minutes (administrative records)

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Buck Creek Baptist Church is a church located in Chesnee, SC that dates back to the 1780s. This collection consists of one volume of bound minutes of the Buck Creek Baptist Church from the 1850s to the 1960s.

Content Description Materials created and assembled by various city departments from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, most apparently used for promotional purposes. Highlights include city council minutes covering 1913-1916 and photographs covering a wide variety of areas including police and fire departments, city council, city staff, downtown neighborhoods, 1960 annual report draft and photos, 1968 civil rights protests at Spartanburg Herald Journal and YMCA, Urban Renewal sites, Model Cities projects, and...

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The Gardeners was a garden club in Spartanburg that was founded by three women in 1930 and disbanded sometime around 1970. This collection consists of meeting mintues, yearbooks, and the cut (stamp) for the design of the yearbook covers.

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The Harrelson Family held annual family reunions from 1932 to 2018. This collection consists of two ledger books with the minutes of reunion meetings, reunion programs, two photographs, and newspaper clippings about the early reunions. Additionally, there is a small amount of information about members of the extended family including obituaries, two lineage charts, and photocopies of some family histories. There is also a floppy disk with digital copies of the reunion minutes.

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This collection consists of twelve folders documenting the founding and early operation of Hub-Bub, a Spartanburg arts and culture non-profit. A range of document types are included such as correspondence, posters and promotional materials, newspaper clippings, event documentation, musician set-lists, and committee minutes.

Scope and Contents The League of Women Voters is a national non-profit organization that was founded in 1920 after women got the right to vote. The League's goals include educating people on elections, encouraging voter participation, and fighting for environmental standards. The Spartanburg County chapter was started in 1975. This collection consists of papers, photographs, and booklets from the Spartanburg County League of Women Voters. The majority of papers consist of a monthly newspaper bulletin and board...

Content Description The Montgomery Building is a ten-story building located in downtown Spartanburg. Built in 1924, the building housed the offices for companies related to the textile industry, including the engineering company Lockwood Greene which built the building. This collection consists of papers related to building the building in the 1920s including correspondence with Lockwood Greene and financial statements, contracts and correspondence related the running of the Carolina Theatre, and papers related...

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This collection consists of one book containing the meeting minutes for the Neale Young Circle Missionary Society in Arcadia, SC.

Scope and Contents The Piedmont Chaper, originally the Spartanburg Chapter, of the American Red Cross was established in 1917. The Chapter merged into the Upstate South Carolina Chapter around 2015. This collection consists of photographs, documents, audio visual materials, and objects that document the history of the chapter. The majority of materials are from the 1980s to the early 2000s, but dates range from 1917 to 2007. Specific types of materials include scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, annual reports,...

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The Preservation Trust of Spartanburg was a non-profit organization that bought and renovated historic properties in the Hampton Heights neighborhood. This collection consists of records documenting the activities of the Preservation Trust including buying and renovating houses, helping with owner occupied renovations, and other administrative papers. There are also photographs, awards, VHS tapes, and CDs.

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Published meeting minutes and a history of Bethel Baptist Church in Woodruff, SC, a total of 48 pages with covers.

Content Description Internal archives of the Spartanburg Chapter of the IAAP, formerly the James F. Byrnes Chapter of the National Secretaries Association and later the Professional Secretaries International. Collection includes an historical overview of the chapter's history, chapter by-laws, city proclamations, meeting minutes, chapter rosters, copies of chapter bulletin "Dixie Tation," Future Secretaries Association by-laws and Spartanburg Technical College chapter documents, newspaper clippings, chapter...

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Documents generated by the Men’s Garden Club from the 1950s to 2010 and assembled by Henry Pittman in the process of writing a history of the organization. Documents include meeting notes, rosters, correspondence, maps, photographs, planning documents and brochures.

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The collection consists of the Spartanburg Rotary Club minutes of Directors' meetings and club luncheon meetings spanning more than three decades, from 1916-1947. There are also some items related to the history of the Rotary Club.