Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Museum of History &
Industry
Sophie Frye Bass
Library
2700 24th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
Phone: 206-324-1126
URL: http://www.seattlehistory.org
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Collection Number:
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2007.30
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Creator:
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Women's Commercial Club of Seattle
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Title:
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Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle
Lantern Slides
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Dates:
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circa 1914 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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2 boxes
26 lantern slides
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in
English.
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Summary:
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Lantern slides related to the Women’s
Commercial Club of Seattle.
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Location of Collection:
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2B.4.6
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Historical Note
The Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle, founded in 1910, was an
organization of Seattle women in business and professions. In 1914, an article
about the club in
Collier’s reported a membership of over
100 women, including “an architect, a dentist, a surgeon, an editor, several
printers, a florist, and the proprietor of a livery barn.” Club activities
appear to have included both social functions and business-related meetings and
tours.
As of the
Collier’s article’s printing, the Club was
led by Zamora Criswell Cauffman (president) and Mrs. Jesse Monroe Lightfoot
(secretary). Cauffman owned the Cauffman Company Factory Hair Store, and
Lightfoot worked as a clerk and secretary at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
and Stuff Printing Concern, Ltd. Shortly thereafter, Mrs. E.M. Rhodes, Mrs.
Leone S. Vanasse, and Mrs. Louisa Lepper took over as president, secretary, and
treasurer. Lepper was the director of Lepper’s School of Physical Education. In
1915, Mrs. Inez Z. Morgan served as Club secretary. The Women’s Commercial Club
disappears from the Seattle City Directory listings after 1915.
Content Description
Lantern slides depicting meetings, activities, and members of the
Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle. Contains a number of portraits of women in
the club leadership, especially Zamora Criswell Cauffman and Jesse Monroe
Lightfoot. Also includes two reproductions of political cartoons and one
reproduction of an article about the club.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Source: Michael Maslan Historical Photos, 2007.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access The collection is open to the public by appointment.
Restrictions on Use The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in
the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research,
publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI
before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to
all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may
require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle Lantern Slides, Museum of History
& Industry, Seattle
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| Cauffman,
Zamora Criswell |
| Women’s
Commercial Club of Seattle |
| Seattle
(Wash.) |
| Women--Societies and
Clubs--Washington (State) |
| Lantern
Slides |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
WCCS will be used for Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle
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2007.30.4:
Reproduction of
Collier’s article about
WCCS
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2007.30.5-6:
Portraits of women
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2007.30.8:
Emma Rhodes (image/jpeg)
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2007.30.9:
Josephine Johnson
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2007.30.10:
Zamora Criswell
Cauffman (image/jpeg)
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2007.30.11:
WCCS business session (image/jpeg)
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2007.30.12:
WCCS members seated at
table
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2007.30.13:
Cauffman addressing
club
Caption “Great rejoicing over the Ad Club invitation”
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2007.30.14:
Cauffman and Jesse Monroe
Lightfoot, secretary
Caption “West Virginians to the fore in the Far West”
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2007.30.15:
Two WCCS members going to a club
picnic
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2007.30.17:
Group photograph in large dining
room
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2007.30.18:
Group photograph in large dining
room
Caption "Luncheon last Tuesday for Portola Girls. Given by Women's
Commercial Club"
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2007.30.19:
WCCS group
Caption “The secretary reading the invitation from the Ad Club to
this Luncheon”
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2007.30.20:
WCCS group walking
outdoors
Caption “On our way to the automobiles”
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2007.30.21:
Club members in 4 cars in Volunteer
Park (image/jpeg)
Caption “Loaded up and ready to start”
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2007.30.22:
WCCS group in a
warehouse
Caption “Manufacturer of Beds”
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2007.30.23:
Group of women, men, and children
having tea in a barn
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2007.30.24:
WCCS group outside “Wilbur’s”
store
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2007.30.25:
Group photograph in large dining
room
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2007.30.26:
WCCS group wearing
costumes (image/jpeg)
Caption “The Women’s Commercial Club in their Initiation
Robes”
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2007.30.27:
Lightfoot and Cauffman
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2007.30.28:
Reproduction of cartoon related to
Ad Club and its President Blethen
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2007.30.29:
Reproduction of cartoon of Cauffman
and two others
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