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This collection contains scrapbooks about the Thursday Morning Musicales and the Elmira social scene compiled by Adria Peck.

On November 21, 1868, under the guidance of Dr. Ebell, sixty-two people, mostly teachers, alumni, and students from the Albany Female Academy (known today as the Albany Academy for Girls) met in the school to form the Albany Chapter of the Dana Natural History Society. The Society was named in honor of Dr. James Dwight Dana a famous geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist from Yale College. This collection contains materials such as newspaper clippings, member written articles, histories, documents from meetings and proceedings, scrapbooks, photographs, letters, awards, and other ephemera.

This collection contains the minutes of the Chemung Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 by women who had strong patriotic feelings, but were frustrated by their exclusion from organizations allowing only men to honor their patriotic ancestors. Eligibility in this organization is open to any woman age eighteen and older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution. The charter for the Mohawk Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was granted in April, 1895. Fifteen prominent women in Albany, New York began the organization. One of 126 chapters across New York State, the Mohawk Chapter NSDAR continues to be active in the Capital District and includes over seventy members. This collection contains historical information, membership lists and yearbooks, correspondence, printed materials, a few photographs, subject files, and scrapbooks.

This collection contains scrapbooks from Delta Kappa Gamma – Alpha Rho Chapter.

This collection contains papers relating to the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences of Scranton, PA, as well as some of Dorothy Little's personal papers.

This collection contains images, scrapbooks and assorted documents related to the Elmira Women’s Bowling Association 600 Club.

This collection contains the records of the Elmira Area Retired Teachers’ Association from 1944 through 1990.

This collection contains material from the Elmira Button Club.

This collection contains scrapbooks on Elmira’s Riverside School and the Zonta Club.