1982.019.001

This is a scrapbook containing a multitude of newspaper clippings and artifacts surrounding the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs, in particular the Lawrence and the Swampscott branches. These clubs put on several shows, Women’s sporting events, banquets and concerts around the Greater Lawrence and Swampscott area, led by club leaders/directors Edith and Helen Mank. The scrapbook holds newspaper clippings, brochures, church bulletins, and personal letters to Helen G. Mank. Helen G. Mank was a faculty of Lawrence High School as well as a well known scientist, author, and traveler. The scrapbook is filled with newspaper clippings summarizing and promoting her lectures. After traveling through England for a summer with her sister, they gave several lectures including colored photos throughout the city. Additionally, personal letters commemorating Mank for her lectures and intelligence are found in the scrapbook as well. Many of the sporting events were held at the local Y.W.C.A, and some of the artifacts in the book are even from religious events, such as a reading from a Sunday mass or an itinerary from a parish formal. Programs for many of these events are present in the pages of the scrapbook, as well as two badges from the State Federation meetings in 1937 and 1938, both held in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The entire scrapbook is a veritable hurricane of newspaper clippings from nearly hundreds of separate events held by these clubs, most of them focusing on the Lawrence branch, some even referencing the New Hampshire branch in Salem and their many endeavors at the time.

Large green, hardcover scrapbook with black accents and lettering