The Ohio Historical Society may be interested in the photo album; they maintain a nice special collections section with papers, manuscripts, etc. on Ohio-related history.
This may have been a literary club. Literary clubs were popular from around the Civil War onwards. There is a wonderful fictional work by Helen Hooven Santmyer entitled "And Ladies of the Club" that takes as its subject a literary club organized by a group of women in an Ohio town based on Xenia, Santmyer's hometown. It is a great read and a wonderful piece of historic fiction. Santmyer includes lots of details about life in the late 19th to early 20th century, while weaving a great story around the original members of the club. Although it is fictional, it was based on her memories of family and her town and exhibits a great familiarity with the politics, economic conditions and other aspects of history during the time period covered.
Nancy O'Malley
Assistant Director
William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology
1020A Export Street
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
Ph. 859-257-1944
FAX: 859-323-1968
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From: Museum discussion list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deiah Haddock [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:48 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] HELP! I found an old photo album of members of the Hawthorn Club, Van Wert Ohio
Greetings!
My name is Deiah Haddock and I am currently in my senior year at Western Carolina
University in Cullowhee, NC. I am finishing a duel degree in English and Hospitality &
Tourism, with plans of attending graduate school for museum studies.
I have always loved looking and exploring old things, researching and what not - and the
other day I was at my parents house looking through an old box, when to my surprise I
found a very old photo album.
In the front of the album someone has written:
"The Hawthorn Club"
"The first ladies club of VW" (I have determined that VW is for Van Wert, Ohio, as all but
a couple of the pictures were taken by a photographer in Van Wert)
What follows are some wonderful portraits of these "first ladies", many of them
appearing to be in their 60's or older. According to the back of one of the photos (that I
carefully removed from the cracking brown paper) it was taken in 1898.
I am looking for information on these ladies and the club they were members of - so far I
have not found much. I would love to find out who these women were, and possibly
where this photo album came from (it looks very official, for being over 100 years old
that is.).
The following is a list of the names I was able to get from the paper below each photo:
Georgia Glenn
Lucetta McConahay
Mrs. Conant
Charlotte Baker
Ann Webb Clark
Fidelia Purviort (not sure about this spelling)
Mrs. Bonner
Mrs. David Johns
Maieha McGovern (again with the spelling of the first name, wasn't very clear)
Mrs. Marsh
Mrs. Stripe
Please pass this along to anyone who would have some information or at least an interest
in this old album! Thanks so much!
Deiah Haddock
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