An exterior view showing the front of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple (W. C. T. U.), a two-story Lecture Hall for temperance and other timely topics. On August 25, 1889, the building was bought at a sheriff's sale and was used for traveling shows, school activities, and funerals.
Members of the Ladies' Circle of the A. K. Skaro Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in St. Peter. Surnames include: Clark, Evenson, Gresham, Hoefer, Ives, and several others.
An exterior view of a two story building that was built in 1892. The Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple (W. C. T. U.) was first used for lectures, and later used for purposes ranging from traveling shows to funerals.
Group of twenty-two men and women and six boys posing for the Ogilvie Ladies Club. Members and friends pictured include: Hannah Lewis, Elizabeth Lewis, Winnie Oldencamp, Mary Gibson, Lela McDougall, Mrs. McNally, Mildred Pringle, Maude Wicklund, Flossie Pringle, Bessie Doeblew, Eva Hainlin, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Achterkick, Rosetta Olson, Mrs. Pringle, Mr and Mrs. Judd, Mr. Wicklund, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Wilson, Mrs. Conger, Mr. Gibson, Boys: Frank Thompson, Ben Hainlin, Clifford Conger, Walter Achterkick, Forest Thompson, and Newton Conger.
Members of "The Old Ladies German Gesellschaft" in St. Peter. This women's club was founded in 1880. The women posed in this photograph to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary. The names of the members are on the reverse side of the photo.
St. Peter members of the Ladies' Circle of the A. K. Skaro Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Surnames include: Burg, Hoefer, Laumann, McCabe, Volk, and several others.
Members of the Ladies Auxiliary pose outside of the West Side Hebrew Institute for this photograph. The West Side Hebrew Institute was one of the two earliest schools in St. Paul teaching Hebrew to Jewish children. The building was located at the intersection of Fenton and Kentucky Street, and was dedicated in November 1911.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Sunshine Club of Virginia was a young women's service and social club. The club's Americanized name suggests the second generation's disposition to claim their American identity: first generation organization names would have likely been rendered in Hebrew.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Women's organization, the Woodstock Guards of Loyalty, posing in uniform on the steps of the Pipestone County Courthouse. The purpose of the group was to band the ladies together to assist in carrying on the work of the men who were called to the colors, to help the United States in the prosecution of the war and, if need be, to go on the battle line to fight for democracy.
Portrait photograph of a large group of Hadassah members in costume. Founded in 1912, Hadassah is the second-oldest independent Jewish women's organization in the United States. Hadassah draws on both the ideology of Zionism and on women's sense of social responsibility to elicit support for Israel, youth activities and educational services. National programs that were implemented in Minnesota included "linen showers" for medical units, money collection for school lunch programs in Palestine, and providing Jewish-German children foster-homes in Palestine during WWII. Members also made time to play and socialize.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Group portrait of the members of the Mora Women's Club. The members include: N. Frykman, L. Schultz, M. Ziegler, G. Stariha, L. McClarty, V.W. Peterson, J.C. King, M. Woodbeck, D. Childress, L. Larson, M. Nyquist.
The Minneapolis Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women was founded in 1894 by Nina Morais Cohen. Cohen was a nationally recognized leader: when Susan B. Anthony came to Minneapolis, she stayed at Nina and Emanuel Cohen's home. The N. C. J. W. is a volunteer organization working for social change based upon Jewish values. In its earliest years, volunteers worked in settlement houses, acted as juvenile court advocates, helped provide vocational training for immigrant and poor women and girls, and helped develop free school-based health services. Fanny Brin is second from the right.
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Purim is a time for acting out and speaking up. The women of Kenesseth Israel's auxiliary did just that, appropriating men's garb, including a tallis (prayer shawl) and a cigarette to declare a minute of breaking away from accepted roles and dressing conventions of the day.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives