Hello Aperio team! This is the team blog site, which we’ll be using to document our research and share ideas over the summer. Each of you should have a username and login; I’d recommend that you subscribe to the blog so that you’ll be updated when someone posts. Please post at least once per week. You may include images if you like. To post, you’ll need to log in to WordPress; then, from this site, you should be able to click on the “+ New” link in the top ribbon to create a new post.
When you get to MDHS on June 6, you’ll need to request the Woman’s Literary Club materials using the call number MS 988. Request boxes 2 and 3, which should contain the minutes and the programs. One of you will also need to request the Constitution and By-Laws, call number PN22 .W65 1900Z.
Please divide up the work as follows:
- One person to correct the OCR (optical character recognition) scan of the first few pages of the Constitution and transcribe the rest of the Constitution and By-Laws (see the Flickr site to find the missing pages)
- One person to transcribe programs.
- One person to transcribe the Board of Managers minutes book.
- Two people to start on the WLCB minute books.
As a teaser, here’s a list of the founding members of the Club, which I found on page iii of the pamphlet containing the Constitution:
- Mrs. Mary Spear Tiernan
- Mrs. Fabian Franklin
- Miss L. C. Osborne Haughton
- Miss Hester Dorsey
- Mrs. Charles W. Lord
- Mrs. John T. Graham
- Mrs. Henry P Goddard
- Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
- Mrs. George Whitelock
- Miss Katharine Pearson Woods
- Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese
What can you find out about these women by searching online? at MDHS? by reading and transcribing the documents related to the club? (You can use this as a prompt for your first blog post, or you can post about something else if you like.)
Have fun!