00203 PERIPATETICS: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Monica Manny Ralston Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Monica Manny Ralston March 2002Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society Peripatetics (Club : Minneapolis, Minn.). Club records. 1890-1997. Organizational records and study papers prepared for the 100th anniversary of a women's study club formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1890. 1.25 cu. ft. (2 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE RECORDS

Bylaws and policies (1993), minutes (1890-1993), financial information (1890-1914), yearbooks containing program and membership information (1890-1997), a scrapbook (1917-1919), and study papers (1983-1990) of a women's study club in Minneapolis.

In the 1880s, four women held weekly meetings to provide uninterrupted time to study subjects of interest to them. Based on a club in Quincy, Illinois, the group was formally organized and enlarged on March 12, 1890 as the Peripatetics with Mrs. A.E. Wells as president. Each member was expected to contribute a study paper on an assigned subject.

Papers prepared for the 100th anniversary of the club were based on a history of the club and its members.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Women -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Societies and clubs. Women -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Intellectual life. Clubs -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item]. Peripatetics Club Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,200; 15,019; 15,648

Processing Information:

Processed by: Bonnie Beatson Palmquist, June 1994; Monica Manny Ralston, March 2002

Catalog ID number: 08-00011255

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION 152.F.5.4F 1 Bylaws and policies, 1993. Minutes, 1890-1993. 13 volumes and 1 folder. Financial journal, 1890-1914. 1 volume. Yearbooks, 1890/1891-1996/1997. 5 bundles and 2 envelopes.

The yearbooks contain lists of officers, membership lists, and schedules of program topics for the year.

Letters, Annie E. Wells, 1908.

Photocopies of letters written to the club by founding member Annie E. Wells concerning her honorary membership.

Scrapbook, 1917-1919. The Peripatetics of Minneapolis, 1890-1990, 1990. 1 volume.

A short history of the club and abstracts of the papers given in 1989-1990.

Miriam Seltzer, "Profile of the Peripatetics," 1990.

A narrative and statistical profile of Peripatetics members in 1990. Includes age, residence, husbands' professions, children, education, work, and volunteer activities. Also includes a list of members (1890-1990) and years of actual membership.

147.K.14.8F 2 Papers: Frances Radley Hiatt, "Architecture: New Uses for Old Buildings," April 11, 1983. Frances Tobian, "Tax Reform," October 14, 1985. Phebe Haugen, "A Victorian Scrapbook," February 6, 1989. Andrea Brainerd, "Minnesota Women Poets," April 3, 1989. Papers given for the centennial year: Barbara Brown, "The Peripatetics: Their Time, Their Places, Their Personalities, 1890-1990: Setting the Scene," September 18, 1989. Henrietta Warwick, "Cultural Institutions at the Birth of Peripatetics," September 18, 1989. Chloe Ackman, "The Founding Ladies: Annie Wells, Ella Martin, Beatrice Lowry, Nell Ireys, Isabel Marston," October 2, 1989. Frances Tobian, "Fashions, Food, Lifestyles of the Founding Members," October 2, 1989. Virginia Morrison, "The First Directors: Margaret Cruikshank, Julia Tenney, Mary Shutter, Mrs. E. Jackson, Christine Reeve, Martha Truesdale," October 16, 1989. Andrea Brainard, "Charter Members: Lavinia Gilfillan, Clara Ueland, Alice Winter, and Florence Carpenter," October 16, 1989. Geraldine Schofield, "The Collapse of 1893," October 30, 1989. Irene Hoebel, "The Warriors: Friends and Family of Peripatetics in the Great War," October 30, 1989. Ruth Brin, "Minnesota Politics: Floyd Olson-Truckers Strike, Citizens Alliance, and Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party," November 27, 1989. Carol Wirtshafter, "The Global View: Fannie Brin," November 27, 1989. Helen Edie, "Alice Nichols and Margaret Hardenbergh," January 15, 1990. Mary McGee, "The Arts: Agnes Lincoln and Harriet Hanley," January 29, 1990. Joanne Von Blon, "The Ladies by Land and Sea," January 29, 1990. Phebe Haugen, "Disruption of War for Women," February 12, 1990. Barbara Freeman, "The Humphrey Years," February 12, 1990. Nancy Hardenbergh, "The Move to the Suburbs," February 26, 1990. Ruth Reister, "The Two Christians at Home to the Peripatetics," March 12, 1990. Helen Anderson, "Alternative Education in Minnesota, 1890-1990: McPhail, Dunwoody, Minneapolis College of Art and Design," March 26, 1990. Helen Newhart, "Science, Costumers, Prints: Helen Minnich," March 1990. Mary Vaughan, "The Gale Ladies," April 9, 1990. Miriam Seltzer, "Bringing up Mother: Parenting in the Sixties," April 9, 1990. Frances Magoffin, "Portraits of the Peripatetics Through the Lens of the Minutes Thereof," July 3, 1990. Florence Chambers, "The 1920s and Women's Suffrage," November 13, 1990. Phebe Haugen, "Parks and Playgrounds: Maude Armitage," December 11, 1990. 100th anniversary, 1990.