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0827: Rotary International - Huntington, Wv Chapter Collection, 1915-2015, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2015

0827: Rotary International - Huntington, Wv Chapter Collection, 1915-2015, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection includes an assortment of Rotary business files, artifacts, and images. It contains a variety of correspondence, meeting records, membership forms, awards, newsletters, memos, financial documents, newspapers, bulletins, and various Rotary artifacts including Rotary flags, proclamations, and Rotary themed desktop items. The collection showcases the Rotary Club of Huntington’s influence both in the Huntington area and within the district and international Rotary community. Many of these files, although mostly dating from time period of 1990-2015, do contain records and documents dating as far back to the founding of the Rotary Club of Huntington in 1915.


0762: Sally Cyrus Collection, 1910-2005, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2007

0762: Sally Cyrus Collection, 1910-2005, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Sally Cyrus Collection is the donated papers of Sally Cyrus, Peggy Cyrus, and Judy Cyrus. This collection chronicles their material contributions to several prominent Huntington organizations. This collection provides an in-depth look at the lives of one of Huntington’s upper-class families beginning in the 1920s and extending through the 1960s, a period in which Huntington experienced an economic boom and a population increase. The women whose lives are showcased in this collection were educated, socially elite, and financially secure. It is an insight to the gender role of the educated woman in high society and the activities she chose …


0534: Huntington League Of Women Voters, 1950-1991, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1991

0534: Huntington League Of Women Voters, 1950-1991, Marshall University Special Collections

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Scrapbook and files of various community projects undertaken by this civic group.