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Friends of Wood Memorial Library and Museum

Friends of Wood Memorial Library and Museum

783 Main Street
P.O. Box 131
South Windsor, CT 06074
archives@woodmemoriallibrary.org
860-289-1783
https://woodmemoriallibrary.org/
The Wood's archival collections focus on the history of South Windsor, CT, its residents and the surrounding region. Our collections include, but are not limited to, personal and professional papers and correspondence, business records, family collections, town records, oral histories, journals and diaries, genealogical records, photographs, prints, postcards, maps, architectural drawings, school yearbooks, audio or video recordings, unpublished writings, rare books and special collections, and historical objects and artifacts.
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Wapping YMCA Records, 1922-1965 0.22 Cubic Feet

Wapping YMCA
Collection documenting the Wapping YMCA of South Windsor. Contents include organizational documents, minutes, correspondence, programs, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
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Watson family collection, 1877-1940 0.47 Linear Feet

Watson, Amelia M. (Amelia Montague)
The Watson family collection consists of a photographic scrapbook, artwork, documents about the Watson homestead on Main Street, and other materials related to artist Amelia M. Watson (1856-1934), her sister photographer Edith S. Watson (1861-1943) and their family, all of South Windsor, CT.
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Wednesday Afternoon Club records, 1901-2017 1.88 Linear Feet

Wednesday Afternoon Club (South Windsor, Conn.)
The Wednesday Afternoon Club is a South Windsor social and philanthropic club for women. This collection includes three boxes of minutes, by-laws, constitution revisions, programs, audit reports, and membership lists from club inception in 1901 to present.
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Wood Memorial Library Quilters records, 1976-2010 .94 Linear Feet

Wood Memorial Library Quilters (South Windsor, Conn.)
The Wood Memorial Library Quilters (1974-2014) was a volunteer organization of quilters that supported the Wood Memorial Library. They repaired and finished quilts for customers and created quilts from scratch that were sold in auction or raffled off, and donated the proceeds to the Wood Memorial Library. This collection consists of four scrapbooks that have been disassembled and copied and three series of records: financial papers, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers and photos.
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