1994, undated; arranged chronologically. These news clippings provide details on the activities of the Club, its members and their spouses.

ADDRESS BOOKS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1960-1962, undated; arranged by volume. Includes three address books. Book #1 contains a supplement to the 1960-1962 national bylaws and Book #3 includes addresses of the Drill Team members.

AUTOGRAPH/GUEST BOOKS, TOLEDO CLUB, #180; 1952-1954, 1956-1974; arranged by volume. Includes one autograph book and one guest book.

NAVY MOTHERS' NEWS; 1951-1968, 1986-1997 (not complete runs); arranged chronologically. Includes issues of the national newsletter.

PRINTED MATERIAL; 1966, undated; arranged by volume. Includes 1966 Supplement to the Historical Review, Our Record, And Yearbook, Out of Toledo Kitchens (cookbook), brochure on the Flag and books on parliamentary procedure.

PHOTOGRAPHS; c. 1940s-1980s, undated; arranged, if possible, by subject and chronologically. Includes identified photographs documenting state and national conventions and many unidentified photographs.

NEGATIVES; 1957, 1958, 1962, undated; arranged, if possible, by subject and chronologically. Includes negatives from the Northwest Ohio Past Commanders installation of officers, and establishment of a new club (1962), as well as the Michigan State Convention (1957) and the National Convention (1958). Also includes unidentified negatives.

Includes framed certificate, hat, trophy, ashtrays, notepads, pins, medallion, and a complete drill team uniform.