This collection consists primarily of the Minutes and the Year Books of the first woman’s club organized in the State of South Carolina, formed in Seneca in 1896for the purpose of “mutual improvement."
Original book and carbon typescript, consisting of the roll of the Redshirts on February 2, 1878 (74 names) and on August 28, 1880 (51 names); minutes of meetings held at Farmers Hall and Maxwell Hall in Pendleton listing elections, officers and resolutions; and correspondence (listed in the minutes) with the Adjutant and Inspector General E.W. Moise regarding their status as a state group or as an independent and private club which would offer its services to the state if needed.
The records include the certificate of corporation from the state of South Carolina for the Pendleton Canning Factory, May 31, 1890 and an account book of the Pendleton Canning Factory containing the constitution and by-laws, members, records of certificate of stock and accounts.
The collection contains four items: a "minute" book which contains the constitution, by-laws and minutes of the meetings of the Pendleton Cornet Band from 1876-1878; The Pendleton Cornet cash book from 1876-1890; a negative of a picture of the Pendleton Cornet Band Wagon; and a copy of a May 27, 1962 newsclipping about the band from the Anderson Independent.
