Women's Republican Club of Rhode Island records

Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box

Identifier: 148-02

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Women’s Republican Club of Rhode Island collection includes promotional materials used by the Club from 1922 to 1937. The materials include a bulletin for circulation that summarizes Club proceedings and advertises its weekly meetings. There is also a copy of the Rhode Island Elephant, the official publication of the Club with the same functions as the bulletin. Apart from these promotional publications, there are campaign songs and a questionnaire that were in use around the 1924 and 1928 presidential election, as well as a fundraising appeal in anticipation of the 1938 election.

Dates

1922 - 1937

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

The Women’s Republican Club of Rhode Island was a statewide women’s club supervised by the Republican National Committee Women (formerly known as the Women’s Republican National Committee), a women’s affinity component of the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee is a political action committee that promotes the Republican Party’s political manifesto and oversees its fundraising and strategy around the presidential election process. The Republican National Committee Women appeals to women voters around these charges. The Women’s Republican Club of Rhode Island first recorded meeting was held on October 3, 1888 on Weybosset Street in Providence in preparation for the 1888 presidential election. The Club was recorded to hold different club branches across Rhode Island, with other location bases that include East Providence, Warwick, and Newport County.