1971-1975

File — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Daughters of Dakota Pioneers Records chronicle the activities of the organization and have been organized into four series: Meeting minutes, Yearbooks, Subject files, and Scrapbooks. Early meeting minutes apparently no longer exist and there is no record of any yearbooks prior to 1955. The organization year begins June 1st and ends May 31st. Therefore the yearbooks and financial reports cover the same periods. The Meeting Minutes Series covers the period 1966-1995 and are virtually complete. The organization held regular and board meetings each month. However, the organization did not meet in the months of June, July, August or January. The Yearbooks Series contain most of the organization’s yearbooks from 1955 until 1998. The yearbooks differ between years but they generally contain the organization’s objectives, creed and hymn, membership eligibility, list of officers, committee members, and past presidents. The yearbooks also give a description of the monthly meeting programs and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of members. The missing yearbooks are 1981-1982, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1995-1996 and 1996-1997. The Subject Files Series includes a number of items. The financial reports are available from the years 1970-1971 through 1979-1980 and also the report from 1993-1994. There is a social notebook that lists get well, birthday and sympathy cards and flowers sent to members or their families between 1982 and 1989. Finally, the collection contains a genealogical descendent chart of the James Cooper and Margaret Katherine Gillmore family. The Scrapbook Series includes four scrapbooks. The two main scrapbooks contain items from 1936 through 2003, but there are very few items before 1960. There are two other scrapbooks that cover the period 1971-1978. All of the scrapbooks contain a variety of newspaper clippings of accomplishments, obituaries, engagements and marriages of members and member’s kin, as well as articles about the organization’s activities and events. They also contain many clippings and articles pertaining to local history and especially to events at Bonanzaville.