Lilly Library Manuscript Collections

MCWHIRTER, MRS. FT MSS.

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Inventory

I. Subjects

  • Arranged alphabetically after biographical and genealogical information, and letters of condolence on the death of Mrs. McWhirter.
Box 1
  • Biographical and genealogical, 1898-1970 (4 folders)
  • Letters of condolence on the death of Mrs. McWhirter (3 folders)
  • Autographs
  • Badges
  • Better Homes in America:
  • 1924-1942 (5 folders)
  • 1933, publicity notebook
  • 1934-1942, newspaper clippings
  • Citizens Committee of One Thousand
  • Contests
  • Daughters of the American Revolution (2 folders)
  • Epsilon Sigma Omicron
  • Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America
  • Ford, Gerald Rudolph
  • General Federation of Women's Clubs:
  • 1912-1929
  • 1930-1946
  • Newspaper clippings
  • Federation Foundation fund
  • 1912 State President's Club
  • Committee on Federation Extension

Box 2

  • General Federation of Women's Clubs:
  • Transportation Chairman, 1899-1924 (2 folders)
  • World War Service Board
  • Golden Rule Foundation
  • Golden Rule Foundation. American Mother's Committee
  • Hoosier Salon Patron's Association. Hoosier Program Bureau
  • Indiana Association of Parliamentarians
  • Indiana Audubon Society
  • Indiana Dry Federation
  • Indiana Federation of Clubs:
  • 1909-1956 (6 folders)
  • Newspaper clippings
  • Department of the American Home, 1923-1941 (3 folders)
  • Department of the American Home, newspaper clippings
  • War Victory Commission, 1916-1918
  • Indiana School of Religion
  • Indianapolis, IN, Methodist Hospital
  • Jacob E. Wile Memorial Nurses Home
  • White Cross Guild
  • White Cross Guild, newspaper clippings
  • Indianapolis Local Council of Women
  • International Council of Women
  • Invitations
  • Legislative Council of Indiana Women
  • McWhirter, Felix Tony:
  • Condolences on death of
  • To McWhirter, Mrs. Luella Frances (Smith)
  • McWhirter, Luella Frances(Smith). Addresses, 1896-1937 (2 folders)

Box 3

  • McWhirter, Luella Frances(Smith):
  • Diaries, 1884, 1927 (2 volumes)
  • Diary sheets, 1894-1941
  • Methodist Episcopal Church:
  • Indiana State Council
  • Women's Foreign Missionary Society
  • Women's Home Missionary Society. Deaconess Home. Indiana conference
  • Minerva Club, Indianapolis
  • Miscellaneous letters and papers: 1873-1961 (7 folders)
  • Printed material
  • Newspaper clippings
  • Missions
  • National Congress of Parents and Teachers
  • National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
  • National League of American Pen Women. Indiana branch
  • National Prohibition Emergency Committee
  • Near East relief
  • Peoples State Bank, Indianapolis
  • Perugia. Regia universita italiana per stranieri
  • Photographs. Obituaries and remembrances of Luella Frances (Smith) McWhirter, 1952
  • President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, Washington, D.C., 1930-1933 (2 folders)
  • Prohibition
  • Scoggins, Ethel (McWhirter). Includes: Ethel McWhirter Scoggins: An Autobiography
  • Society of Indiana Pioneers
  • Southern Commercial Congress
  • United Protestant Church Loyalty Crusade
  • United States Good Roads Association, Inc.
  • U.S. Federal Housing Administration
  • Vellore, India. Missionary Medical College For Women
Box 4
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union:
  • 1879-1950 (11 folders)
  • Publicity department
  • Woman's Department Club, Indianapolis: 1912-1954 (5 folders)
  • American Home Club Institute, 1926
  • Newspaper clippings
  • Yearbooks, 1912-1915, 1937-1956, 1963-1965, 1968-1971, 1972-1975, 1976-1979 (32 volumes)
Box 5
  • Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement
  • Woman's Press Club of Indiana
  • Woman's Research Club, Indianapolis, Ind.
  • Women's Suffrage
  • Women's Union Christian Colleges in the Orient
  • YWCA

II. Scrapbooks

Box 5
  • 1. Miscellaneous scrapbooks: 1875-1939; 1895-1919; 1916-1929; 1921-1932; 1930-1939
  • 2. Armenian pageant, war victory, dry federation, etc. (2 folders)
  • 3. Badges, 1893-1938
  • 4. Better homes, 1926-1935
  • 5. Henry Long College for Women, Oriental colleges, Hoosier Program Bureau and legislative acts, etc. (2 folders)
Box 6
  • 6. Indiana Federation of Clubs, 1909-1938 (3 folders)
  • 7. Letterheads
  • 8. Woman's Department Club: 1912-1924 (early history); 1922-1925; 1925-1926; 1926-1937
  • 9. Women's suffrage, 1913-1920
  • 10. W.T.C.U.: 1888-1936; 1932-1933
  • 11. Undated bound scrapbook

III. Printed

Box 6
  • The Message (W.T.C.U.), 1916, Jan.-1939, Dec. (3 folders)
Box 7
  • The Message (W.T.C.U.), 1940-1949 (3 folders)
  • Indiana Club Woman, 1927-1941, 1943-1947
  • A 30-year History of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, 1938-1968
  • Year Book of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, 1971
  • History Indiana Federation of Clubs
  • Indianapolis Blue Book, 1925, 1929 (2 volumes)
  • Famous Living Americans
  • Women of Indiana
  • Women's Press Club of Indiana. Newspaper clipping, 1913
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  • The Indianapolis Sunday Star, part five, November 21, 1937, Vol. 35, No. 169. Features articles on the Indiana federation of clubs
  • The Message--Supplement. Reprint of letter by Mrs. McWhirter, May 1899, vol. III, no. 5.
  • The Organizer, [Vol. I?, no. 1?], undated and Vol. I, no. 2, November 1, 1882. Semi-monthly publication of the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union
  • The Union Signal, Vol. XXIV, no. 10, March 10, 1898. W.C.T.U. publication
  • Miscellaneous clippings

IV. Photographs

Box 7
  • 1840-1870. Hezekiah Smith, Susan Smith, Smith family (5 photographs)
  • 1864-1876. Luella Smith (7 photographs)
  • 1875-1910. Felix McWhirter (2 photographs)
  • 1870s. Luella Smith with others (3 photographs)
  • 1881. Indiana Ashbury University
  • 1888-1890. Luella McWhirter Hutchins (2 photographs)
  • 1890. Luella Smith McWhirter (2 photographs)
  • 1895. W.C.T.U. Assembly, Bay City, MI (2 photographs)
  • 1896, 1900. W.C.T.U. Assemblies, WA and IN (2 photographs)
  • 1897-1913. Luella Smith McWhirter (7 photographs)
  • 1904-1912. Luella Smith McWhirter (8 photographs)
  • ca. 1912. Luella Smith McWhirter with other club members (2 folders)
  • 1916-1919. W.C.T.U. and other banquets (5 photographs)
  • 1918-1972. Peoples State Bank, Indianapolis, IN (12 photographs)
  • 1920. State School for the Deaf luncheon
  • 1923. Luella Smith McWhirter and grandchildren
  • 1924, 1931. Woman's Department Club (3 photographs)
  • 1926. W.C.T.U. members. American Mission College for Girls, Cairo, Egypt (8 photographs)
  • 1926-1927. Mediterranean cruise, incl. Jerusalem, Algiers, Egypt (7 photographs)
  • 1928. W.C.T.U. Lausanne, Switzerland (5 photographs)
  • Undated. Steven Marsters (2 photographs)
  • Undated. W.C.T.U. leaders and members (5 photographs)
  • Undated. Miscellaneous (3 photographs)
  • Glass transparency: McWhirter, Luella Smith
  • Tintypes:
  • Marsters, Rev. Stephen, Jr.
  • Smith, Rev. and Mrs. Hezekiah & Luella
  • Smith, Captain Mark
  • Smith, Peter
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  • 1918. National W.C.T.U. convention, dinner in Riley Room of Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis
  • 1920. Mrs. McWhirter at the State House
  • 1920. Group photograph at State House
  • 1920. Indiana Women at Chautauqua, New York
  • 1927. Biannual conference of the General Federation of Women Clubs held at Armory, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 31 to June 4, 1927
  • ca. 1930. Indiana convention W.C.T.U., Oct. 7-10 at Trinity M.E. Church, Elkhart, Indiana
  • 1932. Indiana Federation of Clubs, Riley Room, Claypool Hotel, Nov. 1-3
  • 1933, Jan. 11. White House reception by President Hoover, General Federation of Women's Clubs

V. Miscellaneous

Box 7
  • Presentation trowel from Indiana Industrial School, April 8, 1898
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  • Pi Gamma Mu. Certificate, Mar. 15, 1929; enrollment card, undated
  • Daughters of the American Revolution. Certificate, Mar. 7, 1911
  • Broadside. To "Club Sisters" from Mrs. McWhirter, Indiana Federation of Clubs, War Victory Commission. Concerning furlough houses during WWI
  • Poster: "The Great Day!...at Bethany Park, Monday, July 22, 1906." Featured speakers: Mrs. McWhirter, A.L. Crim (candidate for Secretary of State) and Professor J.E. Hawes (evangelist)
  • Poster: "An Up-To-Date 4th of July Picnic." Undated. Featured speakers: Mrs. McWhirter and Rev. E.G. Shouse of Kokomo

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