Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of a spiral-bound scrapbook containing 1936-1937 newspaper clippings regarding the Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, as well as the 1937 Arkansas edition of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Conference newsletter.

Scope and Content Note

The scrapbooks, which contain tables of contents, were created by the Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club in order to document the activities of the club. They include newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs pertaining primarily to state and local events. Some regional and national Business and Professional Women's Club affairs are also included.

Scope and Content Note The records consist of the club's constitutions; bylaws; minutes of the meetings; membership lists; correspondence; financial and other reports; local, regional, state, and national programs; newspaper clippings; newsletters; three issues, 1973, of Widening Horizons, the official publication of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women; publications of the Arkansas and National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., miscellaneous printed material;...

Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of personal correspondence of Fannie and her sister, Era Hardy; national and Arkansas state records of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs; papers pertaining to the career of Sarah Frances (Fannie) Hardy; and some papers of the Hardy family. Also included are papers concerning the military career of Era Hardy, much of which concerns service during World War II. The collection has been reproduced on microfilm.

Scope and Content Note The papers contain correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and other papers. Most correspondence is from the 1970's and 1980's and primarily pertains to club activities. However, some correspondence between 1959 and 1960 concerns Oates' tenure in the Arkansas legislature. Programs, clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks pertain to club activities and have been arranged chronologically. Most of the items from the Acropolis Chapter of the American Business Women's...