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				Fortnightly Club, New Iberia, Louisiana
				Collection 70 Fortnightly Club. New Iberia, Louisiana. Records, 1924-1974 5 in., 5 v.
				The Fortnightly Club was organized in 1924 in New Iberia, Louisiana for literary study with a membership not to exceed twenty. All club activities were to stay within the vicinity of New Iberia. This collection includes very scattered records covering club activities 1924-1974. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, minutes, yearbooks, and scrapbooks.
				SERIES:
				A.	Records				1-01 thru 2-01
				B.	Yearbooks				2-02
				C.	Notes on topics, book reviews				2-03 thru 2-06
				D.	Miscellaneous				3-01
				E.	Scrapbooks				3-02 thru 4-02
				INVENTORY:
				BOX 1
				1-01	Records: constitution and by-laws [galley pages from 1941- 42 yearbook], n.d.
				1-02	Minutes: loose sheets, 1931/32; notebooks: 1937/38 to 1941/42; 1942/43 to 1944/45; 1945/46 to 1947/48
				1-03	Record book [bound] , 1947/48 - 1952/53
						minutes, membership lists, treasurer records, attendance
				1-04	Record book, 1953/54 - 1957/58
				1-05	Record book, 1958/59 - Nov., 1960 [spiral notebook]
					Record book, Nov, 1960 - Aug., 1961 [spiral notebook]
				1-06	Record book, 1965/66 - 1969/70
				1-07	Financial records: 1936-38, 1958-1960
						bank statements, receipts, a few treasurer's reports
				1-08	Membership records: very scattered, 1940s
				1-09	Material about books, 1940s
						books reviewed at meeting, 1940, 1942; list of books sent to soldiers, 1940; lists of books owned or to buy, [1940s]
				BOX 2
				2-01	Correspondence, 1932 [1941-1947] - 1961, n.d.
						invitations, acceptances, resignations, much on service activities during WWII
				2-02	Yearbooks: 1930-1931, 1933-1934, 1937-1938, 1939-1940, 1941-1942, 1944-1945, 1947- 1948, 1952-1953, 1965-1966, 1967-1968, 1968-1969
				2-03	Topics [delivered at meetings?] n.d. handwritten
						Aviation topics; “Hilaire Belloc”; “Brazil”; "Life and Character of Robert F. Broussard"; "Dutch and English on the Hudson"; "Fort Livingston"; Hawaii; North Dakota
				2-04	Papers, n.d.
						"American Realists" (Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer); notes on Battle of Trafalgar; Louisiana natural resources [incomplete]; 19th century English authors; "Spanish Borderlands"; "Arturo Toscanini"; "Booth Tarkington"
				2-05	Papers, n.d.
						John James Audubon; aviation; "Julies Gaius Caesar"; "Life of Cervantes"; "Crusaders of New France"; Lenses; "Mr. Ben Lilly and his Work"; "The Life and Work of Vincent Van Gogh"
				2-06	Book reviews
						Cobb, Irwin S. Exit Laughing; Gallico, William. The Snow Goose; Hansen, Harry. The Chicago River; Heggen, Thomas. Mister Roberts; Strode, Husdon. South by Thunderbird; Varè, Daniel. The Last Empress
				BOX 3
				3-01	Miscellaneous
						Obituary, William Voorhies, Sr., 1893; [list of monetary donations to servicemen's clubs] [see also 2-01]; Dedication of Iberia Parish Hospital, 11 Sept. 1960.; Vita of Mrs. A. C. Bernard [nominated by Fortnightly Club for New Iberia Chamber of Commerce Civic Service Award, 1966]; history of the Duperier family; heraldic description of Barrow; Dorothy Dix column (approved by New Iberia Parent-Teacher Association), n.d.
				3-02	Scrapbook, v.1: newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, etc., 1924-1949
				3-03	Scrapbook, v.4: newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, etc., 1963/1964 - 1966/1967
				3-04	Scrapbook, v.5: photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, etc.,1962-1967 [unfinished]
BOX 4
4 v.1	Scrapbook, v. 2: newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, etc., 1949-1958
4 v.2	Scrapbook, v. 3: newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, etc., 1958-1963

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